Modeling of Fundamental Pore-scale Processes to Quantify and Upscale Mixing and Reactions
in Porous Media
Advisor: Peter K. Kitanidis
Reactive transport is critical to many subsurface environmental issues including the fate and transport of contaminants, nuclear waste disposal, and carbon dioxide sequestration. There is a strong need to improve the upscaling of parameters from the pore-scale to the Darcy and field scales, as well as improve our understanding of the phenomena that manifest at the large scale as a result of the interaction of coupled physical and biochemical processes at the pore-scale. I use pore-scale models to advance knowledge in two important areas: 1) upscaling of aqueous reactions and intragranular surface reactions, and 2) transverse, compound-dependent mixing and reactions. We also collaborate with others and use experimental (laboratory and field) data to inform and improve our work.
Education
Ph.D. in Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, expected 2013
M.S. in Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, 2008
B.S., magna cum laude , in Civil Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 2007
Contact Information
dhochste "at" stanford "dot" edu
David L. Hochstetler
Environmental Fluid Mechanics & Hydrology Program
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Stanford University
The Jerry Yang & Akiko Yamazaki Environment & Energy Building (Y2E2)
473 Via Ortega, Room 161, MC 4020
Stanford, CA 94305