Research Projects

Current projects

  • Multi scale simulation of microbial methanation in porous media Subproject of the joint research project "Catalytic and microbial methanation as basis for sustainable energy storage".
  • High-resolution Simulation of Denitrification Subproject of DFG Research Unit 2337 "Denitrification in Agricultural Soils: Integrated control and Modelling at various scales (DASIM)". Improvement of the simulation of denitrification (the microbial conversion of nitrate to nitrous oxide or molecular nitrogen) by explicit representation of the multi-scale process with models on the pore and continuum scale.

  • Creation of a prototype of a next-generation land surface model Part of the project EXA-DUNE: Flexible PDE Solvers, Numerical Methods and Applications in the DFG priority program SPP 1648-2 "Software for Exascale Computing".

    Application of the modern tools used in EXA-DUNE for highly efficient simulation of the water and heat balance of the Earth's surface, especially the vadose zone.

Completed projects as subproject leader

  • Geostatistical Inversion of Coupled Processes in Heterogeneous Porous Media funded by the Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg in the call "High-Performance-Computing", applicants: O Cirpka (speaker), P. Bastian and O. Ippisch
  • Tomographic Methods in Hydrogeology subproject of an application within the BMBF call "Tomography of the Usable Subsurface", applicants: O. Cirpka (speaker), P. Bastian, K. Faiß, C. Leven-Pfister, O. Ippisch.

Completed projects as co-applicants

  • Numerical Methods for the Accurate and Efficient Simulation of Multiphase Multicomponent Flow in the Capillary Fringe subproject of the DFG research group "Dynamic capillary fringes - a multidisciplinary approach", applicants of the subproject: P. Bastian and O. Ippisch
  • Two-phase flow in complex bounded regions DFG single funding program, applicants: P. Bastian and O. Ippisch
  • Large-scale numerical simulation of processes during CO2 storage in geologic formations funded by the Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg in the call "High-Performance Computing", Applicants. P. Bastian (speaker), O. Ippisch, H. Class, B. Fleisch and R. Helmig