Category Archives: Conference/Symposium/Workshop

PoreLab lecture on “Modelling complex degradation processes in concrete structures across material scales”

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Title : Modelling complex degradation processes in concrete structures across material scales Speaker: Dr. Ravi A. Patel Affiliation: Institute of building materials and material testing laboratory (IMB/MPA), Karlsruhe Institute of technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany, formerly at Laboratory of waste management, Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Villgen Switzerland 5232 When: 28 October 2020 at 13:00, Oslo time

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Webinars organised by the Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics Group of the Royal Society of chemistry

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The Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics Group of the Royal Society of chemistry is organizing a series of webinars. The next webinar is from: Prof. Josep Bonet Avalos University of Tarragona, Rovira i Virgili, Spainhttps://www.urv.cat/en/research/support/programmes/marti-franques/cofund/phd-supervisors/bonet-josep/ When: Wed, Oct 21, 2020 4:00 PM – 5:15 PM BST Registration link:https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/5504544844148082190 Twitter: @rsc_smtg www:https://www.rsc.org/Membership/Networking/InterestGroups/StatisticalMechanics/ In a recent article we

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InterPore2021 – new information and call for proposals for minisymposia sub-sessions

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InterPore2021 is the 13th Annual InterPore Meeting and will offer physical as well as virtual lectures and attendees. The conference will be held at the Edinburgh International Conference Center (EICC) in the heart of Edinburgh, Scotland.  In order to accommodate those who, for various reasons, may be unable to join in the physical meeting, InterPore2021 will offer the

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PoreLab lecture on “Upscaling Multiphase Flow from Pore to Darcy Scale – From a geometric state function of capillarity to a generalized description of wetting”

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When: 21 October 2020 at 13:00 Where: onlin (see below) Title : Upscaling Multiphase Flow from Pore to Darcy Scale – From a geometric state function of capillarity to a generalized description of wetting Speaker: Dr. Steffen Berg Affiliation: Shell Global Solutions International B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands Abstract: At the Darcy scale many parameters describing

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PoreLab lecture on “Mixing control on fluid-fluid and fluid-solid chemical reactions in multiphase systems”

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When:14 October at 13:00 Where: online (see below) Title : Mixing control on fluid-fluid and fluid-solid chemical reactions in multiphase systems Speaker: Dr. Joaquin Jimenez-Martinez Affiliation: Department Water Resources and Drinking Water, Eawag, 8600 Dubendorf, Switzerland Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland     Abstract: Porous and fractured media

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InterPore’s 2021 Kimberly-Clark Lecture Series

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Prof. Muhammad Sahimi has been awarded the Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lectureship Award by InterPore Foundation for 2021. As such, he will share a topic relevant to the industrial porous media community through a series of lectures at various organizations. In addition to in-person lectures, Prof. Sahimi will also be offering the option of online and hybrid lectures. You

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PoreLab lecture on “Flow in porous materials: a tale of X-rays, minimal surfaces and wettability”

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Title : Flow in porous materials: a tale of X-rays, minimal surfaces and wettability Speaker: Professor Martin Blunt Affiliation: Department of Earth Science & Engineering at Imperial College London When: 7 October from 12 to 13 Where: online (see below) Abstract: I will provide an overview of the current revolution in our understanding of flow,

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PoreLab Lecture on “The LBPM software package for simulating multiphase flow on digital images of porous rocks”

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­­­Title : The LBPM software package for simulating multiphase flow on digital images of porous rocks Speaker: Dr. Thomas Ramstad Affiliation: Principal researcher at Equinor When: 30 September 2020 from 14 to 15:00 Where:  Join Zoom Meeting https://NTNU.zoom.us/j/96373107232?pwd=ekZFKzZ2am9UYmpxMEx6Y2JUWEZrdz09 Meeting ID: 963 7310 7232 Passcode: 549412 Join by SIP 96373107232@zoomcrc.com Join by H.323 162.255.37.11 (US West)

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Monday Sept 21st 1PM: A virtual gallery tour in the beautiful world of PoreLab’s research – science is art, art is science

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Welcome to the opening of our virtual gallery exhibition on Monday September 21st at 1PM!   Beauty can be found in the most ordinary of things. Some of the greatest scientists that ever lived endorse this viewpoint. Richard Feynman, in one of his many strokes of pure genius boldly spoke about the several layers of

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Porous Media Tea Time Talk #7

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We are happy to invite you to our next Porous Media Tea Time Talks (#PorousMediaTTT) session at 22.09.2020 at 15.00 pm CEST/local time on: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuK0ogQKdSxq6pW-vljLN1Q​.   This time we will be going from the modeling of filtration processes to the engineering challenges of a living porous medium! Remember that you can post questions anytime using

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PoreLab lecture on “Heterogeneous Combustion in Porous Media as Ultra-low Emission Combustion Concept”

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Title : Heterogeneous Combustion in Porous Media as Ultra-low Emission Combustion Concept Speaker: Prof. Matthias Ihme Affiliation: Center for Turbulence, Research Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University When: 23 September from 15 to 16, online Abstract: Current combustion technologies for aviation gas-turbines, stationary power generation, and internal combustion engines are relatively mature, and only incremental

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PoreLab lecture on “Parametric optimization and high-resolution fabrication of freeform Gas Diffusion Layers”

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Title : Parametric optimization and high-resolution fabrication of freeform Gas Diffusion Layers Speaker: : Jan Torgersen, Robert Bock Affiliation: Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, NTNU University When: 21 September from 13 to 14 Abstract: The gas diffusion layer (GDL) is a multifunctional part of a fuel cell governing reactant and product transport in opposing

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PoreLab Lecture Series 9 Sept.

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  Title : Multiscale modelling of transport in heterogeneous reactive media: conjugate transfer and surface reactions Speaker: Dr. Federico Municchi Affiliation: Research Fellow in Applied Mathematics, University of Nottingham   Abstract: Asymptotic homogenisation is a powerful and versatile tool for the upscaling of transport and reaction equations in porous and heterogeneous media. For example, Taylor

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Porous Media Tea Time Talk #6

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We are happy to invite you to our next Porous Media Tea Time Talks (#PorousMediaTTT) session on 8.09.2020 at 10.30 am CEST/local time on our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuK0ogQKdSxq6pW-vljLN1Q​.   Remember that you can use the comment field to send questions anytime (you don’t have to wait until the end of the presentation, give the moderators some

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