Application of similar media scaling and conditional simulation for modeling water flow and tritium transport at the Las Cruces Trench Site

Water Resources Research

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 595-609

  Rockhold, Mark L ^a   Rossi, Richard E ^a   Hills, Richard G ^b  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b New Mexico State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRITIUM; WATER;

CONDITIONING; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; PREDICTION; SIMULATION; SOIL; SOLUTE; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTENT; WATER FLOW;

TRITIUM;

POROUS MEDIA-FLOW THROUGH; SCALING; SIMULATION-NUMERICAL; SOILS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SPATIALLY VARIABLE;

EID: 0029656615     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95WR03398     Document Type: Article

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