Section: Application Domains

Environmental problems

The applications of our theoretical results to current challenging environmental problems are pursued with numerous academic collaborators and with industrial partners such as ANDRA , IFP Energies Nouvelles , CEA , and EDF . Our traditional interest goes towards porous media for multiphase flows and transport of contaminants in the subsurface, 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 novel themes in the joint team, we will count energy production with in particular fluid mechanics problems arising in the operation of nuclear reactors and shock waves impinging on deformable or fragmentable structures; in these cases, complex Euler or Navier–Stokes flows appear, and the modeling of the interacting mechanical structure is crucial.