Numerical and analytical modeling of advective travel times in realistic three-dimensional fracture networks

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Frampton, A ^a,b   Cvetkovic, V ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION-DISPERSION EQUATION; ADVECTIVE TRANSPORT; ANALYTICAL MODELING; CURRENT CONFIGURATION; DISCRETE FRACTURE NETWORK; LAGRANGIAN; NETWORK CONFIGURATION; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PARTICLE BREAKTHROUGH; PARTICLE VELOCITIES; SCALE CALIBRATION; SCALE DOMAINS; SEGMENT LENGTHS; SITE CHARACTERIZATION; STABLE DISTRIBUTIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL FRACTURE NETWORK; TRAVEL TIME;

ADVECTION; DISPERSIONS; FRACTURE;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ADVECTION; ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; CALIBRATION; CORRELATION; FRACTURE NETWORK; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

KALMAR [SWEDEN]; LAXEMAR; SWEDEN;

EID: 79851496854     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009290     Document Type: Article

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