Dear InterPore colleagues,
The end of 2021 is near, making this the last Newsletter for this year, featuring the
latest updates on the InterPore2022 conference.
On behalf of my co-editors, I wish you all a great end of the year and we will be
back in 2022!
All the best,
Matthijs de Winter
Editor-in-Chief
InterPore News
Special notice
While the uncertainties around COVID-19 remain, there is no doubt that we will meet
in 2022! We are very optimistic about gathering in Abu Dhabi, and are planning a
dynamic and educational hybrid conference which will be accessible from anywhere in
the world.
Abstract submission is open!
Abstract submission deadline is less than 2 weeks away! 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
Help us promoting promoting InterPore2022! The conference will be most
successful when both you and your colleagues show up to digest and discuss the
latest scientific achievements across the porous media disciplines. Please help us
distribute our flyer
(2.15 Mb) and Youtube
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Novotel
With rates as low as 54€ per night, including breakfast, the 4-star Novotel Abu Dhabi Al
Bustan provides a second option for your stay during InterPore2022. Just
like at the Dusit Thani,
free shuttle service will be provided between the hotel and the conference venue,
reducing your need to worry about the hassle or the heat when getting around.
Information on both hotels and details on reserving your room can be found on the conference
website.
Invited speaker
Prof.
Evangelos Tsotsas from the Otto-von-Guericke-University (Magdeburg, Germany)
will present a talk entitled Discrete models, continuum models and scale
transitions for the drying of porous media.
Evangelos Tsotsas holds the Chair of Thermal Process Engineering since 1994. He has a
PhD (1985). With a group of currently around 25 PhD and postdoc researchers and more
than 500 papers in refereed journals and proceedings, the main focus of his work is
on porous and granular media, drying, and particle formulation (spray-fluidized bed
agglomeration, granulation and coating).
Continuum models similar to those used for diffusion, heat conduction or viscous flow
have been long available for drying processes, so one might think that tabulating
respective transport coefficients for various materials should be the main research
task left to be fulfilled. However, the opposite is true because expansion and, in
particular, deepening of the research on the drying of porous media in the last
years has unveiled how severely restricted common continuum models for drying in
reality are. This has mainly been achieved by… read
more.
Special issues
An impressive seven special issues in international peer-reviewed journals are
launched in conjunction with InterPore2022. This means that your submitted abstract
may result not only in an oral or poster presentation, but may also lead to a full
research paper. Please find out more on our
website.
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.
(MS06-B) Interfacial
phenomena in multiphase systems
- Eduardo Abreu
- Grigori Chapiro
- Ran Holtzman
- Matteo Icardi
- Bjornar Sandnes
The existence of fluid-fluid interfaces poses numerous scientific complexities to
multiphase flow problems at different scales. As for its specific multidisciplinary
nature, we establish a separate minisymposium on this subject, aiming to bring
together porous media scientists of different applications and disciplines
(numerical, experimental and real field experts) to share their state-of-the-art
findings and challenges. read
more…
(MS07) Mathematical and numerical methods for multi-scale multi-physics, nonlinear
coupled processes
- Jakub Both
- Carina Bringedal
- Michel Kern
- Shuyu Sun
When designing efficient simulation methods, at least two major challenges appear.
The first is related to the fact that the mathematical models are coupled systems of
highly nonlinear equations, and the second is due to the high complexity associated
with porous media, e.g., highly heterogeneous properties with scale separation
(often for fabricated porous materials) and without scale separation (often with
natural real-world porous media). The dynamic coupling of processes taking place at
different scales (from micro to macro) also motivates the needs to account for all
such multi-scale aspects in the development of accurate mathematical and numerical
methods. read
more…
Spotlight image credit: OpenClipArt-Vectors
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 deformations:
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.
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