Grid cell distortion and MODFLOW's integrated finite-difference numerical solution

Ground Water

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 797-802

  Romero, Dave M ^a   Silver, Steven E ^a  

^a Balleau Groundwater Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CURVILINEAR (PIECEWISE LINEAR) ROWS; EQUIVALENT CONDUCTANCE; INTEGRATED FINITE-DIFFERENCE (IFD) NUMERICAL; MODFLOW-88;

GROUNDWATER;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLOW MODELING; GROUNDWATER FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL;

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER FLOW;

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 33750487192     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2005.00179.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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