Rainer Helmig

Rainer Helmig (born March 26, 1957 in Hamm , Westphalia) is a German expert in modeling multiphase flows in porous media and a professor at the University of Stuttgart .

Scientific career and research area

Rainer Helmig is a nationally and internationally recognized specialist in the field of numerical modeling of multiphase flows in porous media. With his working group, which he led, he pioneered the way in Germany after 1990 in order to expand the model concepts previously developed mainly in the petroleum industry to include environmentally relevant issues. He was influenced by a research stay at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the early 90s , where he got to know the methods developed there in Karsten Pruess' group. He received his doctorate in 1993 from the University of Hanover , habilitated in 1997 at the University of Stuttgart and in 1997 followed a call to the Technical University of Braunschweig , where he headed the Institute for Computer Applications in Civil Engineering. In 2000 he was offered the chair for hydromechanics and hydrosystem modeling at the University of Stuttgart . He has been a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences since 2010 .

The application areas of the models developed by Rainer Helmig and his group include: B. Pollutant propagation processes in the unsaturated and saturated soil zone, CO ₂ injection processes in deep geological formations for long-term storage of this greenhouse gas, gas-water transport in fuel cells and flows through heterogeneous and fissured porous media.

activities

Rainer Helmig was a member for three years and then from 2006 to 2011 chairman of the Senate Commission for Water Research of the German Research Foundation . He is also the spokesperson for the German-Dutch graduate school NUPUS (non-linearities and upscaling in porous media) and a member of the board of directors of the Stuttgart Research Center for Simulation Technology. Rainer Helmig is also co-editor of the journal Advances in Water Resources (AWR).

Awards

In 1995 Rainer Helmig was awarded the Dresden Groundwater Research Prize. The US National Groundwater Association (NGWA) has appointed Rainer Helmig as the lecturer of the Henry Darcy Lecture Series in Groundwater Science for 2015. In 2017 he was elected to the German Academy of Science and Engineering .

literature

Books by Rainer Helmig and co-authors:

• R. Helmig: Multiphase flow and transport processes in the subsurface: a contribution to the modeling of hydrosystems. Springer Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-540-62703-0 .
• R. Helmig, A. Mielke, B. Wohlmuth (Eds.): Multifield Problems in Solid and Fluid Mechanics. Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics, Vol. 28. Springer Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-540-34959-6 .
• P. Dietrich, R. Helmig, M. Sauter, H. Hötzl, J. Köngeter, G. Teutsch: Flow and Transport in Fractured Porous Media. Springer Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-540-23270-2 .
• R. Helmig, H. Class: Fundamentals of hydromechanics. Shaker Verlag , Aachen 2005, ISBN 3-8322-4221-X .

In addition, there are a large number of scientific articles in specialist journals.

Web links

• Personal page at the institute
• Literature by and about Rainer Helmig in the catalog of the German National Library
• http://www.nupus.uni-stuttgart.de
• http://www.simtech.uni-stuttgart.de

credentials

1. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Rainer Helmig. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed July 3, 2016 . 
2. ↑ CV from the institute's website . As of July 7, 2014
3. ^ Groundwater Center Dresden, winner of the Dresden Groundwater Research Prize. ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. As of July 7, 2014. 
4. ↑ National Groundwater Association: Henry Darcy Lecture Series in Groundwater Science offers two lectures in 2015. ( Memento of the original of July 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release. As of July 7, 2014. 
5. ↑ German Academy of Science and Engineering: Distinction and social commitment: acatech welcomes 26 new members. Press release. As of December 13, 2017.