A particle-tracking scheme for simulating pathlines in coupled surface-subsurface flows

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 52, Issue , 2013, Pages 7-18

  de Rooij, Rob ^a   Graham, Wendy ^a   Maxwell, Reed M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Particle transfer probability; Particle tracking; Surface subsurface flow coupling; Transit time

Indexed keywords

ADVECTIVE TRANSPORT; CENTERED FINITE DIFFERENCES; CLASSICAL PARTICLE; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; FLOW COUPLING; LAGRANGIAN PARTICLE TRACKING; LAND SURFACE; MASS BALANCE; PARTICLE TRANSFER; PARTICLE-TRACKING; SIMPLE ALGORITHM; STREAMTUBES; SURFACE AND SUBSURFACE FLOW; SURFACE DOMAINS; THREE DIMENSIONAL FLOW FIELD; TRANSFER PROBABILITY; TRANSIT TIME; TRANSIT-TIME DISTRIBUTIONS; TWO DOMAINS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; VELOCITY FIELD;

FLOW FIELDS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VELOCITY;

ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; FLOW VELOCITY; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; SUBSURFACE FLOW; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

EID: 84870179333     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2012.07.022     Document Type: Article

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