[E&E seminars] Jerome Neufeld - Under the Geological Rug: Leakage, Mixing and Trapping in Carbon Sequestration

[Mary E Gallagher]

All are Welcome to Attend

Under the Geological Rug: Leakage, Mixing and Trapping in Carbon Sequestration

Jerome Neufeld, University of Cambridge

Thursday, February 24 at 11:00AM
MIT EAPS - Bldg 54; Room 915<http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=E19>

Please join us on Thursday, February 24 for a Seminar on Under the Geological Rug: Leakage, Mixing and Trapping in Carbon Sequestration by Jerome Neufeld.  The seminar will be held in Room 54-915 at 11:00am.

Abstract
Geological storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) in deep saline aquifers forms an integral part of many CO2 mitigation strategies.  At depth CO2 is buoyant and therefore may leak into surface waters or the atmosphere.  This talk will explore the rich multiphase fluid dynamics of CO2 propagation, providing constraints on the rate at which CO2 may leak from a storage site, and the dynamics of convective dissolution and capillary trapping, two leading processes by which CO2 may be stably trapped and stored within the subsurface.

About the Speaker
Dr. Jerome Neufeld is a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge's Institute of Theoretical Geophysics and the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.
Dr. Neufeld's research focuses on the coupling of thermodynamics and fluid dynamics in multiphase systems within geophysical settings using analytical, numerical and experimental techniques. I explore the fluid dynamics of geological carbon sequestration through experiments and models of propagation and leakage, and am assessing secondary trapping mechanisms such as convective dissolution and
residual trapping. In addition, I am interested in the solidification of binary solutions as found in the polar oceans when salt water freezes and in Earth's core, and the growth and form of icicles and stalactites as set by the convective currents surrounding them.

More information about Dr. Neufeld can be found here: http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/jneufeld/Jerome_Neufeld/Jerome_A._Neufeld/Jerome_A._Neufeld.html


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