Discretizing a discrete fracture model for simulation of radial transport

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Kozuskanich, John C ^a   Novakowski, Kent S ^a   Anderson, Bruce C ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION CONTROL; DISCRETE-FRACTURE MODELS; DISCRETIZATIONS; FIELD SCALE; HORIZONTAL PLANES; HYDRODYNAMIC DISPERSIONS; HYDROGEOLOGICAL CONDITIONS; MATRIX DIFFUSION; MULTIPLE FRACTURE; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; RADIAL TRANSPORT; RUNTIMES; SEMI-ANALYTICAL SOLUTION; SINGLE FRACTURE; SPATIAL DISCRETIZATIONS; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); TIME STEP; TRANSPORT SOLUTION; VERTICAL DIRECTION;

FRACTURE; HYDROGEOLOGY; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FRACTURE FLOW; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROGEOLOGY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MAGNITUDE; MATRIX; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84858825873     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR010364     Document Type: Article

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