A mass conservative algorithm for modeling water flow in partially saturated soils

2006 ASABE Annual International Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Zadeh, Kouroush Sadegh ^a   Montas, Hubert J ^a   Shirmohammadi, Adel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Mixed form Richards' equation; Picard iteration method; Switching algorithm

Indexed keywords

CPU TIME; FLOW PROBLEMS; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; LAYERED SOILS; MASS BALANCE; MIXED FORM RICHARDS' EQUATION; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; PARTIALLY SATURATED SOILS; PICARD ITERATION METHOD; PRESSURE HEADS; PRESSURE-BASED; RICHARDS' EQUATION; SATURATED ZONE; SWITCHING ALGORITHM; SWITCHING ALGORITHMS; VARIABLY SATURATED; WATER FLOWS;

ALGORITHMS; SOILS; STREAM FLOW; WATER CONTENT;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 67649848044     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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