Prof. Aricó
Costanza Aricò is Associate Professor of Fluid and Biofluid Mechanics at the University of Palermo, Italy. She studied Civil-Hydraulic Engineering and passed her PhD in 2004 at the University of Catania.
Costanza's main research activities have been focused on numerical methods for fluid dynamic problems. Her research interests concern the numerical simulation of flow and transport problems in fluid and porous media on the continuum (Darcy) scale. Starting from two recent works on DNS of 3D Navier-Stokes and coupled heat and flow transport problems, she is going to develop a numerical solver for 3D flow and transport problems using unstructured (tetrahedral) grids for hydrogeological/environmental/industrial problem simulations in "real life".
As a guest of SFB 1313, Costanza will spend a 6-month stay at the Department of Hydromechanics and Modelling of Hydrosystems starting on March 1st, 2022. Our group is very much looking forward to work with her on the continuum Darcy solver and pore scale physical processes with special regards to interface conditions, heterogeneities of the medium, hysteresis, etc.
We are very much looking forward to a fruitful collaboration!
S. Chen
Sidian Chen is doctoral student at the University of Arizona, Tucson/USA, under the supervision of Bo Guo. He is broadly interested in the fundamental physics of fluid flow and transport in environmental and energy systems in Earth’s subsurface. His current research focuses on micro-scale (i.e., pore-scale) modeling of multiphase fluid flow, transport, and thermodynamic phase change behaviors in geological porous media. The specific application of his research is to study these complex physical processes in liquid-rich shale formations.
The IWS is very happy to having him here at the institute and is very much looking forward to a fruitful collaboration!
L. Hashemi
Leila Hashemi is a PhD student at TU Delft. Her supervisor is Hadi Hajibeygi and Kees Vuik. Her PhD topic is "On pore scale modeling of two-phase flow."
Leila studied Petroleum Engineering at Shiraz University (Iran) and graduated with a BSc before transferring to Petroleum University of Technology in Tehran (Iran), where she studied Reservoir Management and graduated with a Master's degree. She has been working on her PhD project since October 2021. Her main research interests are pore-scale modeling, reservoir simulation, reservoir management, enhanced oil recovery, and reservoir characterization.
From March 16 to April 15, 2022, Leila Hashemi will be a guest of the Department of Hydromechanics and Hydrosystem Modeling. Her visit is organized through the International Research Training Group DROPIT. We wish Leila an exciting and profitable research stay!
W. Abdellaoui and H. Ben Hrouz
The working group of LH2 and the whole SFB 1313 team welcome the two ENIT students Hsine Ben Hrouz and Wafa Abdellaoui. Both are receiving a scholarship in the framework of the DAAD KOSPIE programme “Combined study and practical stays for engineers from developing countries”. During their 6-month stay, they will have the opportunity to get to know the University of Stuttgart and in particular the working environment of LH2 and SFB 1313. Furthermore, they will get the chance to participate in excursions to external research institutions. One of the goals is that they write their final theses at LH2, which will be supervised by the two LH2 and SFB 1313 researchers Theresa Schollenberger and Johannes Hommel.
About KOSPIE
In 2020, LH2, ENIT, and Project Ö of SFB 1313 successfully applied for the DAAD scholarship programme “Combined study and practical stays for engineers from developing countries” (KOSPIE). As part of this programme, young students from ENIT, studying in the field of engineering, complete a 6-month study and practical stay at the University of Stuttgart to carry out their final thesis project. LH2 will host two students and supervise their work. The programme will start on 1 February 2022.
There has been a very successful cooperation in the field of environmental research between LH2 and Dr. Emna Meijri from ENIT for almost ten years. The focus of this collaboration is the development of models for the analysis and prediction of salt spreading processes in the subsurface and in historic buildings. This topic is especially also relevant for SFB 1313's porous media research as salt precipitation is a main topic within its research area C and one of its vision topics. The existing research cooperation between both institutions is a fruitful basis to give ENIT Masters’ students insights into the work of the University of Stuttgart and its non-university partners.
