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Review of models in available nonisothermal 2-phase flow codes. [Yucca Mountation Project]
The near field surrounding buried waste in the proposed high level nuclear waste repository in Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada, is a region where strongly heat driven processes can exist. These strongly heat driven processes further complicate an already very difficult problem, i.e,. predicting groundwater flow and chemical transport through unsaturated fractured, heterogeneous porous media. The coupling between fluid flow and heat emanation is central to understanding these strongly heat driven processes. Although it is important that all of couplings be investigated, the intent of this paper is to discuss the mathematical models and associated computer codes that can be used in investigating the coupled heat emanation and fluid flow in unsaturated porous media. The information in this paper should be useful to those studying these phenomena, validating these models, or investigating the coupling of fluid flow and heat emanation with the other phenomena. The codes implementing these models are commonly referred to as nonisothermal two-phase flow codes. 5 refs., 4 tabs.