Simple model representations of transport in a complex fracture and their effects on long-term predictions

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Tsang, Chin Fu ^a   Doughty, Christine ^a   Uchida, Masahiro ^b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; ERRORS; FORECASTING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MODAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; SORPTION; SPEECH CODING; TESTING;

ARRIVAL TIME; BREAKTHROUGH CURVES; FLUID FLOWING; FRACTURE MODELLING; FRACTURE PLANE; FRACTURE ZONES; LONG-TERM PREDICTION; MEASURED PARAMETERS; MEASURED PROPERTIES; MODEL PROPERTIES; ORDER-OF MAGNITUDES; PARAMETER VALUES; PEAK HEIGHTS; PHYSICAL EFFECTS; REAL-WORLD; ROCK MATRIX; ROCK SAMPLES; SEMI-INFINITE; SEMI-INFINITE MATRIX; SIMPLE MODELING; SIMPLIFIED MODELS; SINGLE FRACTURE; SITE CHARACTERIZATION; TIME SCALING; TRACER TESTING; TRACER TRANSPORT; TRANSMISSIVITY DISTRIBUTION; UP-SCALING;

FRACTURE;

BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; CALIBRATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLOW MODELING; FLUID FLOW; FRACTURE FLOW; FRACTURE ZONE; LABORATORY METHOD; PREDICTION; TRACER; TRANSMISSIVITY;

EID: 53849111585     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006632     Document Type: Article

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