Research Innovation through Next-Generation Supercomputing (RINGS)
EMSL Project ID
50094
Abstract
The subsurface environment is highly heterogeneous and structured across a wide range of physical scales. Microorganisms sense and respond to environmental conditions within a very small spatial domain, typically within a single pore of a porous medium (order 10-5 m). That environment is influenced strongly by fluid flow and material transport in flowing fluids, which in turn is controlled by the interaction of physical structures and chemical conditions across a range of scales from the pore scale to the various scales of geological structure (up to many km in size). A key element of EMSL’s computational strategy is implementation of new multiscale modeling methods to connect process understanding and mechanisms at small scales (molecular to cellular to pore) with phenomena that impact human experience at much larger scales (laboratory to field and ultimately to the globe). Multiscale modeling can take many different forms and its application to subsurface environmental and biological sciences is still relatively immature. This project supports the development of a new multiscale topical computing capability for BER.
Project Details
Start Date
2017-10-17
End Date
2018-09-30
Status
Closed
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Related Publications
Mays, D.C., V.L. Freedman, S.K. White, Y. Fang, and R.M. Neupauer (2017), Linking chaotic advection with subsurface biogeochemical processes, Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, New Orleans, Louisiana, December 11-15, 2017.