
Dr. Luca Trevisan
- Porous Media Flows
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- room: 105
- phone: +49 721 608-47788
- fax: +49 721 608-47712
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title | semester | time |
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Groundwater Flow around Structures | SS 2019 | 2019-04-24 |
Research Interests & Professional Career
Research interests
- Experimental analysis of flow and transport processes in the subsurface
- Multiphase models in porous media
- Geotechnical engineering
- Geological storage of carbon dioxide
- Contaminant transport in saturated and unsaturated zones
- Reactive transport and biodegradation
- Aquifer characterization and geostatistical representation of geological heterogeneity
Professional career
- Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany (2017-present)
- Postdoctoral fellow, The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, USA (2015-2017)
- Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant, Colorado School of Mines, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, USA (2010-2014)
- Hydrogeological consultant, Amphos21 Consulting, Spain (2008-2010)
- Field hydrogeologist, Ferrer, Spain (2007-2008)
- Hydrogeological consultant, Novaterra Medioambiental, Spain (2007-2008)
Education
- Ph.D., Colorado School of Mines, Environmental Science and Engineering (2015)
- M.Sc., Colorado School of Mines, Environmental Science and Engineering (2012)
- M.Sc., Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Groundwater Hydrology (2007)
- B.Sc., Università di Padova, Geology (2005)
Peer-reviewed Publications
- Ren, B., Trevisan, L., (2020). Characterization of local capillary trap clusters in storage aquifers. Energy 193, 116795 [DOI]
- Meckel, T.A., Trevisan, L., Krishnamurthy, P.G. (2017). A method to generate small scale, high-resolution sedimentary bedform architecture models representing realistic geologic facies. Scientific Reports 7, 9238 [DOI]
- Trevisan, L., Illangasekare, T.H., Meckel, T.A. (2017). Modelling plume behavior through a heterogeneous sand pack using a commercial invasion percolation model. Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources, 3 (3), 327-337 [DOI]
- Trevisan, L., Krishnamurthy, P.G., Meckel, T.A. (2017). Impact of 3D capillary heterogeneity and bedform architecture at the sub-meter scale on CO2 saturation for buoyant flow in clastic aquifers. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 56 (1), 237-249 [DOI]
- Trevisan, L., Pini, R., Cihan, A., Birkholzer, J.T., Zhou, Q., González-Nicolás, A., Illangasekare, T.H. (2017). Imaging and quantification of spreading and trapping of carbon dioxide in saline aquifers using meter-scale laboratory experiments. Water Resources Research, 53 (1), 485-502 [DOI]
- Cihan, A., Birkholzer, J.T., Trevisan, L., González-Nicolás, A., Illangasekare, T.H. (2017). Investigation of representing hysteresis in macroscopic models of two-phase flow in porous media using intermediate scale experimental data. Water Resources Research, 53 (1), 199-221 [DOI]
- González-Nicolás, A., Trevisan, L., Illangasekare, T.H., Cihan, A, Birkholzer, J.T. (2017). Enhancing capillary trapping effectiveness through proper time scheduling of injection of supercritical CO2 in heterogeneous formations. Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology, 7 (2), 339-352 [DOI]
- Trevisan, L., Pini, R., Cihan, A., Birkholzer, J.T., Zhou, Q., Illangasekare, T.H. (2015). Experimental analysis of spatial correlation effects on capillary trapping of supercritical CO2 at the intermediate laboratory scale in heterogeneous porous media. Water Resources Research, 51 (11), 8791-8805 [DOI]
- Mori, H., Trevisan, L., Illangasekare, T.H (2015). Evaluation of relative permeability functions as inputs to multiphase flow models simulating supercritical CO2 behavior in deep geologic formations. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 41 (10), 328-335 [DOI]
- Agartan, E., Trevisan, L., Cihan, A., Birkholzer, J.T., Zhou, Q., Illangasekare, T.H. (2015). Experimental study on effects of geologic heterogeneity in enhancing dissolution trapping of supercritical CO2. Water Resources Research, 51 (3), 1635-1648 [DOI]
- Trevisan, L., Cihan, A., Fagerlund, F., Agartan, E., Mori, H., Birkholzer, J.T., Zhou, Q., Illangasekare, T.H. (2014). Investigation of mechanisms of supercritical CO2 trapping in deep saline reservoirs using surrogate fluids at ambient laboratory conditions. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 29 (10), 35-49 [DOI]