Calibration of Yucca Mountain unsaturated zone flow and transport model using porewater chloride data

Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

Volumn 62, Issue 63, 2003, Pages 213-235

  Liu, Jianchun ^a   Sonnenthal, Eric L ^a   Bodvarsson, Gudmundur S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chloride; Geochemistry; Infiltration map; Percolation; Unsaturated zone; Yucca Mountain

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; INFILTRATION; PERCOLATION (FLUIDS);

UNSATURATED ZONE FLOW;

FLOW MEASUREMENT;

CHLORIDE; TRACER;

CHLORIDE; FLOW MODELING; FRACTURED MEDIUM; INFILTRATION; POREWATER; UNDERGROUND STORAGE; UNSATURATED FLOW; UNSATURATED MEDIUM;

CHLORIDE; FRACTURED MEDIUM; INFILTRATION; POREWATER; REPOSITORY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UNSATURATED FLOW; VADOSE ZONE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CHLORIDE TRANSPORT; GEOCHEMISTRY; PERMEABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER FLOW; WATER TRANSPORT;

CALIBRATION; CHLORIDES; FILTRATION; GEOLOGY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEVADA; POROSITY; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; REFUSE DISPOSAL; WATER MOVEMENTS;

UNITED STATES;

YUCCA;

EID: 0037395321     PISSN: 01697722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-7722(02)00168-7     Document Type: Article

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