Dear InterPore friends,

Are you still working from home or are you allowed back into the office? My part of today’s
Newsletter is made from home, but the Netherlands is almost completely opening up after various
stages of lockdowns, even though the number of positive cases is still pretty high. I guess no one
really knows whether that is still the pandemic, or a normal infection number for the time of the
year. We never did daily testing on a global scale! With the vaccines in our veins, the world is
becoming safer, but we must make sure that every single individual in the world has the opportunity
to receive a vaccine.

So, what’s on offer? A scientific paper, many positions, InterPore Chapter news, updates from the
InterPore Academy, the KC Lecturer, and InterPore2022 updates including opportunities for sponsors
and more.

All the best,

Matthijs de Winter
Editor-in-Chief
InterPore News

Physical – Hybrid – Online?

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, InterPore2022 is currently being planned as a hybrid
conference. Owing to the mutable nature of various regulations, however, it may be necessary to
convene online only. A final decision will be made and announced in December 2021.

Plenary speaker: Prof. Dr. Peng Xu

Professor Dr. Peng Xu from
China Jiliang University will give a plenary talk entitled “Fractal Theory of Porous
Media”. Over the past four decades, fractal geometry has sparked considerable interest
in many disciplines to characterize irregular and disorder objects that traditional Euclidean
geometry fails to analyze. In the talk, Peng Xu will firstly review the background and applications
of fractal geometry in porous media, and the fractal theory and methods to characterize and
reconstruct the complex structures of porous media are illustrated. He will also introduce the
fractal models for the transport properties of porous media.

Please visit the
website for more info on InterPore plenary speakers.

Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lecturer 2022

Professor Jacques Huyghe will be the Kimberly-Clark Distinguished
Lecturer for 2022. As such, he will share a topic relevant to the industrial porous media community
through a series of lectures at various member and non-member organizations.

The title of his lecture:
Poromechanics in extremely large deformation: swelling and
fracture

An abstract of the talk and a short biography of Prof. Dr. Huyghe can be found on our website.

Apply now to request to host one of the 2022 InterPore Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lecture series at
your institute. Please visit our
website for further information on how to apply.

Album of Porous Media Structure and
Dynamics

We would like to express our gratitude to the InterPore members, and the porous media
community in general, for supporting the Album of
Porous Media Structure and Dynamics. The submission deadline was 15 August, and we received
more than 120 entries from more than 280 authors covering a broad range of porous media topics. We
have now started the pre-screening of the received works and soon we will begin with the peer review
process. Thank you all for supporting the album!

Ezequiel F. Médici and Alejandro Otero

Wikipedia – who can help?

We
would like to get InterPore indexed on Wikipedia and are looking for someone with
Wikipedia editing experience to help us get the entry accepted. If you can help, please contact us
at Secretary@InterPore.org.

Spanish
Chapter Meeting

26 October 2021, Valencia, Spain

The annual Spanish InterPore Chapter meeting will be hosted by the Technical University of Valencia
(UPV). Prof. Jaime Gómez-Hernández is responsible for its organization at UPV. There will be a
one-day workshop in which attendants will present their research.

There are three confirmed invited speakers:

• Prof. Javier Samper, University of A Coruña
• Prof. Hermenegildo García Gómez, Technical University of Valencia
• Prof. Mohamed Khayet Souhaimi, Complutense University of Madrid

German Chapter
news

The German InterPore Chapter has put out a
call for ongoing (inter)national collaborations in order to gain an overview of the
different research projects being pursued at or with German institutions that focus on technical,
biological or geological porous media. This initiative offers facilities to get relevant information
together and available in an attempt to further strengthen the collaborations of German researchers.
Please find out more here.

Special Issues

A number of special issues have been initiated after InterPore2020. More than 100 scientific papers
were submitted, and a large number have been accepted for publication. Announcements will be made
when a special issue becomes available. The table below provides an overview of what is coming. Much
appreciation to Dr.
Wendong Wang for taking the lead in this project.

InterPore2022 is also preparing a number of special issues, which will be presented in the next
Newsletter.

Grants for short courses

If you’re interested in an online short course, but you lack funding, please have a look at this
flyer. We are pleased that InterPore Foundation for Porous Media Science and Technology (InterPore Foundation)
will provide grants for participation of graduate and PhD students in selected InterPore Academy
online short courses.

More
info…

Recorded short courses available

The InterPore Academy is offering the possibility to follow recorded short courses given previously.
If you scroll down on the InterPore Academy
webpage, you will find a list of available short courses as well as the corresponding
registration process.

Upcoming InterPore Academy short courses

A new course is being scheduled for December. More information will follow soon! The courses
currently on offer are:

Title: Linear poro-elasticity – From quasi-static consolidation to
acoustic waves
Instructor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger
Steeb, Institute of Applied Mechanics, University of Stuttgart
Date:
27 September – 1 October 2021

Title: Transport of viruses and colloids in variably-saturated porous
media
Instructor: Prof. Dr.-Ir. Majid Hassanizadeh, University of
Utrecht and University of
Stuttgart
Date: 11-15 October 2021

Title: Porous media – free flow
coupling
Instructor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rainer
Helmig, Institute for Modelling Hydraulic and Environmental Systems, University of
Stuttgart
Date: 8-11 November 2021

You are warmly invited to the next Porous Media Tea Time Talks (#PorousMediaTTT) session 24 on
September 21, 2021 at 16:30 CEST on our YouTube Channel.

The PorousMediaTTT team:

Marcel Moura (PoreLab, UiO), Kamalijt Singh (HW), Catherine Spurin (Stanford), Maja Ruecker
(TU/e), Arjen Mascini (UGhent), Nara Brandão (UFU), Javier Santos (UTexas), Mohammad Nooraiepour
(UiO)

Call for Award Nominees

The deadline to nominate candidates for the InterPore Awards is 1
November. You can nominate candidates for the following awards:

• Honorary Lifetime Membership Award
• Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lectureship Award
• InterPore Medal for Porous Media Research
• InterPore Award for Porous Media Research
• InterPore-PoreLab Award for Young Researchers
• Rien van Genuchten Early-Career Award of Porous Media for a Green World

Practical details can be found on the
website.

Honors & Awards Committee update

The Honors and Awards
Committee has seen some changes recently. We are very grateful to the leaving members Rainer
Helmig, Tanguy Le Borgne, Harry Vereecken, and Amir Raoof, whom were very active in the committee
work, including their involvement in the creation of several new awards.

Meanwhile, we warmly welcome the new members that have accepted to work for such an important
InterPore Committee.

• Sarah Codd, Montana State University
• Stephane Zaleski, Sorbonne University
• Evangelos Tsotsas, Otto von
  Guericke University Magdeburg

We wish you all the best!

Probabilistic nucleation governs time, amount, and location of mineral precipitation and geometry
evolution in the porous medium

Mohammad Nooraiepour, Mohammad Masoudi & Helge Hellevang

A critical question in reactive transport is how pore-scale processes can be upscaled and how
predictions can be made on the mutual effect of chemical processes and fluid flow in the porous
medium. For mineral precipitation, it is paramount to predict the location of crystals besides their
amount. However, current models fail to predict precisely where crystals will nucleate and grow in
the spatiotemporal domain. We present a new mathematical model and LBM representation for
probabilistic mineral nucleation and precipitation. The work provides insight into the evolution of
porous media by suggesting probabilistic and deterministic domains. Furthermore, we indicate in
which length- and time-scales it is essential to incorporate probabilistic nucleation for valid
predictions.

Scientific Reports 11 (2021)
Corresponding Authors: Mohammad Nooraiepour

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• Postdoc,
  Vapor transfers through textiles: NMR and physical approach of fabric hygrothermics.
  University Gustave Eiffel, France
• Researcher/Postdoc,
  Modelling Physical Stability of Medicines: Multi-scale modelling and imaging of a
  swelling/shrinking porous medium (pharmaceutical tablets). University of Strathclyde, UK
• Five
  (5) Postdoc Positions, Computational Earth Science Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
  US
• Two
  (2) PhD positions, Geomechanics for engineered geological barriers, EPFL, Switzerland
• Multiple
  PhD positions, Geomechanics/damage mechanics/geophysics. Department of Civil and
  Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

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