Feasible optimality implies Hack's law

Water Resources Research

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 3181-3189

  Rigon, Riccardo ^a   Rodriguez Iturbe, Ignacio ^b   Rinaldo, Andrea ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DRAINAGE NETWORK; ENERGY DISSIPATION; MATHEMATICAL METHOD;

ELONGATION; ENERGY DISSIPATION; GROUND STATE; POTENTIAL ENERGY;

DRAINAGE AREA; DRAINAGE SYSTEMS; EROSIONAL PROCESS; GLOBAL OPTIMUM; INITIAL AND BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; OPTIMAL CHANNELS; SCALING PROPERTIES; TOTAL POTENTIAL ENERGY;

GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 0031759706     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98WR02287     Document Type: Article

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