Solving the nonstationary Richards equation with adaptive hp-FEM

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1062-1081

  Solin, Pavel ^a,b   Kuraz, Michal ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b Institute of Themomechanics   (Czech Republic)

^c CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Adaptive hp FEM; Dynamically changing meshes; Reproducible research; Richards equation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE HP-FEM; CAPILLARY BARRIERS; DARCIAN FLOW; DYNAMICALLY-CHANGING MESHES; EXACT SOLUTION; GROUNDWATER SEEPAGE; NONSTATIONARY; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; OPEN SOURCES; REPRODUCIBLE RESEARCH; RICHARDS EQUATION; THREE MODELS; TIME-DEPENDENT; TIME-DEPENDENT BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; VARIABLY SATURATED; WEAK FORMULATION;

GROUNDWATER; SEEPAGE; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

BENCHMARKING; DARCY LAW; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GROUNDWATER FLOW; INFILTRATION; LYSIMETER; NUMERICAL MODEL; RICHARDS EQUATION; SEEPAGE;

EID: 80052848109     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2011.04.020     Document Type: Article

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