A mass-conservative control volume-finite element method for solving Richards' equation in heterogeneous porous media

DOI10.1007/S10543-011-0335-3zbMath1287.76170OpenAlexW1984777640MaRDI QIDQ657889

Ben Cumming, Timothy J. Moroney, Ian W. Turner

Publication date: 10 January 2012

Published in: BIT (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10543-011-0335-3

zbMATH Keywords

finite volumeRichards' equationDAE

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76S05) Finite volume methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M12) Finite volume methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M08)

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