Acquire knowledge in modeling the transfer of pollutants in the underground hydrosystem, equate the transport mechanisms and exchanges between phases, experimentally determine the physical properties of a porous medium and the transport parameters of a perfect or reactive tracer migrating in this porous medium, understand and use an industrial calculation code to model the transfer of pollutants dissolved in the water table.
Course covering: Reactive transport of solutes in saturated porous media: Convection, diffusion and dispersion, Transport and movement equations, Dispersion coefficients, Chemical reactions, Analytical solutions to the transport equation. Transfer of immiscible substances in porous media with exchanges: Transport mechanisms, Mathematical formulations (mass conservation equations in multiphase systems, flow model of immiscible fluids, transport model with exchanges between phases, momentum balance (generalized Darcy laws), Mass transfers between phases.
Numerical modeling based on a practical case of transport of a pollutant in an aquifer.
