Efficient modeling of reactive transport phenomena by a multispecies random walk coupled to chemical equilibrium

Nuclear Technology

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 208-221

  Pfingsten, Wilfried ^a,b,c  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c German Science Foundation

Author keywords

Coupled code; Multispecies random walk; Reactive transport

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; DISSOLUTION; GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); REDOX REACTIONS; SILICATES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM; COUPLED CODE MCOTAC; RANDOM WALK; REACTIVE TRANSPORT;

RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL;

EID: 0030288559     PISSN: 00295450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NT96-A35301     Document Type: Article

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