Steady-state ditch-drainage of two-layered soil regions overlying an inverted V-shaped impermeable bed with examples of the drainage of ballast beneath railway tracks

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 377, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 367-376

  Youngs, E G ^a   Rushton, K R ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drainage; Dupuit Forchheimer analysis; Laplace numerical solutions; Layered soils; Railway ballast beds; Sloping bed

Indexed keywords

DUPUIT-FORCHHEIMER ANALYSIS; LAPLACE NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS; LAYERED SOILS; RAILWAY BALLAST BEDS; SLOPING BED;

AQUIFERS; LAPLACE EQUATION; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POROUS MATERIALS; RAILROAD TRACKS; RAILROADS; SOILS; SURFACES;

WATER ANALYSIS;

ACCRETION; DRAINAGE NETWORK; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAILWAY; SEEPAGE; SLOPE; SOIL WATER; WATER TABLE;

EID: 70349775641     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.08.034     Document Type: Article

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