Mixed finite elements for the Richards' equation: Linearization procedure

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 168, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 365-373

  Pop, I S ^a   Radu, F ^b   Knabner, P ^b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Degenerate parabolic problems; Euler implicit scheme; Linearization; Mixed finite elements; Regularization; Richards' equation

Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE METHODS; LINEARIZATION; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DISCRETIZATION; EULER IMPLICIT SCHEMES; MIXED FINITE ELEMENT METHODS; RICHARD'S EQUATION;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 2942522387     PISSN: 03770427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cam.2003.04.008     Document Type: Article

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