This month, one of our Young CAS Principal Investigators (PIs), Gaute Linga, a researcher at the University of Oslo, hosted his first Young CAS workshop at CAS.
Mixing by Interfaces
Mixing by Interfaces
How Does Water Infiltration Control Mixing and Reaction in Soils?
Principal investigators
Abstract
The partially water-saturated soil region that extends from the Earth’s surface to the water table controls the access of nutrients and contaminants to the Earth’s aquifers. Understanding how dissolved chemicals mix and react when water infiltrates into these porous environments is thus critical. Despite infiltration being inherently dynamic, our understanding of mixing and reaction at the pore-scale is currently limited to steady flow. Leveraging recent breakthroughs by team members, this project aims to break new ground by characterizing and predicting mixing and reaction during water infiltration. The key outcome will be unique numerical data and theories revealing new laws for how air-water interface dynamics control mixing and reaction in porous media.
Fellows
News
It is with great enthusiasm that the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) unveils the two chosen Young CAS Principal Investigators (PIs) for the upcoming two-year term: Professor Francesca Refsum Jensenius from the University of Oslo, who offers a penetrating analysis of the democratic processes in India, and researcher Gaute Linga from The Njord Centre, University of Oslo, focusing on the intricate process of water infiltration in soils.