This course is open to teachers of Engineering colleges recognized by AICTE and having an undergraduate degree in Civil, Petroleum, Mechanical and Chemical Engineering. The number of participants will be restricted as per the prevailing QIP norms.

ELIGIBILITY

AICTE Quality Improvement Programme IIT Madras

Porous Medium Theories and

Applications

January 6-10, 2020

Coordinators:

Dr. Abhijit Chaudhuri &

Dr. Dali Naidu Arnepalli

Department of Applied Mechanics and

Department of Civil Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Chennai 600036

Certified that we sponsor Dr/Mr./Ms. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ for participation in the short term course titled Porous Medium Theories and Applications being conducted at Department of Civil Engineering IIT Madras during January 6-10, 2020. Date: Signature and seal of Principal/Head of Institution Place:

Applications should reach before 18th December 2019

Please send the applications to: Dr. Abhijit Chaudhuri Department of Applied Mechanics Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai 600 036 Phone: (044) 2257-4074 Fax: (044) 2257-4052 E-mail: abhijit.chaudhuri@iitm.ac.in

SPONSORSHIP CERTIFICATE

The participants are entitled for 3-tier AC train fare by the shortest route. Boarding and lodging (twin sharing basis) facilities will be provided at the Taramani Guest House of the Institute.

TRAVEL/ACCOMODATION

Receipt of duly filled application form and sponsorship certificate

18-12-2019

Intimation of selection to the participants by e-mail

19-12-2019

Confirmation of participation by the applicants by e-mail

22-12-2019

IMPORTANT DATES

The venue for this short term course will be the Lecture halls at IC&SR Building, IIT Madras

VENUE

The lectures will be delivered by renowned faculty members from Applied Mechanics, Civil, Petroleum, Mechanical and Chemical Engineering Departments of IIT Madras and other reputed institutes in India. Some guest lectures by prominent practicing engineers are also envisaged.

COURSE FACULTY

Theory: i). Introduction to porous media, Continuum

model, Concept of Representative Elementary Volume, porosity and permeability

ii). Single phase flow, Darcy equation, Multi-phase flow, Capillary action and drainage hysteresis, relative permeability, Richards equation for air-water flow, Vapour transport

iii). Heat transfer in porous medium, Forced and natural convections in geothermal systems

iv). Reactive transport in porous medium, Hydro-dynamic dispersion, Modeling of adsorption, chemical reactions, decay of species modeling.

v). Deformation of porous mechanics, Geomechanics, Thermo-Poro-Elasticity

vi). Heterogeneous porous medium, Random field modeling, Spatial correlation and spectral density function, Effective hydraulic conductivity, Macrodispersion.

Applications: vii). Groundwater Hydrology – Infiltration-

evaporation, Contaminant transport, Bio-remediation, Regional flow modeling.

viii). Petroleum Engineering – Black oil model for oil and gas flow, Surfactant and polymer flooding, Viscous fingering, Gas hydrate reservoirs and extractions of methane

ix). Geothermal Energy – Geothermal gradient, Conventional and enhanced geothermal systems, Hot Dry Rock reservoir, Thermo-Hydro-Chemo-Mechanical modeling.

x). Greenhouse Gas Control – Carbon geosequestration, Different trapping mechanisms, Deep nuclear waste repository. Prediction of plume migration and risk assessment.

xi). Other application related to biological systems

COURSE CONTENTS REGISTRATION FORM

1. Name:

2. Designation: 3. Educational Qualification:

Degree Specialization Year & University

4. Name of the sponsoring

Organisation :

5. Teaching & Professional Experience :

Position held : Nature of work : 6. Address for Communication:

(Including e-mail address) Date: Signature of the Applicant Place:

Subsurface hydrologic system is porous in nature. The understanding of fluids flow, heat and solute transport and poro-mechanics are important for sustainable recovery of various resources: fresh water, oil&gas, geothermal energy, minerals from subsurface reservoirs and using it as safe repository for, nuclear wastes and CO2.

THEME OF THE COURSE

The goal of this course is teaching the fundamental physics of flow and transport in porous media, and familiarizing with governing equations. The presence of multiple time and space scales, and the strong nonlinearities will be introduced. The evolution of reservoirs during recovery for resources and storage will be discussed. Open source or commercial codes will be discussed.

OBJECTIVES