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Infiltration in soils with prescribed Boundary concentration

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A nonlinear Burgers' model is used to describe vertical infiltration of water into a non-swelling soil with prescribed concentration conditions at the boundary. The exact solution is constructed in terms of a series involving complementary error integrals.

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  1. Shanghai University of Science and Technology, China

    Benyu Guo

  2. Università Degli Studi di Roma, Italy

    Carillo Sandra

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Benyu, G., Carillo, S. Infiltration in soils with prescribed Boundary concentration. Acta Mathematicae Applicatae Sinica 6, 365–369 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02015343

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