Development and validation of a numerical model of flow through embankment dams - Comparisons with experimental data and analytical solutions

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 395-406

  Billstein, Mats ^a   Svensson, Urban ^a   Johansson, Nils ^b  

^a Computer Aided Fluid Engineering AB ^*  (Sweden)

^b RINGHALS AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Embankment dam; Experimental data; Numerical model

Indexed keywords

DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); FLOW OF FLUIDS; GLASS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE; SEEPAGE; SURFACES;

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HELE-SHAW CELL; PACKED GLASS BEADS; PHREATIC SURFACES; PROFILES; SEEPAGE LEVELS;

EMBANKMENT DAMS;

EMBANKMENT DAM; FLOW MODELING;

EID: 0032814065     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006531729446     Document Type: Article

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