Plenary Lecture
Modelling and Computation of Thermohaline Flows in Fractured Porous Media
Professor Gabriel Wittum
Applied Mathematics and Computational Science
KAUST
Germany
E-mail: wittum@gcsc.uni-frankfurt.de
Abstract: Density driven and thermohaline flows can show convection rolls, i.e. a kind of simplified vortex formation. This plays a role in the computation of these flows in fractured porous media. We simulate the flows using an adaptive finite volume algorithm. For the representation of fractures, two approaches are used, a full-dimensional and one with reduced dimension. We derive a criterion for the validity of the simplified representation and present an algorithm using adaptive dimensional representation.
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