Dear InterPore colleagues,

Today’s Newsletter is one to share with many colleagues and MSc students for many reasons. The first is to suggest those colleagues to sign up for the Newsletter too, as it has a lot of useful information! Second, also for students, we’re receiving many new job opportunities, from PhD positions to Full Professor positions. Thirdly, you’ll be informed with the latest updates on InterPore2022, you can work with your colleagues to organize a meeting with the KC Lecturer (this year: Jacques Huyghe) and fourthly, fifthly… etc., all the useful and nice info we share with our InterPore community!

Happy reading and sharing!

Matthijs de Winter
Editor-in-Chief
InterPore News

Free visit to the Louvre Abu Dhabi

Dhabi’s plaza © Louvre Abu Dhabi
Photography: Mohamed Somji

Thanks to a generous donation from the Abu Dhabi Ministry of Culture and Tourism, all in-person participants and accompanying guests will receive complementary tickets to the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Participants are able to visit the museum at their leisure while in Abu Dhabi.

Designed by Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Jean Nouvel and featuring a web-patterned dome meant to represent “rays of sunlight passing through date palm fronds in an oasis”, the museum itself is a work of art. The exhibitions within explore the connections between cultures and are intended to bridge the gap between Eastern and Western art.

InterPore2022 sponsors

Canon Production Printing develops and manufactures high-tech printing products and workflow software for the commercial printing market and is part of Canon, a global provider of imaging technologies and services. Canon Production Printing operates on three continents, with approximately 2900 employees (as of end 2020) and has its Global Headquarters in Venlo, Netherlands. Its product offering includes continuous-feed and cut-sheet printers for high-volume printing and publishing, roll-to-roll and flatbed printers for large format graphics applications and large-format printers for CAD/GIS applications. Industrial label printers for self-adhesive labels and selected flexible packaging applications have been added to the portfolio. Canon Production Printing has an impressive track record of innovation. These achievements are possible due to ….continue reading.

Sponsored in part by:

Conference Grants

The InterPore Foundation continues to offer conference grants to scientists and graduate students from countries with lower- or middle-income economies. This year, seven conference grants were approved out of 22 applicants. The majority of them will receive travel support so they are able to personally attend the InterPore 2022 annual conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Since 2018, a total of 70 applicants have obtained grants.

The InterPore Foundation would like to express gratitude to all the members for their generous donations. These conference grants would not be possible without their support.

Call for Contributions: The WikiPore Software Catalogue

Using and developing software is an integral part of most scientists’ daily work and porous media research is no exception here. We employ and write software for pretty much everything ranging from digitizing a real porous sample to evaluating the results of simulating the flow through it. But what software is out there to accomplish the individual tasks in our research workflows? The WikiPore Software Catalogue is here for helping you find the right software packages for any research question related to porous media.

Since the announcement of the new WikiPore in July 2021, the InterPore team has worked hard on optimizing the catalogue part. It has been freshly equipped with a few entries and is hopefully ready for production. We rely on you, the InterPore community, to make the catalogue a success and useful for our researchers. We heartily invite you to pick your favorite software packages dedicated to porous-media research and upload contributions to the catalogue: Please login to MY INTERPORE and click on Submit WikiPore Software to add a new entry.

We welcome all contributions of software packages focusing explicitly on porous-media applications, not necessarily general-purpose packages like word processing products. Please don’t hesitate to submit suggestions for improvement to Bernd Flemisch.

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 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.

2022 Pioneers in Groundwater Award winner

Jaime Gómez-Hernández, chair of local organizing committee of InterPore2019 in Valencia, Spain, has been selected as the 2022 Pioneers in Groundwater Award winner. The Pioneers in Groundwater Award recognizes and honors an individual with pioneering contributions in the teaching, research, and/or practice of groundwater science and engineering. Only one award is given per year. Membership of ASCE or EWRI is not required. The description of the award can be found here.

Congratulations Jaime!

Call for Papers

Frontiers in Water and Frontiers in Physics are launching a new topic: Nonequilibrium Multiphase and Reactive Flows in Porous and Granular Materials

Topic editor: Ran Holtzman

This collection will gather papers aiming to model, understand, predict, and even control multiphase and reactive flows, where nonequilibrium often prevails leading to instabilities, the emergence of complex patterns and preferential pathways, and dependencies on the path and rate of external driving forces. We wish to bring together experimental, theoretical, and numerical contributions from diverse fields across engineering, physics, and mathematics including fluid mechanics, earth sciences, soil mechanics, and more.

For more info, follow this link to their website.

Deadlines
22 May 2022: Abstract
23 July 2022: Manuscript

French InterPore Chapter reports new journal

Oil & Gas Science and Technology (OGST), an academic journal headed by IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN), is taking on a new identity to become Science and Technology for Energy Transition (STET). Its aim is to become a genuine forum for exchange and sharing of scientific findings related to an efficient and sustainable energy transition in response to climate change. In support of this change, IFPEN has joined forces with the CEA (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission), a major player in French energy research. STET is an open-access journal with no publication costs (APC) for authors. Manuscripts are reviewed using standard procedures.

You can find STET here.

InterPore Members, do you want to promote your publication to the community? If so, please submit your highlight to newsletter@InterPore.org. Note that we will not review the entries nor does InterPore endorse the published work. Furthermore, we publish on a “submitted first, published first” basis. The highlighted publication should be no older than 6 months (available online).

The highlight should be short (500 characters) and contain an illustration. Please note that we offer this opportunity exclusively to InterPore members. If you would like to become a member, please have a look here.

PhD

• PhD position on Reactive Transport and Structure Formation in Porous Media, University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
• PhD position on Capillary effects in heterogeneous porous reservoirs, University of Orleans, France
• PhD on Pore-scale modelling of salt and hydrate formation during CO2 injection, University of Manchester, UK
• PhD on Mechanisms of rockmass instability in co-mining of deep mineral and geothermal energy considering spatio-temporal distribution of stress and temperature, Ghent University, Belgium

Senior Lecturers/Research Associate

• Maître de conférences on Materials for civil engineering, geotechnics, soils, concrete, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
• Assistant professor in physical modelling and instrumentation, in the field of geomechanics, civil engineering and mining engineering, applied to underground structures (mines, tunnels, storage reservoirs, etc.), with strong experimental skills. Université de Loraine, Nancy, France
• Senior Lecturer on Earth Science (Bachelor and Master levels) and research on fluid transfers in natural surface and subsurface environments, under water saturated and / or unsaturated conditions, Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France
• Senior Lecturer on Fluid mechanics, solid mechanics and materials resistance, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
• Associate professor position in the field of Hydraulics & Mechanical Engineering, – Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
• Research Associate (6 years) in Subsurface Hydrology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Full professor

• Full Professor position in the field of geomechanics (rock mechanics, poromechanics, geology), Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France

If you have a job opening in your institute and would like to promote it internationally, please send the description and weblink or PDF to newsletter@interpore.org, and we’ll be happy to add it to the list.