Experimental and simulated solute transport in a partially-saturated, variable-aperture fracture

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2002, Pages

  Detwiler, Russell L ^a,c   Rajaram, Harihar ^a   Glass, Robert J ^b  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; FRACTURE; VELOCITY;

COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; PARTIALLY SATURATED; QUASI-THREE-DIMENSIONAL VELOCITIES; SOLUTE DISPERSIONS; TRANSPORT EXPERIMENTS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SOLUTIONS; VARIABLE APERTURE FRACTURES; VELOCITY DEPENDENCE;

SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 0037092327     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL013508     Document Type: Article

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