Saideep Pavuluri

Kinetic approach for modeling salt precipitation in porous-media Saideep Pavuluri

Examination Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Environmental Sciences, grade: 1,3, University of Stuttgart (Institute fur Wasserbau), course: Multiphase modeling, language: English, abstract: Sail salinization had been an age old problem happening over decades and causing a serious concern to the environment. In this research for the first time a model had been developed to showcase the salt precipitation process within the porous medium using a "Kinematic approach". Based over the defined formula, several parameter estimates were made and the results were analyzed accordingly. In future, the model will be further developed with the implementation with a free flow domain considering real time parameters such as wind velocity, humidity, shear forces etc. Apart from that the features of heterogeneities and other features to relate to a real life problem will be done.