A study on iterative methods for solving Richards' equation

F List, FA Radu - Computational Geosciences, 2016 - Springer
This work concerns linearization methods for efficiently solving the Richards equation, a
degenerate elliptic-parabolic equation which models flow in saturated/unsaturated porous …

An improved matrix split-iteration method for analyzing underground water flow

SR Zhu, LZ Wu, XL Song - Engineering with Computers, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Hermitian and skew-Hermitian splitting iteration method (HSS) is commonly an
effective linear iterative method for solving sparse non-Hermite positive definite equations …

[HTML][HTML] A modified L-scheme to solve nonlinear diffusion problems

K Mitra, IS Pop - Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 2019 - Elsevier
In this work, we propose a linearization technique for solving nonlinear elliptic partial
differential equations that are obtained from the time-discretization of a wide variety of …

[HTML][HTML] A robust linearization scheme for finite volume based discretizations for simulation of two-phase flow in porous media

FA Radu, JM Nordbotten, IS Pop, K Kumar - Journal of Computational and …, 2015 - Elsevier
In this work we consider a mathematical model for two-phase flow in porous media. The
fluids are assumed immiscible and incompressible and the solid matrix non-deformable. The …

Iterative schemes for surfactant transport in porous media

D Illiano, IS Pop, FA Radu - Computational geosciences, 2021 - Springer
In this work, we consider the transport of a surfactant in variably saturated porous media.
The water flow is modelled by the Richards equations and it is fully coupled with the …

Improving Newton's method performance by parametrization: the case of the Richards equation

K Brenner, C Cancès - SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 2017 - SIAM
The nonlinear systems obtained by discretizing degenerate parabolic equations may be
hard to solve, especially with Newton's method. In this paper, we apply to the Richards …

[HTML][HTML] An adaptive solution strategy for Richards' equation

JS Stokke, K Mitra, E Storvik, JW Both… - Computers & Mathematics …, 2023 - Elsevier
Flow in variably saturated porous media is typically modeled by the Richards equation, a
nonlinear elliptic-parabolic equation which is notoriously challenging to solve numerically. In …

Application of modified iterative method to simulate rainfall infiltration in unsaturated soils

S Zhu, L Wu, P Cheng, J Zhou - Computers and Geotechnics, 2022 - Elsevier
A modified Gauss-Seidel iterative method (MP (m)-GS) with multistep preconditioner is
developed to solve partial differential equations of rainfall infiltration. The finite difference …

Semi-implicit schemes for modeling water flow and solute transport in unsaturated soils

H Kamil, A Beljadid, A Soulaïmani… - Advances in Water …, 2024 - Elsevier
The coupled model of water flow and solute transport in unsaturated soils is addressed in
this study. Building upon previous research findings by Keita, Beljadid, and Bourgault, we …

A linear domain decomposition method for partially saturated flow in porous media

D Seus, K Mitra, IS Pop, FA Radu, C Rohde - Computer Methods in Applied …, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …