Dear all,
on behalf of my co-presenters Christoph Clauser and Michael Kuehn - and myself - I would like to announce our short course 'Process Modelling of Hydrothermal Systems using SHEMAT / Processing SHEMAT', which will be held at RWTH International Academy, Aachen University from 27 - 29 August 2007 (i.e. in the week after Goldschmidt 2007 in Cologne, and the SGA 9th Biennial Meeting in Dublin).
This course is supported by the Institute Applied Geophysics at RWTH Aachen University (www.geophysik.rwth-aachen.de), the predictive mineral discovery Cooperative Research Centre (www.pmdcrc.com.au), and the Centre for Exploration Targeting at The University of Western Australia (www.cet.uwa.edu.au).
For information and registration please point your browser to
http://www.rwth-academy.com/geophysics.html
A PDF brochure can be downloaded from
http://www.rwth-academy.com/geophysics/flyer_Geophysik2007-low.pdf
The focus of the course ‘Process Modelling of Hydrothermal Systems’ is on coupled numerical simulations of fluid flow, heat transfer, multi species transport and chemical reactions and how these processes relate to rock deformation and geodynamics. The physical and chemical foundations as well as the philosophy of how to conceptualise, set up and carry out numerical modelling projects are discussed and demonstrated.
‘Process Modelling of Hydrothermal Systems’ is a hands-on course, designed for industry practitioners, university researchers, and students interested
in the simulation of fluid flow and reactive transport in hydrogeology, geothermal energy and economic geology. ‘Process Modelling of Hydrothermal Systems’ will provide an overview of existing simulation techniques with an emphasis on coupled simulations using the program package SHEMAT / Processing SHEMAT. SHEMAT (Simulator for HEat and MAss Transport) is an easy-to-use, general purpose reactive transport simulation code for a wide variety of thermal and hydrogeological problems in two and three dimensions.
The course is structured into 6 lectures accompanied by 5 practical exercises. First a general overview will be given on modelling hydrothermal systems for mineral exploration, geothermal energy production and CO2 sequestration. Then basic physical processes involved in hydrothermal systems - heat transfer, fluid flow driving processes, deformation and reactive transport - will be reviewed. Practical exercises will introduce the application of the software package SHEMAT / Processing SHEMAT to solve relevant problems with regard to hydrothermal systems. The final part of the course will address the use of coupled reactive transport models for hypotheses testing.
-- See you in Aachen!!
Cheers,
Klaus Gessner
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Dr Klaus Gessner
Senior Lecturer
pmd*CRC Earth Systems Modelling
Centre for Exploration Targeting
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