Journal
STOCHASTIC ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND RISK ASSESSMENT
Volume 27, Issue 2, Pages 505-516Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-012-0595-8
Keywords
Radioactive waste repository; Performance assessment; Fracture networks; Upscaling; Monte Carlo simulation; Genetic Algorithms
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The transport of radionuclides in fractured media plays a fundamental role in determining the level of risk offered by a radioactive waste repository in terms of expected doses. Discrete fracture networks methods can provide detailed solutions to the problem of modeling the contaminant transport in fractured media. However, within the framework of the performance assessment (PA) of radioactive waste repositories, the computational efforts required are not compatible with the repeated calculations that need to be performed for the probabilistic uncertainty and sensitivity analyses of PA. In this paper, we present a novel upscaling approach, which consists in computing the detailed numerical fractured flow and transport solutions on a small scale and use the results to derive the equivalent continuum parameters of a lean, one-dimensional dual-permeability, Monte Carlo simulation model by means of a genetic algorithm search. The proposed upscaling procedure is illustrated with reference to a realistic case study of migration taken from literature.
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