Variable-density groundwater flow and solute transport in porous media containing nonuniform discrete fractures

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1351-1367

  Graf, Thomas ^a   Therrien, René ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Buoyancy term; Contaminant transport; Density; Fractured rock; Inclined fracture; Instability; Numerical modeling

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY OF LIQUIDS; IMPURITIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POROUS MATERIALS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

BUOYANCY TERM; CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT; FRACTURED ROCK; INCLINED FRACTURE; NUMERICAL MODELING;

GROUNDWATER FLOW;

FRACTURED MEDIUM; GROUNDWATER; POROUS MEDIUM; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; FRACTURE FLOW; FRACTURED MEDIUM; GROUNDWATER FLOW; POROUS MEDIUM; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 27744461394     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2005.04.011     Document Type: Article

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