Lesson Plan

1. Introduction to “The Role of Salt Caverns for Energy Storage in a Sustainable World”
2. Introduction to “Multiscale Simulation Concept for Salt Caverns”
3. Formulate consistent discrete equations for mechanics: linear elastic, visco-elastic, and plastic
4. Discretization and simulation strategies for salt rock
5. [Hands-on Code] Simulation of linear & nonlinear deformation of rock salt blocks & quantification of
   different deformation mechanisms
6. [Hands-on Code] Benchmark analyses for model selection and parameter calibration
7. [Hands-on Code] Benchmark with analytical solution for cube samples