Author Archives: PoreLab

PoreLab lecture with Associate Professor Davide Picchi on Motion of an elongated bubble through a shear-thinning fluid

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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 27 November at 13:00 CET (Norway time). Where: The lecture will be streamed both

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EXCITE2 Second Call Open

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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

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PoreLab lecture with Dr. Thomas Ramstad on Aspects of Relative Permeability: Theory, Applications and Limitations

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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

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Read more about the relation between critical exponent of the conductivity and the morphological exponents of percolation theory

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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

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Alex Hansen joins InterPore Honors and Awards Committee

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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

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Defence of thesis: Sebastian Everard Nordby Price on November 25th, 2024

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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

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PoreLab lecture with Paolo Botticini on Compressibility-induced destabilisation of falling liquid films: an integral approach

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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

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PoreLab lecture with Professor Pietro De Anna on flow, transport and mixing limited (bio-)processes in confined & heterogeneous media

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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

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PoreLab lecture with Reza Haghani on multiphase modeling using phase field method

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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

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PoreLab lecture with Professor Einat Aharonov on the importance of seepage forces in soil-liquefaction

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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

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Congratulations to Reza Haghani for his bronze medal in the 4th international invention and innovation competition of the International Federation of Inventors (IFIA)!

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Reza Haghani won third place (Bronze medal) in the fourth international invention and innovation competition of the International Federation of Inventors (IFIA) in 2024 with the invention of a device to examine the alignment of the axes. This year’s fourth International Invention Competition saw impressive participation, with over 600 innovative inventions submitted by inventors from

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Welcome to Farid!

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Farid Aligolzadeh joined PoreLab on September 16th, 2024 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. His position is financed by the InterLab project which is an ERC starting grant for Professor Øivind Wilhelmsen Farid is interested in a wide range of topics within thermo-fluids science, i.e. fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and thermodynamics. He likes to combine numerical,

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Open PhD position at PoreLab NTNU in theory of multiphase flow in porous media

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Read the advertisement and apply here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/268836/phd-position-in-theory-of-multiphase-flow-in-porous-media Deadline: 31 October 2024 About the job For a position as a PhD Candidate, the goal is a completed doctoral education up to an obtained doctoral degree. We have a vacancy for a PhD position in theory of multiphase flow in porous media at PoreLab, Department of Physics, NTNU. This

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