Refereed Journal Articles

Ahlers, C. F., S. Finsterle, and G. S. Bodvarsson. Characterization and Prediction of Subsurface Pneumatic Response at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology - Special Issue, vol. 38, nos. 1-3, pp. 47-68, LBNL-41505, May 1999.

Bodvarsson, G.S., H.H. Liu, R. Ahlers, Y.S. Wu, and E. Sonnenthal, 2000. Parameterization and upscaling in modeling flow and transport at Yucca Mountain. Advances in water resources (In Review). LBNL-43467.

Börgesson L., Chijimatsu M., Nguyen T.S., Rutqvist J. and Jing L. Characterization of a buffer material by laboratory tests and back analyes. Int. J. Rock mech. Min. Sci. Submitted January (2000). LBNL-46132

Borglin, S.E., G.J. Moridis, and C.M. Oldenburg, Experimental studies of ferrofluid flow for subsurface environmental engineering applications, Transport in Porous Media, in press. LBNL-41069.

Doughty, C. and B. Faybishenko, Modeling of water flow and tracer breakthrough curves in fractured basalt (lessons learned and future investigations), Case Study in Book "Vadose Zone Science and Technology Solutions," (eds. B. Looney and R. Falta), Battelle Press, OH., July 2000. LBNL-46158.

Doughty, C., Numerical model of water flow in a fractured basalt vadose zone, Box Canyon site, Idaho, Water Resources Res., in press, 2000 (LBNL-40630).

Doughty, C.,C.M. Oldenburg, P.T. Zawislanski, Analysis of vadose zone data from a contaminated site: indirect evidence for preferential flow, submitted to Water Resources Res., March 2000 (LBNL-45319).

Elmroth, E., C. Ding and Y. S. Wu, "High Performance Computations for Large Scale Simulations of Subsurface Multiphase Fluid and Heat Flow Simulation," Journal of Supercomputing (in press), 1999. LBNL-43385.

Faybishenko, B. Tensiometer for Shallow or Deep Measurements Including Vadose Zone and Aquifers, Journal of Soil Sciences, June 2000.

Faybishenko, B. Vadose Zone Characterization and Monitoring: Current Technologies, Applications, and Future Developments, Chapter 3 of Book "Vadose Zone Science and Technology Solutions," (eds. B. Looney and R. Falta), Battelle Press, OH., July 2000. LBNL-46159

Faybishenko, B., and S. Finsterle, "On Tensiometry in Fractured Rocks," A Special GSA book "Theory, Modeling, and Field Investigation in Hydrogeology: A Special Volume in Honor of Shlomo P. Neuman's 60th Birthday," in Press, 2000. LBNL-43864.

Faybishenko, B., C. Doughty, M. Steiger, J.C.S. Long, T.R. Wood, J.S. Jacobsen, J. Lore, and P.T. Zawislanski, Conceptual model of the geometry and physics of water flow in a fractured basalt vadose zone, Water Resources Res., in press, 2000 (LBNL-42925).

Faybishenko, B., P. A. Witherspoon, C. Doughty, J. Geller, T. Wood, R. Podgorney, Multi-Scale Investigations of Liquid Flow in a Fractured Basalt Vadose Zone, AGU Monograph "Flow and Transport in Fractured Rocks" (eds. T.J. Nicholson, and D.D. Evans), In press, 2000. LBNL-42910

Finsterle, S., and R. C. Trautz, Numerical modeling of seepage into underground openings, submitted to Mining Engineering, October 1999. (LBNL-44060)

Finsterle, S., Using the continuum approach to model unsaturated flow in fractured rock, in press, Water Resour. Res., 2000. (LBNL-45459)

Freifeld, B.M., and C.M. Oldenburg, The restricted interval Guelph permeameter: theory and application, Water Resources Research, 36(6), 1373—1380, 2000. LBNL-42135.

Geller, J.Y., H.Y. Holman, G. Su, M.E. Conrad, K. Pruess, and J.C. Hunter-Cevera. Flow Dynamics and Potential for Biodegradation of Organic Contaminants in Fractured Rock Vadose Zones, J. Contam. Hydr., Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 63 - 90, 2000. LBNL-42587.

Hestir, K. and K. Karasaki, Analytical Expressions for Permeability of Random Two-Dimensional Poisson Fracture Networks, submitted to Water Resources Research, 1999. LBNL-27625.

Hinds, J. J.; Ge, S.; and Fridrich, C. J. 1999. Numerical modeling of perched water under Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Ground Water, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 498-504. LBNL-46394.

Hu, M.Q., R.C. Trautz, and J.S.Y. Wang, Tracer migration delineation in the unsaturated fractured tuff, LBNL-45278, Journal of Hydrology (submitted), 2000.

Hu, M.Q., T. Kneafsey, R.C. Trautz, J.S.Y. Wang. Tracer penetration into welded tuff matrix from the flowing fracture. Water Resources Research LBNL-46400 (to be submitted, under LBNL internal review), 2000.

Hu, Q., P. Persoff and J.S.Y. Wang, Laboratory measurement of water imbibition into low-permeability welded tuff, LBNL-43594, Journal of Hydrology (submitted), 2000.

Johnson, T.M., R.C. Roback, T.L. McLing, T.D. Bullen, D.J. DePaolo, C. Doughty, R.J. Hunt, and M.T. Murrell, Groundwater "fast paths" in the Snake River Plain aquifer: Radiogenic isotope ratios as natural groundwater tracers, submitted to Geology, January 2000.

Karasaki, K., B. Freifeld, A. Cohen, K. Grossenbacher, P. Cook, and D. Vasco, A Multidisciplinary Fractured Rock Characterization Study at Raymond Field Site, Raymond, California, accepted for publication, Journal of Hydrology, 2000. LBNL-44577.

Liu H.H. and G.S. Bodvarsson, 2000. Constitutive relations for a fracture network. Water Resources Research (in review). LBNL-46393.

Liu, H,H,, G.S. Bodvarsson, and L. Pan. 2000. Determination of particle transfer in random walk particle methods for fractured porous media. Water Resources Research, 36(3):707-713. LBNL-42886.

Liu, H.H., C.B. Haukwa, R. Ahlers and G.S. Bodvarsson, 2000 Modeling flow and transport in unsaturated fractured rocks: An evaluation of the continuum approach. Water Resources Research (in review) LBNL-46571.

Mays D. and B. Faybishenko, Washboards in Unpaved Highways as a Complex Dynamic System, Submitted to the Journal "Complexity," May 2000. LBNL-45838.

Moridis, G. J. Semianalytical Solutions for Wells with Arbitrary Completion Intervals and Independent Rates, in press, Journal of Hydrology (LBNL-43171).

Moridis, G. J., S. Finsterle, and J. Heiser, Evaluation of alternative designs for an injectable barrier at the Brookhaven National Laboratory Site, Long Island, New York, Water Resour. Res., 35(10), 2937—2953, 1999. (LBNL-41763)

Moridis,G. J. Semianalytical Solutions for Barrier Performance Evaluation in Contaminant Isolation Applications, in press, Transport in Porous Media (LBNL-41910).

Nakao, S., J. Najita, J., and K. Karasaki, Sensitivity Study on Hydraulic Well Testing Inversion Using Simulated Annealing, Ground Water, Vol. 37, No. 5, 736-746, September-October 1999. LBNL-41131.

Nguyen T.S., Börgesson L., Chijimatsu M., Rutqvist J., Fujita T., Hernelin J., Kobayashi A., Onishi Y., Tanaka M. and Jing L. Hydro-mechanical response of a fractured rock mass to excavation of a test pit — The Kamaishi Mine Experiment in Japan. Int. J. Rock mech. Min. Sci. Submitted January (2000). LBNL-46133

Nikolskii, I. and B. Faybishenko, Semi-analytical approach for calculating the horizontal drain spacing taking into account infiltration through the vadose zone, Submitter to Soil Science Society of America Journal, April 2000. LBNL-45510.

Oldenburg, C.M, S.E. Borglin, and G.J. Moridis, Numerical simulation of ferrofluid flow for subsurface environmental engineering applications, Transport in Porous Media, 38, 319—344, 2000. LBNL-40776.

Oldenburg, C.M. and K. Pruess. Plume Separation by Transient Thermohaline Convection in Porous Media, Geoph. Res. Lett., Vol. 26, N0. 19, pp. 2997 - 3000, October 1, 1999. LBNL-43133.

Oldenburg, C.M. and K. Pruess. Simulation of Propagating Fronts in Geothermal Reservoirs with the Implicit Leonard Total Variation Diminishing Scheme, Geothermics, Vol. 29, pp. 1 - 25, 2000. LBNL-42620.

Patzek, T. W., D.B. Silin. Control of Fluid Injection into a Low-Permeability Rock - 1. Hydrofracture Growth. Transport in Porous Media, submitted. LBNL-44023.

Persoff, P. and J. B. Hulen, Hydrologic Characterization of Reservoir Metagraywacke from Shallow and Deep Levels of the Geysers Vapor-Dominated Geothermal System, California. LBL-35113

Podgorney, R., T. Wood, B. Faybishenko, and T. Stoops, Spatial and temporal instabilities in water flow through variably saturated fractured basalt on a one-meter scale, AGU Monograph "Dynamics of Fluids in Fractured Rocks: Concepts and Recent Advances," In press, 2000. LBNL-46551.

Pruess, K., B. Faybishenko, and G.S. Bodvarsson. Alternative Concepts and Approaches for Modeling Unsaturated Flow and Transport in Fractured Rocks, J. Contam. Hydr., Vol. 38, No. 1-3, pp. 281 - 322, 1999. LBNL-41435.

Rutqvist J., Stephansson and Tsang C.-F. Uncertainty in estimate of maximum principal stress from hydraulic fracturing due to the presence of the induced fracture. Int. J. Rock mech. Min. Sci. 37 107-120 (2000a). LBNL-43953

Rutqvist J., Börgesson L., Chijimatsu M., Nguyen T. S., Jing L., Noorishad J., and Tsang C.-F. Coupled Thermo-hydro-mechanical Analysis of a Heater Test in Fractured Rock and Bentonite at Kamaishi Mine — Comparison of Field Results to Predictions of Four Finite Element Codes. Int. J. Rock mech. Min. Sci. Submitted January (2000b). LBNL-45503

Rutqvist J., Börgesson L., Chijimatsu M., Kobayashi A., Nguyen T. S., Jing L., Noorishad J., and Tsang C.-F. Thermohydromechanics of Partially Saturated Geological Media — Governing Equations and Formulation of Four Finite Element Models. Int. J. Rock mech. Min. Sci. Submitted January (2000c). LBNL-45502

Rutqvist J., Noorishad J., Stephansson O. and Tsang C.-F. Determination of fracture storativity in hard rocks using high pressure testing. Water Resources Research. 34 (10) 2551-2560 (1998a). LBNL-42136

Salve R., 1998. Near surface wetting of a ponded basalt surface: Observations using time domain reflectometry. Journal of Hydrology, 208 (3-4): 249-261. LBNL No. 40911

Salve, R., and C. M. Oldenburg, Water flow in a fault in altered nonwelded tuff. Submitted to Water Resources Research, May, 2000. LBNL No. 45844

Salve, R., and J.S.Y. Wang, Field investigations of fracture flow in welded tuffs. Submitted to Water Resources Research, October 1999. LBNL No. 44411

Salve, R., and T.K. Tokunaga, Flow processes in a rangeland catchment in California. In Press (Journal of Range Management). LBNL No. 44901

Salve, R., J.S.Y. Wang and T.K. Tokunaga, A probe for measuring wetting front migration in rocks. Water Resour. Res. 36: 1359-1367, 2000. LBNL No. 43203

Salve, R., Seepage Response along an Alluvial Valley in a Semi-Arid Catchment. Submitted to Hydrological Processes, May, 2000. LBNL No. 45845

Salve, R., Variations in flow in a rangeland catchment. In Press (Journal of Range Management). LBNL No. 44899

Shan, C., An analytical solution for the capture zone of two arbitrarily located wells, Journal of Hydrology, 222(1999): 123-128, 1999.

Shan, C., An approximate equation for gas flow in the vadose zone, Journal of Hydrology, submitted.

Shan, C., I. Javandel, and P. A. Witherspoon, Characterization of leaky faults: Study of air flow in faulted vadose zones, Water Resources Research, 35(7): 2007-2013, July, 1999.

Shvidler, M. and K. Karasaki, Multi-Continuum Description of Flow and Transport and Splitting the Fields in Composite Heterogeneous Media, Submitted to Water Resour. Res., 1999. LBNL-44563.

Silin, D.B. and T.W. Patzek. Water Injection into a Low-Permeability Rock - 2. Control Model. Transport in Porous Media, submitted. LBNL-46515.

Unger, A., B. Faybishenko, G. Bodvarsson, and A. Simmons, Preferential Flow Paths in Variably Saturated Fractured Basalt at the Box Canyon Site, Idaho, Submitted to Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, April 2000. LBNL-44633

Unger, A.J.A., B. Faybishenko, G.S. Bodvarsson, A.M. Simmons, A three-dimensional model for simulating ponded infiltration tests in the variably satuarated fractured basalt at the Box Canyon Site, Idaho., submitted to Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, LBNL-44613, April 2000.

Vasco, D.W., K. Karasaki, and C. Doughty, Using surface deformation to image reservoir dynamics, Geophysics, 65, 1, 2000 (LBNL-43324).

Wang, J. S. Y., R. C. Trautz, P. J. Cook, S. Finsterle, A. L. James, J. Birkholzer "Field Tests and Model Analyses of Seepage into Drift", , Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, vol. 38, pp. 323-347, 1999.

Wood, T., and B. Faybishenko, Large-scale field investigations in fractured basalt, Case Study in Book "Vadose Zone Science and Technology Solutions," (eds. B. Looney and R. Falta), Battelle Press, OH., July 2000. LBNL-46159

Wu, L., L. Pan, J. Mitchell, and B. Sanden. 1999. Measuring saturated hydraulic conductivity using a generalized solution for single-ring infiltrometers. Soil Science Society of America Journal, V63: 788-792. LBNL-46396.

Wu, Y. S. "A Virtual Node Method for Handling Wellbore Boundary Conditions in Modeling Multiphase Flow in Porous and Fractured Media," LBNL-42882, Water Resources Research, Vol. 36, N0. 3, pp.807-814, 2000. LBNL-40869.

Wu, Y. S. and K. Pruess, "Numerical Simulation of Non-Isothermal Multiphase Tracer Transport in Heterogeneous Fractured Porous Media," Advance in Water Resources, Vol. 23, pp. 699-723, 2000. LBNL-43534.

Wu, Y. S. and P. A Forsyth, "On the Selection of Primary Variables in Numerical Formulation for Modeling Multiphase Flow in Porous Media," LBNL-44322, Submitted to Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 1999.

Wu, Y. S., "Non-Darcy Displacement of Immiscibel Fluids in Porous Media," LBNL-45228, Submitted to Water Resources Research, 2000.

Wu, Y. S., "Numerical Simulation of Single-Phase and Multiphase Non-Darcy Flow in Porous and Fractured Reservoirs," LBNL-45855, Submitted to Advance in Water Resources, 2000.

Wu, Y. S., S. Finsterle and G. S. Bodvarsson, "Field-Scale Modeling Studies to Characterize Hydraulic Properties for Water, Air and Heat Flow in the Unsaturated Zone of Yucca Mountain," Book Chapter, Characterization and Measurement of the Hydraulic Properties of Unsaturated Porous Media, edited by M. Th. Van Genuchten, Leij, F. J. and Wu, L., Published by the University of California, Riverside, California, pp. 1537-1548, 1999. LBNL-40869.

Wu, Y.S. and K. Pruess. Integral Solutions for Transient Fluid Flow Through a Porous Medium with Pressure-Dependent Permeability. J. Rock Mechanics and Mining Sci., Vol. 37. No. 1-2, pp. 51 - 61, 2000. LBNL-28938.

Xu, T., and Pruess, K., 2000, On fluid flow and mineral alteration in fractured caprock of magmatic hydrothermal systems, submitted to Journal of Geophysical Research, LBNL 44804.

Xu, T., and Pruess, K., 2000, Modeling multiphase fluid flow and reactive geochemical transport in variably saturated fractured rocks: 1. Methodology, Re-submitted to American Journal of Science, In press, modified based on LBNL-42050-1998.

Xu, T., J. Samper, C. Ayora, M. Manzano, and E. Custodio, 1999, Modeling of non-isothermal multi-component reactive transport in field-scale porous media flow system, J. Hydrology, 214, 144-164. LBNL-45134.

Xu, T., K. Pruess and G. Brimhall. An Improved Equilibrium-Kinetics Speciation Algorithm for Redox Reactions in Variably Saturated Subsurface Flow Systems, Computers & Geosciences, Vol. 25, pp. 655 - 666, 1999. LBNL-41789.

Xu, T., Sonnenthal, E., Spycher, N., Pruess, K., and Brimhall, G., 2000, Modeling multiphase fluid flow and reactive geochemical transport in variably saturated fractured rocks: 2. Applications to supergene copper enrichment and hydrothermal flows, Re-submitted to American Journal of Science, In press, modified based on LBNL-42051-1998.

Xu, T., White, S. P., Pruess, K., and Brimhall, G. H., 2000, Modeling of pyrite oxidation in saturated and unsaturated subsurface flow systems, Transport in porous media, 39, p. 25-56, LBNL-45508-1999.