Groundwater flow and pollutant transport modeling has developed into a vital tool for the analysis of aquifers at different scales, from the pore to the global scales. Numerous applications employ modelling, such as risk assessment, water resource management, decision support systems, and remediation activity guidance. The hydrogeochemical and biological processes affecting flow and transport in heterogeneous porous media are extremely complex, as numerous studies have demonstrated. Since these processes frequently depend on one another, coupled flow and solutes transport modeling is essential.
The objective of this session is to discuss the state-of-the-art and future directions in groundwater flow modeling and simulation of solutes fate and transport in the saturated zone. It provides a special opportunity to promote inter-disciplinary studies and the sharing of knowledge and experiences related to analytical and numerical, physics-based approaches.
We invite researchers, academics, and consulting professionals at all career levels to present their work on the following topics:
• Groundwater flow modelling studies at the global, regional and watershed scale
• Case studies using numerical models such as MODFLOW, FEFLOW, MT3DMS, SEAWAT, SUTRA
• Pore-scale modeling of flow and transport
• Modeling of unsaturated/saturated flow and transport (also in the context of managed aquifer recharge systems)
• Simulation of subsurface flow-surface water interaction
• Modeling the impact of climate change on groundwater resources
• Variable-density flow, and seawater intrusion modeling studies
• Multi-phase flow and contaminant transport modeling in support of groundwater remediation (especially for problems where the flow and transport are highly coupled)
• Modeling of coupled physical, hydrogeochemical and biological processes
• Modeling the impact of subsurface heterogeneity on flow and transport
• Reactive transport modeling (chemical, sorption, bio-mineralization processes in porous media)
Physics-Based Modelling of Groundwater Flow and Solutes/Energy Transport