The impact of boundary on the fractional advection-dispersion equation for solute transport in soil: Defining the fractional dispersive flux with the Caputo derivatives

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1205-1217

  Zhang, Xiaoxian ^a,c   Lv, Mouchao ^b,c   Crawford, John W ^a   Young, Iain M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

Aquifer; Boundary conditions; Caputo derivatives; Fractional advection dispersion equation; Numerical solution; Soil; Solute transport; Tracer experiment

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; AQUIFERS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CHLORINE; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOILS;

CAPUTO DERIVATIVES; FRACTIONAL ADVECTION-DISPERSION EQUATION;

SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

ADVECTION; AQUIFERS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CHLORINE; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOILS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; AQUIFER; BOUNDARY CONDITION; HETEROGENEITY; NUMERICAL METHOD; SOIL; SOIL COLUMN; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TRACER;

EID: 33847315613     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2006.11.002     Document Type: Article

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