CoFIS and TELog: New downhole tools for characterizing dispersion processes in aquifers by single-well injection-withdrawal tracer tests

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 341, Issue 10-11, 2009, Pages 965-975

  Gouze, Philippe ^a   Leprovost, Richard ^a   Poidras, Thierry ^a   Le Borgne, Tanguy ^b   Lods, Gérard ^a   Pezard, Philippe A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Dispersion; Dual packer probe; Fluorescent optical sensors; Non Fickian behaviour; Single well injection withdrawal tracer tests

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER CHARACTERIZATION; DISPERSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYDROGEOLOGY; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; PROBE; SALINITY; SENSOR; TESTING METHOD; TRACER;

EID: 70350655557     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2009.07.012     Document Type: Article

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