Robust solution of Richards' equation for nonuniform porous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2599-2610

  Miller, Cass T ^a   Williams, Glenn A ^a   Kelley, C T ^b   Tocci, Michael D ^b,c  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER FLOW; NUMERICAL METHOD; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; RICHARDS EQUATION;

ALGEBRA; CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY FLOW; CAPILLARY TUBES; POROUS MATERIALS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

CONSTITUTIVE RELATIONS; CONVERGENCE DIFFICULTY; HERMITE POLYNOMIALS; INTEGRAL PERMEABILITY; NON-LINEAR ALGEBRAIC SYSTEM; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; NUMERICAL CONVERGENCE; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY;

POLYNOMIALS;

EID: 0031689647     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98WR01673     Document Type: Article

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