Local discontinuous Galerkin approximations to Richards' equation

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 555-575

  Li, H ^a   Farthing, M W ^a   Dawson, C N ^b   Miller, C T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive; Local discontinuous Galerkin; Method of lines; Unsaturated flow

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

LOCAL DISCONUOUS GALERKIN; METHOD OF LINES; UNSATURATED FLOW;

GALERKIN METHODS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; GALERKIN METHODS; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

EQUATION; GALERKIN METHOD; RICHARDS EQUATION; UNSATURATED FLOW;

EID: 33846373762     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2006.04.011     Document Type: Article

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