Research

Research Projects

Find below a list of ongoing research projects led by members of the Porous Media Group.

Ongoing research projects

-Structure-physics coupling in the subsurface

Vista Center for Modeling of Coupled Subsurface Dynamics (Vista CSD)

VISTA CSD’s primary objective is to develop fundamental knowledge and educate next generation researchers to understand how subsurface fluid injection and extraction results in deformation, fault reactivation and fracturing.

Mathematical and Numerical Modelling of Process-Structure Interaction in Fractured Geothermal Systems (MaPSI)

MaPSI has as its main objective to provide mathematical models and simulation technology required to assess subsurface process-structure interaction in the context of hydraulic and thermal stimulation in development and production of high-temperature geothermal resources.

Fracture propagation caused by thermal gradients in a setting of thermo-poromechanics

Simulation of governing processes in superheated and supercritical geothermal systems: mathematical models, numerical methods and field data (SiGS)

The SiGS project goal is to extend the understanding of superheated and supercritical geothermal resources and their response to engineering operations by combining tailored mathematical and numerical modeling with field observations.

PoroTwin

The PoroTwin project has as its objective to develop a digital twin with real-time integration of reservoir flow, simulation, and control with experimental operational parameters.

$Fluid injection in fractured medium$

FracFlow

The FracFlow project has the main objective to develop a fundamental understanding for multiphase flow in fractured porous media using interdisciplinary research.

Maximum von Mises stress (left) and stress distribution (right) under drying of a soil.

Fracturing of porous media in the presence of multiphase flows

This project will take a first-principles approach to develop a modeling and simulation tool for fracture mechanics in deformable porous media, that accounts for both fluid pressure and capillary effects as dominant driving forces.

Gradient flow modelling of multi-phase flow in deformable porous media (GradFlowPoro)

The goal of the project is the study of a thermodynamically consistent mathematical model for multi-phase poromechanics.

Thermo-Mechanical Subsurface Energy Storage (TheMSES)

The overarching objective of the TheMSES research program is to provide the mathematical models and simulation technology required to assess large-scale deployment of subsurface thermo-mechanical energy storage in the context of intermittent renewable energy.

06.05.2022