Subsurface Environmental Processes
The main objective of our research is to quantify the links between the physical heterogeneity of subsurface environments, including porous and fractured media, the heterogeneity of the resulting flow fields, and the effective transport behavior, including solute dispersion, mixing, and (bio-)chemical reactions. We tackle these problems using both experiments — performed over scales ranging from micro to field scale — and (numerical and theoretical) modelling. The environmental and industrial applications of our research include the study of the impact of climate change on groundwater resources, remediation of polluted sites, nuclear waste storage, geothermal energy, geological sequestration of CO2, recovery of hydrocarbons, and hydraulic fracturing.
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New publication
April 1, 2024
A new publication from Andrés Velásquez-Parra in Water Resources Research, in which we study the phase saturation control on mixing in porous media from synchrotron 4D X-ray micro-tomograph New publication
March 7, 2024
A new publication in Advanced Sciences in which we study bacterial chemotaxis under flow conditions in response to a nutrient hotspot (uncaged by photolysis) within a multiscale porosity mi... Postdoc position available!
March 5, 2024
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