Representation of two-phase flow in the vicinity of the repository in the 1996 performance assessment for the waste isolation pilot plant

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 205-226

  Vaughn, P ^a   Bean, I E ^b   Helton, J C ^c   Lord, M E ^a   MacKinnon, R J ^a   Schreiber, J D ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; CAPILLARY FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CREEP; GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PILOT PLANTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TWO PHASE FLOW; WELL DRILLING;

DRILLING INTRUSION; INTERBED FRACTURING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT (PA); REPOSITORY SHAFTS;

RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL;

EID: 0343454039     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(00)00033-8     Document Type: Article

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