Regional channelized transport in fractured media with matrix diffusion and linear sorption

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Odén, Magnus ^a   Niemi, Auli ^a   Tsang, Chin Fu ^b   Öhman, Johan ^c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Golder Associates AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SORPTION;

FLOW CHANNELING; LINEAR SORPTION; MATRIX DIFFUSION;

CHANNEL FLOW;

CHANNEL FLOW; DIFFUSION; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SORPTION;

ADVECTION; DIFFUSION; DISPERSION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SORPTION;

CUMBRIA; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; SELLAFIELD; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 41149096957     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005632     Document Type: Article

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