Numerical modeling of corrosion and reactive transport

A wide number of projects in our research group aim at improving the numerical modeling of reactive transport processes and coupled corrosion processes occurring at a metal surrounded by a porous medium. This is an important scientific problem with applications to various practical problems, including corrosion of steel in concrete (bridges, buildings, …), corrosion of steel in soil (buried pipes, geotechnical structures, archaeological artefacts) or corrosion related to radioactive waste disposal.

Our primary goal is to study the coupling between reactive transport processes occurring in the porous, chemically reactive medium and electrochemical processes occurring at the embedded metal.

We use different modeling approaches and seek to produce experimental data for the purpose of validation of individual components of complex and coupled models.

For a complete list of ongoing projects, please click here.

A list of completed projects can be found here.