Application of h-adaptation for environmental fluid flow and species transport

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 275-283

  Pepper, Darrell W ^a   Carrington, David B ^a  

^a University of Nevada Las Vegas   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric; Environmental; Finite element; Groundwater; h adaptation

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FLUID FLOW; GROUNDWATER;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLUID FLOW; GROUNDWATER FLOW;

EID: 0032719941     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0363(19990915)31:1<275::AID-FLD968>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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