Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

• Program: Laboratoire International de Recherche en Informatique et Mathématiques Appliquées

• Title: Problèmes Inverses et Contrôle

• Inria principal investigator: Houssem Haddar, Defi team

• International Partner (Institution - Laboratory - Researcher): ENIT, University of Tunis, Tunisia - LAMSIN - Amel ben Abda

• Duration: 2011-2015

• See also: http://www.lirima.uninet.cm/index.php/recherche/equipes-de-recherche/epic

• Abstract: The team deals with nonlinear and inverse problems.

• Program: CONICYT

• Title: Processus de formation et transformation de structures de combustion archéologique : un regard interdisciplinaire

• Inria principal investigator: Édouard CANOT

• International Partner (Institution - Laboratory - Researcher): Universidad de Tarapaca (Chili)

• Duration: Jan 2014 - Dec 2016

• Abstract: Multidisciplinary study of prehistoric fire traces in South America, by means of different approaches: taphonomy of the soil, physical processes involved during the heat transfer, modeling and numerical simulations.

• Program: Euromediterranean 3+3

• Title: Direct and inverse problems in subsurface flow and transport

• Coordination: H. ben Ameur, ENIT, Tunisia and J. Jaffré, Inria, Paris

• Inria-Rennes principal investigator: Jocelyne Erhel

• Duration: Jan 2012 - Dec 2015

• International Partners (Institution - Laboratory - Researcher):

  • Université Ibn Tofail - Faculté des Sciences de Kénitra (Morocco) - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire en Ressources Naturelles et en Environnement - Zoubida Mghazli

  • Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tunis (Tunisia) - Laboratoire de Modélisation en Hydraulique et Environnement - Rachida Bouhlila

  • Universidad de Sevilla (Spain) - Department Ecuaciones Diferenciales y Anålisis Numérico - Tomas Chacon Rebollo

  • Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain) - Department of Geotechnical Engineering and Geo-Sciences - Xavier Sànchez Vila

  • University Centre of KHEMIS MILIANA (Algeria) - Laboratoire de l'Energie et des Systèmes Intelligents - Mohammed Hachama

  • Ecole Mohammadia d'Ingénieurs (Morocco) - LERMA - Rajae Aboulaich

  • Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tunis (Tunisia) - Laboratoire de Modélisation Mathématique et Numérique dans les Sciences de l'Ingénieur - Hend Ben Ameur

• The management of water resources is a problem of great importance in all countries, and is particularly acute around the Mediterranean sea. The goal is to find a reasonable balance between these resources and demand while preserving the quality of water. Towards this goal it is essential to understand and simulate flow and transport in the subsurface. The science corresponding to this topic is hydrogeology. Since models become more and more complicated and quantitative answers must be given, numerical modeling become more and more sophisticated and mathematicians must also be involved. This project brings together hydrogeologists and mathematicians from France, Spain, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia in order to develop, analyze, and validate numerical methods for several problems arising from modeling flow and transport in the subsurface. The emphasis is put on direct nonlinear problems (air-water flow, density driven flow related to salinization, transport with chemistry) and on inverse problems.