Numerical analysis of water and solute transport in variably-saturated fractured clayey till

Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

Volumn 104, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 137-152

  Rosenbom, Annette E ^a   Therrien, Rene ^b   Refsgaard, Jens Christian ^a   Jensen, Karsten H ^c   Ernstsen, Vibeke ^a   Klint, Knud Erik S ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Biopore; Clayey till; Fluorescence tracer; Fracture; HydroGeoSphere; Preferential flow

Indexed keywords

BIOPORE; CLAYEY TILL; FLUORESCENCE TRACER; HYDROGEOSPHERE; PREFERENTIAL FLOW;

FLOW OF WATER; FLUORESCENCE; FRACTURE; GEOLOGIC MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POROUS MATERIALS; RAIN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTENT;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DYE; FRACTURE FLOW; HYDROSPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TILL; TRACER; WATER CONTENT; WATER FLOW;

ALUMINUM SILICATES; CALIBRATION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POROSITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLUTIONS; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 58149483773     PISSN: 01697722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2008.09.001     Document Type: Article

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