Dear InterPore colleagues,

The spring in the Netherlands sees quickly varying temperatures. Yesterday, it reached 20 – 25 °C,
and tomorrow it won’t exceed 10 °C. Of course, we mostly appreciate the higher temperatures,
especially this year, as warmer weather is associated with reducing numbers of COVID-19 infections.

With regards to the pandemic, we can’t control the weather, but we can control our behavior (social
distancing) and protect ourselves through vaccines and personal protective equipment like face
masks. Do face mask work (and how)? How are they made? As a curious porous media scientist, I have
already
registered for the InterPore
Academy webinar by Dr. Behnam Pourdeyhimi who will take us through these and related topics.

Enjoy the Easter weekend and stay healthy,

Matthijs de Winter
Editor-in-Chief
InterPore News

InterPore Academy: webinar and short
course

Webinar

Dr. Behnam Pourdeyhimi will be presenting the lecture “Facemasks & Respirators –
Technology, Manufacturing & Performance”. In order to register to attend this
webinar, please visit here. The
link to the webinar will be shared only with registered attendees.

The cost of registration and participation is FREE.

Title: Facemasks
& Respirators –
Technology, Manufacturing & Performance
Speaker: Dr. Behnam
Pourdeyhimi
Date: Wednesday, 7 April 2021
Time: 10:00 AM
EDT / 4:00 PM CEST

Please click here for more details
and information on the webinars.

Short Course

The next InterPore Online Short Course deals with heat transfer in porous media and is taught by
Michel Quintard.

Title: Heat
Transfer in Porous Media: Various Models From a Multi-Scale
Perspective
Instructor: Michel Quintard, Toulouse University, CNRS,
France
Date: 27-30 April 2021
Time: 9:00-12:00 CEST

Registration fee:

Short courses have limited capacity. Click here
to register.

The InterPore Academy for Porous Media is a new unit to promote educational activities, mainly to
serve younger researchers, with a range of short courses, webinars, and workshops. See the website for further information.

Career event on Thursday, 3 June 2021 at
15:45 CEST

Many students struggle with the decision of which career path to follow after the PhD. Should I
pursue an academic career or search for possibilities in industry or governmental agencies? What are
the pros (and cons) of each career path? What does the life-after-PhD feel like? To help shed light
onto these big questions, the Students Affairs
Committee has invited four established professionals to share their personal views and
experiences:

In this session we will NOT hear about their latest research results but instead about their
different career paths and the important choices they had to make along the way.

InterPore Industry Committee:
Ramstad becomes new chair

We are pleased to announce that Thomas Ramstad (Equinor Company, Norway) has agreed to chair the
Industry Committee together with Mark Knackstedt (Australian National University). This is an
important committee with the task of increasing the participation of porous media industry in
InterPore activities. A very important pillar of the InterPore mission is to build a bridge between
academia and industry, with the goal of strengthening links between porous media science and
technology.

The Industry Committee was set up by Karsten Thompson (Louisiana State University, USA) in 2019 and
he was joined by Mark Knackstedt (Australian National University) as co-chair. The InterPore
Executive Committee is grateful to Karsten and Mark for their valuable work and excellent support of
InterPore.

Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lecturer
2022 announced

We are pleased to announce that Professor Jacques Huyghe has won the
Kimberly-Clark
Distinguished Lecturer Award for 2022. He will succeed Prof. Sahimi and continue the lecture series.

Prof. Huyghe is Bernal Chair of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Limerick, Ireland. His
research focuses on pioneering the application of poromechanics to key problems in medicine and
biology including personal care, cell biomechanics, coronary vascular disease and spine
biomechanics.

As recipient of the Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lecturer Award, Prof. Huyghe will give an invited
talk during
InterPore2021 entitled Poromechanics in
extremely large deformation: swelling and fracture.

We are happy to invite you to our next Porous Media Tea Time Talks (#PorousMediaTTT) session
at 6 April 2021 at 10.30 CEST/ 8.30 GMT local
time on our YouTube
Channel.

The goal of the Porous Media TTT is to act as a complimentary platform to the already very successful
Geoscience and Geoenergy
webinars with the focus placed on young professionals.

We are very much looking forward to seeing you online!

Catherine Spurin (ICL), Arjen Mascini (UGhent), Nara Brandão Costa Santos (UFU), Javier Santos
(UTA), Kamalijt Singh (HW), Marcel Moura (PoreLab, UiO), Tom Bultreys (UGhent), Mohammad
Nooraiepour (UiO), Maja Ruecker (TU/e)

Mini-symposium: Computational
Modeling of Flow in Porous Media

9-12 November 2021, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

A mini-symposium on “Computational Modeling of Flow in Porous Media” will take place during the XLII Ibero-Latin-American Congress on Computational
Methods in Engineering (CILAMCE-2021) and the 3rd Pan American Congress on Computational
Mechanics PANACM 2021, 9-12 November 2021. The conference will operate in a hybrid fashion.
If the situation does not allow for an in-person meeting, the conference will be 100% virtual. The
current deadline for abstract submission is 30 April 2021.

Contributions are welcome on all subfields of computational modeling of fluid flow and
contaminant transport in porous media, including all aspects of pore-scale modeling with a
particular emphasis on, but not restricted to:

• Novel algorithms and computational methods
• Validation of models against experiments
• New physical insights and theoretical analyses
• Upscaling pore-scale results into continuum-scale descriptions
• Digital reconstruction and characterization
• Microfluidics
• Evolution of coupled problems with multi-phase flow, reactive transport, deformation in a porous
  medium

Impact of Geometrical Disorder
on Phase Equilibria of Fluids and Solids Confined in Mesoporous Materials

Henry R. N. B. Enninful, Daniel Schneider, Dirk Enke, and Rustem Valiullin

This invited feature article focuses on recent advances made in the understanding of correlations
between the phase state and geometric disorder in nanoporous solids. We overview the recently
developed statistical theory for phase transitions in a minimalistic model of disordered pore
networks: linear chains of pores with statistical disorder. By correlating its predictions with
various experimental observations, we show that this model gives notable insight into collective
phenomena in phase-transition processes in disordered materials and is capable of explaining
self-consistently the majority of the experimental results obtained for gas–liquid and solid–liquid
equilibria in mesoporous solids.

Langmuir 2021, 37, 12,
3521–3537
Corresponding author: Henry Enninful

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