Comparison of equivalent conductivities for numerical simulation of one-dimensional unsaturated flow

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1191-1200

  Belfort, Benjamin ^a   Lehmann, François ^a  

^a Faculté de Médecine   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRICHLET; EQUIVALENT CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIVALENT HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITIES; FINITE DIFFERENCE APPROACH; HETEROGENEOUS SOILS; MEAN PRESSURES; MIXED HYBRID FINITE ELEMENT; NEUMANN BOUNDARY CONDITION; QUADRATURE RULES; RICHARDS EQUATION; TEMPORAL DISCRETIZATION; TEST CASE; UNSATURATED FLOWS; UNSATURATED POROUS MEDIA; VARIABLY SATURATED FLOW; WATER FLOWS;

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POROUS MATERIALS; RAIN; SEEPAGE;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY;

EID: 60249100923     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2005.0007     Document Type: Article

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