A mass-conservative switching algorithm for modeling fluid flow in variably saturated porous media

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2010.10.011zbMath1283.76038MaRDI QIDQ617464

Kouroush Sadegh Zadeh

Publication date: 21 January 2011

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2010.10.011

zbMATH Keywords

fluid mechanics; Richards equation; adaptive time-stepping; finite difference method (FDM); finite element method (FEM); Picard one-point iteration method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76S05: Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage

76M20: Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics

65M06: Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs

76M10: Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics

65M60: Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs

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