Our SFB 1313 external partner and co-investigator Kundan Kumar from the University of Bergen is appointed to be the SFB 1313 Mercator Fellow, during his four-week research stay in April 2024. Congratulations!
About Kundan Kumar's research
Kundan Kumar specializes in the development of upscaled models, dimensional reduction techniques, and numerical algorithms to address coupled multiphysics phenomena, particularly focusing on flow and transport within deformable porous media. His involves reactive flow models that induce changes in pore-scale geometry, necessitating unconventional models to describe these processes. He has conducted upscaling and dimensional reduction of reactive processes and devised numerical methods to solve the resulting upscaled models. Additionally, he has contributed to the advancement of scalable algorithms, including domain decomposition techniques, to simulate multiphase flow and transport in porous media efficiently. Furthermore, he has conducted analyses of iterative and multirate algorithms for solving coupled flow and geomechanics problems within porous mediums.
About the SFB 1313 Mercator Fellowship
Mercator Fellowships enable an intensive, long-term, project-based collaboration between researchers from both domestic and foreign institutions. Although Mercator Fellows are on-site for only part of the project, they are associated with the project and remain in contact with the project team members once their research stay is over. With this collaboration, additional competence is to be gained for the project or the network and for increasing the project's visibility. The engagement of Mercator Fellows is more intensive than that of scientific guests.