Author(s)

Lina Neunhauserei, Alexander Fuchs, Annette & Rainer Helmig

Abstract

Flow and transport conditions in fractured porous media usually show a heterogeneous behaviour. Dispersive processes in the porous matrix lead to a slow but persistent advance of the solute front while advective processes in the fractures may induce rapid solute transport Mass exchange between fracture and matrix is possible in both directions due to fracture-matrix interaction The influence of the above processes depends mainly on the geometry of the fractured system and on the degree of contrast between the material properties of the matrix and fractures. In this paper a numerical approach is presented describing saturated flo\ a?V transport processes in arbitrarily fractured porous media. A fracture gen^ M.» is introduced to translate measured field data into discre

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