[HTML][HTML] Radionuclide transport in multi-scale fractured rocks: A review

X Zhang, F Ma, Z Dai, J Wang, L Chen, H Ling… - Journal of hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Significant progress has been achieved on radionuclide transport in fractured rocks due to
worldwide urgent needs for geological disposal of high-level radioactive waste (HLW) …

Reactive transport modeling of mineral precipitation and carbon trap** in discrete fracture networks

CI Steefel, M Hu - Water Resources Research, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In this study we use numerical experiments to analyze reactive flow and transport behavior
in discrete intersecting fracture networks, focusing on (a) how reaction‐induced changes in …

Integrating hydrological modelling, data assimilation and cloud computing for real-time management of water resources

W Kurtz, A Lapin, OS Schilling, Q Tang… - … modelling & software, 2017 - Elsevier
Online data acquisition, data assimilation and integrated hydrological modelling have
become more and more important in hydrological science. In this study, we explore cloud …

Evaluating domestic well vulnerability to contamination from unconventional oil and gas development sites

MA Soriano Jr, HG Siegel, KM Gutchess… - Water Resources …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The rapid expansion of unconventional oil and gas development (UD), made possible by
horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, has triggered concerns over groundwater …

Laboratory and numerical investigation of saline intrusion in fractured coastal aquifers

G Etsias, GA Hamill, D Campbell, R Straney… - Advances in Water …, 2021 - Elsevier
Laboratory scale experiments and numerical modelling were employed in this study to
investigate saltwater intrusion in fractured aquifers. Saline intrusion was initiated in one …

Hydrogeological constraints for the genesis of the extreme lithium enrichment in the Salar de Atacama (NE Chile): A thermohaline flow modelling approach

MA Marazuela, C Ayora, E Vázquez-Suñé… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Salar de Atacama (SdA) is the largest Li reserve globally. The origin of Li,
together with the rest of solutes, has been object of debate. Thus, rock weathering at low …

Continuous dissolved gas tracing of fracture‐matrix exchanges

R Hoffmann, P Goderniaux, P Jamin… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Transport in fractured media plays an important role in a range of processes, from rock
weathering and microbial processes to contaminant transport, and energy extraction and …

Transport of tracers and pesticides through fractured clayey till: large undisturbed column experiments and model‐based interpretation

K Mosthaf, M Rolle, U Petursdottir… - Water Resources …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Leaching of contaminants through fractured aquitards such as clayey tills may occur due to
typically slow matrix advection and diffusion, or it can be dramatically enhanced in the …

Foundations and their practical implications for the constitutive coefficients of poromechanical dual-continuum models

M Ashworth, F Doster - Transport in Porous Media, 2019 - Springer
A dual-continuum model can offer a practical approach to understanding first-order
behaviours of poromechanically coupled multiscale systems. To close the governing …

The importance of fracture geometry and matrix data on transient hydraulic tomography in fractured rocks: Analyses of synthetic and laboratory rock block experiments

H Zhao, N Luo, WA Illman - Journal of Hydrology, 2021 - Elsevier
The accurate characterization of hydraulic properties such as hydraulic conductivity (K) and
specific storage (S s) for fractured geologic media as well as imaging of fracture patterns and …