Modelling heat and moisture transfer in unsaturated soil using a finite difference self-implicit method on parallel computers

International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 409-419

  Thomas, Hywel Rhys ^a   Li, Chi Leung Welkin ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heat and moisture transfer; Parallel computing; Parallel numerical finite difference model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE;

MOISTURE TRANSFER;

SOILS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE MODEL; HEAT TRANSFER; MOISTURE TRANSFER; PARALLEL COMPUTING; UNSATURATED SOIL;

EID: 3643086582     PISSN: 03639061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-9853(199706)21:6<409::aid-nag878>3.0.co;2-0     Document Type: Article

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