On the incompatibility of richards' equation and finger-like infiltration in unsaturated homogeneous porous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Fürst, Tomáš ^a   Vodák, Rostislav ^a   Šír, Miloslav ^b   Bíl, Michal ^a  

^a PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF HYDRODYNAMICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES; FLOW-MODELING; HOMOGENEOUS POROUS MEDIAS; HYSTERETIC BEHAVIORS; MATHEMATICAL PROOFS; RETENTION CURVES; RICHARDS' EQUATIONS; UNSATURATED POROUS MEDIAS;

AUTOMATA THEORY; CELLULAR AUTOMATA; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; POROUS MATERIALS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

HYSTERESIS;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CELLULAR AUTOMATON; EQUATION; FLOW MODELING; HOMOGENEITY; INFILTRATION; NUMERICAL METHOD; POROUS MEDIUM; RETENTION; RICHARDS EQUATION; UNSATURATED FLOW;

EID: 65349181896     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007062     Document Type: Article

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