The Äspö Task Force on Engineered Barriers

The objective of the Task Force on Engineered Barriers is development of general and effective tools for the advanced coupled THMC analysis of buffer and backfill behaviour

- Accounting for all relevant phenomena and their interactions
  (including interaction with host rock)
- Short term and long term
- Computationally efficient (application to realistic cases)

For the years 2004-2008 the areas of work are THM modelling of processes during water transfer in buffer, backfill and near field rock (crystalline), and gas transport in saturated buffer.