Analysis of hydrogeologic modeling shows effectiveness of multiscale hybrid methods
Thursday, March 5, 2015 - 07:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Accurately modeling how groundwater and its constituents move and react in the subsurface poses significant challenges for hydrogeologists. Researchers from PNNL and four universities collaborated to review multiscale modeling methods and approaches across a wide range of disciplines, focusing on hybrid methods that combine multiple models defined at different scales in a single simulation. Applying these methods to subsurface flow and reactive transport problems is a recent and promising undertaking—highly relevant to many U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) mission areas. With this effort, scientists have provided a general framework for application that can guide users toward methods that are most appropriate for particular problems.