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In this study, we focus on the modelling of infiltration process in porous media. We use the meshless techniques for efficiently solving the Richards equation which describes unsaturated water flow through soils. The design of approximate…
In this paper, we first propose a coupled numerical model of unsaturated flow in soils and plant root water uptake. The Richards equation and different formulations are used in the developed numerical model to describe infiltration in root…
Modeling unsaturated flow through soils with water uptake by plan root has many applications in agriculture and water resources management. In this study, our aim is to develop efficient numerical techniques for solving the Richards…
The Richards equation, a nonlinear elliptic parabolic equation, is widely used to model infiltration in porous media. We develop a finite element method for solving the Richards equation by introducing a new bounded auxiliary variable to…
Forecasting water content dynamics in heterogeneous porous media has significant interest in hydrological applications; in particular, the treatment of infiltration when in presence of cracks and fractures can be accomplished resorting to…
We present a new computational method by extending the Immersed Boundary (IB) method with a spectrally-accurate geometric model based on Radial Basis Function (RBF) interpolation of the Lagrangian structures. Our specific motivation is the…
We consider here a cell-centered finite difference approximation of the Richards equation in three dimensions, averaging for interface values the hydraulic conductivity $K=K(p)$, a highly nonlinear function, by arithmetic, upstream, and…
In this article, we present new random walk methods to solve flow and transport problems in unsaturated/saturated porous media, including coupled flow and transport processes in soils, heterogeneous systems modeled through random hydraulic…
Most problems in electrodynamics do not have an analytical solution so much effort has been put in the development of numerical schemes, such as the finite-difference method, volume element methods, boundary element methods, and related…
In this paper, we focus on one-dimensional vertical infiltration, assuming constant diffusivity and a quadratic relationship between hydraulic conductivity and water content. Under these assumptions, Richards' equation reduces to Burgers'…
In this paper, we address the problem of predicting complex, nonlinear spatiotemporal dynamics when available data is recorded at irregularly-spaced sparse spatial locations. Most of the existing deep learning models for modeling…
An in-depth analysis of linearized branch flow (LBF) model considering current injection and absolute value of impedance is proposed in this paper. The form of LBF model is based on two equations: the current injection to meet KCL and the…
Simulating infiltration in porous media using Richards' equation remains computationally challenging due to its parabolic structure and nonlinear coefficients. While a wide range of numerical methods for differential equations have been…
The Richards equation is a nonlinear parabolic equation that is commonly used for modelling saturated/unsaturated flow in porous media. We assume that the medium occupies a bounded Lipschitz domain partitioned into two disjoint subdomains…
We study several iterative methods for fully coupled flow and reactive transport in porous media. The resulting mathematical model is a coupled, nonlinear evolution system. The flow model component builds on the Richards equation, modified…
In this note, the existing porousMultiphaseFoam toolbox, developed initially for any two-phase flow in porous media is extended to the specific case of the Richards' equation which neglect the pressure gradient of the non-wetting phase.…
An analytical solution of the nonlinear Richards equation is presented, for one-dimensional infiltration into a soil of uniform initial moisture content subject to a constant depth of surface ponded water. Adopted mathematical forms of the…
Constrained radial basis function (RBF) regression has recently emerged as a powerful meshless tool for reconstructing continuous velocity fields from scattered flow measurements, particularly in image-based velocimetry. However, existing…
A new projection method based on radial basis functions (RBFs) is presented for discretizing the incompressible unsteady Stokes equations in irregular geometries. The novelty of the method comes from the application of a new technique for…
Meshless solution to differential equations using radial basis functions (RBF) is an alternative to grid based methods commonly used. Since the meshless method does not need an underlying connectivity in the form of control volumes or…