Enhancing the accuracy of the solution to unsaturated flow by a Hermitian Green element model

Advances in Engineering Software

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 113-118

  Taigbenu, Akpofure E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BENIN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; SOILS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

HERMITIAN FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HERMITIAN GREEN ELEMENT METHOD; LINEAR INTERPOLATION FUNCTION; SOIL MOISTURE; UNSATURATED FLOW;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SOIL;

SOIL; UNSATURATED FLOW;

EID: 0032029081     PISSN: 09659978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-9978(98)00047-7     Document Type: Article

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