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Host: Institute for Mathematics and its Applications
Homepage: http://www.ima.umn.edu/reactive/winter/rf5.html
Email: staff@ima.umn.edu
Organizers: Richard Ewing (Texas A&M University), A.C. Cunningham (Montana State University), John Chadam (University of Pittsburgh)
Description:
This workshop will focus on the mathematical problems which arise in ground water transport of contamination, and the
spreading, confinement and remediation of biological, chemical and radioactive waste. Topics include the modeling of flow
through fractured and porous media, including upscaling from pore size studies and estimating model sensitivities to intrinsic
uncertainties. Particular emphasis will be given to the study of processes which involve the full coupling of reaction, transport
and mechanical effects. Examples include breakout from chemical and radioactive waste repositories, confinement by injection
of pore plugging material and bioremediation of petroleum and other wastes. We shall encourage the participation of key
experimentalists in the modeling of the basic processes, especially in the upscaling and sensitivity studies. A strong component
of geology will be needed to characterize domains. Numerical approaches to simulating such processes on all scales will also
be addressed (e.g. heterogeneous media, adaptive gridding, hybrid schemes, lattice Boltzmann pore scale simulations). We
shall seek connection to the DOE community and ask them to present a range of problems.
Date received: August 27, 1999
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