Interpreting tracer breakthrough tailing from different forced-gradient tracer experiment configurations in fractured bedrock

Water Resources Research

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Becker, Matthew W ^a   Shapiro, Allen M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Advection dispersion; Channeling; Contaminant transport; Fractured rock; Matrix diffusion; Tracer tests

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; DIFFUSION; GEOLOGY; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

FLOW FIELDS;

WATER RESOURCES;

ADVECTION; BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; DIFFUSION; DISPERSION; FLOW MODELING; FRACTURED MEDIUM; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; TRACER;

EID: 17644439180     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001WR001190     Document Type: Article

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