Dr. Huhao Gao

Research interests


  • Multiphase flow in porous media
  • Intra- and inter- phase reactive mass transfer
  • Experiments and numerical simulations at the pore-scale
  • Thermal-hydrologic-chemical coupled modeling
  • Geological storage of carbon dioxide
  • Remediation of NAPL-contaminated aquifers
  • Aquifer thermal energy storage


Current projects


  • Since 2023 “GeoTES” : Possibilities and limits of thermal energy storage in deep aquifers (geo-reservoirs) as part of the Heat transition 2030 (funded by BBF)
  • Since 2019 “KIS tracer” : Smart tracer techniques for investigating the dynamic of fluid-fluid interfacial area in multiphase porous media systems. (funded by DFG)