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A Study Of Hydraulic Properties Of High Level Waste Simulant, Sudhakar N. Chodavarapu
A Study Of Hydraulic Properties Of High Level Waste Simulant, Sudhakar N. Chodavarapu
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The purpose of this study was to determine the unsaturated hydraulic properties of High Level Waste simulant by applying inverse modeling and parameter estimation methods and data obtained by experiments.
Saltcake simulant was placed in column equipped with tensiometers and flow meters. Variable pressure boundary conditions ranging from 100 to 500 cm were applied along the column, outflow and the pressure head were measured with respect to time. The experimental data was analyzed using an inverse modeling software and the van Genuchten's hydraulic parameters for unsaturated porous media were determined. In addition, the unsaturated hydraulic conductivities were obtained as a …