Section: Application Domains

Environmental problems

We pursue applications of our theoretical results to current challenging environmental problems with numerous academic collaborators and with industrial partners such as ANDRA, IFP Energies Nouvelles, CEA, and EDF. We are traditionally interested in porous media for multiphase flows and transport of contaminants in the subsurface and concentrate on fractures, fracture networks, fractured porous media, subsurface depollution after chemical leakage, nuclear waste disposal in deep underground repositories, and geological sequestration of ${\mathrm{CO}}_2$. Among our newer themes, we count complex inviscid flows interacting with a mechanical deformable structure and Navier–Stokes flows. Such problems are encountered in energy production (operation of nuclear reactors) and safety assessment (shock waves resulting from an explosion impinging on a structure).