Dear InterPore colleagues,
With InterPore2022 getting really close, it is a good time to check out the detailed
program, which is like a scientific candy store! Plenty to
pick for everyone!
Enough to pick from today’s Newsletter too, by the way!
All the best,
Matthijs de Winter
Editor-in-Chief
InterPore News
Uploading prerecorded presentations
Please be aware that the conference starts online at 22
May and we’d like to ask all presenters to upload their prerecorded
presentations by 21 May at the latest.
All relevant information on how to upload your presentation or start watching
presentations can be found here.
Start building YOUR agenda!
InterPore2022 is around the corner! Check out what is coming up and
make sure you don’t forget to attend specific sessions or attend that invited
lecture.
Below are some tips on finding your way around the program and building your own
customized plan of what interests you.
Find specific sessions for your interests with the following tools:
- In the agenda, Search by session name, speaker name, session
title, OR - Filter by Tracks (MS, Lectures, Ceremonies, Networking,
Exhibitor information, etc.)
Build your own AGENDA to ADD sessions and events you don’t want to miss to your
personal agenda in your personal profile.
- Log in to your
Whova profile - Go to a session
- Simply click on “Add to My Agenda” and sessions will automatically be added to
your profile in MY AGENDA
Learn more about navigating the Whova agenda in the Finding
Sessions & Creating a Personal Agenda section.
InterPore2022 Short Course Registration
Do not miss the opportunity to register for full-day, in-person short courses which
will be given by two of the most eminent scientists in the area of the porous media
research.
Instructor: Prof. Martin Blunt, Imperial College
London, UK
Title: Multiphase Flow in Permeable Media: A
Pore-Scale
Perspective
Event Date: Sunday, 29 May
2022
Duration: Full-day (09:00 – 17:00 – 1-hour lunch
break)
Location: Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab
Emirates
Registration Fee: €110 (For InterPore2022
Participants) / €170 (Short course only)
Click
here for more information and to register.
Instructor: S. Majid Hassanizadeh, Utrecht University,
Netherlands
Title: Capillarity in Porous Media at Different
Scales
Event Date: Friday, 03 June
2022
Duration: Full-day (09:00 – 18:00 – 2-hour lunch
break)
Location: Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab
Emirates
Registration Fee: €110 (For InterPore2022
Participants) / €170 (Short course only)
Click
here for more information and to register.
InterPore is proud to announce IFP Energies nouvelles as
Bronze Sponsor at InterPore2022!
Research and Innovation for energy transition and sustainable mobility
: this is our mission at IFP
Energies nouvelles.
We focus our efforts on providing solutions to the energy and climate challenges that
society and industry are facing.
Our field of activity extends from scientific concepts within the framework of fundamental
research, through technological solutions in the context of applied
research.
In line with this broad spectrum along the innovation chain, we are pleased to
present our scientific journal STET,
jointly supported with CEA. STET addresses all
topics related to the ecological transition, and welcomes submissions from academic
and industrial researchers.
Abu Dhabi Spotlight
Speed is more your style? Then race on over to Ferrari World Abu Dhabi,
the world’s first Ferrari-branded theme park. Featuring more than 20 exhilarating
and educational rides and attractions, incredible shopping, and authentic Italian
dining experiences, Ferrari World is the perfect brand showcase. Plus – weather is
not an issue; aside from the world’s fastest roller-coaster, Formula Rossa, every
attraction is indoors.
Sponsored in part by:
InterPore Elections are coming up, spanning an election period
from 1 –
30 November 2022. The elections involve a new President-Elect, four Council members
and four members of the Student Affairs Committee (SAC). Nominations can be brought
out until 1 July 2022.
More information can be found here.
Student Affairs
Committee (SAC) is looking for new members
Are you a BSc, MSc or PhD candidate? Or do you know a very talented
young researcher in those categories? The Student Affairs Committee (SAC) is
currently seeking nominations for four members. Nominations are open to
all InterPore members (including members through Institutional Memberships) who are
enrolled in porous media activities. You can nominate yourself or others (with their
permission!).
Becoming a SAC member brings fun on a global scale and potentially boosts your
career, either within the academia or within the industry. Check
here the current SAC members.
For nominations, please send the following info to Laura
Pyrak-Nolte:
Practical
info
Professor Jacques Huyghe is the Kimberly-Clark
Distinguished Lecturer of 2022. As such, he shares a topic relevant to the
industrial porous media community through a series of lectures at various member and
non-member organizations. So also the great report from two weeks ago.
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.
You are warmly invited to session 35 of the “Porous Media Tea Time
Talks” webinars, part of the InterPore Young Academy. We are delighted to host
Edward Andrews (Imperial College London, UK) and Ramin Moghadasi (Uppsala
University, Sweden) on Tuesday, May 17, 2022. Join us at 15:00 CEST via live YouTube stream.
Among the various porous-media-related research activities at the
University of Monastir, we’ve selected the development by the LESTE research
laboratory of solar dryers to present in this spotlight.
The outcomes of two projects involving the design, optimization and construction of a
solar tomato dryer and a solar wood phytosanitary treatment cell are presented. Both
recycle the drying air, adjust its humidity by mixing it with ambient air and employ
indirect solar energy to heat it. 
The solar loop consists of vacuum tube solar water
collectors, a water circulation pump, a water storage tank and a water-air heat
exchanger. The solar installation for each dryer was optimized using complete system
dynamic simulations that were based on experimentally obtained drying kinetics for
the tomatoes dryer, and based on an in-house developed detailed 2D finite-difference
code of the wood stack drying for the phytosanitary treatment cell. Two prototypes
were constructed and are presented.
Full
Read
6 – 8 July 2022, Utrecht, Netherlands
The registration for the 10th Conference on the Mechanical Behavior of Salt (SaltMech
X) has been opened. Given the imminent lifting of virtually all Covid-related
restrictions in the Netherlands, the SaltMech X Organizing Committee is confident
that a physical, on-site conference will be possible in July and looks forward to
welcoming you to Utrecht.
We invite you to register to attend the SaltMech X Conference as soon as possible but
by 20 May 2022 at latest. To do so, please go to our website.
The full invitation can be found here
(pdf, 252 kB).
7-8 June, 2022, IIT Hyderabad, India
Welcome to the International Symposium on Nonlocal Mechanics Approaches
for Modeling Localized Deformations (NMAMLD) at the Indian Institute of Technology
in Hyderabad, India. The purpose of the symposium is to bring together experts from
the mathematical, computational, scientific, and engineering communities who work
with nonlocal models in order to disseminate the state of the art on the subject and
disseminate ideas. The workshop is intended to survey the state-of-the-art in
modelling, mathematical analysis, and computational practice for nonlocal theories,
while exploring new application domains and promoting new collaborations.
Deadline for registration: 15 May 2022 More information: NMAMLD2022
Welcome to the Geotechnical Engineering Webinars, held by the
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Shiraz University. The series
are held in May and June and include Dr. Pooneh Maghoul (Canada), Prof. Cristina
Jommi (Netherlands), Prof. Nasser Khalili (Australia), Prof. Olivier Cuisinier
(France) and Prof. Rien van Genuchten (Brazil). Please find the full list of
speakers, their topics and dates here.
The webinar series will also be continued in the Fall semester.
You can follow the webinar here. For
that you only need to write your name and enter as guest. The lectures are in
English (a short Persian and English introduction will be given at the beginning of
each lecture).
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