Carina Bringedal was a junior professor at the Chair of Hydromechanics and Modelling of Hydrosystems and within SFB 1313 from December 2018 to October 2022. On Wednesday, 7th December 2022, she will give a one-hour scientific lecture open to the public at the University of Stuttgart as part of her habilitation procedure. The Joint Habilitation Committee of SC SimTech and Faculty 2 cordially invites interested people to attend.
Speaker: Ass. Prof. Dr. Carina Bringedal, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (Bergen, Norway)
Title: "Soil salinization: A key environmental problem and how mathematical modeling can help to analyze it"
Date: 7th December 2022
Time: 12:30 pm CET
Venue: Pfaffenwaldring 7, 70569 Stuttgart, Faculty room of the Faculty 2
Abstract
Soil salinization is one of the major soil degradation threats worldwide. It degrades fertile and productive land, and hampers plant growth. With changing climate and rising global temperatures, soil salinization is expected to increase in semi-arid areas. There are many causes of soil salinization and in this talk we will in particular focus on the role of groundwater evaporation. If solutes are present in the groundwater, their concentration will increase due to the water evaporating, eventually resulting in threatening concentrations. By mathematical modeling of groundwater evaporation and connected processes, we can analyze their coupling and influence. The soil is however a porous medium, hence interactions are depending on the considered scale. In this talk we focus on Darcy and pore scale, and in particular connections across scales.
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