[Translate to English:] Raphaël di Chiara Roupert

Ingénieur de Recherche - CNRS  Commission informatique / Correspondant science ouverte

formation :

since 2020 Research engineer (IR2), scientific computing (BAP E)

2010-2020  Lecturer - University of Strasbourg (Maître de Conférences), dépt. GIM, IUT Louis Pasteur

2009-2010 Post-doctoral fellow at the Laboratory of Hydrology and Geochemistry of Strasbourg (LHyGeS), UdS /ENGEES, CNRS ; Strasbourg, France

2006-2009 Ph.D. thesis in fluid mechanics, Development of a multiphase flow multi component simulator at the University of Strasbourg (8/12/2009) link

2003-2006 Civil engineering master degree at the ENGEES

Research activities

Ph.D. thesis :  A method for the simulation of compressible three-phase flows is proposed taking into account gravity and capillary effects. Governing equations are written in a fractional flow formulation in terms of a global pressure equation and two saturation equations. The global pressure satisfying a « Total Differential » (TD) condition was introduced by [Chavent and Jaffré, 1986] to simplify the mathematical formulation of three-phase flows [link].

Lead developer of the CubicM code : Multiphase Multicomponent Multiprocess Simulator (fortran), windows/linux vers.

  • 3D water/oil two-phase flow, 2D gas/water/oil three-phase flow ;
  • coupled water/gas/oil transport ;
  • mass transfer (non local equilibrium approach) by dissolution (water/oil exchange), Raoult's law ;
  • mass transfer (local non-equilibrium/equilibrium approach) by sorption (water/solid exchange), linear isotherm ;
  • sequential degradation of compounds (Chloroethenes), order 0 and 1 ;
  • biodegradation of Chloroethenes with competition/inhibition mechanism and modeling of inorganic electron acceptors (oxygen, nitrate, sulfate, etc.) ;
  • dual-Isotopic fractionation formalism on 12/13C, 36/37Cl (DCM application / experiments) ;
  • formulation of a well/source term, description of a flow (weighting on the screened height) and approach following the Peaceman model with the iterative calculation of the pressure in the well.

Topics :

  • Dynamics of immiscible fluids (NAPL) in porous media : numerical simulation
  • Modeling of organo-chlorine compounds transfer in the vadose zone and the soil-air interface (code CubicM)
  • Transfer of contaminants in continental hydro-systems
  • Particle Swarm Optimization (Quantum-based version) in estimation of weathering transfer time. (code Quantum)
  • Simulation of the transfer of Nanoparticle of Titane (NPs TiO2, code Sapatine)
  • Modelisation of isotope fractionation by biodegradation and volatilization (2D-DCM project)
  • Free surface flow (Barré de St-Venant model, first test case), first 1d dev. here  .

Teaching activities

Fluid mechanics, rehology at the IUT Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg (Practical Hydraulics ENGEES Ing School & GIM dept., courses).

Solid mechanics, kinematic and dynamic at the IUT Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg (GIM dept., courses)

Mathematics at the IUT Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg (GB dept., courses)

Unsaturated fluid modelling at INSA of Strasbourg (Richards flow), Master physique appliquée et ingénierie physique (PAIP), parcours Modélisation Numérique Avancé (MNA).

Surface flow model

A surface flow (BSV model, finite volume) is modeled on a topography generated from an analytical function (Mishra's Bird function) by imposing a water level on the northern border of the domain. We try to correctly represent the water velocity field (integrated on the vertical) in the basin (Honey lake simulation).

application : the Bruche valley

A finite volume model is based on the discretization of the "Barré de Saint-Venant" equation. The simulation is conducted over a little less than an hour starting with a water level of 10 cm uniformly distributed over the entire surface

Recent publications

2020

2018

2016

2015

Selected publications

  • Chabaux, F., Blaes, E., Stille, P., di Chiara Roupert R., Pelt, E., Dosseto, A., ... & Brantley, S. L. (2013). Regolith formation rate from U-series nuclides : Implications from the study of a spheroidal weathering profile in the Rio Icacos watershed (Puerto Rico). Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 100, 73-95.
  • Chabaux, F., Ma, L., Stille, P., Pelt, E., Granet, M., Lemarchand, D., di Chiara Roupert R., Brantley, S. L. (2011). Determination of chemical weathering rates from U series nuclides in soils and weathering profiles : Principles, applications and limitations. Applied Geochemistry, 26, S20-S23.
  • Chabaux, F., Blaes, E., Granet, M., di Chiara Roupert R., R., & Stille, P. (2012). Determination of transfer time for sediments in alluvial plains using 238U-234U-230Th disequilibria : the case of the Ganges river system. Comptes Rendus Geoscience, 344(11-12), 688-703.
  • Nsir, K., Schäfer, G., di Chiara Roupert R., R., Razakarisoa, O., & Toussaint, R. (2012). Laboratory experiments on DNAPL gravity fingering in water-saturated porous media. International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 40, 83-92.
  • Ackerer, J., Chabaux, F., Van der Woerd, J., Viville, D., Pelt, E., Kali, E., di Chiara Roupert R., Négrel, P. (2016). Regolith evolution on the millennial timescale from combined U–Th–Ra isotopes and in situ cosmogenic 10Be analysis in a weathering profile (Strengbach catchment, France). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 453, 33-43.
  • di Chiara Roupert R., Chavent G., Schäfer G., "Three-phase compressible flow i_ n porous media : Total Differential Compatible interpolation of relative permeabilities", Journal of Computational Physics 229 (2010), pp. 4762-4780
  • di Chiara Roupert R., Schäfer G., Ackerer P., Quintard M., Chavent G., "Construction of three-phase data to model multiphase flow in porous media : Comparing an optimization approach to the finite element approach", C.R. Geoscience 342 (2010), pp. 855-863
  •  di Chiara Roupert R., Carrayrou J., Schäfer G., Ackerer P., Quintard M., Côme J-M., Novel operator-splitting procedures for tridimensional modelling applied to the biodegradation of chlorinated volatile organic compounds in heterogenous porous media, Annual Meeting of the International Society for Porous Media, Interpore 29–31 March 2011 Bordeaux (talk).
  • di Chiara Roupert R., Schäfer G , Ramasomanana F., Quintard M, Chastanet J., Côme, J.-M., Duclos Y., Numerical simulation of compressible multiphase multicomponent processes in porous media : non-local equilibrium formulation using the Methods of Lines, XXth International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources (CMWR), Stuttgart, Allemagne, juin 2014 (talk).
  • Ramasomanana F., di Chiara Roupert R., Schäfer G., Quintard M., Côme J.M., Chastanet J., Modeling dissolution of multicomponent DNAPL in saturated porous media, XXth International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources (CMWR), Stuttgart, juin 2014 (poster)
  • Chastanet J., Côme J.M., di Chiara Roupert R., Schäfer G ., Quintard M., CubicM, un code de calcul pour simuler le devenir de polluants organiques dans le milieu souterrain, 3ièmerencontres nationales de la recherche sur les sites et sols pollués, Maison de la Chimie, Paris, novembre 2014
  • Schneider L., di Chiara Roupert R., Schäfer G., Helluy P., Numerical modeling of three-phase compressible flow with gravity effects using the global pressure formulation, XXth International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources (CMWR), Stuttgart, juin 2014 (poster, first prize).
  • Lemarchand D., di Chiara Roupert R., Modeling weathering rates in the critical zone with stable isotopes, Goldschmidt Abstracts, 16th-21th August 2015, 25th Anniversary, Prague (CZ) (invited talk)
  • Chastanet J., Côme J.M., di Chiara Roupert R., Schäfer G ., Quintard M., M3 : a multiphase, multicomponent and multiprocess code to model contaminated sites. Conférence Modflow and more, Golden, CO, USA, juin 2015 (talk).
  • Belfort B., di Chiara Roupert R., Lehmann F., Weill S., Hydrodynamique en milieux poreux non saturés, nouvelle technique photographique pour la mesure de teneur en eau des sols, Congrés National de la Recherche en IUT (CNRIUT 2017) : 4-5 juin 2017, Auxerre
  • Sylvain Weill, Benjamin Belfort, Charline Wiegert, di Chiara Roupert R., Emilie Muller, Françoise Bringel, François Lehmann, Stéphane Vuilleumier and Gwenaël Imfeld, Reactive transport of dichloromethane in porous medium under dynamic hydrological conditions : from experiments to model including isotope fractionation and bacterial effects, CMWR 2018, St Malo, France
  • di Chiara Roupert R., Gerhard Schäfer, Jérome Carrayrou, Philippe Ackerer, Michel Quintard, Manuel Marcoux, Juliette Chastanet, Jean-Marie Côme and Yves Duclos Multiphase multicomponent modelling of the NAPL transfer in the subsurface using CubicM simulator, CMWR 2018, St Malo, France
  • di Chiara Roupert R.., Schäfer G., Quintard M., Marcoux M., Chastanet J., Côme, J-M., Duclos Y., Multiphase multicomponent modelling of the NAPL transfer in the subsurface using Method of Lines, MAMERN VIIâĂŞ2017 : 7 th International Conference on Approximation Methods and Numerical Modelling in Environment and Natural Resources Oujda (Morocco), May 17-20, 2017