Subdivision on Subsurface hydrology (Groundwater)
Chair: Irina Engelhardt
The dynamics associated with flow and transport scenarios in porous and fractured media are subtle and ubiquitously complex. They involve a very wide range of physical, chemical and biological processes and span an astonishingly broad range of spatial and temporal scales. Addressing heterogeneity in all its manifestations is a key challenge in this framework. The Groundwater subdivision covers a variety of research questions and applications involving flow and transport phenomena in porous and fractured media. This session is aimed at providing an opportunity for specialists to exchange information and to introduce existing and novel alternative (conceptual and mathematical) models to approach subsurface flow and transport to the general hydrological community, with critical and timely applications to environmentally and industrially relevant settings.
Topics covered include
- Flow and transport phenomena in porous and fractured media
- Experimental, Mathematical and Computational challenges in groundwater studies
- Multiphysics-multiphase flow
- Reactive transport
- Emerging contaminants
- Sustainable Groundwater Management
- Upscaling and Multiscale approaches in groundwater
- Multiscale nature of subsurface flow and transport variables
- Groundwater vulnerability and protection
- New experimental techniques for aquifer characterization.
- Stochastic and geo-statistical approaches to groundwater hydrology
- Uncertainty and limited data availability
- Inverse modeling / data assimilation
- Physical processes from pore- to field scale
- Application of modern theories/approaches to relevant test cases
- Multimodel analysis to assess the role of multiple sources of uncertainty in groundwater
- Modeling and data analysis
- Environmental and industrial case studies
- Thermal, chemical, mechanical and biological processes in aquifer systems and reservoirs
- Innovative field and laboratory experiments and techniques