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[en] Coupled thermal and hydrologic flow processes have been recognized as important factors in the evaluation of Yucca Mountain as a potential repository for high-level radioactive wastes. As a result, several models and numerical codes such as TOUGH2 have been used to investigate the thermohydrologic conditions near a potential nuclear waste repository. However, very few of these models have been tested through laboratory or field scale studies. This work has therefore focused on modeling well-controlled experiments of non-isothermal flow processes in porous media at different scales to serve two primary objectives: (1) identify processes that are potentially important to thermal and hydrologic transport at Yucca Mountain and (2) build confidence in models and codes through combined experimental and numerical studies of thermohydrologic behavior at different scales and conditions. In this report, three independent studies of thermohydrologic flow processes at laboratory and field scales are presented. The experiments and field studies that are presented here were performed independently of this work. The main focus of this report was to use the numerical code TOUGH2 to simulate the non-isothermal flow behavior observed in each experiment to generate understanding of the thermohydrologic processes and to gain confidence in the code. TOUGH2 was chosen due to its current use in calculations associated with Yucca Mountain and its capability of modeling the coupled transport of air, water, vapor, and heat in porous media
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Yucca Mountain Project
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Dec 1994; 119 p; CONTRACT AC04-94AL85000; Also available from OSTI as DE95010777; NTIS; US Govt. Printing Office Dep
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