Comparison of finite difference and finite element solutions to the variably saturated flow equation
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Comparison of finite difference and finite element solutions to the variably saturated flow equation
Numerical solutions to the equation governing variably saturated flow are usually obtained using either the finite difference (FD) method or the finite element (FE) method. A detailed comparison of these methods shows that the main difference between them is in how the numerical schemes spatially average the variation of material properties. Further differences are also observed in the way that...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Hydrology
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0022-1694
DOI: 10.1016/s0022-1694(02)00294-9