Mohammad Hassan Taleghani joined PoreLab on August 4th, 2025, as a PhD candidate. He completed his M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering, and he is interested in a wide range of topics within fluid mechanics, multi-phase flow, heat transfer, and thermodynamics. He likes to combine numerical, experimental, and analytical methods to address fundamental questions in fluid mechanics, which are crucial for understanding natural phenomena and engineering applications. His main supervisor is Associate Professor Antje van der Net, and his co-supervisors are Professor Carl Fredrik Berg and Professor Alex Hansen.
Mohammad Hassan presents his PhD topic as follows:
The simultaneous flow of two immiscible fluids in porous media, also known as two-phase flow is receiving increasing attention from both the scientific and industrial communities. These flows are encountered in many industrial, biomedical, and geophysical applications, and extensive study of hydrodynamics in porous media is crucial for the development of these applied processes. My PhD project is aimed at deepening our understanding on multi-phase fluid flow description at pore level using pore scale imaging with a microCT scan. The objective of the PhD work is to describe multiphase fluid flow and preferential flow path in granular media using entropy as flow description for the purpose of prediction and quantification of spatial fluid distribution during different flow conditions and porous media characteristics.