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
September 8, 2017
New paper on the intermittency of particles motion in 3D porous media by Matthias Willmann, published in Geophysical Research Letter. Special Issue in Geofluids
July 25, 2017
SEP Group will participate in the co-edition of a Special Issue on "Contribution of Pore-Scale Approach to Macroscale Geofluids Modelling in Porous Media" in Geofluids journal (please, click... New publication
July 22, 2017
New paper on the use of eigenvector centrality for characterization of porous media in collaboration with Christian Negre (LANL), published in Physical Review E.