Experimental and numerical investigation of flow phenomena in nonisothermal, variably saturated bentonite-crushed rock mixtures

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 239-246

  Engelhardt, Irina ^a   Finsterle, Stefan ^b   Hofstee, Cor ^c  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTONITE; DIGITAL STORAGE; GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MIXTURES; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIFIC HEAT;

ENGINEERED BARRIER SYS-TEM; EXPERIMENTAL APPARATUS; HIGH LEVEL NUCLEAR WASTES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; NUCLEAR WASTE REPOSITORIES; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; SENSITIVITY COEFFICIENT; UNSATURATED HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 31144472090     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/2.2.239     Document Type: Article

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