Coupled thermohydromechanical analysis of Venice lagoon salt marshes

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Cola, Simonetta ^a   Sanavia, Lorenzo ^a   Simonini, Paolo ^a   Schrefler, Bernhard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AS-SOILS; CAPILLARY SUCTION; FINITE-ELEMENT APPROACH; FULLY-COUPLED; GROUNDWATER PRESSURE; MATERIAL PARAMETER; MECHANICAL RESPONSE; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; PARTIALLY SATURATED; POROUS MEDIUM; SALT MARSHES; THERMODYNAMIC EQUILIBRIA; THM COUPLING; VENICE LAGOON; WATER CONDUCTIVITY;

COUPLINGS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOODS; GROUNDWATER; POROUS MATERIALS;

WETLANDS;

EID: 79952027247     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006570     Document Type: Article

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