A new formulation of Signorini's type for seepage problems with free surfaces

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-16

  Zheng, Hong ^a,b   Liu, D F ^a   Lee, C F ^c   Tham, L G ^c  

^a CHINA THREE GORGES UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Finite element; Free boundary problems; Seepage; Variational inequality

Indexed keywords

FREE BOUNDARY PROBLEMS; SEEPAGE PROBLEMS; VARIATIONAL INEQUALITY;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

SEEPAGE;

SEEPAGE;

EID: 24944507815     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1345     Document Type: Article

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