Modelling infiltration by means of a nonlinear fractional diffusion model

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 4104-4110

  Gerolymatou, E ^a   Vardoulakis, I ^a   Hilfer, R ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; MOISTURE; NONLINEAR FILTERING;

FRACTIONAL TIME DERIVATIVES; ISOSATURATION CURVES; NONLINEAR FRACTIONAL DIFFUSION MODELS; RICHARDS EQUATION;

INFILTRATION;

EID: 33748356061     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/39/18/022     Document Type: Article

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