The scientist! in an adventure with rocks, oil, water and volcanoes
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Channel: Imperial College London · 2014 · Science & Technology
Professor Matt Jackson gives his inaugural lecture (with apologies to Gideon Defoe for the title!) Fluid flow in the Earth’s crust plays a fundamental role in a wide variety of processes including oil and gas recovery, freshwater abstraction from underground aquifers, migration of contaminants, geothermal reservoir formation and exploitation and volcanic eruptions. Understanding fluid flow in these settings is critical for economic and environmental reasons, as well as a broader understanding of how our planet works, but is hampered by the complexity and inaccessibility of the systems of interest. This talk will give a highly personal account of fluid flow research. Discover why rocks exposed at the Earth’s surface can be considered equivalent to deeply buried formations (and why this is not just an excuse to visit some spectacular field locations!) how little numerical modelling methods have evolved since the 1980s, despite the enormously significant economic decisions based on their predictions, and why salt with your fish and chips may soon be unavoidable in Brighton. For more information please visit http://bit.ly/1s3YXOG
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