Insights from a pseudospectral approach to the Elder problem

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Van Reeuwijk, Maarten ^a   Mathias, Simon A ^a   Simmons, Craig T ^b   Ward, James D ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; BIFURCATION DIAGRAM; DISCRETIZATION ERRORS; GROUNDWATER MODELING; INTRINSIC CHARACTERISTICS; MULTIPLE STEADY STATE; NUMERICAL ERRORS; NUMERICAL MODELS; PSEUDOSPECTRAL; PSEUDOSPECTRAL APPROACH; PSEUDOSPECTRAL METHODS; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SPATIAL DISCRETIZATION; STABLE STEADY STATE;

HYDROGEOLOGY;

GROUNDWATER;

BENCHMARKING; BIFURCATION; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; DIAGRAM; ERROR CORRECTION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAYLEIGH NUMBER;

EID: 67649880594     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007421     Document Type: Article

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