Monday, June 11

MS3
Evolving Approaches for Modeling Porous Medium Dynamics

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Trailridge

Conventional approaches for modeling porous medium dynamics are giving way to innovative, non-traditional approaches that yield more satisfying formulations, but which require new and imaginative approaches for developing closure relations and responding to challenges posed by multiscale problems. This minisymposium presents a forum for describing these new classes of models and multiscale modeling approaches for closing these models.

Organizer: Tim Kelley
North Carolina State University
Cass T. Miller
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

10:00-10:25 Hybrid Mixture Theory for Swelling Porous Media with Quasi-Static Electrodynamics

Lynn S. Bennethum, University of Colorado, Denver

10:30-10:55 On the Significance of Interfacial Area in the Equations of Multiphase Flow

Andrew Tompson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Wendy Soll, Los Alamos National Laboratory; William G. Gray, University of Notre Dame

11:00-11:25 Calculation of Average Interfacial Velocities in Two-Phase Porous Media Flows

Michael A. Celia, Princeton University

11:30-11:55 Closure of a Thermodynamically Constrained Averaging Theory Approach for Modeling Multiphase Flow in Porous Medium Systems

Markus Hilpert, Johns Hopkins University; Roland Glantz, Vienna University of Technology, Germany; Chongxun Pan and Cass T. Miller, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Elisa Dalla, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy