Conditional stochastic averaging of steady state unsaturated flow by means of Kirchhoff transformation

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 731-745

  Tartakovsky, Daniel M ^a   Neuman, Shlomo P ^b   Lu, Zhiming ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; INFILTRATION; LINEARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RANDOM PROCESSES; SOILS;

GRAVITY-FREE FLOW; KIRCHHOFF TRANSFORMATION; UNSATURATED FLOW;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; UNSATURATED FLOW;

EID: 0033106228     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998WR900092     Document Type: Article

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