Numerical simulation of contaminant biodegradation by higher order methods and adaptive time stepping

Computing and Visualization in Science

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 61-78

  Bause, Markus ^a   Knabner, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD;

ADAPTIVE TIME STEPPING; BACKWARD DIFFERENTIATION FORMULAE; BIODEGRADATION PROCESS; COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENT; HIGHER ORDER FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HIGHER-ORDER APPROXIMATION; NON-LINEAR ALGEBRAIC SYSTEM; SPATIAL DISCRETIZATIONS;

BIODEGRADATION;

EID: 23144433269     PISSN: 14329360     EISSN: 14330369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00791-004-0139-y     Document Type: Article

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