Comparison of local grid refinement methods for MODFLOW

Ground Water

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 792-796

  Mehl, Steffen ^a   Hill, Mary C ^a   Leake, Stanley A ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK; FLUXES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURFACE WATERS;

CELL-TO-CELL FLUXES; GROUND WATER MODELING; LOCAL-GRID REFINEMENT (LGR); VARIABLY SPACED GRID;

GROUNDWATER;

EQUATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLOW MODELING; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HETEROGENEITY;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; WATER FLOW;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; SOFTWARE; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 33750449360     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2006.00192.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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