The Analytical Solution of the Boussinesq Equation for Flow Induced by a Step Change of the Water Table Elevation Revisited

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 919-940

  Moutsopoulos, Konstantinos N ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adomian's decomposition method; Analytical solutions; Darcy's law

Indexed keywords

ADOMIAN'S DECOMPOSITION; ADOMIAN'S DECOMPOSITION METHOD; ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; BOUSSINESQ EQUATIONS; CLASSICAL PROBLEMS; DARCY'S LAW; DEGREE OF NON-LINEARITY; DOWNSTREAM REGION; FLOW INDUCED; INFLECTION POINTS; NONLINEAR FLOW; NUMERICAL SCHEME; PIE- ZOMETRIC HEAD; POLYNOMIAL EXPRESSION; SERIES SOLUTIONS; STEP CHANGES; SUDDEN CHANGE; WATER TABLE ELEVATION; WATER TABLES;

AQUIFERS; FLUID DYNAMICS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; POLYNOMIALS; SEEPAGE;

RIVERS;

AQUIFER; BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; DARCY LAW; FLUID FLOW; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL METHOD; PIEZOMETER; RECHARGE; WATER TABLE;

KOCHINA;

EID: 78149497736     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-010-9599-3     Document Type: Article

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