Organizers:

Richard E. Ewing
Texas A&M University


Al Cunningham
Montana State University

and

John Chadam
Department of Mathematics
University of Pittsburgh

This workshop will focus on the mathematical problems which arise in ground water transport of contamination, and the spreading, confinement and remediation of biological, chemical and radioactive waste. Topics include the modeling of flow through fractured and porous media, including upscaling from pore size studies and estimating model sensitivities to intrinsic uncertainties. Particular emphasis will be given to the study of processes which involve the full coupling of reaction, transport and mechanical effects. Examples include breakout from chemical and radioactive waste repositories, confinement by injection of pore plugging material and bioremediation of petroleum and other wastes. We shall encourage the participation of key experimentalists in the modeling of the basic processes, especially in the upscaling and sensitivity studies. A strong component of geology will be needed to characterize domains. Numerical approaches to simulating such processes on all scales will also be addressed (e.g. heterogeneous media, adaptive gridding, hybrid schemes, lattice Boltzmann pore scale simulations). We shall seek connection to the DOE community and ask them to present a range of problems.

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

All talks are in Lecture Hall EE/CS 3-180 unless otherwise noted.

LIST OF CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS

as of 1/14/2000