A symposium on applications and enhancements of the TOUGH numerical simulator will be held at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), May 15–17, 2006. The TOUGH Symposium 2006 will consist of oral and poster presentations, and a banquet dinner. Proceedings will be published on a CDROM. A TOUGH2 Training Course will be held immediately following the Symposium.

Symposium Purpose

The purpose of the symposium is to bring together users of the TOUGH family of codes (which includes TOUGH2, iTOUGH2, TMVOC, TOUGHREACT, TOUGH-FLAC, TOUGH-Fx/HYDRATE, and more) for an open exchange on applications and recent code enhancements. Papers are solicited in all areas of TOUGH applications, including:

• Coupled process modeling (thermal, hydrologic, chemical, mechanical, biological)
• Carbon sequestration and hydrocarbon recovery
• Methane hydrate dissociation and recovery
• Performance assessment of nuclear waste repositories
• Geothermal reservoir studies
• Vadose zone hydrology
• Fate and transport of volatile organic compounds
• Design and analysis of laboratory and field experiments
• Automatic model calibration and uncertainty analysis
• Code verification and validation
• Enhanced process capabilities and user features
• Grid generation
• Numerical schemes and parallel computing