Christophe Frippiat
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: cfrippia@mines.edu
Also affiliated to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, as a Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (F.R.S.-F.N.R.S.) Post-doctoral Researcher.
Education
• PhD in Applied Science – Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 2006
Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (F.R.S.-F.N.R.S.) Research Fellow
Thesis: Upscaling of solute transport in heterogeneous media. Theories and experiments to compare and validate Fickian and non-Fickian approaches.
•MS in Applied Sciences - Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 2004
•BEng in Civil Engineering – Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 2002
Research Interests: Flow and solute transport in heterogeneous porous media
Optimization of groundwater remediation systems under uncertainty
Theoretical modelling of flow and solute transport :
- Upscaling methods for permeability
- Upscaling methods for longitudinal dispersivity (stochastic & fractal approaches, inclusion models)
- Theoretical modelling of solute migration using non-Fickian models (Telegraph equations, Mobile-immobile models, Fractional-advection-dispersion equations, Continuous Time Random Walks)
Simulation of flow and transport at the laboratory scale :
- Simulation of remediation systems and monitoring networks using intermediate-scale laboratory models
- Measurement of local longitudinal and transverse dispersivities at the core scale, using column experiments
- Simulation of flow and transport in heterogeneous porous media using intermediate-scale laboratory models
- Comparison of field-scale tracer tests in heterogeneous media using intermediate-scale laboratory models
Publications
Publications in peer-reviewed journals :
Frippiat, C.C., and A.E. Holeyman. A comparative review of upscaling methods for solute transport in heterogeneous media. Submitted
Frippiat, C.C., Benson, D.A., Illangasekare, T.H., Monnig, N.D., and A.E. Holeyman. Laboratory investigation of flow and transport in a highly heterogeneous composite permeability field. Submitted
Publications in international conferences :
Frippiat C., and A. Holeyman. 2006. Upscaling of solute transport in mildly heterogeneous media. Comparison of Fickian and non-Fickian approaches. In : Calibration and Reliability in Groundwater Modelling : from uncertainty to decision making, edited by Bierkens et al. IAHS Publication 304, pp. 167-173.
Frippiat, C., Conde, P., and A. Holeyman. 2006. Comparison of single-well and two-well tracer tests at the laboratory scale. In : Proceedings of the XVI International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Osaka, Japan, 12-16 September 2005, pp. 2371-2374.
Conde Perez, P., Frippiat C., and A. Holeyman. 2006. Determination of hydrodynamical dispersion factors at the laboratory scale. In : Proceedings of the XVI
International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Osaka, Japan, 12-16 September 2005, pp. 2361-2364.
Frippiat C., and A. Holeyman. 2005. Soil structure modelling in a laboratory intermediate-scale experiment. Application of the iterative cokriging method. In : Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Calibration and Reliability in Groundwater Modelling - ModelCare 2005, Den Haag, The Netherlands, 6-9 June 2005, pp. 269-275.
Frippiat, C., Wauters, B., Feller, V., Conde, P., Talbaoui M., and A. Holeyman. 2004. Physical and numerical modelling of 2-well tracer tests at the laboratory scale. In : Engineering Geology for Infrastructure Planning in Europe, Springer, Berlin, Lecture Notes in Earth Science, Vol. 104, pp. 285-293.
Frippiat, C., Conde, P., Talbaoui, M., and A. Holeyman. 2004. Influence de la structure du sous-sol pour l'interprétation d'essais de traçage. Géotechnique et Aménagement : Friches industrielles, côtes et "après-mines", JNGG Lille 2004, Lille, France. (in French)
Frippiat, C. 2004. Evaluation of non-Fickian solute transport models by means of synthetic examples. In : Proceedings of the 16th European Young Geotechnical Engineer's Conference, EYGEC, Vienna, Austria.
Frippiat, C., Servais, T., Conde, P., Talbaoui, M., and A. Holeyman. 2003. Medium-scale laboratory model to assess soil contaminant dispersivity. In : Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, August 25-28, 2003, Praha, Czech Republic.
Papers published as abstracts :
Frippiat, C., Gillet, R., Wauters, T., and A. Holeyman. 2006. Experimental investigation of solute transport in a porous media composed of inclusions of contrasted permeabilities. In : Proceedings of the International Association for Mathematical Geology Annual Conference IAMG 2006 : “Quantitative Geology from Multiple Sources”, September 3-8, 2006, Liège, Belgium.
Frippiat, C., and A. Holeyman. 2006. Comparison of asymptotic semi-analytical solutions to solute transport in heterogeneous porous media. In : Proceedings of the International Ground Water Symposium IAHR-GW2006 on Groundwater Hydraulics in Complex Environments, June 12-14, 2006, Toulouse, France.Frippiat, C., Renard, A., and A. Holeyman. 2003. Development of a new electric conductivity sensor in order to characterize soil solute concentration. In : Proceedings of the 9th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, August 31 – September 4, 2003, Praha, Czech Republic.