Experimental Investigation and Constitutive Modelling of Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Coupling Effects in Unsaturated Porous Media

该项目中提出的研究将为澳大利亚社区提供一种更现实和完全耦合的热载荷作用下非饱和多孔介质中流动和变形的建模方法。这项研究中提出的发展将立即适用于许多涉及国家利益的工程问题，包括核废料的储存、利用空气喷雾去除污染物、蒸汽驱/蒸汽驱和就地燃烧。这项工作还将通过在澳大利亚内部开发一种新的专业知识，使澳大利亚和澳大利亚研究界受益，这种专业知识将有很大潜力出口到其他国家。

The research proposed in this project will benefit the Australian community through provision of a methodology for a more realistic and fully coupled modelling of flow and deformation in unsaturated porous media subject to thermal loading. The developments proposed in this research will be immediately applicable to many engineering problems of national interest, including storage of nuclear wastes, removal of contaminants using air sparging, steam drive/steam flooding, and in situ combustion. The work will also benefit Australia and the Australian research community through the development of a new expertise within Australia, which will have a high potential for export to other countries.