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Today, we have InterPore2022 highlights, Academy updates, host the KC Distinguished
Lecturer
(highly recommended), an invitation, science and a reason to party.
Take care,
Matthijs de Winter
Editor-in-Chief
InterPore
News
Abstract submission is open!
Abstract submission for InterPore2022 is open! Abstracts can be submitted for oral
and poster presentations to be offered in-person or online in 24
minisymposia. The submission deadline is Monday, 03 January 2022.
Submit your abstract today!
Click here to
submit
Abu Dhabi
Usual preparations for the annual InterPore conference take up to a full year.
Hence,
much appreciation goes to the local
organization committee whom will undoubtedly make InterPore2022 a fantastic
event. For those who will be travelling to Abu Dhabi, we have put together some
highlights of the city here.
Invited speaker:
Stephan
Matthai from The University of Melbourne will present a talk entitled
Modelling
& Simulation of Multiphase Flow in Highly Heterogeneous Geologic
Porous Media.
Stephan Matthai is a Professor in the Department of Infrastructure Engineering at
Melbourne University and reservoir engineer in the Peter Cook Centre for CCS
research and ANLEC R&D, Australia. Until 2015, he directed the Institute of
Reservoir Engineering at the Montanuniversitaet Leoben (MUL), Austria, and, from
2001 to 2009, was a Governors’ Lecturer at Imperial College London, where he ran an
industry consortium on multiphase flow in naturally fractured reservoirs.
His presentation explores complex emergent behaviour that arises from the interplay
of geoheterogeneity with multiphase flow. Sophisticated digital outcrop models
resolving geologic features across multiple length scales are used to constrain
digital twins of the real world, offering the unique opportunity to investigate
system behaviour in response to engineering interventions and reveal side effects.
Of particular interest are the performance analysis and optimisation of multiphase
flow systems such as CO2 geo-sequestration complexes, geothermal reservoirs, and gas
storage sites.
The rich behavioural dynamics of geologic porous media saturated with brine and CO2
will be illustrated with results of hybrid FEM-FVM computations expressing jump
discontinuities during simulation.
…read
more
Minisymposia Spotlight
In the interdisciplinary spirit from which the InterPore society was
born, the minisymposia
provide a forum where investigators and technicians
from disparate fields can come together and display their commonality of problems,
investigatory techniques and solution strategies.
Spotlight
image credit: OpenClipArt-Vectors
- Lauren Beckingham – Auburn University, USA
- Maartje Boon – TU Delft, Netherlands
- Brian Ellis – University of Michigan, USA
- Anna Herring – Australian National University, Australia
- William Rossen – TU Delft, Netherlands
- Eleni Stavropoulou – EPFL, Switzerland
Porous media science and engineering has played an important historical role in the
development of the current global energy system. While renewables such as wind and
solar will play a major role in the energy transition, creative uses of natural and
engineered porous media will also be a critical part of any viable low carbon energy
system. Because fossil fuels will form a significant part of the foreseeable future
energy mix, CO2 capture and subsequent subsurface storage must play a major role in
both direct carbon-capture-and-storage (CCS) projects and in negative emissions
scenarios like Bio-Energy with CCS…read
more
- Li Chen – Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China
- Amirhossein Hassani – NILU, Norway
- Steven Jansen – Ulm University, Germany
- Nima Shokri – Technische Universität Hamburg, Germany
- Jan Vanderborght – Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
- Jun Yin – Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China
Sustainable use of soil and water resources is crucial to preserve healthy
terrestrial ecosystems and maintaining food security. Many of the scientific and
technical challenges related to these issues hinge on understanding, controlling and
optimizing processes that involve the multiscale (in both space and time) dynamics
of water and nutrients in the soil-plant system, arguably the porous medium ‘par
excellence’. With this theme in mind, this mini-symposium aims to bring together
contributions on the physics, chemistry and biology of porous media…read
more
We are finalizing the detailed prospectus for potential exhibitors and sponsors at
InterPore2022 and will be sending it out to our existing industry connections soon.
Do you know of a company who should be on our list? Let us know! Perhaps it’s one
you regularly work with, one you’d like to work with, or maybe one you work for!
We’d love to hear your ideas. Email
us with the organization name and contact information.
Lecturer 2021: Prof. Muhammad Sahimi
The Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lecturer Series of this year features Prof.
Dr. Muhammad Sahimi from University of Southern California, USA. Prof.
Sahimi has still a few opportunities left to give an lecture. He lectures on various
topics:
- Use of wavelet transformations for characterization, modeling, and upscaling
of porous media - Multipoint geostatistical modeling of porous media
- Swelling and deformation of porous media
- Atomistic modeling of nanoporous membranes.
If possible, Prof. Sahimi will come to your institute in person. Alternatively, he
will present online. Interested? Please request his lecture by filling out the application
form and returning it to the InterPore
office.
Lecturer 2022: Prof. Jacques Huyghe
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 is 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.
As the end of the year approaches, now is a good time to review your
InterPore membership status. The term of many InterPore annual memberships expire on
31
December.
To log in, go to interpore.org
and click on
“MY INTERPORE”. You will be able to see your membership information or be requested
to log in. It is possible to renew your membership once it has expired. If you have
moved on in your career, please upgrade your account accordingly. For example from a
student membership to an academic or industry membership.
Annual
Workshop
01
December 2021, Bergen, Norway
InterPore Norway is providing a platform for the Norwegian porous media
researchers/scientists to come together and exchange ideas. For this reason,
InterPore Norway arranges an annual workshop for all that are interested in porous
media research and technology.
The workshop, hosted by NORCE Norwegian Research Centre and the University of
Bergen,
is free of charge and open to all. It will be an in-person event only.
More information about the program and registration can be found here
or in the flyer
(293 KB).
InterPore now has its own Wikipedia
page. Of course,
any suggestions for expansion are welcome. You can refer people new to InterPore to
both our website as well as the Wikipedia page.
Upcoming InterPore Academy short
courses
The upcoming course is given by Hadi Hajibeygi and is entitled
Multiscale
Modeling and Simulation: Scalable Simulation of Nonlinear Coupled
Processes in Heterogeneous Fractured Porous Media.
Course dates: 10, 11, 13, 14 and 15 December 2021.
More information can be found in this
flyer (274 KB).
Funding opportunities for short courses
If you’re interested in an online short course, but you lack funding, please have a
look at this
flyer (242 KB). 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… (242 KB)
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.
The list of available courses can be found here
(316 KB).
You are warmly invited to the last session of the Porous Media Tea Time Talks in
2021. #PorousMediaTTT’s session 29 will be streamed live on 30 November at 17:00 CET
via 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)
Congratulations to the Stuttgart Collaborative Research Centre (SFB)
1313 on “Interface-Driven
Multi-Field Processes in Porous Media – Flow, Transport and Deformation“. On
24 November 2021, the German Research Foundation DFG decided to fund SFB 1313 of the
University of Stuttgart for another four years. The overall goal of SFB 1313 is to
get a fundamental understanding how interfaces influence flow, transport, and
deformation processes in porous media.
German
press release of the University of Stuttgart.
German
press release of the DFG.
Beate
Krok, Sadjad Mohammadian, Hendrik M. Noll, Carina Surau, Stefan Markwort,
Andreas Fritzsch, Milen Nachev, Bernd Sures, Rainer U. Meckenstock
In-situ nanoremediation means dealing with contaminates inside the porous matrix of
aquifers using nanoparticles. A successful nanoremediation hence requires
optimization of several fields of science and engineering such as synthesis and
colloidal chemistry, hydro(geo)logy, environmental toxicology, and reactive
transport. In this work, the authors studied the interactions of these fields with
focus on steps and criteria required for optimization and upscaling a
nanoremediation action from laboratory results to real field-scale application.
Combining batch studies, transport experiments and reactive modeling, a field-scale
remediation action was designed and carried out, and results were assessed against
the laboratory predictions.
Science
of The Total Environment, 2021, 151066
Corresponding
Author: Sadjad
Mohammadian
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