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The Department of Physics at NTNU has a vacancy for a tenure-track position in Computational Porous Media Physics within the Onsager Fellowship Programme

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Associate Professor in Computational Porous Media Physics The Department of Physics has a vacancy for a tenure-track position within the Onsager Fellowship Programme Read the announcement and apply here The Onsager fellowship programme The Onsager Fellowship programme at NTNU is designed to attract talented early-career scholars with documented excellent supervised work, ready to work independently

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Welcome to Elizaveta!

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Elizaveta Sidler joined PoreLab and the department of Physics at NTNU as PhD candidate on September 1st, 2022. She has a four-year contract. Her supervisor is Associate Professor Raffaela Cabriolu et her co-supervisor is Professor Erika Eiser Elizaveta introduces her PhD project as follow: “My PhD project is dedicated to the study of the process

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Welcome to Ilaria!

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Ilaria Beechey-Newman joined PoreLab and the department of Physics at NTNU as PhD candidate on September 19th, 2022. Ilaria holds a Master of Chemistry from Oxford University, UK. Her master project focused on the structure and behaviour of highly concentrated aqueous electrolytes upon doping with ionic liquid, that she performed at the Physical and Theoretical

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Welcome to Kevin!

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Welcome to Kevin Pierce! Kevin joined recently PoreLab and the Njord Center as a postdoctoral researcher. His position is financed by the new project “M4 – Mixing in Multiphase flows through Microporous Media” developed by Gaute Linga and financed by the Research Council of Norway. Kevin presents his project as follow: “I am a new

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New project on Sustainable Stable Ground

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Sustainability: NTNU and NGI are seeking for sustainable alternatives to replace cement in quick-clay stabilization projects NTNU and NGI has recently started the project “Bærekraftig Grunn: Sustainable Stable Ground”, a large-scale interdisciplinary research project funded by RCN and will run from 2022 till 2026. The project is coordinated by Dr. Ali Amiri at the Department

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Defense of thesis: Davood Dadrasajirlou

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Davood Dadrasajirlou has submitted the following academic thesis as a part of the doctoral work at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering: Hyper-viscoplastic modelling of clay behaviour For electronic version of the thesis, please contact: phd@ibm.ntnu.no The Faculty has appointed the following Assessment Committee to assess the

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PoreLab lecture with Dr. Dr. Senyou An on multi-scale flow and transport dynamics in porous media

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Dr. Senyou An, winner of the InterPore-PoreLab award for young researchers 2022, is visiting PoreLab in Trondheim now. Senyou is now a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Earth Science and Engineering, at Imperial College, London, UK. He will give a talk on: Title: Multi-scale flow and transport dynamics in porous media When: Monday 10

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Welcome to Vegard!

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Vegard Gjeldvik Jervell joined PoreLab and the department of Chemistry at NTNU as PhD candidate on August 29th, 2022 Vegard holds a Master degree in Industrial Chemistry and Biotechnology from NTNU with a specialization in Material technology from 2022. The title of his master project was: “Thermodynamic and kinetic modelling of thermal diffusion in Mie-fluids“.

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PoreLab lecture with Professor Douglas Durian on “Statistical Mechanics of Granular Clogging”

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Douglas Durian, Mary Amanda Wood Professor of Physics and Astronomy, from the University of Pennsylvania will give a lecture on “Statistical Mechanics of Granular Clogging” during our next PoreLab lecture series. When: Wednesday 5 October 2022 at 13:00 (Trondheim time) Where: on zoom: https://uio.zoom.us/j/65837085049?pwd=WjZianUyN3FJa2liQkxBbzQrOCtGdz09 Abstract: The gravity-driven flow of grains from a hole in a

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PoreLab lecture with Professor Rainer Helmig on Porous media free-flow coupling model concepts – from pore to Darcy scale –

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Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! We will welcome Professor Rainer Helmig from the University of Stuttgard. Professor Helmig will present his research activities on: Porous media free-flow coupling model concepts -from pore to Darcy-scale – When: Thursday 6 October at 10 AM (Trondheim time) Where: PoreLab premises, NTNU you can also follow join with

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Defense of thesis: Vilde Bråten

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VILDE BRÅTEN – DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Vilde Bråten has submitted the following academic thesis as part of the doctoral work at the Norwegian University of Science (NTNU): “Fundamental Aspects of Thermodynamics of Small Systems Investigated Through Molecular Simulations and Theoretical Descriptions” Assessment Committee The Faculty of Natural Science has appointed the following

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Newest book release: “Physics of Flow in Porous Media” by Feder, Flekkøy and Hansen

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Book description An invaluable reference for graduate students and academic researchers, this book introduces the basic terminology, methods and theory of the physics of flow in porous media. Geometric concepts, such as percolation and fractals, are explained and simple simulations are created, providing readers with both the knowledge and the analytical tools to deal with

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