Conference Program

Monday 21 September

9:30 Opening
10:00 Modelling of Various Types of Ground Source Heat Pump Systems Using FEFLOW Hikari Fujii
NEAR SURFACE GEOTHERMICS
10:30 Numerical Simulation of Borehole Heat Exchanger Fields for Long-term Storage in Combination with Groundwater Utilization in an Artificially Regulated Aquifer for Urban District Planning Martin Fuchsluger, Anna Katharina Brüstle, Georg Goetzl
10:50 Mitigation of Influence of Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage System on the Underground Environment. Masahiko Katsuragi, Mutsumi Yamaya, Satoru Kuronuma, Hikari Fujii, Yohei Uchida, Mayumi Yoshioka
11:20 GEMTool, an Instrument for Assessing Open Loop Geothermal Heat Pumps in Urban Areas Christian Gmünder, Manuela Gomez, Wei Li, Simon Nusch
11:40 Thermal Efficiency of the Borehole Heat Exchanger Built With Drilling Mud. Masatoshi Yamaguchi, Kiichi Numazawa, Masahiko Katsuragi
12:00 Lunch Break
THERMAL PHENOMENA
13:00 Groundwater Flow and Heat Transport Simulation Using FEFLOW with Detailed Facies Analysis in Aizu Basin, Fukushima, Japan Shoei Kaneko, Naoaki Shibasaki, Youhei Uchida, Gaurav Shrestha
13:20 Estimation of Rock Fracture Properties from Thermal Variations of the Groundwater Discharge Into a Tunnel Milan Hokr, Aleš Balvín
MINING
13:50 From Catchment Hydrology to Dewatering at a Copper Mine Douglas Graham, Christian Tomsu, Erik Mårtensson
14:10 FEFLOW Model of a Copper Mine, Arizona, USA Pete Sinton, Bill Wingle, Doug Bartlett
14:30 Impact of Urban and Post Ore Mining Area on the Hydrogeo-logical System. A Case Study of the Tarnowskie Góry Town, Southern Poland Slawomir Sitek, Andrzej Kowalczyk
14:50 Simulating Subsurface Flow Subject to Freezing and Thawing Volker Clausnitzer, Vladimir Mirnyy, Fabien Cornaton
15:10 Tea/Coffee Break
15:40 Unconventional Gas Explained: Overview, Issues and Some Mythbusting Craig Simmons
16:10 HONORARY SESSION: RETIREMENT OF HANS-JÖRG DIERSCH
17:30 POSTER SESSION WITH HORS D’OEUVRES AND DRINKS

 

Tuesday 22 September

8:30 Models and Decisions: Finding the Square Peg for the Square Hole John Doherty
MEDIUM DEEP AND DEEP GEOTHERMICS
9:00 Thermal Performance of a Deep Open-Loop Doublet Scheme Located in a Fault Corridor: Stochastic Approach of a Synthetic and Heterogeneous Coupled Heat/Mass and Flow Model Morgan Le Lous
9:20 The Geothermal 3D Model for the Pilot Area Bavaria/Upper Austria within the Project GeoMol Anna Katharina Brüstle, M. Bottig, M. Fuchsluger, S. Hoyer, G. Goetzl
9:40 Technical and Economical Evaluation of Medium Deep Borehole Thermal Energy Storages Bastian Welsch, Wolfram Rühaak, Daniel O. Schulte, Kristian Bär, Ingo Sass
10:00 Tea/Coffee Break
10:30 Does Geological Realism Help Improving Uncertainty Estimation for Groundwater Applications? Philippe Renard
CONSTRUCTION & REMEDIATION
11:00 Seepage Flow and Slope Stability Analysis Christoph Braun
11:20 Impact of Gas Entrapment Below the Phreatic Surface on Pore Pressure Propagation Dynamics Héctor Montenegro, Oliver Stelzer, Bernhard Odenwald
11:50 “5th Slide” Stabilization Works, Definitive Study and Detailed Engineering Rubén Esaú Mogrovejo Gutiérrez, César González Linares
12:10 Design of a Passive Hydraulic Containment System Using FEFLOW Modelling Rémi Vigouroux, Florence Lenhardt, Noëlle Doucet, Marc Boisson
12:30 Lunch Break
13:30 Complex Multi-Scale Hydrogeological Modelling of the Upper Horizons of the Paris Basin as a Fundamental Tool for the French Project of Radioactive Waste Storage in the Callovo-Oxfordian Clay Formation (Meuse / Haute Marne, France) Frederic Plas
TRANSPORT - RADIONUCLIDES AND CHEMICAL REACTIONS
14:00 Modelling of Radionuclide Transport in the Overburden of a Flooded Salt Mine Joachim Poppei, Laurin Wissmeier, Georg Resele, Olivier Masset
14:20 Implementation of a 3D Groundwater Flow and Transport Model at the EUREX Plant in Saluggia (Northern Italy) by Means of FEFLOW Simulation Jacopo De Sanctis, F. Marconi, M. Rosati, G. Mingrone
14:50 A Stream-Function Approach for Modelling Flow Through Property Discontinuities in FEFLOW Alexandros Papafotiou, R. Senger, J. Becker, P. Marschall
15:10 Simulating Flow and Transport With Detailed Geochemical Reactions – Recent Developments Using PHREEQC as Reaction Engine Laurin Wissmeier
15:30 Modelling the Matrix Permeability Gradient Due to Exchange of Water Between Conduit and Matrix in a Karst Aquifer Axayacatl Maqueda
15:50 Tea/Coffee Break
17:30 Dinner Boat Trip

 

Wednesday 23 September

8:30 Application of FEFLOW in Laboratory Settings in Multi-Scale Testing: A Sensor Based, Smart Control System for Managed Aquifer Recharge Tissa Illangasekare
GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION
9:00 Modelling surface water, groundwater and nitrate processes in a restored riparian wetland Birgitte von Christiersen, Michael Butts, Flemming T. Hansen, et al.
9:20 Groundwater Modelling for the Design of Flooding Mitigation Measures Mark Gropius, S. Spichtig, F. Hendry, P. Seitz
9:40 Understanding and Preventing Groundwater Flooding by Integrated Modelling Patrick Keilholz, Bertram Monninkhoff, Markus Disse
10:00 Tea/Coffee Break
GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT
10:50 Accurate Modelling of Horizontal Wells and Tunnels Using Upscaling of Screen-Scale Flow Processes Alexander Renz, Christian Tomsu
11:10 Using Natural Tracers for Transport Model Calibration Samuel Diem, Olivier Masset, Joachim Poppei
11:30 Groundwater Management in Waterloo, Canada Paul Martin, Barry Brouwers, Patty Meyer, Gaelen Merritt, Christopher Neville, et al.
11:50 Lunch Break
DENSITY
13:00 The Freshwater Lens Problem: a New Benchmark for Density-Driven Flow and Solute Transport Leonard Stoeckl, Marc Walther, Thomas Graf
13:20 Modelling Study on Impact of Climate Change on Groundwater Salinity: Case Study of Southwest Bangladesh Rezaul Hasan, Atiqur Rahman, Afzal Hossain, Christian Tomsu
13:40 Saltwater Injection into a Fractured Aquifer: A Density-Coupled Mass-Transport Model Junfeng Luo, Martina aus der Beek, Sven Seifert, Bertram Monninkhoff
14:10 FEFLOW 7.0 -
A Milestone in Flexible-Mesh Groundwater Modelling
Fabien Cornaton
14:30 PRESENTATION OF FEFLOW 7.0
16:00 Closing