Research program to develop and validate conceptual models for flow and transport through unsaturated, fractured rock
Abstract
As part of the Yucca Mountain Project, our research program to develop and validate conceptual models for flow and transport through unsaturated fractured rock integrates fundamental physical experimentation with conceptual model formulation and mathematical modeling. Our research is directed toward developing and validating macroscopic, continuum-based models and supporting effective property models because of their widespread utility within the context of this project. Success relative to the development and validation of effective property models is predicated on a firm understanding of the basic physics governing flow through fractured media, specifically in the areas of unsaturated flow and transport in a single fracture and fracture-matrix interaction. 43 refs.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 137981
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-90-2261C; CONF-910435-26
ON: DE91005971; TRN: 91:004776
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-76DP00789
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 2. annual American Nuclear Society (ANS) international high level radioactive waste management conference, Las Vegas, NV (United States), 28 Apr - 3 May 1991; Other Information: PBD: [1991]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 05 NUCLEAR FUELS; 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; FLUID FLOW; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; WASTE-ROCK INTERACTIONS; ROCK-FLUID INTERACTIONS; YUCCA MOUNTAIN; ROCKS; FRACTURES; FLOW MODELS; POROSITY; HYDRAULICS; Yucca Mountain Project
Citation Formats
Glass, R J, and Tidwell, V C. Research program to develop and validate conceptual models for flow and transport through unsaturated, fractured rock. United States: N. p., 1991.
Web. doi:10.2172/138268.
Glass, R J, & Tidwell, V C. Research program to develop and validate conceptual models for flow and transport through unsaturated, fractured rock. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/138268
Glass, R J, and Tidwell, V C. 1991.
"Research program to develop and validate conceptual models for flow and transport through unsaturated, fractured rock". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/138268. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/137981.
@article{osti_137981,
title = {Research program to develop and validate conceptual models for flow and transport through unsaturated, fractured rock},
author = {Glass, R J and Tidwell, V C},
abstractNote = {As part of the Yucca Mountain Project, our research program to develop and validate conceptual models for flow and transport through unsaturated fractured rock integrates fundamental physical experimentation with conceptual model formulation and mathematical modeling. Our research is directed toward developing and validating macroscopic, continuum-based models and supporting effective property models because of their widespread utility within the context of this project. Success relative to the development and validation of effective property models is predicated on a firm understanding of the basic physics governing flow through fractured media, specifically in the areas of unsaturated flow and transport in a single fracture and fracture-matrix interaction. 43 refs.},
doi = {10.2172/138268},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/137981},
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place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1991},
month = {Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1991}
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