Author Archives: PoreLab

PoreLab lecture with Professor Bjørnar Sandnes from Swansea University on Viscously stable frictional fingers

By PoreLab24 September, 2023PoreLab Lecture Series

Welcome to the next lecture in the PoreLab Lecture Series for the semester! Who: Prof. Bjørnar Sandnes from Swansea University, UK When: Wednesday 27 September at 13:00 (Oslo time) Where: on zoom https://uio.zoom.us/j/65837085049?pwd=WjZianUyN3FJa2liQkxBbzQrOCtGdz09 Title: Viscously stable frictional fingers Abstract: An invading meniscus between two fluids in a Hele-Shaw cell may bulldoze loose granular material into local compaction fronts. The flow becomes

Featured article under Physics of Fluids!

By PoreLab22 September, 2023Publications

Congratulations to Reza Haghani, Hamidreza Erfani, James E. McClure and Carl Fredrik Berg! Their article on “A note on the summation relation in phase-field equations” has been selected as featured article in Physics of Fluids, Volume 35, Issue 9 Congratulations! DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0164445 Abstract: In this paper, we investigate phase-field interface capturing equations for two-fluid systems

Young CAS Projects of January 2024 – December 2025: Pushing Frontiers in Political Science and Environmental Research

By PoreLab19 September, 2023New research project

It is with great enthusiasm that the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) unveils the two chosen Young CAS Principal Investigators (PIs) for the upcoming two-year term: Professor Francesca Refsum Jensenius from the University of Oslo, who offers a penetrating analysis of the democratic processes in India, and Researcher Gaute Linga from The Njord Centre, University

Save the date for Interpore 2024!

By PoreLab16 August, 2023InterPore

The International Society for Porous Media (InterPore) has recently wrapped up the 15th Annual Meeting, in Edinburgh, Scotland, with great success! The 16th Annual InterPore Meeting, InterPore2024, will be held in Qingdao, China, on May 13-16, 2024. Link of the conference website: www.interpore.org/2024 Satellite Short Course Proposal Form: https://forms.gle/vrLNZEU279VU2JKb9 InterPore has launched its own journal –

“Nanothermodynamics: Theory and Applications” is on Amazon!

By PoreLab14 August, 2023Publications

The book “Nanothermodynamics: Theory and Applications” from Dick Bedeaux, Signe Kjelstrup and Sondre Schnell, is available on Amazon. Congratulations to the authors! Click here: This book grew out of an idea to study properties of small subsystems of a large reservoir. Observations were at the time not explainable with standard thermodynamics. But the theory of

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

By PoreLab10 August, 2023Vacant Positions

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

Open PhD position in Statistical Physics of Dispersions in Porous Media

By PoreLab15 June, 2023Vacant Positions

About the job We have a vacancy for a PhD position in Soft Matter Physics at PoreLab, Department of Physics, NTNU. The appointments has a duration of 3 years. The PhD student should start no later than October 2023. The position is organized at the Department of Physics in close collaboration with the Center of Excellence PoreLab. Duties

Open PhD position at NTNU in Sustainable Soil Stabilisation

By PoreLab12 June, 2023Vacant Positions

About the job The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at NTNU has an open position for a PhD candidate in sustainable soil stabilisation. It focuses on evaluating climate friendly techniques for soil stabilisation using laboratory and field experiments. The PhD position will be affiliated to the Geotechnical Engineering group which focuses on computational geotechnics

EarthFlows Meeting 2023

By PoreLab8 June, 2023Conference/Symposium/Workshop

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.

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

By PoreLab5 June, 2023PoreLab Lecture Series

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

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

By PoreLab30 May, 2023PoreLab Lecture Series

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

PoreLab publication under Nature!

By PoreLab30 May, 2023Publications

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

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

By PoreLab10 May, 2023PoreLab Lecture Series

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

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

By PoreLab4 May, 2023PoreLab Lecture Series

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

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

By PoreLab1 May, 2023PoreLab Lecture Series

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