Day 1: Concept & Mathematics of Nonlinear Mechanics for Subsurface Storage
Date and Time: Friday, February 14th, 2025 from 10:00-16:00 Central European Time
- Introduction to “The Role of Salt Caverns for Energy Storage in a Sustainable World”
- Introduction to “Multiscale Simulation Concept for Salt Caverns”
- Formulate consistent discrete equations for mechanics: linear elastic, visco-elastic, and plastic
- Discretization and simulation strategies for salt rock
- [Hands-on Code] Simulation of linear & nonlinear deformation of rock salt blocks & quantification of
different deformation mechanisms - [Hands-on Code] Benchmark analyses for model selection and parameter calibration
- [Hands-on Code] Benchmark with analytical solution for cube samples