An Object-oriented computational framework for the simulation of variably saturated flow in soils, using a reduced complexity model

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 38, Issue , 2012, Pages 191-202

  Anagnostopoulos, Grigorios G ^a   Burlando, Paolo ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous media; Large scale problems; Macroscopic cellular automata; Object oriented framework; Simulation

Indexed keywords

3-D PROBLEMS; AGRICULTURAL SOILS; COMPUTATIONAL DOMAINS; COMPUTATIONAL FRAMEWORK; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; FLOW DYNAMICS; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; LARGE-SCALE PROBLEM; MODELLING FRAMEWORK; NON-LINEARITY; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; OBJECT ORIENTED; OBJECT ORIENTED DESIGN; OBJECT-ORIENTED FRAMEWORKS; RAINFALL INDUCED LANDSLIDES; REDUCED COMPLEXITY; REGULAR GRIDS; RICHARDS' EQUATION; SIMPLE RULES; SIMULATION; VARIABLY SATURATED FLOW;

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; GEOLOGIC MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS; RAIN; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENGINEERING; FLOW VELOCITY; HETEROGENEITY; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; LANDSLIDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; RAINFALL; RICHARDS EQUATION; SOIL TYPE; SOIL WATER; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84863652211     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2012.06.002     Document Type: Article

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