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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780003103321

Titolo

Conceptual models of flow and transport in the fractured vadose zone / / Panel on Conceptual Models of Flow and Transport in the Fractured Vadose Zone, U.S. National Committee for Rock Mechanics, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources, National Research Council

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington : , : National Academies Press, , 2001

©2001

ISBN

0-309-17099-0

0-309-50130-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 374 pages, 8 pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)

Disciplina

551.49

Soggetti

Groundwater flow - Mathematical models

Zone of aeration - Mathematical models

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""Panel Report""; ""1 Conceptual Models of Flow and Transport in the Fractured Vadose Zone""; ""Technical Papers""; ""2 Development of the Conceptual Model of Unsaturated Zone Hydrology at Yucca Mountain, Nevada""; ""3 Conceptual Model of Vadose-Zone Transport in Fractured Weathered Shales""; ""4 Evaluation of Conceptual and Quantitative Models of Fluid Flow and Chemical Transport in Fractured Media""; ""5 Uniform and Preferential Flow Mechanisms in the Vadose Zone""

""6 Modeling Macropore Flow in Soils: Field Validation and Use for Management Purposes"" ""7 Free-Surface Films""; ""8 What Do Drops Do? Surface Wetting and Network Geometry Effects on Vadose-Zone Fracture Flow""; ""9 Investigating Flow and Transport in the Fractured Vadose Zone Using Environmental Tracers""; ""10 Lessons from Field Studies at the Apache Leap Research Site in Arizona""; ""11 Parameterization and Upscaling in Modeling Flow and Transport in the Unsaturated Zone of Yucca Mountain""; ""Appendixes""; ""Appendix A



Workshop Attendees""; ""Appendix B Invited Presentations""; ""Appendix C Panel Biographies"" ""COLOR PLATES""