Sorbing tracer experiments in a crystalline rock fracture at Äspö (Sweden): 2. Transport model and effective parameter estimation

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Cvetkovic, V ^a   Cheng, H ^a   Widestrand, H ^b   Byegard J ^b   Winberg, A ^c   Andersson, P ^d  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Geosigma AB   (Sweden)

^c Conterra AB ^*  (Sweden)

^d Geosigma AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; POROSITY; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; SORPTION;

BREAKTHROUGH CURVES; TRANSPORT-RETENTION MODEL;

HYDRAULIC FRACTURING;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; POROSITY; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; SORPTION;

BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; CRYSTALLINE ROCK; DIFFUSION; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENT; FRACTURE; FRACTURE APERTURE; MODELING; POROSITY; POWER LAW; RETENTION; TRACER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 37549009564     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005278     Document Type: Article

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