A numerical solution to seepage problems with complex drainage systems

Computers and Geotechnics

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 383-393

  Chen, Yifeng ^a   Zhou, Chuangbing ^a   Zheng, Hong ^b  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Adaptive penalized Heaviside function; Drainage system; Seepage problem; Substructure technique; Variational inequality

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DRAINAGE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ADAPTIVE PENALIZED HEAVISIDE FUNCTION; DRAINAGE SYSTEM; SUBSTRUCTURE TECHNIQUE; VARIATIONAL INEQUALITY;

SEEPAGE;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CIVIL ENGINEERING; DRAINAGE NETWORK; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SEEPAGE;

EID: 42649090466     PISSN: 0266352X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compgeo.2007.08.005     Document Type: Article

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