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Thompson, B.M.; Campbell, J.E.; Longsine, D.E.
Battelle Memorial Inst., Hereford, TX (USA). Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation; INTERA Technologies, Inc., Houston, TX (USA)1987
Battelle Memorial Inst., Hereford, TX (USA). Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation; INTERA Technologies, Inc., Houston, TX (USA)1987
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[en] PTRACK is a model which tracks the path of a radionuclide particle released from a nuclear waste repository into a ground-water flow system in a two-dimensional representation of stratified geologic medium. The code calculates the time required for the particle to travel from the release point (the edge of the disturbed zone) to the specified horizontal or vertical boundary (the accessible environment). The physical properties of the geologic setting and the ground-water flow system can be treated as fixed values or as random variables sampled from their respective probability distributions. In the latter case, PTRACK assigns a sampled value for each parameter and tracks a particle for this trial (realization) of the system. Repeated realizations allow the effects of parameter uncertainty on travel paths/travel times to be quantified. The code can also calculate partial correlation coefficients between dependent variables and independent variables, which are useful in identifying important independent variables. This documentation describes the mathematical basis for the model, the algorithms and solution techniques used, and the computer code design. It also contains a detailed user's manual. The implementation of PTRACK is verified with several systems for which solutions have been calculated by hand. The integration of PTRACK with a Latin hypercube sampling (LHS) code is also discussed, although other sampling methods can be employed in place of LHS. 11 refs., 14 figs., 22 tabs
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Dec 1987; 163 p; BMI/ONWI--674; OSTI, PO Bx 62, Oak Ridge, TN 37831
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COMPUTER CODES, DEVELOPED COUNTRIES, DOCUMENT TYPES, ENERGY SOURCES, ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT, FUELS, GEOLOGIC DEPOSITS, HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS, MANAGEMENT, MASS TRANSFER, MATERIALS, NORTH AMERICA, NUCLEAR FACILITIES, NUCLEAR FUELS, OXYGEN COMPOUNDS, POLAR SOLVENTS, RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS, REACTOR MATERIALS, SOLVENTS, USA, WASTE DISPOSAL, WASTES, WATER
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