A new parabolic variational inequality formulation of Signorini's condition for non-steady seepage problems with complex seepage control systems

International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1034-1058

  Chen, Yifeng ^a   Hu, Ran ^a   Zhou, Chuangbing ^a   Li, Dianqing ^a   Rong, Guan ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Free surface; Non steady seepage flow; Numerical modeling; Seepage control; Signorini's condition; Variational inequality

Indexed keywords

FREE SURFACES; NON-STEADY SEEPAGE FLOW; NUMERICAL MODELING; SEEPAGE CONTROL; SIGNORINI'S CONDITION; VARIATIONAL INEQUALITIES;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLUID DYNAMICS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SURFACES; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

SEEPAGE;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; DAM; DARCY LAW; DRAINAGE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW MODELING; HYDRAULIC HEAD; LABORATORY METHOD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESERVOIR IMPOUNDMENT; SEEPAGE;

EID: 79958813518     PISSN: 03639061     EISSN: 10969853     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nag.944     Document Type: Article

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