Semianalytical solutions of radioactive or reactive solute transport in variably fractured layered media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 46-1-46-24

  Moridis, George J ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Layered fractured rocks; Matrix fracture systems; Radioactive tracers; Semianalytical solutions; Solute transport

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; DIFFUSION; FILTRATION; MASS TRANSFER; SORPTION;

REACTIVE SOLUTE TRACERS;

RADIOACTIVE TRACERS;

DIFFUSION; FRACTURED MEDIUM; MATHEMATICAL METHOD; POROUS MEDIUM; RADIOACTIVE TRACER; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; DIFFUSION; FRACTURED MEDIUM; POROUS MEDIUM; RADIOACTIVE DECAY; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TRACER;

EID: 0037001541     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001wr001028     Document Type: Article

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