The effect of rock matrix heterogeneities near fracture walls on the residence time distribution (RTD) of solutes

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 393-408

  Robinet, Jean Charles ^a   Sardini, Paul ^a   Delay, Frederick ^a   Hellmuth, Karl Heinz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^b STUK RADIATION AND NUCLEAR SAFETY AUTHORITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Crystalline rocks; Fracture coating; Heterogeneous media; Matrix diffusion; Porosity gradient; Random walk; Residence time distribution

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; GRANITE; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; POROSITY; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

CONDUCTIVE FRACTURE; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION;

CRYSTALLINE ROCKS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; DIFFUSION; GRANITE; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; POROSITY; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

CRYSTALLINE ROCK; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; MODELING; POROSITY; POROUS MEDIUM; RANDOM WALK METHOD; RESIDENCE TIME; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 39849087095     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-007-9159-7     Document Type: Article

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