Saturated-unsaturated 3D groundwater model. II: Verification and application

Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 505-515

  Dogan, Ahmet ^a   Motz, Louis H ^b  

^a SULEYMAN DEMIREL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquifers; Ground water; Ground water flow; Numerical models; Saturated soils; Three dimensional models; Unsaturated flow; Vadose zone

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GRADIENT METHODS; INFILTRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; RAIN; SOILS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

NUMERICAL MODELS; SATURATED SOILS; THREE DIMENSIONAL MODELS; UNSATURATED FLOW; VADOSE ZONE;

GROUNDWATER FLOW;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLOW MODELING; GROUNDWATER FLOW; SATURATED MEDIUM; UNSATURATED FLOW;

EID: 27544453087     PISSN: 10840699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0699(2005)10:6(505)     Document Type: Article

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