On Tuesday, October 30th, Rafid Al-Khoury from TU Delft will give a talk about
"A Computational Approach for Poromechanics".
In his lecture, Rafid Al-Khoury will introduce a new computational poromechanics
approach, designed and implemented by my Computational Geoenvironment group of the Computational Mechanics Chair at the faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences of Delft University of Technology. He will briefly address the physical processes and phenomena involved in geosciences, and their relevant mathematical formulations. Then, he will emphasize on the challenges and approaches for formulating
computational models, essential for analyzing geoscience applications. Focus will be
placed on techniques for developing innovative computational tools, and will show how a good combination between the mathematical formulation, the choice of the state
variables and the numerical procedure can make the complicated nature of geosciences feasible for engineering practice. Examples for modeling CO2 geosequestration,
addressing different CO2 leakage scenarios and thermo-hydrodynamic-mechanical
processes in multilayer porous media domains will be discussed in details. The latest
development on freezing and thawing in porous media will also be highlighted.
About the speaker
Dr. Rafid Al-Khoury is a Research Professor in computational mechanics at the
Computational Mechanics Chair of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences at
Delft University of Technology. His research includes computational geoenvironment with focus on geothermal energy, CO2 geosequestration, thermo-hydrodynamic-mechanical processes in porous media, and freezing and thawing in soil. He developed several novel analytical, semi-analytical and numerical models for efficient simulation of multiphysical processes occurring in complicated geometries. Al-Khoury has published more than 40 peer-reviewed journal papers and two books on: Computational Modeling of Shallow Geothermal Systems (2012, CRC press); and Computational Models for CO2 Geo-sequestration and Compressed Air Energy Storage (2014, CRC press).
Date: Tuesday, October 30th, 2018
Time: 11 am
Place: MML, Pfaffenwaldring 61
