PoreLab Lecture Series
Do you wish to receive the invitations to the PoreLab lectures? Contact Marie-Laure Olivier here: Marie-Laure.Olivier@ntnu.no
Read more about Predicting viscosities and thermal conductivities from dilute gas to dense liquid: Deriving fundamental transfer lengths for momentum and energy exchange in revised Enskog theory
Congratulations to Vegard G. Jervell and Øivind Wilhlemsen. Their publication on “Predicting viscosities and thermal conductivities from dilute gas to dense liquid: Deriving fundamental transfer lengths for momentum and energy exchange in revised Enskog theory” was considered as noteworthy by the editors, thereby selected as Featured and on the front page of the Journal of
Read more about Equation of State for Solid Argon Valid for Temperatures up to 300 K and Pressures up to 16 GPa
Congratulations to Tage Maltby, Morten Hammer and Øivind Wilhlemsen. Their publication on “Equation of State for Solid Argon Valid for Temperatures up to 300 K and Pressures up to 16 GPa” was considered as noteworthy by the editors, and was chosen for the coverpage by the Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data in December 2024
Invitation to the CECAM five-day school on machine learning (ML) techniques for physical sciences
Machine Learning in Physical Sciences: Theory and Applications May 26, 2025 – May 31, 2025 Registration deadline: April 26, 2025 Location: CECAM-FR-RA Hosting node: CECAM-FR-RA More information here: CECAM – Machine Learning in Physical Sciences: Theory and ApplicationsMachine Learning in Physical Sciences: Theory and Applications Organisers With this application, we propose a five-day school on
PoreLab lecture with Dr. Laurent Talon on the flow of yield stress fluid in porous media : statistical properties, universality class and boundary conditions
Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Laurent Talon is a researcher at the Laboratory FAST (Fluides, Automatique et Systèmes Thermiques) at the University of Paris-Saclay, France When: Wednesday 4 December at 13:00 CET (Norway time). Where: The lecture will be streamed both in the Kelvin room (PoreLab Oslo) and in the common room (PoreLab Trondheim). From anywhere
PoreLab lecture with Associate Professor Davide Picchi on Motion of an elongated bubble through a shear-thinning fluid
Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Davide Picchi Davide Picchi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Brescia. His background is in theoretical thermal-fluid sciences and his research integrates theory development and experiments to investigate transport phenomena in multiphase flow and complex fluids in confined environments. When: Wednesday 18 December at 13:00 CET (Norway time). Where: The lecture will be streamed both
EXCITE2 Second Call Open
The second EXCITE2 call for Transnational Access to the 36 imaging facilities AND first EXCITE2 call for Data Processing Only are now officially open! Our collaborators at the Porous media Physics section at NTNU, the X-ray facilities are also accessible as part of the call. Costs related to access including travel is covered by the
PoreLab lecture with Dr. Thomas Ramstad on Aspects of Relative Permeability: Theory, Applications and Limitations
Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Dr. Thomas Ramstad, discipline leader reservoir technology in Area Subsurface Development North (ASDN) in Equinor When: Wednesday 20 November at 13:00 (Norway time). Where: The lecture will take place on Wednesday 20 November at 13:00 (Norway time). The lecture will be streamed in the common room (PoreLab Trondheim) and in the
Read more about the relation between critical exponent of the conductivity and the morphological exponents of percolation theory
Professor Muhammad Sahimi at the University of Southern California introduces his new publication as follow: “A fifty year problem was solved Fifty one years ago it was proposed that the conductivity of composites that are mixtures of conducting and non-conducting elements follow a power law near the conductivity threshold, i.e., the volume fraction of the
Alex Hansen joins InterPore Honors and Awards Committee
Professor Alex Hansen Director for PoreLab joined the InterPore Honors and Awards Committee. The Honors and Awards Committee acts in the spirit of the InterPore mission to advance and disseminate knowledge for the understanding, description, and modelling of natural and industrial porous media. Linking academia and industry, it aims to identify and honor outstanding members
Defence of thesis: Sebastian Everard Nordby Price on November 25th, 2024
PHD TRIAL LECTURE AND PUBLIC DEFENCE SEBASTIAN EVERARD NORDBY PRICE – THE DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY Sebastian Everard Nordby Price has submitted the following academic thesis as part of the doctoral work at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU): Modelling the effect of acoustic streaming and ultrasound-enhanced diffusion on nanoparticle transport in a soft
PoreLab lecture with Paolo Botticini on Compressibility-induced destabilisation of falling liquid films: an integral approach
Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: PhD candidate Paolo Botticini from Università degli Studi di Brescia (Italy) When: Wednesday 13 November at 13:00 (Norway time). Where: The lecture will be streamed both in the Kelvin room (PoreLab Oslo) and in the common room (PoreLab Trondheim). From anywhere else, you will be able to join via the following Zoom
PoreLab lecture with Professor Pietro De Anna on flow, transport and mixing limited (bio-)processes in confined & heterogeneous media
Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Professor Pietro De Anna from the Institute of Earth Sciences (ISTE) of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland Professor Pietro De Anna is physicist. He got a Master from the University of Florence (Italy) in Statistical Mechanics and a PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of Rennes 1 (France), where he
PoreLab lecture with Reza Haghani on multiphase modeling using phase field method
Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Reza Haghani, PhD candidate at the Department of Geosciences / PoreLab at NTNU Reza’s research is about pore-scale modeling of multiphase fluid flow inside porous media using the lattice Boltzmann method. Various phenomena, including capillary entry pressures, layer flow, snap-off, cooperative pore-body filling, and trapping in multiphase flow, happen
PoreLab lecture with Dr. Johan Olav Helland from NORCE on October 23rd
Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Dr. Johan Olav Helland, a senior researcher in the Computational Geosciences and Modelling group at NORCE – Norwegian Research Centre, Norway Johan Olav Helland holds a PhD in petroleum technology from University of Stavanger (2005) and an MSc in applied mathematics from University of Bergen (2001). His research interests
PoreLab lecture with Professor Einat Aharonov on the importance of seepage forces in soil-liquefaction
Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Einat Aharonov, Professor at the Institute of Earth Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Professor Aharonov’s research group studies coupled physical and chemical processes that control deformation and evolution of rocks. Most of her research focuses on how relatively small-scale processes (on the pore, grain, or asperity scale) control