Author Archives: PoreLab

Porous Media Tea Time Talk

The PorousMedia TTT Team is happy to invite you to the 16th session of the Porous Media Tea Time Talks (#PorousMediaTTT) on 23 March 2021 at 15:00 CET via live stream on our YouTube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePzpUjlH5p8    The two presentations are:   Gas-liquid phase separation in a soft porous medium By: Oliver Paulin, University of Oxford,

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An article that celebrates women scientists in physical chemistry and chemical physics …

The article, “Peltier effects in lithium-ion battery modelling,” was published online on 15 March 2021, in Journal of Chemical Physics (Vol.154, Issue 11). It may be accessed via the link below: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0038168DOI: 10.1063/5.0038168 Authors:  Lena Spitthoff (1), Astrid Fagertun Gunnarshaug (2), Dick Bedeaux (2) Odne Burheim (1) and Signe Kjelstrup (2)1)  Department of Energy and

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Read about Fluid Meniscus Algorithms for Dynamic Pore-Network Modeling of Immiscible Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media in the last publication from Sinha et al.

Authors: Santanu Sinha1,2*, Magnus Aa. Gjennestad2, Morten Vassvik2 and Alex Hansen2,1 1Beijing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing, China 2PoreLab, Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway Published: Front. Phys., 11 March 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2020.548497 Abstract: We present in detail a set of algorithms for a dynamic pore-network model of immiscible two-phase flow in porous media

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The last publication from Gjengedal et al. is the second most viewed article in 2020

The publication from Gjengedal et al., published in Transport of Porous Media, volume 134, is the second most viewed article in 2020. Congratulations! Title:  Fluid flow through 3D-printed particle beds: a new technique for understanding, validating, and improving predictability of permeability from empirical equations Authors: Sondre Gjengedal, Vegard Brøtan, Ole T. Buset, Erik Larsen, Olav Å. Berg, Ole Torsæter, Randi K. Ramstad, Bernt

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Alex Hansen’s lecture about “Localization and lifetime distribution of stretched polymers” at FRACMEET 2021

Professor Alex Hansen was invited speaker and gave today, March 9th, an online lecture about “Localization and lifetime distribution of stretched polymers” at FRACMEET 2021 (Understanding Material Failure: One hundred years of Griffith’s theory). Watch his lecture here on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-q_lcNOGQY by scrolling until 42:30 (lecture stops at 1:42:00) About FRACMEET 2021: Understanding material failure,

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PoreLab lecture on the Use of Nanoparticles (non-reactive or reactive) to Impact Flow and Entrapment of Fluids in Porous Media – A Pore-scale Discussion

Welcome to the PoreLab Lecture this Wednesday (March 10th) at 17:00 (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 10 March at 17:00 (Oslo time) Where: online (see below) Title: Use of Nanoparticles (non-reactive or

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Welcome to Hamidreza!

Dr. Hamidreza Erfani joined PoreLab in January 2021 as postdoctoral fellow. His position is financed through the newly established Researcher project “Pore Scale Simulations for Wettability Description“, a Petromaks project supported by the Research Council of Norway, and in close collaboration with the Queen Mary University of London (UK), the University of Oslo (Norway) and

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The winner of the InterPore – PoreLab Award for young researchers in 2021 is Maja Rücker

This year InterPore reported having a large number of high-quality nominees leading to a strong competition, but the members of the Honors and Awards Committee have made their choice. The InterPore-PoreLab award for young researchers goes to Dr. Maja Rücker from the department of Mechanical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.   Congratulations!   Maja

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Porous Media Tea Talk

The PorousMediaTTT team is  happy to invite you to the next Porous Media Tea Time Talks (#PorousMediaTTT) session on 23/02/2021 at 15.00 Oslo time / local time on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_LGREvJM1Q.   The two presentations are (banner attached):   Multiscale dynamics of colloidal particle deposition and erosion in porous media By: Navid Bizmark, Princeton University, USA Typical porous

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PoreLab lecture on healing of crystal-rich granular materials in volcanic environments by solid-state sintering: implications for fluid flow, deformation and explosivity

PoreLab Lecture this Wednesday at 15:00 (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 24 February at 15:00 (Oslo time) Where: online (see below) Title: Healing of crystal-rich granular materials in volcanic environments by solid-state

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PoreLab lecture on Robust Topological Characterization of Fluid Microstructure via Persistent Homology

PoreLab Lecture When: Wednesday, February 17th, 2021, at 10:00 (Central Europe) Where: 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: Robust Topological Characterization of Fluid Microstructure via Persistent Homology Speaker: Dr. Anna Herring Affiliation: Researcher / Postdoctoral fellow, Research

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Defense of thesis for Marco Sauermoser on February 19th: reserve the day!

Defense of thesis 19 February: Marco Sauermoser – Faculty of Natural Sciences MARCO SAUERMOSER – THE DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY Marco Sauermoser has submitted the following academic thesis as part of the doctoral work at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU): “Non-equilibrium thermodynamics and nature-inspired chemical engineering applied to PEM fuel cells” Assessment Committee

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Porous Media Tea Time Talk

The PorousMediaTTT Team is happy to invite you to the first Porous Media Tea Time Talks of 2021 (#PorousMediaTTT). The session will be on 9th February 2021 at 10:30 Oslo time localtime on: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuK0ogQKdSxq6pW-vljLN1Q .   The two presentations are: Effects of pore-size correlation length on two-phase flow and transport properties By: Senyou An, University

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