Description
Drying and evaporation in porous media is relevant for many engineering processes and for soil cultivation. These processes occur over several scales, where the evolving liquid-gas interface is important to describe the evaporation at the pore scale, while its effect lies on the REV scale. Our goal is to provide a better mathematical description of REV-scale evaporation by starting with a pore-scale description of the relevant processes and using upscaling to derive an effective model at REV scale. The effect of the evolving interface is explicitly taken into account and different approaches to describe the evolving interface at the pore scale will be investigated.
Leaders
until October 2022: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Carina Bringedal
since November 2022: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rainer Helmig, Prof. Dr. Christian Rohde
Researcher
Duration
07/2019 - 12/2025
Project-related publications
(Journal-) Articles
- Bringedal, C., Schollenberger, T., Pieters, G. J. M., van Duijn, C. J., & Helmig, R. (2022). Evaporation-Driven Density Instabilities in Saturated Porous Media. Transport in Porous Media, 143, Article 2. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-022-01772-w
- Scholz, L., & Bringedal, C. (2022). A Three-Dimensional Homogenization Approach for Effective Heat Transport in Thin Porous Media. Transport in Porous Media, 141, Article 3. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-022-01746-y
Datasets
- Bringedal, C. (2021, February). Data and code for Upscaled equations for two-phase flow in highly heterogeneous porous media: Varying permeability and porosity [DaRUS]. https://doi.org/10.18419/darus-1376
- Scholz, L., & Bringedal, C. (2021). Code for effective heat conductivity in thin porous media [DaRUS]. https://doi.org/10.18419/darus-2026
Conference papers
- Bringedal, C. (2020). A Conservative Phase-Field Model for Reactive Transport. In R. Klöfkorn, E. Keilegavlen, F. A. Radu, & J. Fuhrmann (Eds.), Finite Volumes for Complex Applications IX - Methods, Theoretical Aspects, Examples (pp. 537–545). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43651-3_50
Contact

Carina Bringedal
Jun.-Prof., Ph.D.Departure in October 2022
Tufan Ghosh
Ph.D.Academic Staff