Author Archives: PoreLab

Ailo Aasen has been awarded the EFCE Thermodynamics and Transport Properties Prize for his PhD thesis

Congratulations to Ailo! Ailo Aasen’s PhD thesis has been awarded the Excellence Award in Thermodynamics and Transport Properties from the European Federation of Chemical Engineers (EFCE). His supervisors were Prof. Øivind Wilhelmsen (PoreLab) and Dr. Morten Hammer (SINTEF Energy Research). This prize is awarded to one PhD thesis every other year. The thesis is entitled

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Application of Nanoparticles for Oil Recovery

The Special Issue reprint book “Application of Nanoparticles for Oil Recovery” has been published online and is freely accessible on the MDPI Books platform (https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/3891). The reprint book will be listed in the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), Google Books and WorldCat and is available through several distribution platforms, e.g., Amazon. Furthermore, the book

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The PoreLab exhibition is exposed during 2 weeks in front of the city hall in Oslo, Norway

We are delighted to announce that the PoreLab Art Exhibition has finally gained the streets of Oslo!   In the past few months we have collected many of our most beautiful images from experiments and simulations to set up a virtual porous media art gallery (https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/en/exhibition/1051366/the-art-of-porous-media). Now, with the slow reopening of the society, we

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Defense of thesis June 4th: Eivind Bering

Defense of thesis June 4th: Eivind Bering – Faculty of Natural Sciences PHD TRIAL LECTURE AND PUBLIC DEFENCE  EIVIND BERING – THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS Eivind Bering has submitted the following academic thesis as part of the doctoral work at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU): “Stretching, breaking, and dissolution of polymeric nanofibres

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Porous Media Tea Time Talk

The Porous Media Tea Time Talk team is happy to invite you to the next Tea Time Talk on May 18th at 15:00 on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLNxQbBgh0M   The two presentations are:     Towards bottom-up design of porous electrode microstructures for redox flow batteries      By: Maxime van der Heijden, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands   Computational

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Read more about Review-Reversible Heat Effects in Cells Relevant for Lithium-Ion Batteries in the last publication from Gunnarshaug et al.

Title: Review—Reversible Heat Effects in Cells Relevant for Lithium-Ion Batteries Authors: Astrid F. Gunnarshaug, Preben J. S. Vie and Signe Kjelstrup Publication here: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1149/1945-7111/abfd73 Published : 13 May 2021 Journal: Journal of the The Electrochemical Society, Volume 168, Number 5 Abstract: We review measurements of reversible heat effects in lithium-ion batteries, i.e. entropy changes and Seebeck coefficients of

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GeoScience and GeoEnergy webinar series

A GeoScience and GeoEnergy webinar series is organized every Thursday at 16:00 (CET). The YouTube channel of this webinar series, which Hadi Hajibeygi (TU Delft) co-hosts with Sebastian Geiger of Heriot-Watt University is available here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoIW2njFBhPNDlNFdF8Z9uA Featured speakers have included Martin Blunt (Imperial College London), Steffen Berg (Shell) and Maja Rücker (TU Eindhoven, and winner

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PoreLab lecture on Characterization, Modeling and Upscaling of Large-Scale Porous Media and Fluid Flow Therein: Applications of Wavelet and Curvelet Transformations

When: Wednesday 12 May  at 16:00 (Central Europe) Where: on Zoom. To join, please follow the link below the abstract or add this event to your calendar by opening the attached calendar ics-file. Title: Characterization, Modeling and Upscaling of Large-Scale Porous Media and Fluid Flow Therein: Applications of Wavelet and Curvelet Transformations Speaker: Prof. Muhammad

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Porous Media Tea Time Talk

The Porous Media TTT Team is happy to invite you to the next Porous Media Tea Time Talks (#PorousMediaTTT) session on  04.05.2021 at 10.30 Oslo time (Your time) on: https://youtu.be/CYAzQA9ZaNg (set that reminder now!) The two presentations are: Solid-fluid interfacial area measurement for reservoir scale wettability quantification in porous media      By: Deepshikha Singh, Indian Institute of Technology

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Read the last publication from Louison Thorens et al. on Magnetic Janssen effect in Nature Communications

Congratulations to Louison Thorens, PhD candidate at PoreLab UiO, Norway, Knut Jørgen Måløy, Professor at UiO, Mickaël Bourgoin, Directeur de Recherche at CNRS, ENS Lyon and Stéphane Santucci, CNRS researcher at ENS Lyon, France, for their last publication under Nature Communications. This is a major accomplishement! Article here >> Title: Magnetic Janssen Effect Abstract: A

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PoreLab lecture on the inertial effects on the multi-scale stick-slip dynamics in adhesive tape peeling

PoreLab is pleased to announce the PoreLab Lecture this Wednesday at 13:00 (Central Europe) on Zoom. To join, please follow the link below the abstract or add this event to your calendar by opening the attached calendar ics-file.  When: Wednesday 5 May, at 13:00 (CET) Where: online Title: Inertial effects on the multi-scale stick-slip dynamics

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