Unsteady Porous Flow with a Free Surface

Three different numerical methods for solving unsteady two-dimensionalporous flow problems with a free surface are presented. Thevelocity potential is expressed as the solution to a variationalproblem which is solved by a Rayleigh-Ritz expansion, a Kantorovichexpansion and a co-ordinate transformation method. The freesurface equation is solved by a Crank-Nicolson procedure. Thethree methods were tested on the same set of problems and theobtained results are virtually identical.