Category Archives: PoreLab Lecture Series

PoreLab lecture with Associate Professor Cecilia Leal on structural complexity of lipid nanoparticles: implications for efficient gene delivery

By PoreLab17 November, 2023PoreLab Lecture Series

Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Associate Professor Cecilia Leal from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA When: Wednesday November 22 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 join via the following

PoreLab lecture with Professor Ian Frigaard from the University of British Columbia on Handling Uncertainty in the Squeeze Cementing Process

By PoreLab10 November, 2023PoreLab Lecture Series

Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Professor Ian Frigaard from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada When: Wednesday November 15 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 join via the following Zoom link:https://uio.zoom.us/j/65837085049?pwd=WjZianUyN3FJa2liQkxBbzQrOCtGdz09 Title: Handling Uncertainty in the Squeeze Cementing Process

PoreLab lecture with Dr. Marco De Paoli on multiscale modelling of convective mixing in confined porous media

By PoreLab6 November, 2023PoreLab Lecture Series

Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Dr. Marco De Paoli from the University of Twente, The Netherlands, and TU Wien, Austria When: Tuesday November 14 at 13:00 (Norway time). Where: The lecture will be streamed live in Kelvin (Oslo) and the common room (Trondheim). From anywhere else, you will be able to join with the following Zoom

PoreLab lecture with Professor Eirik G. Flekkøy from PoreLab UiO on cavitation dynamics in creeping flow

By PoreLab20 October, 2023PoreLab Lecture Series

Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Professor Eirik G. Flekkøy, PoreLab UiO, Njord center, Department of Physics, University of Oslo When: Wednesday 25 October at 13:00 (Oslo time) Where: Kelvin room (PoreLab Oslo), the lecture will be streamed live to the common room (PoreLab Trondheim). From anywhere else, you will be able to participate via the following Zoom

PoreLab lecture with Prof. Miguel Rubi from the University of Barcelona on Non-equilibrium thermodynamics of active particles self-assembly

By PoreLab5 October, 2023PoreLab Lecture Series

Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Prof. Miguel Rubi from the Department of Fundamental Physics at the University of Barcelona, Spain When: Friday 13 October at 13:00 (Oslo time) Where: on zoom https://uio.zoom.us/j/65837085049?pwd=WjZianUyN3FJa2liQkxBbzQrOCtGdz09 Title: Non-equilibrium thermodynamics of active particles self-assembly Abstract: We calculate the energetic cost of the formation of active particle structures. Using an approach that couples the particle dynamics

PoreLab lecture with Dr. Olivier Vincent, from the Institut Lumière Matière, France, on water and solutions in nanoporous media: capillarity, osmosis and phase change

By PoreLab5 October, 2023PoreLab Lecture Series

Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Dr. Olivier Vincent, Permanent Research Scientist at CNRS, Institut Lumière Matière, Lyon, France When: Wednesday 11 October at 13:00 (Oslo time) Where: on zoom https://uio.zoom.us/j/65837085049?pwd=WjZianUyN3FJa2liQkxBbzQrOCtGdz09 Title: Water and solutions in nanoporous media: capillarity, osmosis and phase change Abstract: I will discuss a series of experiments that illustrate the rich physics of phase transitions and

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

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 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

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

By PoreLab21 April, 2023PoreLab Lecture Series

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

PoreLab lecture with Dr. Mathieu Souzy, Research Associate at INRAE on the dispersion and stretching in 3D porous media

By PoreLab14 April, 2023PoreLab Lecture Series

When: Wednesday 19 April at 13:00 (Oslo time) Where: https://uio.zoom.us/j/65837085049?pwd=WjZianUyN3FJa2liQkxBbzQrOCtGdz09 Who: Dr. Mathieu Souzy, Research Associate at INRAE (French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment). Title: Dispersion and stretching in 3D porous media Abstract: Geomaterials are complex porous materials presenting a wide diversity of structures, which set how a fluid will flow through it. Theunderstanding of the mechanisms controlling the flow kinematics

PoreLab lecture with Professor Shervin Bagheri from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, on Liquid-infused materials and surfaces

By PoreLab11 April, 2023PoreLab Lecture Series

Welcome to the PoreLab lecture with Professor Shervin Bagheri from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. When: Wednesday 12 April at 13:00 (Oslo time) Where: https://uio.zoom.us/j/65837085049?pwd=WjZianUyN3FJa2liQkxBbzQrOCtGdz09 Who: Professor Shervin Bagheri from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Title: Liquid-infused materials and surfaces Abstract: In this talk, I will present the design of multiphase porous materials — which