Accuracy of Galerkin finite elements for groundwater flow simulations in two and three-dimensional triangulations

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 371-387

  Cordes, Christian ^a   Putti, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Finite elements; Galerkin method; Three dimensional Delaunay triangulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GALERKIN METHODS; HYDRAULICS; STIFFNESS MATRIX; TRIANGULATION;

GROUNDWATER FLUXES;

GROUNDWATER FLOW;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW MODELING; GROUNDWATER;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW MODELING; GROUNDWATER FLOW;

EID: 0035840998     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.194     Document Type: Article

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