Characteristics-Galerkin and Mixed Finite Element Approximation of Contamination by Compressible Nuclear Waste-Disposal in Porous Media

Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 315-332

  Chou, So Hsiang ^a   Li, Qian ^b  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 0347535723     PISSN: 0749159X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2426(199605)12:3<315::AID-NUM3>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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