Andrea Ferrari
Research
Ferrari Andrea graduated as Environmental Physicist at the University of Turin, Italy. Later, he joined the Institute of Geophysics at the University of Lausanne in April 2010 in quality of PhD Student in the group of Professor Ivan Lunati.
Currently, his main research interests is understanding and modelling multiphase flow in geological porous media, that is important for many environmental and energy applications, which include CO2 sequestration; risk assessment of hazardous-waste disposals; control and remediation of pollution by hydrophobic contaminants; sustainable water resources management; oil recovery; coupling of groundwater, hydrological and climate models.
The standard description of multiphase flow at the field scale (based on generalized Darcy's law) is unable to describe a wide range of flow conditions. The goals of this research are to clearly define the limit of applicability of the standard models and to devise alternatives for the regimes for which they prove inadequate.
At this end it is necessary to reconsider the problem from the fundamentals and investigate the physicochemical processes at the pore-scale. The objective is to obtain a more complete thermodynamic descriptions and incorporate ideas from the statistical physics of fields.
Curriculum Vitae
Born on July 18th, 1985 in Torino (Italy)
Education
2010 – Present
PhD student in the group of Professor Ivan Lunati. Institute of Geophysics, UNIL, Lausanne, Switzerland
2007 – 2009
Master Degree in Biomedical and Environmental Physics at University of Torino
Thesis : « Turbulent boundary layer over rough wall »
2004 – 2007
Bachelor Degree in General Physics at University of Torino
