{"id":228756,"date":"2026-01-10T22:31:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T04:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/calculating-the-spreading-of-fluids-in-porous-materials-to-understand-saltwater-in-soil"},"modified":"2026-01-10T22:31:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T04:31:49","slug":"calculating-the-spreading-of-fluids-in-porous-materials-to-understand-saltwater-in-soil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/calculating-the-spreading-of-fluids-in-porous-materials-to-understand-saltwater-in-soil","title":{"rendered":"Calculating the spreading of fluids in porous materials to understand saltwater in soil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/calculating-the-spreading-of-fluids-in-porous-materials-to-understand-saltwater-in-soil3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A solution to a tricky groundwater riddle from Australia: Researchers at TU Wien have developed numerical models to simulate the movement of fluids in porous materials.<\/p>\n<p>Things are complicated along the Murray\u2013Darling River in southern Australia. Agricultural irrigation washes salt out of the upper soil layers, and this salt eventually ends up in the river. To prevent the river\u2019s salt concentration from rising too much, part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/salty+water\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">salty water<\/a> is diverted into special basins.<\/p>\n<p>Some of these basins are designed to let the salty water evaporate, others to slowly release it in a controlled manner in the underground. That keeps salt temporarily out of the river and allows better management of the river\u2019s water\u2014but it increases the salinity in the ground. How can we calculate how this saltwater spreads underground and what its <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/long-term+effects\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">long-term effects<\/a> will be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A solution to a tricky groundwater riddle from Australia: Researchers at TU Wien have developed numerical models to simulate the movement of fluids in porous materials. Things are complicated along the Murray\u2013Darling River in southern Australia. Agricultural irrigation washes salt out of the upper soil layers, and this salt eventually ends up in the river. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}