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Monte Carlo Simulation of Radioactive Contaminant Transport in Fractured Geologic Media: Disorder and Long-Range Correlations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 September 2012

Sumit Mukhopadhyay  and
John H. Cushman
Sumit Mukhopadhyay
Affiliation:
Center for Applied Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907–1395.
John H. Cushman
Affiliation:
Center for Applied Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907–1395.
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Abstract

The geologic media near Yucca mountain site consist of fractured welded tuffs along with less fractured unwelded tuff. Numerical simulation of flow and transport in such media poses a number of challenging problems, due mainly to the heterogeneities and disorder in the media. In addition, because of different dominant transport mechanisms in different regions of the media, investigations need to be carried out at different time-scales. “Time-marching” will pose a considerable problem in analyzing such multi-scale transient problems. We develop a field-scale network model of fractures and study transport of radionuclides through geologic media as a function of disorder and correlated fracture-permeabilities.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 465: Symposium II – Scienfific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XX , 1996 , 885
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1997

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