An evaluation of the active fracture concept in modeling unsaturated flow and transport in a fractured meter-sized block of rock

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-13

  Seol, Yongkoo ^a   Kneafsey, Timothy J ^a   Ito, Kazumasa ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; FLOW MODELING; FRACTURE FLOW; FRACTURE NETWORK; NUMERICAL METHOD; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; ROCK MECHANICS; SIMULATION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UNSATURATED FLOW;

NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; YUCCA MOUNTAIN;

EID: 34547900591     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2004.0175     Document Type: Article

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