Introduction To predict the evolution of a Geological Disposal Facility, it is necessary to understand the interaction between a number of key features and process and its impact on the long-term behaviour. Central to these issues are the mechanisms and process that govern the movement of gases in a repository. Linking the gas transport to the stress-strain response of the engineering systems b...

We present a discrete element model for simulating, at the grain scale, gas migration in brine-saturated deformable media. We rigorously account for the presence of two fluids in the pore space by incorporating forces on grains due to pore fluid pressures, and surface tension between fluids. This model, which couples multiphase fluid flow with sediment mechanics, permits investigating the upwar...

In a further development of a deterministic planet-formation model (Ida & Lin 2004), we consider the effect of type-I migration of protoplanetary embryos due to their tidal interaction with their nascent disks. During the early embedded phase of protostellar disks, although embryos rapidly emerge in regions interior to the ice line, uninhibited type-I migration leads to their efficient self-cle...

We develop a simple model for computing planetary formation based on the core instability model for the gas accretion and the oligarchic growth regime for the accretion of the solid core. In this model several planets can form simultaneously in the disc, a fact that has important implications specially for the changes in the dynamic of the planetesimals and the growth of the cores since we cons...

Disks in the 6 Myr old cluster η Chamaeleontis were searched for emission from hot H2 . Around the M3 star ECHA J0843.4-7905 we detect circumstellar gas orbiting at ∼2 AU. If the gas is UV-excited, the ro-vibrational line traces a hot gas layer supported by a disk of mass ∼0.03 M⊙ , similar to the minimum mass solar nebula. Such a gas reservoir at 6 Myr would promote the formation and inwards m...

The gas hydrate petroleum system in the permafrost of the Qilian Mountains, which exists as an epigenetic hydrocarbon reservoir above a deep-seated hydrocarbon reservoir, has been dynamic since the end of the Late Pleistocene because of climate change. The permafrost limits the occurrence of gas hydrate reservoirs by changing the pressure-temperature (P-T) conditions, and it affects the migrati...