Interpretation of artificial and environmental tracers in fissured rocks with a porous matrix.

Authors:

• Piotr Małoszewski,
• A. Zuber

Abstract

Solutions to the transport equation for the piston-flow and dispersion models in the case of instantaneous tracer injection are given. The great number of non-disposable parameters make a correct interpretation of tracer experiments impossible. In the case of environmental tracers it is suggested that the lumped-parameter approach may be applied in its present form, but to obtain the water age it is necessary to introduce a correction similar to that for artificial tracer experiments.-from Authors