Category Archives: PoreLab Lecture Series

PoreLab lecture with Dr. Harold Auradou on Bacterial Suspension Flow in Porous Media

By PoreLab12 May, 2025PoreLab Lecture Series

Who: Dr. Harold Auradou, head of the FAST laboratory at Université Paris-Saclay and CNRS researcher When: Wednesday, 14 May between 13:00 and 14:00 CET (Norway time). Where: zoom here Https://uio.zoom.us/j/65837085049?pwd=WjZianUyN3FJa2liQkxBbzQrOCtGdz09 Title: Bacterial Suspension Flow in Porous Media Summary: Bacteria are equipped with flagella, which enable them to move within their fluid environment. Physicists view these biological entities as active particles. This

PoreLab lecture with Professor Panos Papanastasiou on the potential of repurposing depleting natural gas reservoirs for green hydrogen storage

By PoreLab22 April, 2025PoreLab Lecture Series

Who: Professor Panos Papanastasiou from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Cyprus When: Thrusday April 24 at 13:15 CET (Norway time). Where: Auditorium P1, PTS1, Trondheim, Norway Title: The potential of repurposing depleting natural gas reservoirs for green hydrogen storage Summary This research work explores the potential of repurposing depleting natural gas reservoirs for green hydrogen

PoreLab lecture with Nathan Abitbol on Flow of a yield-stress fluid in a percolation network

By PoreLab16 April, 2025PoreLab Lecture Series

Who: Nathan Abitbol, PhD candidate in FAST Laboratory (Fluides, Automatique et Systèmes Thermiques) at the Université Paris-Saclay, France When: Wednesday April 23 at 13:00 CET (Norway time). Where: The lecture will be in-person in the common room (PoreLab Trondheim) and will be streamed in the Kelvin room (PoreLab Oslo). From anywhere else, you will be able to join

Friday Colloquium with Mogens Høgh Jensen on Condensate Phase Transition and Oscillations in Cell Dynamics

By PoreLab10 February, 2025PoreLab Lecture Series

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

PoreLab lecture with Professor Lesley James on comparing supercritical CO2-brine to N2-brine steady-state relative permeability curves for a description of multiphase flow in subsurface reservoirs targeting carbon storage

By PoreLab5 February, 2025PoreLab Lecture Series

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

PoreLab lecture with Dr. Laurent Talon on the flow of yield stress fluid in porous media : statistical properties, universality class and boundary conditions

By PoreLab28 November, 2024PoreLab Lecture Series

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

PoreLab lecture with Associate Professor Davide Picchi on Motion of an elongated bubble through a shear-thinning fluid

By PoreLab20 November, 2024PoreLab Lecture Series

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

PoreLab lecture with Dr. Thomas Ramstad on Aspects of Relative Permeability: Theory, Applications and Limitations

By PoreLab15 November, 2024PoreLab Lecture Series

Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Dr. Thomas Ramstad, discipline leader reservoir technology in Area Subsurface Development North (ASDN) in Equinor When: Wednesday 20 November at 13:00 (Norway time). Where: The lecture will take place on Wednesday 20 November at 13:00 (Norway time). The lecture will be streamed in the common room (PoreLab Trondheim) and in the

PoreLab lecture with Paolo Botticini on Compressibility-induced destabilisation of falling liquid films: an integral approach

By PoreLab11 November, 2024PoreLab Lecture Series

Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: PhD candidate Paolo Botticini from Università degli Studi di Brescia (Italy) When: Wednesday 13 November at 13:00 (Norway time). Where: The lecture will be streamed both in the Kelvin room (PoreLab Oslo) and in the common room (PoreLab Trondheim). From anywhere else, you will be able to join via the following Zoom

PoreLab lecture with Professor Pietro De Anna on flow, transport and mixing limited (bio-)processes in confined & heterogeneous media

By PoreLab31 October, 2024PoreLab Lecture Series

Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Professor Pietro De Anna from the Institute of Earth Sciences (ISTE) of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland Professor Pietro De Anna is physicist. He got a Master from the University of Florence (Italy) in Statistical Mechanics and a PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of Rennes 1 (France), where he

PoreLab lecture with Reza Haghani on multiphase modeling using phase field method

By PoreLab28 October, 2024PoreLab Lecture Series

Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Reza Haghani, PhD candidate at the Department of Geosciences / PoreLab at NTNU Reza’s research is about pore-scale modeling of multiphase fluid flow inside porous media using the lattice Boltzmann method. Various phenomena, including capillary entry pressures, layer flow, snap-off, cooperative pore-body filling, and trapping in multiphase flow, happen

PoreLab lecture with Dr. Johan Olav Helland from NORCE on October 23rd

By PoreLab23 October, 2024PoreLab Lecture Series

Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Dr. Johan Olav Helland, a senior researcher in the Computational Geosciences and Modelling group at NORCE – Norwegian Research Centre, Norway Johan Olav Helland holds a PhD in petroleum technology from University of Stavanger (2005) and an MSc in applied mathematics from University of Bergen (2001). His research interests

PoreLab lecture with Professor Einat Aharonov on the importance of seepage forces in soil-liquefaction

By PoreLab11 October, 2024PoreLab Lecture Series

Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Einat Aharonov, Professor at the Institute of Earth Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Professor Aharonov’s research group studies coupled physical and chemical processes that control deformation and evolution of rocks. Most of her research focuses on how relatively small-scale processes (on the pore, grain, or asperity scale) control

PoreLab lecture with Prescelli Annan on October 2nd.

By PoreLab27 September, 2024PoreLab Lecture Series

Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Prescelli Annan, doctoral student at the Swiss Seismological Service (SED), ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Prescelli is using numerical modelling to cross-correlate datasets varying in scale from lab to field, in the context of CO2 sequestration. Her Ph.D. is part of the SMILE project (MultidiSciplinary and MultIscale approach for coupLed processes induced

PoreLab lecture with Dr. Steffen Berg from Shell Global Solutions on October 9th

By PoreLab26 September, 2024PoreLab Lecture Series

Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Dr. Steffen Berg, principal science expert at Shell Global Solutions International B.V. in the Netherlands When: Wednesday 09 October at 13:00 (Norway time) Where: The lecture will be streamed in the Kelvin room (PoreLab Oslo) and in the common room (PoreLab Trondheim). From anywhere else, you will be able to