Variable-density groundwater flow and solute transport in irregular 2D fracture networks

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 455-468

  Graf, Thomas ^a   Therrien, René ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Convection; Density; Fracture networks; Numerical modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FRACTURE; GEOMETRY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

DENSITY-DRIVEN TRANSPORT; FRACTURE NETWORKS; VARIABLE-DENSITY FLOW;

GROUNDWATER FLOW;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FRACTURE; GEOMETRY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

CONVECTION; FLOW MODELING; FRACTURE FLOW; FRACTURE NETWORK; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 33846398202     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2006.05.003     Document Type: Article

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