Energy Geotechnics (PDF)

Frank Wuttke is professor and head of Geomechanics and Geotechnics at the Institute of Geoscience of Kiel University since 2013. He studied civil engineering, obtained his PhD and habilitation at the Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany. His expertise lies in the experimental developments in material design for energy geotechnic structures, the behavior of unsaturated soils, developments in soil-structure-interaction, process monitoring methods and material identification. His working field includes dynamic material behavior, wave propagation and dynamic soil-structure interaction. Currently, he actively works in the developments of energy geostorage systems and numerical simulation of microstructure based coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical behavior of geomaterials including fracture modeling. He is member of different national and international task forces in geotechnical and energy-geotechnical fields.

Sebastian Bauer is professor and leader of the Geohydromodelling group at the Institute of Geosciences of Kiel University (Germany) since 2007. He studied Physics and obtained his PhD and habilitation in Geosciences at the Centre of Applied Geosciences, Tuebingen University (Germany). His expertise is the analysis and numerical simulation of coupled non-isothermal multiphase fluid flow and reactive transport processes in subsurface porous media. Application areas include reactive transport at contaminated groundwater sites, heat and energy storage in the subsurface, shallow and middle deep geothermal use, geological CO2 sequestration, nuclear waste storage and karst genesis simulations. His special interest is the coupled phenomena encountered in these subsurface application areas and their representation in numerical codes and applications. He has coordinated large joint research projects and is currently coordinator of the ANGUS project on subsurface energy storage.