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

在这个项目中提出的研究将通过提供一种更现实和完全耦合的非饱和多孔介质在热载荷下的流动和变形建模的方法，使澳大利亚社区受益。在这项研究中提出的发展将立即适用于许多国家感兴趣的工程问题，包括核废料的储存，使用空气喷射去除污染物，蒸汽驱动/蒸汽驱，和原地燃烧。这项工作还将通过在澳大利亚发展新的专业知识，使澳大利亚和澳大利亚研究界受益，这将具有向其他国家出口的巨大潜力。

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.