Review of the research on solute transport in a single fracture

For about thirty years,along with the increasingly groundwater pollution,the investigators have paid more and more attention to the solute transport in fractured media,especially a single fracture.They have done many laboratory and field experiments and made some responsible mathematic models.Papers on solute transport in a single fracture in literatures are col 2 lected.From these papers the fundamental properties of the transport are summarized and the related experiments are compared and analyzed.With all these experiments,several important factors which influence the process of solute transport in a single fracture are concluded,such as matrix diffusion,dispersion,surface sorption,etc.This paper also presents some typical mathematic models,and discusses the validity and limitation of these models.