The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has awarded Dr. Zhixin Chen a postdoctoral research fellowship. Zhixin Chen studied civil engineering at Hunan University in China. In October 2024, he successfully completed his doctoral examination at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He will start his two-year research fellowship on October 1, 2026, and continue his successful research activities with members of the Department of Hydromechanics and Modelling of Hydrosystems.
Zhixin Chen is interested in the physical fundamentals of flow and transport in subsurface environmental systems. His current research involves the numerical modeling and experimental investigation of non-isothermal multiphase fluid flow and transport in porous media at multiple scales. His work focuses in particular on the remediation of persistent organic contaminants in the vadose zone through multicomponent steam injection as well as evaporation-induced salt precipitation processes on the land surface.
The goal of his 24-month research project is to expand and refine the framework of a two-phase compositional pore-network model. This effort aims to elucidate and quantify the essential pore-scale phenomena within soil that dictate the evaporation-induced salt precipitation at the land-atmosphere interface, particularly emphasizing the role of porous precipitated salt in enhancing evaporation.
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