Finite Element Analysis of Transient Contaminant Trannsport: A Stochastic Approach

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 2049-2059

  Aguirre, C G ^a   Haghighi, K ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Groundwater; Perturbation methods; Porous media; Random variables; Soil; Water quality

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTAMINATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

MESH DISCRETIZATION;

AGRICULTURE;

FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POROUS MEDIUM; UNSATURATED FLOW; WATER QUALITY;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POROUS MEDIUM; VADOSE ZONE; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 0242403302     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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