On the appropriate "equivalent aperture" for the description of solute transport in single fractures: Laboratory-scale experiments

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Zheng, Q ^a   Dickson, S E ^a   Guo, Y ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSIONS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

ADVECTION-DISPERSION EQUATION; BREAKTHROUGH CURVES; VARIABLE-APERTURE FRACTURES;

SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

ADVECTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSIONS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

ADVECTION; BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LABORATORY METHOD; MASS BALANCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; THEORETICAL STUDY; TRACER;

EID: 44349158899     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR005970     Document Type: Article

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