Boundary integral procedures for unsaturated flow problems

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 31, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 313-330

  Onyejekwe, Okey Oseloka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Boundary integral theory; Heterogeneity; Non linearity; Unsaturated flow

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; DIFFUSION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

GREEN ELEMENT METHOD (GEM); UNSATURATED FLOW;

MASS TRANSFER;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; POROUS MEDIUM; UNSTEADY FLOW;

POROUS MEDIUM; UNSATURATED FLOW;

EID: 0032101485     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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