Coupled Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical-Chemical Modelling

Summary

In the scientific theme of nuclear waste/CO2 geological disposal or shale gas, the biogeochemical, hydrogeological, thermal and mechanical processes in the subsurface system will be critical controls on chemicals transport.

The strong interactions between these processes have been observed in experiments, however, there is no unified theory, which can be used to study the couplings in the subsurface system and provide smooth links between traditional disciplinary such as Geochemistry, Geomechanics, Geomicrobiology etc. This proposal is to develop a novel overarching and well-constrained theory for the coupled process in the system and generate new mathematical and computational modelling with the application on Geoenergy or Geotechnical Engineering

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