Coupled groundwater flow and transport: 1. Verification of variable density flow and transport models

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 27-46

  Kolditz, Olaf ^a   Ratke, Rainer ^a   Diersch, Hans Jörg G ^b   Zielke, Werner ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b WASY Inst Water Rsrc Plan S   (Germany)

Author keywords

Density driven convection; Finite element method; Groundwater; HYDROCOIN; Numerical simulation; Saltwater intrusion; Verification

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FLOW; GALERKIN FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HYDRAULIC HEAD; MASS CONCENTRATION; MASS CONSERVATION; MASS FRACTION; PRESSURE HEAD; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HYDRAULICS; HYDROLOGY; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PRESSURE; SALINE WATER;

GROUNDWATER FLOW;

FLOW; GROUNDWATER; MODEL; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

FLUID FLOW; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; MASS BALANCE; MODELLING; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; VARIABLE DENSITY FLOW;

EID: 0032007495     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0309-1708(96)00034-6     Document Type: Article

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