Program Overview

Evaluation of Seepage During the Thermal Period at Yucca Mountain
Jens T. Birkholzer

Systematic Hydrological Characterization of the Topopah Spring Lower Lithophysal Unit
Paul Cook and Yvonne Tsang

Investigating How the Multiscale Heterogeneity of Hydrogeologic Properties Affects Flow and Transport at Yucca Mountain, Nevada
Paul Cook and Joe Wang

Geothermal Systems as Natural Analogues for Yucca Mountain Coupled Processes
Patrick Dobson and Timothy Kneafsey

Development of Numerical Grids for Unsaturated Zone Flow and Transport Modeling
Patrick Dobson, Lehua Pan, Yu-Shu Wu, and Randy Hedegaard

Scaling and Hierarchy of Models for Flow Processes in Unsaturated Fractured Rock
Boris Faybishenko, G.S. Bodvarsson, Jennifer Hinds, and Paul A. Witherspoon

Evaporation from a Seepage Face
Stefan Finsterle, Teamrat A. Ghezzehei, Rob C. Trautz, C.F. (Rick) Ahlers, and Paul J. Cook

Effects of Induced Convection on Far-Field Groundwater Flow
Kazumasa Ito and Kenzi Karasaki

Investigation of Uncertainty in Hydrogeologic Modeling of Flow and Transport in a Large, Saturated Granitic Rock Mass
Kenzi Karasaki, Christine Doughty, and Kazumasa Ito

Fracture Sealing by Mineral Dissolution and Precipitation at Yucca Mountain
Timothy J. Kneafsey, Patrick F. Dobson, Eric L. Sonnenthal, John A. Apps, and Nicolas Spycher

Scale Dependency of the Effective Matrix Diffusion Coefficient
Hui-Hai Liu, Gudmundur S. Bodvarsson, and Guoxiang Zhang

The Active Fracture Model and Fractal Flow Behavior
Hui-Hai Liu, Guoxiang Zhang, and Gudmundur S. Bodvarsson

Implications of Halide Leaching on Chlorine-36 Studies at Yucca Mountain
Guoping Lu, Eric L. Sonnenthal, and Gudmundur S. Bodvarsson

3-D Studies of Mountain-Scale Radionuclide Transport in the Unsaturated Zone at Yucca Mountain, Nevada
George J. Moridis, Yonkoo Seol, and Yu-Shu Wu

A Modeling Study of Flow Diversion and Focusing in Unsaturated Fractured Rocks
Lehua Pan, Yu-Shu Wu, and Keni Zhang

New Improvements to Wingridder: An Interactive Grid Generator For TOUGH2
Lehua Pan

Coupled Thermal-Hydrological-Mechanical Analysis with TOUGH-FLAC
Jonny Rutqvist and Chin-Fu Tsang

Flow and Transport Through a Fault Embedded in Fractured Rock
Rohit Salve, Hui-Hai Liu, Paul Cook, Atlantis Czarnomski,  and Joseph S.Y. Wang

A Numerical Study of Unsaturated Flow and Transport Through a Fractured Meter-sized Rock Block
Yongkoo Seol, Timothy J. Kneafsey, Kazumasa Ito, and Stefan Finsterle

Effects of Water-Rock Interaction of Unsaturated Flow in Heterogeneous Fractured Rock
Eric Sonnenthal, Nicolas Spycher, Charles Haukwa, and Tianfu Xu

Yucca Mountain Heater Test Cooling Phase
Yvonne Tsang, Sumit Mukhopadhyay, Jonny Rutqvist, Eric Sonnenthal, and Nicolas Spycher

A Mountain-Scale Flow Model for the Unsaturated Zone of Yucca Mountain, Nevada
Yu-Shu Wu, Guoping Lu, Keni Zhang, and G.S. Bodvarsson

A Numerical Investigation of Flow Focusing in Unsaturated Fracture Networks
Keni Zhang, Yu-Shu Wu, G. S. Bodvarsson, and Hui-Hai Liu

Multiscale Heterogeneity Effects at Yucca Mountain
Quanlin Zhou, Hui-Hai Liu, Gudmundur S. Bodvarsson, and Curtis M. Oldenburg

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