The Entropy Production — as Cornerstone in Applied Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics — Dedicated to Professor Signe Kjelstrup on the Occasion of Her 75th Birthday The purpose of the Special Issue is to demonstrate the strength and importance of the theory of nonequilibrium thermodynamics, with its fundamental basis in entropy production, when used to improve the understanding
Congratulations to Federico Lanza, Santanu Sinha, Alex Hansen, Alberto Rosso and Laurent Talon. Their publication on “Transition from viscous fingers to foam during drainage in heterogeneous porous media” was considered as noteworthy by the editors, and was chosen to be promoted as an Editor’s Pick. Congratulations! Title: Transition from viscous fingers to foam during drainage
The article from Professor Renaud Toussaint and coworkers (Shahar Ben-Zeev, Liran Goren, Renaud Toussaint & Einat Aharonov) has been accepted in Nature Communications. Congratulations! Read the paper here: Drainage explains soil liquefaction beyond the earthquake near-field | Nature Communications A popular science article was published on this article in SCIENMAG here: New insights into soil liquefaction during earthquakes research
The paper from Kim R. Kristiansen, Øivind Wilhelmsen and Signe Kjelstrup was accepted and published under “Desalination” (Volume 567, 1 December 2023, 116927), Congratulations! Read the paper from Kim here: A systematic non-equilibrium thermodynamics approach for assessing transport mechanisms in membrane distillation – ScienceDirect Tittle: A systematic non-equilibrium thermodynamics approach for assessing transport mechanisms in
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
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
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
Congratulations to Jean-Marc Simon, Peter Krüger, Sondre Schnell, Thijs Vlugt, Signe Kjelstrup and Dick Bedeaux! Their article “Kirkwood-Buff Integrals: from fluctuations in finite volumes to the thermodynamic limit” published on October 2022 (Volume 157, Issue 13), has been selected as a 2022 Editors’ Choice article by the Journal of Chemical Physics. The 2022 JCP Editors’
Congratulations to Jean-Marc Simon, Peter Krüger, Sondre Schnell, Thijs Vlugt, Signe Kjelstrup and Dick Bedeaux! Their publication on “Kirkwood–Buff integrals: From fluctuations in finite volumes to the thermodynamic limit” has been selected as a 2022 Editors’ Choice article by The Journal of Chemical Physics. The 2022 JCP Editors’ Choice collection contains 80 articles selected by
Congratulations to Morten Hammer, Øivind Wilhelmsen, and their partners from the University of Stuttgart, Gernot Bauer, Rolf Stierle and Joachim Gross! Their recent paper, entitled “Classical density functional theory for interfacial properties of hydrogen, helium, deuterium, neon, and their mixtures” was selected as cover for the Journal of Chemical Physics, Volume 158. The article is also
Congratulations to Signe, Kim, Astrid and Dick! Their article “Seebeck, Peltier, and Soret effects: On different formalisms for transport equations in thermogalvanic cells” (J. Chem. Phys. 158, 020901 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0131731) has been featured on the cover of The Journal of Chemical Physics in January 2023
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
The important paper from Subhadeep Roy, Håkon Pedersen, Santanu Sinha & Alex Hansen was published in Transport in Porous Media in May 2022. Click on the following link to read it: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11242-022-01783-7#article-info Abstract: We present a continuum (i.e., an effective) description of immiscible two-phase flow in porous media characterized by two fields, the pressure and the saturation. Gradients in
The paper from Federico Lanza, Alberto Rosso, Laurent Talon & Alex Hansen was accepted and published on August 27th, 2022, under Transport in Porous Media. Congratulations! Abstract: Fluid blobs in an immiscible Newtonian fluid flowing in a capillary tube with varying radius show highly nonlinear behavior. We consider here a generalization of previously obtained results to blobs of non-Newtonian
The last article from Vilde Bråten, Daniel Tianhou Zhang, Morten Hammer, Ailo Aasen, Sondre Schnell and Øivind Wilhelmsen, all members at PoreLab, on “Equation of state for confined fluids” has been chosen as Featured Article by the Journal of Chemical Physics. The journal wrote the following: “Editors felt that your article was one of the
