Author Archives: PoreLab

Read more about the connection between three different theories proposed for the thermodynamic treatment of systems not obeying the additivity ansatz of classical thermodynamics in the last publication from Miguel Rubi and Rodrigo de Miguel.

Title: Statistical Mechanics at Strong Coupling: A Bridge between Landsberg’s Energy Levels and Hill’s Nanothermodynamics Authors: Rodrigo de Miguel 1,* and J. Miguel Rubí2 1 Department of Teacher Education, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway 2 Department of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Barcelona, 08007 Barcelona, Spain *Author to whom correspondence should

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PoreLab lecture on process coupling and upscaling of effective transport parameters in porous media: Towards Digital Twins

  When: Wednesday 9 December 2020 from 13.00 (Oslo time) Where: online (see below) Title : Process coupling and upscaling of effective transport parameters in porous media: Towards Digital Twins Speaker: Dr. Nikolaos Prasianakis Affiliation: Group Leader at Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland Abstract: I will discuss about research relevant to geochemical multiscale – multiphysics simulations,

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PoreLab lecture on a (real) multi-scale solver for two-phase flow: a micro-continuum approach

When: Wednesday 2 December from 13:00 (Oslo time) Title : A (real) multi-scale solver for two-phase flow: a micro-continuum approach Speaker: Dr. Cyprien Soulaine Affiliation: Associate Scientist at CNRS Abstract: Micro-continuum approaches are intermediate between a pure Navier-Stokes description of flow and transport and a continuum-scale model using Darcy’s law [1]. They use an unique

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The X-ray group now part of H2020 EXCITE

The X-ray group at the department of Physics, NTNU, joined the consortium established by 15 European Universities and research centers, entitled EXCITE (Electron and X-ray microscopy Community for structural and chemical Imaging Techniques for Earth materials). The project EXCITE is organised under the European program  H2020-INFRAIA-2020. It is coordinated by the University of Utrecht, The

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Read more about the Entropy Production beyond the Thermodynamic Limit from Single-Molecule Stretching Simulations

Read the last paper from Eivind Bering, Signe Kjelstrup, Dick Bedeaux, J. Miguel Rubi and Astrid S. de Wijn on “Entropy Production beyond the Thermodynamic Limit from Single-Molecule Stretching Simulations“, published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry on September 16th here: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c05963   Abstract: Single-molecular systems are a test bed to analyze to what extent

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PoreLab lecture on single- and two-phase rock typing

When: Wednesday 25 November at 15:00 (Oslo time) Where: online (see below) Title : Single- and two-phase rock typing Speaker: Dr. Behzad Ghanbarian Affiliation: Assistant Professor of Engineering Geology – Kansas State University   Abstract: In the literature, numerous methods linking a characteristic pore length scale (lc) to permeability (k) and porosity () have been used

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Porous Media Tea Time Talk #11

  The PorousMediaTTT team is happy to invite you to the last Porous Media Tea Time Talks (#PorousMediaTTT) session for this year on  17.11.2020 at 15.00 Oslo / local time on: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuK0ogQKdSxq6pW-vljLN1Q. The two presentations are: Experimental study of fluid flow and solute transport in fractured porous media By: Mehrdad Ahkami, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Application of

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PoreLab lecture on Multiphase Flow and Reactive Transport in Porous Media: an Experimental Microfluidic Approach

When: 18 November  at 1PM (Oslo time) Where: online Title : Multiphase Flow and Reactive Transport in Porous Media: an Experimental Microfluidic Approach Speaker: Dr. Sophie Roman Affiliation: Associate Professor – University of Orléans (France) Abstract: There is a strong interest in imaging and numerical modeling of multiphase and reactive flow at the pore scale

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PoreLab lecture on ADMIRE: a multiscale framework for subsurface energy storage in (fractured) geological formations

Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! When: 11 November 2020 at 13:00 (Oslo time) Where: online (see below) Title : ADMIRE: a multiscale framework for subsurface energy storage in (fractured) geological formations Speaker: Dr. Hadi Hajibeygi Affiliation: Associate Professor at TU Delft Abstract: Abstract: Subsurface geological formations provide giant capacities for storing renewable energy, when

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Welcome to Tomislav!

Tomislav Vukovic started his PhD on August 3rd, 2020 at the department of Geoscience and Petroleum and PoreLab NTNU. Tomislav presents his PhD project as follow: “The topic of my PhD is optimization of screening criteria for green enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods.  A well-designed screening process is crucial for the success of the green

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Short courses series: Mathematics of Porous Media

Short Course Series: Mathematics of Porous Media During the winter 2020-21 the Porous Media Group at the University of Bergen will organize a series of short courses on topics related to the mathematics of porous media. The lecturers are world leading researchers within their fields. Each topic will be covered in three two-hour lectures. The lectures will be

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Porous Media Tea Time Talk # 10

The Porous Media Tea Time Talks (PMTTT) team is happy to invite you to our next Porous Media Tea Time Talks (#PorousMediaTTT) session at  03.11.2020 at 10.30 Oslo time/local time on: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuK0ogQKdSxq6pW-vljLN1Q​. The two presentations are: Are machines intelligent enough to infer REVs from raw microCT images? By: Ankita Singh, UNSW, Australia A novel texture-analysis

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Read more about contact angles in X-ray tomography images of two-phase flow in the last paper from Khanamiri, Slotte and Berg

Read the last paper from Hamid H. Khanamiri, Per-Arne Slotte and Carl fredrik Berg on “Contact angles in two-phase flow images“, published in open access on October 27th, 2020 under Transport in Porous Media here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11242-020-01485-y   Abstract In this work, we calculate contact angles in X-ray tomography images of two-phase flow in order to

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PoreLab goes pink

PoreLab participated to the virtual Pink Ribbon Run 2020 both in Trondheim and Oslo. The Pink Ribbon is an international symbol of breast cancer awareness About the run Trondheim and Oslo, like many towns around the world, organize a yearly race to support the action. Due to Corona, the Pink Ribbon Run was organized “virtually” during the fall 2020. What does

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