Assessment of adaptive and heuristic time stepping for variably saturated flow

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1173-1193

  D'Haese, Christophe M F ^a   Putti, M ^b   Paniconi, Claudio ^c   Verhoest, Niko E C ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive time stepping; Nonlinear processes; Numerical modelling; Richards' equation; Subsurface hydrology; Time truncation error; Unsaturated zone

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; HEURISTIC METHODS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ADAPTIVE TIME STEPPING; RICHARDS' EQUATION; SATURATED FLOW; SUBSURFACE HYDROLOGY; TIME TRUNCATION ERROR;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HEURISTIC METHODS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 33847011262     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: 10970363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.1369     Document Type: Article

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