Influence of fracture statistics on advective transport and implications for geologic repositories

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Reeves, Donald M ^a   Benson, David A ^b   Meerschaert, Mark M ^c  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; SENSOR NETWORKS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STATISTICAL METHODS; STATISTICS;

ADVECTIVE TRANSPORT; ANALYTIC FOUNDATION; ANOMALOUS DISPERSIONS; CONTINUUM METHOD; DENSE NETWORKS; DISPERSION MODELLING; ENSEMBLE AVERAGING; FAST TRANSPORT; FLUID FLOWING; FRACTURE NETWORKS; FRACTURE STATISTICS; FRACTURED ROCKS; LOW VELOCITIES; LOW-PERMEABILITY; NETWORK REALIZATION; NUCLEAR WASTE REPOSITORIES; PARTICLE RETENTION; PARTICLE TRAJECTORIES; SPARSE NETWORKS; STATISTICAL SUMMARIES;

FRACTURE;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; FLOW MODELING; FLUID FLOW; FRACTURE NETWORK; REPOSITORY; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 53849093433     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006179     Document Type: Article

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