Application of Second‐Type Boundaries in Unsaturated Flow Modeling
Application of Second‐Type Boundaries in Unsaturated Flow Modeling
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DOI:
10.1029/91wr02158
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发表时间:
1991-12
影响因子:
5.4
通讯作者:
J. T. McCord
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作者:
J. T. McCord
Specified head and/or specified flux are typically employed as boundary conditions in numerical simulations involving unsaturated flow. Some modelers incorrectly refer to a specified flux condition as a second-type boundary. In the mathematical literature a second-type boundary is defined as a boundary along which the gradient of the dependent variable is specified. This note identifies physical scenarios in which a second-type boundary (specified gradient) may be the most appropriate boundary condition, discusses a procedure for implementing a specified gradient boundary condition in a flow code, and presents an application of the procedure in the simulation of two practical problems.