U.S.-Germany Cooperative Research: Establishing a Porous Media Observational Facility at the University of Kassel, Germany

该奖项支持PI和co-PI，德雷克塞尔大学的蒂萨伊兰加塞克雷博士， 与地质水力学和工程系的Manfred Koch合作 卡塞尔大学水文学。 该合作将设计和建造一个 含有结构化多孔介质的大型（10米）实验容器， 可测量的统计特性与成比例的非均质砂相当， 砾石含水层，并使用该船观测流体流动和物质运输 在受控条件下。 其最终目的是提高含水层的预测能力 通过将观测结果与随机和其他 一些非理想污染物输运过程的数学模型。 几乎 多孔介质中的任何流体动力学问题都可以在所提出的方法中进行详细研究。 容器。 在这项研究中特别感兴趣的是致密的，可混溶的流体运输，病毒和 胶体输送和不混溶流体流动。 所有这些主题都是环境问题 广泛接受的问题，准确的预测方法，运输， 非均相多孔介质目前不可用。

This award supports the PI and co-PI, Dr. Tissa Illangasekare of Drexel University to collaborate with Manfred Koch of the Department of Geohydraulics and Engineering Hydrology at the University of Kassel. The collaboration will design and construct a large-scale (10-meter) experimental vessel containing structured porous media with measurable statistical properties comparable to that of a scaled, heterogeneous sand and gravel aquifer, and to use the vessel for observation of fluid flow and mass transport under controlled conditions. The ultimate goal is to improve prediction of aquifer contamination by comparison of observational results with stochastic and other mathematical models of a number of non-ideal contaminant transport processes. Almost any fluid dynamics problem in porous media could be studied in detail in the proposed vessel. Of special interest in this study are dense, miscible fluid transport, virus and colloid transport, and immiscible fluid flow. All of those topics are environmental problems for which widely-accepted, accurate predictive methods for transport in heterogeneous porous media are not currently available.