Nonmonotonic traveling wave solutions of infiltration into porous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  DiCarlo, David A ^a   Juanes, Ruben ^b   LaForce, Tara ^c   Witelski, Thomas P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFILTRATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

CONTINUOUS INFILTRATION; PRESSURE-SATURATION CURVE; RICHARDS EQUATION; WATER SATURATION;

POROUS MATERIALS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFILTRATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; POROUS MATERIALS; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; HYDROGEOLOGY; INFILTRATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; POROUS MEDIUM; SATURATION; SIMULATION;

EID: 40649091149     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR005975     Document Type: Article

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