Evaluation of the Ross fast solution of Richards' equation in unfavourable conditions for standard finite element methods

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 936-947

  Crevoisier, David ^a   Chanzy, André ^b   Voltz, Marc ^a  

^a UMR LISAH   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVIGNON   (France)

Author keywords

Computing time; Numerical convergence; Numerical modelling; Richards' equation; Ross method; Water transport

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING TIME; NUMERICAL CONVERGENCE; NUMERICAL MODELLING; RICHARDS' EQUATION; ROSS METHOD; WATER TRANSPORT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTIONS; HYDRAULICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STANDARDS; UNDERWATER SOILS;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; POROUS MEDIUM; RETENTION; RICHARDS EQUATION; SOIL WATER; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 65549145795     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2009.03.008     Document Type: Article

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