The 26th Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources (CMWR) took place in Bologna (Italy) from 28 June to 2 July 2026.
The following SFB 1313 researchers participated in this year's event with contributed talks and posters and as members in the conference and scientific committees.
- Costanza Aricò (research project A02 and Mercator Fellow): "Mixed finite element projection methods for the unsteady Brinkman-Biot equations" (talk)
- Inga Berre (advisory board member: "Comparison of Augmented Lagrangian Solvers for Poroelasticity with Fracture Contact Mechanics", member of the ccientific committee
- Tim Brünnette (research project B04): "Bayesian Model Validation for Single-Phase Darcy Flow in Fractured Porous Media" (poster)
- Zhixin Chen (research project A02 and Humboldt Fellow): "A Pore-to-REV Upscaling Framework for Evaporation-Driven Salt Precipitation in Porous Media" (talk)
- Holger Class (research project C04): "From microfluidics to models: understanding pore-scale biomineralization and permeability evolution" (talk)
- Bernd Flemisch (research projects D03 and INF): "Adaptive coupling of vertical-equilibrium and full-dimensional models for subsurface gas storage" (talk)
- Bo Guo (external partner and Humbold Fellow): "Mathematical modeling of PFAS root uptake and plant accumulation coupled with fate and transport in the vadose zone: Model development and experimental evaluation", (talk and member of the CMWR conference committee)
- Rainer Helmig (research projects A02 and C02): "Interface-controlled multi-field processes in porous media -from REV to pore scale (talk)
- David Lipp (associated research project A-X7): "A coupled 1d-3d-model for the geothermal use of mine water from flooded mines"
- Wolfgag Nowak (research projects B04 and B05) , member of the scientific committee
- Fiona Weiss (associated research project C-X6): "A fully implicit modular DuMuX framework for compositional multiphase mineral dissolution in heterogeneous porous media" (talk)
- Kai Wendel (internal research project I-8): "Benchmarking Reactive Transport Models with a Variable-Aperture Limestone Fracture Experiment" (talk)
- Ivan Yotov (Humboldt Fellow): "A non-overlapping domain decomposition method for the Stokes–Biot system of fluid–poroelastic structure interaction" (talk)
Furthermore, other participants of the group of Wolfgang Nowak and from SFB1313's working group ecosystem:
- Sergio Callau Medrano: Let the data speak: Catchment as non-autonomous dynamical systems via a modulated storage-discharge function (poster)
- Stefania Scheurer: "UA-SABI: Uncertainty-aware surrogate-based amortized Bayesian inference for computationally expensive subsurface flow and transport models" (talk)
- Ran Wei: "Bayesian Surrogate-Assisted Diagnostics of River Hydrodynamic Models via Local Model Evidence from Field Observations computationally expensive subsurface flow and transport models" (poster)
- Nils Wildt: "Deep arbitrary Polynomial Chaos Expansion ODE for Hydrological System Modeling: It is all about that Basis" (poster)
From the top left to the bottom right: Bernd Flemisch, David Lipp, Holger Class, Bo Guo, Fiona Weiss, Zhixin Chen.