We are very pleased to announce that Jun.-Prof. Carina Bringedal successfully submitted a supplementary SFB 1313 research proposal entitled ”Pore scale formulations for evaporation, and upscaling to REV scale". The German Research Fondation (DFG) will support the project under the project number A05 beginning on July 1, 2019 until December 31, 2021 (end of the first funding period). We welcome Carina as new Principal Investigator of SFB 1313.
Project summary
Drying and evaporation in porous media is relevant for many engineering processes and for soil cultivation. These processes occur over several scales, where the evolving liquid-gas interface is important to describe the evaporation at the pore scale, while its effect lies on the REV scale. Our goal is to provide a better mathematical description of REV-scale evaporation by starting with a pore-scale description of the relevant processes and using upscaling to derive an effective model at REV scale. The effect of the evolving interface is explicitly taken into account and different approaches to describe the evolving interface at the pore scale will be investigated.