Numerical methods for unsaturated flow with dynamic capillary pressure in heterogeneous porous media

International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling

Volumn 5, Issue SUPPL., 2008, Pages 126-149

  Peszyńska, Małgorzata ^a   Yi, Son Young ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic capillary pressure; Finite difference method; Implicit time stepping; Locally conservative Eulerian Lagrangian method; Pseudo parabolic equation; Richards' equation; Two phase flow model; Unsaturated flow

Indexed keywords

EID: 56649088279     PISSN: 17055105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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