Modeling of water flow and solute transport in double porosity unsaturated porous media: theory, two scale computations and experiments

Jolanta Lewandowska (1)

1 CGB - Couplages en Géomécanique et Biomécanique

"Multi-scale, multi-components, multi-phases" are the key words that characterize the double porosity media, like fissured rocks, aggregated soils or composite geomaterials, subject to environmental conditions. In relation to this context an integrated upscaling approach to the modelling of water flow and solute transport under unsaturated conditions in double porosity media, is presented. The proposed approach combines three issues: theoretical, numerical and experimental, and enables to relate the macroscopic behaviour to the microscopic features, like microphysics and microstructure.

Domaines: Génie civil; Matériaux

Jolanta Lewandowska. Modeling of water flow and solute transport in double porosity unsaturated porous media: theory, two scale computations and experiments. IVth European Conference on Computational Mechanics ECCM: Solids, Structures and Coupled Problems in Engineering, May 2010, Paris, France. pp.1-2. ⟨hal-00835626⟩