Time

Topic

Responsibility/Authors

Sunday, 29 March

> 15:00

Arrival, registration

staff

18:00

Welcome drink: Bar Roccia

staff

19:00

Dinner

staff

Monday, 30 March

07:00

Breakfast

staff

08:30

Introduction to the meeting

Germann, P.

Session 1: Multiphase preferential flows I

Ioannidis, M (chair)

09:00

Can dynamic multi-phase flow models describe preferential flow? Key Note

Di Carlo, D.

09:50

Percolating and non-percolating two phase flow in porous media

Hilfer, R.

10:20

Coffee Break

staff

10:50

Modelling 2-phase flow in DFM models with a linear FEM node-centered FVM hybrid method and a new treatment of jump discontinuities of the transport variable

Matthai, S. K., H. Maghami-Nick

11:10

On probability distribution of hydraulic conductivity in variably saturated bimodal heterogeneous formations

Russo, D.

11:30

Discussion

11:50

Adjourn

12:00

Lunch

staff

Session 2: Field scale preferential flow I

Di Carlo, D (chair)

13:40

Practical applications of the kinematic wave and related models Key Note

Jarvis, N.

14:30

A phase-field model of unsaturated flow

Juanes, R., L. Cueto-Felgueroso

15:00

Coffee Break

staff

15:30

Introduction to Monte Verità

Lafranchi, C. A. (staff)

15:50

Water flow in heterogeneous soil – how well do current models integrate effects of land use and land cover?

Bachmair, S., and M. Weiler

16:10

Investigation of preferential flow and transport in variably-saturated fractured clayey till using high-resolution fluorescence imaging and numerical modelling

Rosenbom, A.E., J.C. Refsgaard, V. Ernstsen, K.E.S. Klint, K.H. Jensen, H. Flühler, R. Therrien

16:30

Soil organic carbon and preferential flow patterns: the story behind

Wessolek, G., M. Deurer

16:50

Poster presentations (3' each)

Authors of posters

17:20

Debate: How bad are we doing with modeling preferential and unstable flow? Is it physics?

18:45

Adjourn

19:15

Dinner

staff

20:30

Posters

Tuesday 31 March

07:00

Breakfast

staff

Session 3: Gas Injection, storage and compressible flows

Jenny, P. (chair)

08:30

Gravity currents with residual trapping Key Note

Tchelepi, H.

09:20

Iterative multiscale finite volume method for parabolic problems arising from compressible multiphase flow in porous media.

Hajibegy, H., and P. Jenny

09.40

Production and transport of Ar-37 in the subsurface: Implications for the verification of the nuclear test ban treaty (CTBT)

Riedmann, R., and R. Purtschert

10:00

Coffee Break

staff

10:20

Tracing the entrapped air in heterogeneous soil by means of magnetic resonance imaging

Snehota, M.

10:40

In situ evolution of gas saturation during supersaturated water injection in porous media: observations, modeling and application to residual LNAPL recovery Key Note

Ioannidis, M.

11:30

When air is injected into liquid-saturated loose porous media

Kong , X.-Z., W. Kinzelbach, F. Stauffer

11:50

The role of fractures in earth-atmosphere gas exchange rate

 Weisbrod, N., M. Dragila, U. Nachshon, T. Kamai, M. Pillersdorf

12:10

Adjourn

12:30

Lunch

staff

14:30

Field trip and extramural dinner

Wednesday 1 April

07:00

Breakfast

staff

Session 4 Preferential colloid and pollutant transport

Illangasekare, T. (chair)

08:30

Colloid retention, mobilization, and transport in variably-saturated porous media Key Note

Jin, Y.,

09.20

Effects of wetting and drying cycles on autochthonous colloid mobilization in undisturbed soils.

Michel, E.

09:40

Colloid and colloid-facilitated contaminant transport in discrete fractures

Weisbrod, N., X.-Y. Tang, O. Zvikelsky, H. Meron

10:00

Coffee Break

staff

10:30

Direct monitoring of water flow and solute transport in deep vadose zone

Dahan, O., R. Talby 

10:50

Transect study of the solute velocity field and solute transport mechanisms in a heterogeneous soil

Coppola, A., A. Basile, A. Comegna, S. Hassan, M. A. Haikal, M. Kassab, N. Lamaddalena

11:10

VCHC contamination of porous media and remediation: an experimental set-up

Markgraf, W., S. Peth, H. Fleige, R. Horn

11:30

Discussion

11:50

Adjourn

12:15

Lunch

staff

Session 5: Field scale preferential flows - II

Germann, P. (chair)

14:00

Is preferential flow an essential element of saturation excess overland flow? Key Note

Steenhuis, T.S, H. E. Dahlke, A. A Harpold, S. Lyon, H. K. Bayabil, T. A. Engda, T. Y. Tebebu, J. Nieber

14:50

Forming of the outflow in a small experimental catchment

Cislerova, M.

15:10

Predicting macropore transport: Relationships between soil hydraulic properties, soil characteristics, and morphological distribution of macropores

Iversen, B. V., M. Lamandé, S.B. Torp, O.H. Jacobsen, L.W de Jonge, G. Heckrath, M. Holmstrup

15:30

Coffe Break

staff

16:00

Local-scale structure parameters in dual-permeability modelling of preferential flow in field soils

Gerke, H.-H.

16:20

Spatial scale-dependence of vertical soil water flux continuity through preferred flow domains in a field soil.

Dyck, M . and R. G. Kachanoski

16:40

Significance of tree roots to preferential flow in soil horizons with different degrees of hydromorphy.

Lange, B., P. Lüscher, and P. Germann

17:00

Debate: Gaps and preferential leaks in our understanding of gas injection in porous media

18:30

Adjourn

19:00

Dinner

staff

20:30

Posters

Thursday, 2 April 2009

07:00

Breakfast

staff

Session 6: Observations of preferential transport

Illangasekare, T. H. (chair)

08:30

Electrical resistivity tomography as tool to image preferential flow pathways in soils

Kasteel, R., S. Garre, J. Koestel, C. Oberdörster, J.Vanderborght, H. Vereecken

09:00

Neutron radiography used for the quantitative 2D/3D
analysis of humidity transport in soil

Vontobel, P.

09:20

Neutron radiography and feeble viscous flow

Hincapié, I., and P. Germann

09:40

Assessment of bandwidths of near surface interflow velocities in a high-alpine catchment of Western Austria

Markart G., G. Bieber, A. Römer, B. Kohl, K. Klebinder

10:00

Coffee Break

staff

10:30

In situ monitoring of pollutants transport in vadose zone

Baram, S. S. Arnon, O. Dahan

10:50

Physical and chemical evidences for pore scale preferential flow

Rimon Y., R. Nativ, A. Adin, O. Dahan

11:10

Flow irregularities visual detection during field infiltration experiments

Zumr, D.

11:30

Isotope and tracer effects resulting from preferential flow at different scales – from indication towards quantification

Külls, C. , G. Adolph, and M Weiler

11:50

Discussion

12:15

Adjourn

12:30

Lunch

staff

Session 7: Multiphase preferential flow II

Tchelepi, H. (chair)

14:20

Preferential and unstable flow processes controlling the behavior of DNAPLs contributing to complex entrapment architecture in heterogeneous porous media - experimental studies and new insights to modeling Key Note

Illangasekare, T. H. , D. Dean, K. Barnhart, A. Cihan,
F. Fagerlund, and A. Niemi

15:10

Coffee Break

staff

15:40

Application of the lattice-Boltzmann method to modeling of preferential flow in porous media

Wang, L.-P.

16:10

Probability density function (PDF) modeling approach for non-equilibrium multiphase flow in porous media.

Tyagi, M., and P. Jenny

16:30

The problem of non-equilibrium in soil water dynamics towards larger scales

Vogel, H.-J., and U. Weller

17:00

Use of soil surfactants to reduce preferential and unstable flow in soils

Moore, D., S.J. Kostka, T.J. Boerth, L.W. Dekker, C.J. Ritsema, K. Oostindie, J.G. Wesseling

17:20

Discussion

18:00

Adjourn

19:00

Farewell Dinner

staff

Friday, 3 April

07:00

Breakfast, packing, checking out

staff

Session 8: Preferential evaporation and water uptake

Or, D. (chair)

09:00

Preferential displacement and flow paths during evaporation from heterogeneous porous media

Lehmann, P., N. Shokri, D. Or

09:30

Water uptake, active root volume and solute leaching under daily drip irrigation: Numerical analysis of the impact of the water quality-water quantity substitution approach

Assouline S., A. Silber, D. Russo

09:50

Evaporation from heterogeneous porous media: comparison of experiment and model scenarios

Papafotiou A., P. Lehmann, I. Neuweiler, S. Hartmann, D. Or

10:10

Coffee Break

staff

10:40

On the combined evaporation and salt precipitation process

Nachshon, U., N.Weisbrod, M. Dragila, A. Grader

11:00

Water distribution at the root-soil interface: is there more water next to roots?

Carminati, A., A. Moradi, S. Oswald, D. Vetterlein, U. Weller, H.-J. Vogel.

11:20

Conference closure

Germann, P.

11:30

Adjourn

12:00

Lunch

staff

13:30

Departure