A mountain-scale model for characterizing unsaturated flow and transport in fractured tuffs of yucca mountain

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 796-805

  Wu, Yu Shu ^a   Lu, Guoping ^a   Zhang, Keni ^a   Bodvarsson, G S ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; LANDFORMS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE TRANSPORTATION; RADIOACTIVE WASTES;

FIELD-MEASURED DATA; FLOW AND TRANSPORT; HIGH LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; LARGE-SCALE MODELING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL MODELING; UNDERGROUND REPOSITORIES; UNSATURATED FLOWS; YUCCA MOUNTAIN , NEVADA;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

EID: 33847210541     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/3.3.796     Document Type: Article

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