Course: Septembre 28 - Octobre 2, 2009
Jirka Simunek is a Professor of Hydrology at the department of Environmental Sciences at the Universtity of California. He is the author of the HYDRUS-1D, HYDRUS (2D/3D) software principally developed for modeling water flow, chemical movement and heat transport through variably-saturated soils. He is also involved in the development of the reactive transport code HP1. He is a recipient of the Soil Science Society of America’s Don and Betty Kirkham Soil Physics Award and serves currently as the past chair of the Soil Physics (S1) of SSSA.
Diederik Jacques is a researcher at the Performance Assessment Unit, Institute of Environment, Health, and Safety of the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre. He is working on different aspects of coupling unsaturated water flow, solute transport and geochemical reactions, including the development and testing of the coupled code HP1, its application to (long-term) solute transport in soils, and interaction between different systems (clay–concrete, or soil–concrete).
Dirk Mallants is a researcher at the Performance Assessment Unit, Institute of Environment, Health, and Safety of the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre. He has a long experience in modelling flow and transport phenomena in porous systems and the use of transport codes in assessing the long term performance of waste disposal sites.
Evelien Martens is a researcher at the R&D Disposal Unit, Institute of Environment, Health, and Safety of the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre. She has experience in geochemical and coupled reactive transport calculations.