PoreLab Lecture Series
Do you wish to receive the invitations to the PoreLab lectures? Contact Marie-Laure Olivier here: Marie-Laure.Olivier@ntnu.no
Open PhD position at NTNU in Sustainable Soil Stabilisation
About the job The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at NTNU has an open position for a PhD candidate in sustainable soil stabilisation. It focuses on evaluating climate friendly techniques for soil stabilisation using laboratory and field experiments. The PhD position will be affiliated to the Geotechnical Engineering group which focuses on computational geotechnics
EarthFlows Meeting 2023
The EarthFlows Meeting is an annual event on its 9th edition, and part of a strategic research initiative for cross-disciplinary research at the University of Oslo, Norway. This year’s seminar will be held in Oslo between 14th and 15th of June 2023 Time and place: June 14, 2023–June 15, 2023, Oslo Science Park Here is the agenda The meeting is a closed event.
PoreLab lecture with Dr. Bauyrzhan Primkulov from MIT on moving contact lines over imperfect surfaces: from stick-slip to steady-sliding
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
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 publication under Nature!
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
PoreLab lecture with Professor Rosangela Barros Zanoni Lopes Moreno on Petroleum at Unicamp, LABORE Research Group, and Opportunities for Collaboration
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
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
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
Welcome to René!
René Tammen joined PoreLab on February 1st, 2023, as PhD candidate. His position is financed by the project “Sustainable Stable Ground” funded by the Research Council of Norway and his supervisor is Professor Erika Eiser, PI for the WP4 at PoreLab on “Nanoporous media and gels” . The project “Sustainable Stable Ground” is an interdisciplinary
IMT 15 – 15th International Meeting on Thermodiffusion
The International Meeting on Thermodiffusion provides a unique opportunity for sharing ideas about theoretical, experimental and numerical results on diffusion- and thermodiffusion related research. The successful series of IMT meetings aims to provide a forum for discussion, face-to-face interaction between scientists and technologists, and a mechanism for developing new collaborations. The sessions will be held
PoreLab publication selected as a 2022 Editors’ Choice article by the Journal of Chemical Physics
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’
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
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
The 2023 Interpore-PoreLab award goes to Pranay Shrestha
The 2023 winner of the Interpore-PoreLab award for young researchers is Dr. Pranay Shrestha, researcher at the University of Toronto, Canada. Pranay is working to advance sustainable energy technologies like fuel cells and the porous materials within them. Congratulations! Pranay received hid PhD degree from the University of Toronto in February 2023, working on “Experimental
Welcome to Quirine!
Dr. Quirine Krol joined PoreLab on November 1st, 2022 as Postdoctoral fellow. This is a three-year contract. Her position is financed by a Marie-Curie grant (Horizon MSCA) that she developed together with Professor Alex Hansen. Her project, with the acronym SnowMagnet, involves 2 partners: PoreLab at NTNU and the Montana State University in Bozeman, USA.
PoreLab lecture with Dr. Mathieu Souzy, Research Associate at INRAE on the dispersion and stretching in 3D porous media
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