Fritjof Fagerlund
Postdoctoral Researcher
Center
for the Experimental Study of Subsurface
Environmental Processes (CESEP)
Division
of ESE
Colorado School
of Mines
Golden, CO 80401
Phone: 303-273-3483
Fax: 303-273-3413
email: ffagerlu@mines.edu
Education
• PhD in Hydrology – Uppsala University, Sweden, 2007. Thesis: Experimental and Modelling Studies on the Spreading of Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids in Heterogeneous Media, http://publications.uu.se/abstract.xsql?dbid=7430.
•MS in Aquatic and Environmental Engineering – Uppsala University, Sweden, 2002.
Research Interests:
- Remediation of Dense Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids using nano-scale zero-valent iron
- Flow and transport in heterogeneous media
- Multiphase flow and transport
- Constitutive relations for multiphase flow
Publications
Publications in peer-reviewed journals :
Fagerlund, F. and G. Heinson. 2003. Detecting sub-surface groundwater flow in fractured rock using self-potential (SP) methods. Environmental Geology 43:7 782-794
Fagerlund, F., A. Niemi and M. Odén. 2006. Comparison of relative permeability – fluid saturation – capillary pressure relations in the modeling of non-aqueous phase liquid infiltration in variably saturated, layered media. Advances in Water Resources 29: 1705-1730
Fagerlund, F. and A. Niemi. 2006. A partially coupled, fraction-by-fraction modelling approach to the subsurface migration of gasoline spills. J. Contaminant Hydrology, doi:10.1016/j.jconhyd.2006.08.004.
Fagerlund, F., T.H. Illangasekare and A. Niemi. 2007. NAPL infiltration and immobilization in heterogeneous media. 1. Experimental methods and two-layered reference case. Vadose Zone J. 6:471-482. doi:10.2136/vzj2006.0171
Fagerlund, F., T.H. Illangasekare and A. Niemi. 2007. NAPL infiltration and immobilization in heterogeneous media. 2. Application to stochastically heterogeneous formations. Vadose Zone J. 6:483-495. doi:10.2136/vzj2006.0172
Fagerlund, F., A. Niemi and T.H. Illangasekare. 2007. Modeling of NAPL migration in heterogeneous saturated media: Effects of hysteresis and fluid immobility in constitutive relations. Accepted for publication in Water Resources Research.
Supervision of master theses:
Alsterhag, Elin, 2005. Model of chemical transport in the subsurface designed for use in emergency response – Chemical Spill 4.0. Master thesis, Aquatic and Environmental Engineering, Uppsala University, UPTEC W05 013, ISSN 1401-5765
Rogger, Magdalena, 2006. Effects of temperature variations on the spreading and volatilisation of non-aqueous phase liquids in subsurface systems. Master thesis, Aquatic and Environmental Engineering, Uppsala University.
Publications in the proceedings of international conferences:
Fagerlund F, Illangasekare TH and Niemi A, 2006. Modelling NAPL source zone formation in stochastically heterogeneous layered media – a comparison with experimental results. In the proceedings of TOUGH Symposium 2006, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, California, USA
Fagerlund F, and Niemi A, 2003. Multi-constituent modelling of a gasoline spill using the T2VOC numerical simulator. In the proceedings of TOUGH Symposium 2003, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, California, USA
Mathew M, Illangasekare TH, Fagerlund F and Niemi A, 2006. Sensitivity of constitutive models in the prediction of DNAPL infiltration and redistribution in heterogeneous porous media. In the proceedings of Computational Methods in Water Resources XVI, Copenhaguen, Denmark, June 19 – 22, 2006.
Posters and publications as abstracts at international conferences:
Fagerlund F, Illangasekare TH and Niemi A, 2005. NAPL migration and source zone formation in layered heterogeneous media. Workshop on: Upscaling Flow and Transport in Heterogeneous Porous Media, July 11 – 13, 2005, Zeist, The Netherlands
Fagerlund F, Illangasekare TH and Niemi A, 2005. Experimental investigation of NAPL migration and source zone formation in saturated heterogeneous media. Hydrology Days, March 7 – 9, 2005, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA
Dean D, Illangasekare TH, Fagerlund F, Turner A and Russell TF. 2004. Stochastic approach for modeling of DNAPL migration in heterogeneous aquifers: Model development and experimental data generation. American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall meeting 2004, December13 – 17, 2004, San Francisco, USA
Dean D, Russel T, Bernhart K, Illangasekare TH, Fagerlund F, Mathew M, Sakaki T, 2006. A stochastic differential equation approach for modeling DNAPL flow in heterogeneous porous media, Hydrology Days, March 20 – 22, 2006, Poster No. 21, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
Dean D, Russel T, Bernhart K, Illangasekare TH, Fagerlund F, Mathew M, Sakaki T, 2005. A Lagrangian to characterizing dispersion in heterogeneous porous media, AGU Fall meeting 2005, Poster No. H51F-0425, December 5-9, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Mathew M, Illangasekare TH, Fagerlund F and Niemi A, 2005. Sensitivities of modelparameters in the prediction of DNAPL infiltration and redistribution in heterogeneous porous media. American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall meeting 2005, December 5 – 9, 2005, San Francisco, USA