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On the Development of a Three-dimensional Finite-element Groundwater Flow Model of the Saturated Zone, Yucca Mountain, Nevada - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On the Development of a Three-dimensional Finite-element Groundwater Flow Model of the Saturated Zone, Yucca Mountain, Nevada write by . This book was released on 1996. On the Development of a Three-dimensional Finite-element Groundwater Flow Model of the Saturated Zone, Yucca Mountain, Nevada available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Development of a preliminary three-dimensional model of the saturated zone at Yucca Mountain, the potential location for a high-level nuclear waste repository, is presented. The development of the model advances the technology of interfacing: (1)complex three-dimensional hydrogeologic framework modeling; (2) fully three-dimensional, unstructured, finite-element mesh generation; and (3) groundwater flow, heat, and transport simulation. The three-dimensional hydrogeologic framework model is developed using maps, cross sections, and well data. The framework model data are used to feed an automated mesh generator, designed to discretize irregular three-dimensional solids, a nd to assign materials properties from the hydrogeologic framework model to the tetrahedral elements. The mesh generator facilitated the addition of nodes to the finite-element mesh which correspond to the exact three-dimensional position of the potentiometric surface based on water-levels from wells. A ground water flow and heat simulator is run with the resulting finite- element mesh, within a parameter-estimation program. The application of the parameter-estimation program is designed to provide optimal values of permeability and specified fluxes over the model domain to minimize the residual between observed and simulated water levels.