Congratulations to Caroline Einen! She defended her thesis entitled “Ultrasound-mediated delivery and transport of nanomedicines through the tumor extracellular matrix – effects and possible mechanisms” with success on February 28th. The assessment committee for her thesis was as follow: The doctoral work has been carried out at the Department of Physics, where Professor Catharina Davies
The last publication from Alex Hansen and Santanu Sinha entitled “Thermodynamics-like formalism for immiscible and incompressible tow-phase flow in porous media” was selected as cover for the journal Entropy in February 2025 (Volume 27, issue 2). Congratulations! The picture on the cover shows a porous medium stylized as a network of pores. Two immiscible fluids
We are pleased to share with you our annual report for 2024, along with the catalogue for master’s students. The report gives a glimpse of what PoreLab is all about. We present in some detail both the organization of the center and some of our scientific results of 2024. Most importantly, we explain where we
Professor Alex Hansen, together with Professor Saman Aryana, will give a 12-hours Interpore course on “non-local statistical mechanics framework for immiscible flow in permeable media”. Alex Hansen is professor of theoretical physics at NTNU, Trondheim, Norway, and Center Director for PoreLab. Saman Aryana is Professor and Head of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at the University
Who: Prof. Mogens Høgh Jensen , Professor of Complex Systems and Biophysics, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen (Denmark). When: Friday 14 February 2025 at 14:15 CET (Norway time). Where: R10 (Realfagbygget, Gløshaugen, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway): Title: Condensate Phase Transition and Oscillations in Cell Dynamics Abstract: Oscillations appear in many physical system but are even more common in
I am truly honored and grateful to accept the InterPore PoreLab award for Young Researchers – Chiara Recalcati Congratulations to Chiara Recalcati on receiving the 2025 InterPore-PoreLab Award for Young Researchers! Chiara is a postdoctoral researcher at MIPORE group. She obtained a double PhD degree in Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering (Politecnico di Milano) and Earth
The book can now be ‘pre-ordered’ and will be available in stores starting in February 2025 Abstract Hydrogen, the first and most abundant element in our universe, is an essential zero-carbon fuel in humanity’s race against catastrophic climate change. However, very few have access to cryogenic systems for energy-dense hydrogen to gain the necessary experience
Who: Professor Lesley James, from Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada When: Thursday 6 February 2025 at 13:00 CET (Norway time). Where: The lecture will be in person in the common room (PoreLab Trondheim). From anywhere else, you will be able to join via the following Zoom link: https://uio.zoom.us/j/65837085049?pwd=WjZianUyN3FJa2liQkxBbzQrOCtGdz09 Title: Comparing supercritical CO2-brine to N2-brine steady-state relative permeability curves
Mohammad Hossein Golestan has submitted the following academic thesis as a part of the doctoral work at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Geosciences: «Pore-scale investigations of fluid flow and interfacial mass transfer» For electronic version of the thesis, please contact: anne.lise.brekken@ntnu.no The Faculty has appointed the following Assessment Committee to assess the
We are excited to announce that this year’s annual meeting of the Norwegian Chapter of InterPore will be held in Bergen on May 13-14, 2025. This two-day event, organized in collaboration with the VISTA-funded Center for Modeling of Coupled Subsurface Dynamics (UiB), will serve as both the center’s final conference and our chapter’s annual meeting.
Congratulations to Vegard G. Jervell and Øivind Wilhlemsen. Their publication on “Predicting viscosities and thermal conductivities from dilute gas to dense liquid: Deriving fundamental transfer lengths for momentum and energy exchange in revised Enskog theory” was considered as noteworthy by the editors, thereby selected as Featured and on the front page of the Journal of
Congratulations to Tage Maltby, Morten Hammer and Øivind Wilhlemsen. Their publication on “Equation of State for Solid Argon Valid for Temperatures up to 300 K and Pressures up to 16 GPa” was considered as noteworthy by the editors, and was chosen for the coverpage by the Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data in December 2024
Machine Learning in Physical Sciences: Theory and Applications May 26, 2025 – May 31, 2025 Registration deadline: April 26, 2025 Location: CECAM-FR-RA Hosting node: CECAM-FR-RA More information here: CECAM – Machine Learning in Physical Sciences: Theory and ApplicationsMachine Learning in Physical Sciences: Theory and Applications Organisers With this application, we propose a five-day school on
Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Laurent Talon is a researcher at the Laboratory FAST (Fluides, Automatique et Systèmes Thermiques) at the University of Paris-Saclay, France When: Wednesday 4 December at 13:00 CET (Norway time). Where: The lecture will be streamed both in the Kelvin room (PoreLab Oslo) and in the common room (PoreLab Trondheim). From anywhere
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 18 December at 13:00 CET (Norway time). Where: The lecture will be streamed both
