Two-scale analytical homogenization of Richards' equation for flows through block inclusions

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Sviercoski, R F ^a   Warrick, A W ^b   Winter, C L ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL APPROXIMATION; ANALYTICAL RESULTS; ASYMPTOTIC EXPANSION; BOUNDED DOMAIN; CAPILLARY FORCE; CELL PROBLEMS; CIRCULAR INCLUSIONS; CONVERGENCE PROPERTIES; GRID CELLS; MATRIX; NEW FORMS; NEW RESULTS; NONLINEAR BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; NONLINEAR PROBLEMS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; RICHARDS' EQUATION; SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; SINGLE PHASE; SMALL SCALE; STEADY STATE; TRANSIENT FLOW CONDITIONS;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; CELL MEMBRANES; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INCLUSIONS; LINEARIZATION; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLOW MODELING; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; RICHARDS EQUATION; TRANSIENT FLOW;

EID: 67650295986     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005598     Document Type: Article

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