PoreLab Lecture Series
Do you wish to receive the invitations to the PoreLab lectures? Contact Marie-Laure Olivier here: Marie-Laure.Olivier@ntnu.no
Workshop planned during week 43 with James McClure from Virginia Tech
James McClure, computational scientist from Virginia Tech, USA, is visiting EQUINOR and IGP during the week 43. A workshop will be organised at IGP during his presence. Short bio: My research work is focused on the development of theoretical and numerical methods to study transport phenomena in porous media, especially using digital rock physics. Digital
Guest lecture from Zoya Heidari from the University of Texas
The department of Geoscience and Petroleum is pleased to announce a talk by Zoya Heidari from the University of Texas at Austin. Title: Formation Evaluation and Rock Physics Model Development in Mixed-Wet Rocks Time: Friday 20th September, 14.15-15.00 Place: P10, PTS1, Valgrinda. Short bio: Zoya Heidari is an associate professor at Hildebrand department of petroleum
Most Downloaded paper
The paper from A. Hansen, S. Sinha, D. Bedeaux, S. Kjelstrup. M. Aa. Gjennestad and M. Vassvik: “Relations between seepage velocities in immiscible, incompressible two-phase flow in porous media” (2018) has become the most downloaded paper ever in Transport in Porous Media, the main journal in porous media research, starting in 1986. We demonstrate in
Alberto Bila at the SCA 2019 symposium in Pau
PhD candidate Alberto Bila from the department of Geoscience and Petroleum at NTNU and member of CoE PoreLab gave a presentation on “An experimental Investigation of Surface-modified Silica Nanoparticles in the Injection Water for Enhanced oil recovery” at the 33rd International Symposium of the Society of Core Analysts in Pau (26-30 August 2019). Find more
Welcome to Danial Arab at PoreLab Trondheim
Welcome to Danial! Danial is a PhD candidate from the department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Calgary, Canada. Danial is pursuing his PhD on the use of nanoparticles and chemicals to enhance recovery of heavy oil. He has received a grant for carrying out a portion of his research at NTNU/PoreLab.
Welcome to Cristian Camilo Garcia at PoreLab Trondheim
Cristian Camilo García Castaño is a Master student from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM, Mexico city, Mexico. Cristian arrived at PoreLab Trondheim on September 2nd and will stay with us until November 24th, 2019. He will be joining the research team working on the effect of wettability on residual oil saturation. Professor Ole
Welcome to Quirine Krol at PoreLab Trondheim
Quirine Krol got a grant for a Post-doc research fellow position at the College of Engineering, Montana State University in Bozeman for 2 years starting in April 2020 and working with Professor Sarah Codd. Quirine is coming from ETH Zürich, Institute of Environmental Engineering. She arrived at PoreLab Trondheim on August 27 and will remain
Welcome to Edgar Javier Rueda at PoreLab Trondheim
Edgar Javier Rueda is a Master Student from the University of Campinas, Brazil. Edgar arrived at PoreLab Trondheim on August 8th and will stay with us at PoreLab Trondheim until the end of October. Edgar holds a bachelor degree in Petroleum Engineering back in December 2015 from the Industrial University of Santander, Colombia. Currently, he
Welcome to Philipp Rehner at PoreLab Trondheim
Philipp Rehner is a PhD Student from the Institute for Technical Thermodynamics and Thermal Process Engineering at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. He arrived at PoreLab Trondheim on August 2nd and will stay with us until the end of October 2019. Philipp is working with Professor Joachim Groß back in Stuttgart. He will be working
NTNU is recruiting a Professor or Associate Professor in experimental mesoscopic physics
The Department of Physics at NTNU announces an open position as Professor or associate Professor in experimental mesoscopic physics to be associated with the Porous Media Laboratory – PoreLab. The successful candidate is expected to initiate, lead and contribute to the study of porous media, broadly defined, at the mesoscale, i.e., at scales much larger than
Dr. Bjørnar Sandnes receives a grant for FriicFlow project in collaboration with PoreLab
PoreLab’s partner Dr. Bjørnar Sandnes from Swansea University, UK, receives a grant from EPSRC for his project «Frictional flow patterns shapes by viscous and capillary forces” (FriicFlow) The Project will be carried out under the direction and supervision of the principal investigator, Dr Bjornar Sandnes from the Swansea University and the collaborating party will be
INVITATION TO THE PORELAB COURSE , “EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES IN CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS” (FYS 4420/FYS9420 AT UIO)
The PoreLab course on ” Experimental techniques in condensed matter physics ” will be offered in the 2019 fall semester. The course is offered for both, Ph.D. and master students. The code for the Ph.D. level is FYS9240. The master level code is FYS4420. The lectures will be held in PoreLab Oslo and PoreLab Trondheim. For more
Director of PoreLab, Alex Hansen, on NRK radio
Alex was invited to NRK radio for youth on June 19th after his talk a the NTNU Festival “the Big Challenge”. Listen him here: : https://radio.nrk.no/serie/norske-tilstander/MYNN05109819#t=29m19s – click here «NTNU-forsker lærer oss noe nytt». (in Norwegian)
Director of PoreLab, Professor Alex Hansen, speaks about Open Science at Frontiers
Alex speaks about Open Science at Frontiers. Watch him here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkScXGTOOOM&t=29s The Frontiers Forum brings together 400+ top global scientists and other thought leaders. It provides a valuable opportunity for the Frontiers community to see and discuss the latest in Open Science – and the Science Unlimited event showcases inspiring developments powering our world of
Le Xu, Ph.D. defense in Oslo on June 21, 2019
On Friday, June 21, 2019, Le Xu will be defending his thesis titled “Experimental Observations of Dissolution in Fractures in Circular Geometry” for the degree of Ph.D. The defense takes place at the Physics Building, second floor west in room V232 (Lille fysiske auditorium) at 1:15 PM. The defense itself is preceded by the trial