Author Archives: PoreLab

Open PhD position at the CNRS (Strasbourg, France) in collaboration with PoreLab at UiO in physical chemistry

Offer title Physical chemistry of friction and fracture: how heat impacts mechanical instabilities About the job There is an open PhD position at the University of Strasbourg, ITES Institut Terre et Environnement de Strasbourg, UMR7063 CNRS / University of Strasbourg / ENGEES. This thesis is fully funded by the ANR HotTips, a collaboration between the

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EarthFlows Meeting 2023

The EarthFlows Meeting is an annual event on its 9th edition, and part of a strategic research initiative for cross-disciplinary research at the University of Oslo, Norway. This year’s seminar will be held in Oslo between 14th and 15th of June 2023 Time and place: June 14, 2023–June 15, 2023, Oslo Science Park Here is the agenda The meeting is a closed event.

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PoreLab lecture with Dr. Bauyrzhan Primkulov from MIT on moving contact lines over imperfect surfaces: from stick-slip to steady-sliding

Welcome to the final lecture in the PoreLab Lecture Series for the semester! Who: Dr. Bauyrzhan Primkulov, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA When: Wednesday 7 June at 13:00 (Oslo time) Where: on zoom https://uio.zoom.us/j/65837085049?pwd=WjZianUyN3FJa2liQkxBbzQrOCtGdz09 Title: Moving contact lines over imperfect surfaces: from stick-slip to steady-sliding Abstract: The vast majority of solid surfaces exhibit physical and chemical defects. For instance, surface heterogeneity

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PoreLab lecture with Professor Majid Hassanizadeh on Two-phase flow in industrial porous media; Experiments, theory, and modelling

Welcome to the next lecture in the PoreLab Lecture Series for the semester. Who: Professor Majid Hassanizadeh, from the SimTech Center of Excellence at Stuttgart University, Germany and the Earth Sciences Department at Utrecht University, Netherlands When: Wednesday 31 May at 13:00 (Oslo time) Where: on zoom https://uio.zoom.us/j/65837085049?pwd=WjZianUyN3FJa2liQkxBbzQrOCtGdz09 Title: Two-phase flow in industrial porous media; Experiments, theory, and modelling Abstract: Various industrial

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PoreLab publication under Nature!

Congratulations to Eirik Flekkøy, Knut Jørgen Måløy, James Campbell, Jon Alm Eriksen and their collaborators from the Universities of Swansea and Oxford ! Their article entitled “Frictional fluid instabilities shaped by viscous forces” has been published under Nature Communication on May 26th, 2023. Congratulations! Authors: Dawang Zhang, James M. Campbell, Jon A. Eriksen, Eirik G. Flekkøy, Knut Jørgen Måløy, Christopher

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PoreLab lecture with Professor Rosangela Barros Zanoni Lopes Moreno on Petroleum at Unicamp, LABORE Research Group, and Opportunities for Collaboration

Welcome to the next lecture in the PoreLab Lecture Series for the semester. Who: Professor Rosangela Barros Zanoni Lopes Moreno from School of Mechanical Engineering at University of CAMPINAS, Unicamp, where she is coordinator of the Petroleum Sciences and Engineering Program and coordinator of LABORE Research Group When: Wednesday 10 May at 10:00 (Oslo time) Where: on zoom  https://uio.zoom.us/j/65837085049?pwd=WjZianUyN3FJa2liQkxBbzQrOCtGdz09 Title: Petroleum at Unicamp, LABORE Research

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PoreLab lecture with Professor Salvatore Torquato on Microstructure-Dependent Predictions of the Transport Properties of Porous Media

Welcome to the next lecture in the PoreLab Lecture Series for the semester. Who: Professor Salvatore Torquato, from Princeton University, USA When: Wednesday 10 May at 15:00 (Oslo time) Where: on zoom  https://uio.zoom.us/j/65837085049?pwd=WjZianUyN3FJa2liQkxBbzQrOCtGdz09 Title: Microstructure-Dependent Predictions of the Transport Properties of Porous Media Abstract: I describe theoretical estimates of the effective transport characteristics of fluid-saturated porous media that are based on rigorous

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PoreLab lecture series with Daniel Lester on Fluid Mixing in Porous Media Flows of Arbitrary Complexity

Welcome to the next lecture in the PoreLab Lecture Series for the semester. Who: Associate Professor Daniel Lester, from RMIT University, Australia When: Wednesday 3 May at 13:00 (Oslo time) Where: on zoom  https://uio.zoom.us/j/65837085049?pwd=WjZianUyN3FJa2liQkxBbzQrOCtGdz09 Title: Fluid Mixing in Porous Media Flows of Arbitrary Complexity Abstract: Mixing, dispersion and reaction of fluids and solutes in heterogeneous porous media is a fundamental

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Welcome to René!

René Tammen joined PoreLab on February 1st, 2023, as PhD candidate. His position is financed by the project “Sustainable Stable Ground” funded by the Research Council of Norway and his supervisor is Professor Erika Eiser, PI for the WP4 at PoreLab on “Nanoporous media and gels” . The project “Sustainable Stable Ground” is an interdisciplinary

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IMT 15 – 15th International Meeting on Thermodiffusion

The International Meeting on Thermodiffusion provides a unique opportunity for sharing ideas about theoretical, experimental and numerical results on diffusion- and thermodiffusion related research. The successful series of IMT meetings aims to provide a forum for discussion, face-to-face interaction between scientists and technologists, and a mechanism for developing new collaborations. The sessions will be held

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PoreLab publication selected as a 2022 Editors’ Choice article by the Journal of Chemical Physics

Congratulations to Jean-Marc Simon, Peter Krüger, Sondre Schnell, Thijs Vlugt, Signe Kjelstrup and Dick Bedeaux! Their article “Kirkwood-Buff Integrals: from fluctuations in finite volumes to the thermodynamic limit” published on October 2022 (Volume 157, Issue 13), has been selected as a 2022 Editors’ Choice article by the Journal of Chemical Physics. The 2022 JCP Editors’

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PoreLab lecture with Tom Bultreys on new developments in micro-CT-based imaging of flow in porous media: 3D X-ray micro-velocimetry and to pore-to-core imaging experiments

When: Wednesday 26 April at 13:00 (Oslo time) Where: https://uio.zoom.us/j/65837085049?pwd=WjZianUyN3FJa2liQkxBbzQrOCtGdz09 Who: Dr. Tom Bultreys, assistant professor at Ghent University and recipient for the Interpore-PoreLab award for young researchers 2019 Title: New developments in micro-CT-based imaging of flow in porous media: 3D X-ray micro-velocimetry and to pore-to-core imaging experiments Abstract: X-ray micro-CT is an important technique to the behavior of fluids in

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The 2023 Interpore-PoreLab award goes to Pranay Shrestha

The 2023 winner of the Interpore-PoreLab award for young researchers is Dr. Pranay Shrestha, researcher at the University of Toronto, Canada. Pranay is working to advance sustainable energy technologies like fuel cells and the porous materials within them. Congratulations! Pranay received hid PhD degree from the University of Toronto in February 2023, working on “Experimental

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