Transformation approaches for simulating flow in variably saturated porous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 923-934

  Williams, Glenn A ^a   Miller, Cass T ^b   Kelley, C T ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW MODELING; MULTIPHASE FLOW; POROUS MEDIUM; SATURATION;

FLOW MODELING; MULTIPHASE FLOW; POROUS MEDIUM; SATURATION;

EID: 0034029334     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999WR900349     Document Type: Article

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