The first Symposium on Recent Advances in Problems of Flow and Transport
in Porous Media was held in Marrakech in June '96 and has provided a
focus for the utilization of computer methods for solving the many
complex problems encountered in the field of solute transport in porous
media. This symposium has been successful in bringing together
scientists, physicists, hydrogeologists, researchers in soil and fluid
mechanics and engineers involved in this multidisciplinary subject. It
is clear that the utilization of computer-based models in this domain is
still rapidly expanding and that new and novel solutions are being
developed. The contributed papers which form this book reflect the
recent advances, in particular with respect to new methods, inverse
problems, reactive transport, unsaturated media and upscaling. These
have been subdivided into the following sections: I. Numerical methods
II. Mass transport and heat transfer III. Comparison with
experimentation and simulation of real cases This book contains reviewed
articles of the top presentations held during the International
Symposium on Computer Methods in Porous Media Engineering which took
place in Giens (France) in October 1998. All of the presentations and
the optimism shown during the meeting provided further evidence that
computer modeling is making remarkable progress and is indeed becoming
an essential toolkit in the field of porous media and solute transport.
I believe that the content of this book provides evidence of this and
furthermore gives a comprehensive review of the theoretical developments
and applications.
