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
Simpson M.J.; Clement T.P.
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Journal of Hydrology, 2003, 270, 1-2, 49-64
Date:
2003
Abstract:
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 flux boundaries are represented in FE and FD methods. A modified finite element (MFE) algorithm is used to explore the significance of these differences. The MFE algorithm enables a direct comparison with a typical FD solution scheme, and explicitly demonstrates the differences between FE and FD methods. The MFE algorithm provides an improved approximation to the partial differential equation over the usual FD approach while being computationally simpler to implement than the standard FE solution. One of the main limitations of the MFE algorithm is that the algorithm was developed by imposing several restrictions upon the more general FE solution; however, the MFE is shown to be preferable over the usual FE and FD solutions for some of the test problems considered in this study. The comparison results show that the FE (or MFE) solution can avoid the erroneous results encountered in the FD solution for coarsely discretized problems. The improvement in the FE solution is attributed to the broader hydraulic conductivity averaging and differences in the representation of flux type boundaries.
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