Linear response concept combining advection and limited rock matrix diffusion in a fracture network transport model

Water Resources Research

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 3285-3296

  Barten, W ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNELS; DIFFUSION; NETWORKS; ROCK;

ADVECTION; DIFFUSION; NETWORK TRANSPORT; RADIONUCLIDE TRANSPORT;

ADVECTION; DIFFUSION; FRACTURE; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; RADIOACTIVE WASTE TRANSPORTATION; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOACTIVITY; ROCKS;

BALANCE EQUATIONS; HIGH CONDUCTIVITY; LAPLACE TRANSFORMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL BASIS; RADIOACTIVE DECAY; RADIOACTIVE WASTE REPOSITORY; RECTANGULAR CHANNEL; TRANSPORT MODELING;

LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS;

EID: 0030302096     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96WR02508     Document Type: Article

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