Transport and retention from single to multiple fractures in crystalline rock at Äspö (Sweden): 2. Fracture network simulations and generic retention model

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Cvetkovic, V ^a   Frampton, A ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTIVE TRANSPORT; AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; CUBIC LAWS; DISCRETE FRACTURE NETWORK; FIELD SCALE; FLOW PATH; FRACTURE NETWORK; HARD ROCKS; HYDROGEOLOGIC CHARACTERIZATION; MULTIPLE FRACTURE; RESIDENCE TIME; RETENTION MODELS; RETENTION PROPERTIES; ROCK TYPES; SIMULATION STUDIES; SORPTION AFFINITY; TRACER TESTS; TRANSMISSIVITY; WATER RESIDENCE TIME;

CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; FRACTURE; HYDROGEOLOGY; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; SORPTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ADVECTION; CRYSTALLINE ROCK; FLOW MODELING; FLOW PATTERN; FRACTURE NETWORK; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROGEOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESIDENCE TIME; SORPTION; TRACER; WATER RETENTION;

ASPO; SODERMANLAND; SWEDEN;

EID: 77949637043     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008030     Document Type: Article

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