PoreLab is a Norwegian Center of Excellence created in 2017 and situated at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, and the University of Oslo (UiO). It focuses on the physics of porous media using experimental, theoretical and computational methods. It is led by seven principal scientists from physics, chemistry and reservoir engineering.

PoreLab Lecture Series

Do you wish to receive the invitations to the PoreLab lectures? Contact Marie-Laure Olivier here: Marie-Laure.Olivier@ntnu.no

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Porous Media Tea Time Talk (#PorousMediaTTT)

Welcome to the Webinar series

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PoreLab Journal Club

The idea is for the juniors to present a recent paper with a short preparation time, Papers are then peer-reviewed by the group.

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PoreLab lecture on ADMIRE: a multiscale framework for subsurface energy storage in (fractured) geological formations

Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! When: 11 November 2020 at 13:00 (Oslo time) Where: online (see below) Title : ADMIRE: a multiscale framework for subsurface energy storage in (fractured) geological formations Speaker: Dr. Hadi Hajibeygi Affiliation: Associate Professor at TU Delft Abstract: Abstract: Subsurface geological formations provide giant capacities for storing renewable energy, when

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Welcome to Tomislav!

Tomislav Vukovic started his PhD on August 3rd, 2020 at the department of Geoscience and Petroleum and PoreLab NTNU. Tomislav presents his PhD project as follow: “The topic of my PhD is optimization of screening criteria for green enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods.  A well-designed screening process is crucial for the success of the green

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Short courses series: Mathematics of Porous Media

Short Course Series: Mathematics of Porous Media During the winter 2020-21 the Porous Media Group at the University of Bergen will organize a series of short courses on topics related to the mathematics of porous media. The lecturers are world leading researchers within their fields. Each topic will be covered in three two-hour lectures. The lectures will be

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Porous Media Tea Time Talk # 10

The Porous Media Tea Time Talks (PMTTT) team is happy to invite you to our next Porous Media Tea Time Talks (#PorousMediaTTT) session at  03.11.2020 at 10.30 Oslo time/local time on: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuK0ogQKdSxq6pW-vljLN1Q​. The two presentations are: Are machines intelligent enough to infer REVs from raw microCT images? By: Ankita Singh, UNSW, Australia A novel texture-analysis

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Read more about contact angles in X-ray tomography images of two-phase flow in the last paper from Khanamiri, Slotte and Berg

Read the last paper from Hamid H. Khanamiri, Per-Arne Slotte and Carl fredrik Berg on “Contact angles in two-phase flow images“, published in open access on October 27th, 2020 under Transport in Porous Media here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11242-020-01485-y   Abstract In this work, we calculate contact angles in X-ray tomography images of two-phase flow in order to

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PoreLab goes pink

PoreLab participated to the virtual Pink Ribbon Run 2020 both in Trondheim and Oslo. The Pink Ribbon is an international symbol of breast cancer awareness About the run Trondheim and Oslo, like many towns around the world, organize a yearly race to support the action. Due to Corona, the Pink Ribbon Run was organized “virtually” during the fall 2020. What does

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Porous Media Tea Time Talk # 9

The Porous Media Tea Time Talks (PMTTT) team is happy to invite you to the next Porous Media Tea Time Talks (#PorousMediaTTT) session on 20.10.2020 at 15.00 pm CEST/ local time on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIAdCe91V_k. The two presentations are: Study of solute mixing during density-driven convection in multidimensional porous media By: Anna-Maria Eckel, Imperial College London, UK Convective mixing

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

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

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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Read how the catastrophic propagation of fractures can be explained by their extreme temperature. Or how to generate a small ‘sun’ with some adhesive tape.

“The fractoluminescence phenomenon, that is, the emission of visible light when a material breaks, is generally unknown from the general public. It is yet rather easy to observe it, as one may only need to quickly unroll some adhesive tape in the dark (as shown in the picture). This intriguing phenomenon can be explained by

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

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”

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”

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

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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