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TY - JOUR
T1 - Supercomputer simulations of heterogeneous hillslopes
AU - Binley, A.
AU - Beven, K.
AU - Elgy, J.
PY - 1988/1/1
Y1 - 1988/1/1
N2 - A fully three dimensional model of variably saturated flow has been developed to investigate the hydrological effects of spatial variability of saturated hydraulic conductivity on a 150 m by 100 m hillslope and assess the validity of the concept of effective hydraulic conductivity. The model is based on the Galerkin approximation to the finite element method. Accessibility to the vector processor of a CDC Cyber 205 supercomputer permitted numerical solutions on grids containing several thousand node points and two thousand time steps. The results suggest that under conditions of predominant subsurface flow the concept of equivalent uniform properties are valid. -Authors
AB - A fully three dimensional model of variably saturated flow has been developed to investigate the hydrological effects of spatial variability of saturated hydraulic conductivity on a 150 m by 100 m hillslope and assess the validity of the concept of effective hydraulic conductivity. The model is based on the Galerkin approximation to the finite element method. Accessibility to the vector processor of a CDC Cyber 205 supercomputer permitted numerical solutions on grids containing several thousand node points and two thousand time steps. The results suggest that under conditions of predominant subsurface flow the concept of equivalent uniform properties are valid. -Authors
U2 - 10.1016/S0167-5648(08)70336-8
DO - 10.1016/S0167-5648(08)70336-8
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:0024231462
VL - 35
SP - 185
EP - 190
JO - Developments in Water Science
JF - Developments in Water Science
SN - 0167-5648
ER -