Simulation of the Sandia Laboratory Salt Block II, brine migration experiment

The finite-element code SPECTROM-58 is used to simulate the Salt Block II brine migration experiment. All input quantities for the computer code are treated as stochastic quantities. The measured results of the Salt Block II experiment are within the range of the SPECTROM-58 computed results. However, the range of calculated results that arises from the uncertainty in the input quantities is so large that an evaluation of the aptness of SPECTROM-58 is precluded. The current uncertainty in several of the input parameters must be reduced through laboratory testing before the Salt Block II experiment can be used for validating SPECTROM-58. 29 refs., 22 figs., 11 tabs.