Flow in unsaturated random porous media, nonlinear numerical analysis and comparison to analytical stochastic models

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 257-272

  Harter, Thomas ^a   Jim Yeh, T C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow modeling; Heterogeneity; Soil water; Stochastic analysis; Vadose zone

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POROUS MATERIALS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SOILS; STEADY FLOW;

HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA; SOIL WATER FLUX; SOIL WATER TENSION; UNSATURATED FLOW;

GROUNDWATER FLOW;

FLOW MODELING; MATHEMATICAL METHOD; POROUS MEDIUM; STOCHASTIC PROCESS; UNSATURATED MEDIUM;

FLOW MODELING; NUMERICAL METHOD; POROUS MEDIUM; SOIL WATER; STOCHASTIC PROCESS; VADOSE ZONE;

EID: 0344267754     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0309-1708(98)00010-4     Document Type: Article

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