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Issue #12, 16 June 2023

Content

• The InterPore Journal
• Last chance: InterPore Strategic Planning Survey
• Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lecturers
• InterPore 2023 Survey Results
• InterPore2024
• National Chapters
• Last Chance to Register for Next Week’s Short Course with Holger Steeb!
• Community News
• Research Positions
• InterPore Calendar
• Imprint

Dear InterPore colleagues,

I hear a lot of people wrapping up before the summer break (sorry, “southern hemospherers”), but nothing like that for InterPore! How about launching our own scientific journal! See below. There are workshops and events coming up. Scientific literature to catch up on, and we look back and forth at InterPore2023 and InterPore2024.

I also like to point to Brian Wood’s obituary of the late prof. Steve Whitaker. It is truly inspirational to read. In line with the obituary, I can recommend the Time Capsule recording as well.

All the best,

Matthijs de Winter
Editor-in-Chief
InterPore News

In Memoriam: Stephen Whitaker

It is with great sadness that we report the recent passing of Steve Whitaker. In 2014, Steve received the InterPore Honorary Lifetime Membership Award which is reserved for world renowned researchers in the porous media community. He was also honored by being among those who were asked to be the subject of an InterPore Time Capsule which he was interviewed to reflect upon his many years as a researcher. Brian Wood wrote a full obituary, which you can find here.

Coming Soon – The InterPore Journal

Hopefully you all have by now heard the exciting news that InterPore will be starting its very own journal. As previously mentioned, this journal will be an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal, entirely published and owned by InterPore. We are planning on a wide range of articles, which include but are not limited to the following: Original Research Papers, Technical Notes, Review Articles, Open Datasets and Source Codes, Letters to the Editor, Commentaries, Short Communications, and Opinion Pieces. Both members of InterPore as well as non-members are welcome to submit, and we hope to receive your submissions soon. An official Call for Papers will also soon follow! You can find out more information on this journal here via the website.

There is of course still plenty of information to add to this website, but you can already check out the Board of Editors as well as the Committee on Publication Ethics Board and more. We plan to start receiving submissions in July! In the meantime, get those papers ready! We would love to receive your contributions linked to a porous media application. Submitted research may include, but is not limited to, physical and numerical modelling, imaging techniques and analysis, theory development, big data analysis, characterization, and/or material design.

Laura Lenz
Managing Editor InterPore Journal

Last chance: InterPore Strategic Planning Survey

Our Strategic Planning Survey will close this weekend. If you have not already, please complete this short survey to assist us in strategic planning. The survey should take only a few minutes, and the responses are anonymous.

You may also access the survey via the above QR code.

Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lecturer 2023

Prof. Adrian Bejan, from Duke University, USA, continues to successfully present his award winning lecture, Vascular materials: Predicting Design Evolution, at various universities and institutions around the world. He was present at InterPore2023 in Edinburgh, and was one of the plenary lecturers at the conference.

Prof. Bejan will soon travel to the University of Glasgow, Scotland, where he will deliver his lecture at the 15th International Green Energy Conference, 12 July. Other scheduled presentations include the Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials, Brazil, in July (online); the Politecnico de Torino, Italy, in September (in person); and the Journées d’Etude des Milieux Poreux (JEMP2023), France, in October (in person).

We would like to thank Prof. Bejan for his dedication and efforts to honour all the applications sent to us!

Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lecturer 2024

We are now receiving requests to host the 2024 InterPore Kimberly-Clark Lecturer, Prof. Ruben Juanes. We have already received many applications from all over the world and the interest in Prof. Juanes lectures is extremely high.

Please visit our website for further information on how to apply.

InterPore2023 Survey Results

InterPore2023 is already behind us! Thank you again to everyone who participated and a special thanks to the feedback shared via our post-conference survey. Your input is crucial and allows us to continue to improve upon and deliver what is most important to our participants.

Overall, InterPore2023 participants were very satisfied, with 92% rating the quality of the scientific program good or very good.

Read the full recap here.

After the success of InterPore2023 in Edinburgh, we are looking forward to organizing InterPore2024!

The focus theme of InterPore2024 will be “porous media and biology.” This includes occurrence and applications of biology in living organs, plants, and in medicine, as well as in soil, oil and gas reservoirs. It will include theories and (bio)physics, experiments, imaging, mathematics, and modelling.

The conference will take place at the luxury five-star Shangri-La Hotel located in Qingdao, a very cosmopolitan port city at the Yellow Sea. It offers conference center and residence at one location. Known for Tsingtao Beer and international festivals, Qingdao promotes friendship, economic & cultural exchanges between China and others all over the world. Come and enjoy one of China’s most liveable cities.

We look forward to seeing you at InterPore2024 in Qingdao!

National Chapters

German National Chapter Meeting – abstract submission is now open!

13 – 14 September 2023, Eichstätt, Germany The German Chapter of InterPore will hold its next assembly from 13 to 14 September 2023 at the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. The goal of the German Chapter is to bring together people working on porous media. The conference provides a national forum for interdisciplinary exchange and collaboration of experts from numerous German research institutions, universities, and industry. The topics of the conference therefore deal with all issues of porous media research, from experiment to theory and from science to industrial application.

More information on registration and program can be found here.

Israel National Chapter Meeting – registration closes next week!

29 June 2023, Haifa, Israel The Israel Chapter of InterPore will host its Third Symposium on June 29, 2023. The Symposium will take place at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. Registration closes 20 June 2023.

Please see here for more details.

France National Chapter Meeting – abstract submission closes June 30!

17-19 October 2023, Rueil-Malmaison, France

The 16th edition of JEMP (Journées d’Etudes des Milieux Poreux) – the InterPore France conference on porous media – will be held at IFP Energie nouvelles, Rueil-Malmaison (near Paris) from 17 to 19 October 2023. The discussions, mostly interdisciplinary, involve fundamental topics such as applied mathematics, fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, and process engineering. The scientific research carried out in these domains is relevant in several major areas related to environmental and societal needs: energy storage, pollution abatement, renewable energies, agri-food and health.

Submit your abstracts by 30 June 2023 here.

Last Chance to Register for Next Week’s Short Course with Holger Steeb!

Next week: IMA11

19-22 June 2023, Bordeaux, France

The main objectives of the 11th Conference of the International Marangoni Association (IMA11) are to provide opportunities for scientists and engineers, working on interfacial fluid dynamics and processes, to exchange their knowledge and to discuss recent advances in the field.

For more information, please visit their website.

Next week: MetFoam

5-7 July 2023, Dresden, Germany

Join the 12th International Conference on Porous Metals and Metallic Foams MetFoam in Dresden. The MetFoam conference series is the largest cross-disciplinary, international technical meeting focused exclusively on the production methods, properties, and applications of functional and lightweight porous/cellular metallic materials. After the last editions in China and the USA, MetFoam is now back in Europe.

With your registration you can also participate in the first edition of the International Conference on Emerging Applications of PM & AM Materials and Technologies EMATec. This new conference focuses on the latest material and technology developments for applications in the future. The aim is to create a regular forum where interdisciplinary exchange between users, producers and development is promoted and a nucleus for innovative powder metallurgical solutions of the future is created.

You can find the preliminary program of the joint conferences MetFoam and EMATec here.

Coming up: SIAMG23

19-22 June 2023, Bergen, Norway

The study of geophysical systems at all scales, whether from a scientific or technological perspective, calls for sophisticated mathematical modeling, efficient computational methods, and pervasive integration with data. This effort is fundamentally interdisciplinary. This conference aims to stimulate the exchange of ideas among geoscientific modelers, applied mathematicians, engineers, and other scientists, having special interests in flow in porous media and geophysics.

For more information, please visit their website.

Elasticity of Confined Simple Fluids from an Extended Peng-Robinson Equation of State

Santiago A. Flores Roman, Gabriel D. Barbosa, and Gennady Y. Go

Thermodynamic properties of fluids in nanopores are altered by confinement, and equations of state (EOS) for bulk fluids are unable to predict them. We utilized a recent EOS based on the Peng-Robinson EOS, which takes into account the effects of confinement, to derive an analytical expression for the bulk modulus of the fluid. We calculated the modulus of liquid argon confined in spherical nanopores of various sizes, and verified our predictions with the Monte Carlo molecular simulations. Our result is a step toward developing an equation of state for confined fluids, which can be used for predictions of elasticity.

Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2023, 62, 22, 8972–8980
Corresponding Author: Gennady Gor

Pore-scale study of calcite dissolution during CO2-saturated brine injection for sequestration in carbonate aquifers

Qiuheng Xie, Wendong Wang, Yuliang Su, Han Wang, Zhouyuan Zhang, Wubin Yan

Calcite reacts with CO2-saturated brine to form a divalent ion, which would have a great impact on mineral trapping. To further investigate the mechanism of calcite dissolution, the pore-scale reactive dynamics model based on lattice Boltzmann method was established. The results indicate that the effect of injection rate on dissolution reaction may decrease when ambient temperature is higher. Furthermore, the change in normalized permeability of porous media and dissolved calcite node under different temperature and injection rate is also elaborated. The outcomes in this contribution provide a theoretical guideline to potential estimation of CO2 sequestration and optimization of aimed sites.

Gas Science and Engineering Volume 114, June 2023, 204978
Corresponding Author: Wendong Wang

InterPore Members can promote their publications to the community via the InterPore InJournals Section of the Newsletter. If you wish to do so, please submit your publication highlight to newsletter@InterPore.org. Clearly indicate which of the authors is an InterPore member (or the institute with an Institutional Membership). 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 (max 100 words) 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 on solid surface fluid(s) interactions in porous media. Technion Porous Media Visualization Lab, Technion. Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
• PhD Candidate in Sustainable Soil Stabilization. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

Post-doc

• Postdoctoral position in hydrogen storage geomechanics/geochemistry. Jackson School of Geosciences, Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin, USA
• Post-doc in Techno-Economic Assessment and Simulation of Heat Storage. Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, TU Delft, Netherlands

Assistant-prof

• Assistant Professor in Earth Sciences for Critical Elements and Minerals, Utrecht University, Netherlands
• Assistant Professor in Environmental Geochemistry, Utrecht University, Netherlands
• Assistant Professor in Environmental Geochemistry, Utrecht University, Netherlands

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.

Date

2023 Partner Society Events

19 – 22 June 2023

SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences (SIAMGS23), Bergen, Norway

19 – 22 June 2023

11th Conference of the International Marangoni Association (IMA11), Bordeaux, France

4 – 7 July 2023

2nd International Summer School on UHS, Delft, the Netherlands

5- 7 July 2023

12th International Conference on Porous Metals and Metallic Foams (MetFoam). Dresden, Germany

9 – 11 October 2023

VIII International Conference on Particle-Based Methods. Invited session entitled “Processing Particulate Material in an Industrial Environment” organized by Bernhard Peters, Milan, Italy)

11 – 13 October 2023

15th International Symposium on Wettability and Porous Media

7 – 10 November 2023

SAPEM ‘23, Sorrento, Italy and Acoustic Valley Institute, Changshu, China

5 – 7 December 2023

Groundwater Week 2023, Las Vegas

Date

2023 InterPore Events

7 – 9 August 2023

Brazil Chapter meeting

13 – 14 September 2023

German Chapter of InterPore, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany

29 September 2023

Southern US Chapter of InterPore: Hydrogen Transport and Storage in Porous Media

Date

Future InterPore Annual Meetings

13 – 16 May 2024

The 16th annual InterPore meeting (Qingdao, China)

Spring 2025

The 17th annual InterPore meeting (Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA)

Imprint

InterPore News, www.interpore.org
Published in electronic form by International Society for Porous Media (InterPore)
Circulated free of charge to members and non-members of InterPore.

Articles and news items on the study and characterization of porous media,
especially when relevant to other types of porous media,
are welcomed for publication in this newsletter, issued twice a month.

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Editors

• Matthijs de Winter (Editor in Chief)
• Leslie Jakobs (Managing Editor)
• Lars Bilke (Production Officer)
• Lynn Schreyer (Assistant Editor, Research Spotlights)
• Serveh Kamrava (Assistant Editor, Social Media)

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