Terra Multiphysics
Dr. Saeed Tourchi
- FounderTerra Multiphysics · currentHigh-fidelity multiphysics for geomechanical problems
- Postdoctoral researcherUniversity of Luxembourg · 2024 – presentDepartment of Engineering · Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine
- MSCA FellowCharles University · 2021 – 2023Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Postdoctoral researcherAarhus Universitet · 2019 – 2021
- saeed.tourchi@uni.lu
- Phone
- (+352) 46 66 44 6053
- Office
- Campus Belval, BLL E00 012C · Bâtiment L, 6 rue Coudenhove-Kalergi, L-1359 Luxembourg
- Profiles
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Expertise
Computational geomechanics: coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical behaviour of clays and argillaceous rocks, from constitutive theory through to full-scale in-situ experiments. Work spans deep geological disposal of radioactive waste, energy geostructures, CO2 storage and slope stability under soil–atmosphere interaction. Founder of Terra Multiphysics, the solver and unified modelling workflow built on that research at the University of Luxembourg under the FNR JUMP programme.
- Thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) modelling
- Unsaturated soil mechanics
- Constitutive modelling of clays
- Argillaceous rocks and claystone
- Radioactive waste disposal
- Energy geostructures
- Slope stability and soil–atmosphere interaction
- Numerical modelling in geotechnical engineering
Background
Biography
I work on the coupled physics of the ground - heat, water and mechanical stress acting together in soils and rocks. After a doctorate at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya on the thermo-hydro-mechanical behaviour of argillaceous rocks, my research moved with the energy transition: energy piles, underground energy storage, temperature-driven slope behaviour as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow, and today energy geostructures at the University of Luxembourg with ArcelorMittal. Terra Multiphysics is where that work landed: a platform I wrote end to end as its sole developer, checked against a full-scale energy-pile field test and published benchmark problems, with every published result traceable to a recorded solver run.
Background
Education
- PhDUniversitat Politècnica de Catalunya · 2015 – 2020THM analysis of argillaceous rocks with application to nuclear waste underground storage
Publications
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Terra Multiphysics
From the research to the solver
The two cases published on this site — energy geostructures and CO2 geological storage — are solved by Terra and replayed from recorded solver states.