Use of the geotechnical centrifuge as a tool to model dense nonaqueous phase liquid migration in fractures

Water Resources Research

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 34-1-34-12

  Levy, Laurent C ^a   Culligan, Patricia J ^a   Germaine, John T ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

DNAPL contamination; Fracture flow; Geotechnical centrifuge; Scale modeling

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; CENTRIFUGES; FRACTURE; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DENSE NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUID (DAPL) BEHAVIOR;

WATER RESOURCES;

CENTRIFUGE; FLOW MODELING; FRACTURED MEDIUM; NON-AQUEOUS PHASE LIQUID;

CENTRIFUGE; FLOW MODELING; FRACTURED MEDIUM; NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUID;

EID: 0036702625     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001wr000660     Document Type: Article

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