Randomising models for fractured porous materials: consequences on pressure diffusion and transport (B04)

• Subject Area: Hydrogeology, Hydrology, Limnology, Urban Water Management, Water Chemistry, Integrated Water Resources Management
• Term: since 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 327154368

The project continues to look at irregular fracture networks in heterogeneous media. The goal for the third funding phase is to investigate the combined effects of all heterogeneous and irregular factors on subsequent processes such as pressure diffusion (WP 1), required model complexity (WP 2) and the transfer of mass (WP 3). Serving the Salt Vision, we will investigate how precipitation-related fracture clogging changes these consequences (WP 4). All relevant factors will be randomised: heterogeneity of the medium, fracture networks, fracture geometries, and clogging.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1313: Interface-Driven Multi-Field Processes in Porous Media - Flow, Transport and Deformation -
• Applicant Institution: Universität Stuttgart
• Project Heads: Professor Dr.-Ing. András Bárdossy, until 12/2019; Professor Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Nowak