Simulation of solute transport in discrete fracture networks using the time domain random walk method

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 208, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 297-304

  Bodin, Jacques ^a   Porel, Gilles ^a   Delay, Fred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

Author keywords

Fracture network; Lagrangian simulation; Solute transport

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

FRACTURE FLOW; FRACTURE NETWORK; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 0037473257     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00052-9     Document Type: Article

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