Traveling wave solution of the Boussinesq equation for groundwater flow in horizontal aquifers

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1668-1679

  Basha, H A ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Boussinesq equation; flow equations; groundwater flow; traveling wave solution; water table profile

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; COASTAL ENGINEERING; CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; WATER LEVELS;

AQUIFER PARAMETER ESTIMATION; BOUSSINESQ EQUATIONS; FLOW EQUATIONS; TRAVELING WAVE SOLUTION; TRAVELING-WAVE APPROACHES; TRAVELING-WAVE METHOD; WATER TABLE PROFILE; WORKING RELATIONSHIPS;

WATER WAVES;

AQUIFER CHARACTERIZATION; BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; NONLINEARITY; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WATER TABLE;

EID: 84876707312     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20168     Document Type: Article

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