Quantifying the effects of small-scale heterogeneities on flow and transport in undisturbed cores from the Hanford formation

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 664-676

  Pace, M N ^a   Mayes, M A ^a   Jardine, P M ^a   Mehlhorn, T L ^a   Zachara, J M ^b   Bjornstad, B N ^b  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; PARALLEL FLOW; SEDIMENTS; TANKS (CONTAINERS);

EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; FATE AND TRANSPORT OF CONTAMINANT; MOLECULAR DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; NON-REACTIVE TRACER; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; REACTIVE TRANSPORT EXPERIMENTS; SMALL-SCALE HETEROGENEITY; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 34147161812     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/2.4.664     Document Type: Article

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