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Flow and Transport in Permeable Media (GRS)

Gordon Research Seminar

Moving through Scales from Pore to Field Permeable Media Systems: Challenges and Knowledge Gaps

June 23 - 24, 2012
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Les Diablerets Conference Center
Eurotel Victoria
Les Diablerets, Vaud (fr), Switzerland
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Conference Description

The Gordon Research Seminar on Flow & Transport in Permeable Media is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas.

The meeting will focus on the scientific challenges of understanding multiscale phenomena of flow and transport in permeable media systems that are of fundamental importance to all problems in natural and constructed systems. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, the following areas investigated by theoretical, experimental and numerical approaches: characterization of pore scale phenomenon, upscaling pore scale processes to continuum scale, multiscale numerical methods, coupled flow and geochemical/geomechanical processes, and flow and transport in heterogeneous and fractured systems.

Related Meeting

This GRS will be held in conjunction with the "Flow and Transport in Permeable Media" Gordon Research Conference (GRC). Those interested in attending both meetings must submit an application for the GRC in addition to an application for the GRS. Refer to the associated GRC program page for more information.

Conference Program

SATURDAY
1:30 pm - 4:30 pmArrival and Check-in
3:00 pm - 3:15 pmIntroductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair
3:15 pm - 4:00 pmKeynote Talk
Discussion Leader: Anozie Ebigbo (University of Lorraine Nancy)
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm Majid Hassanizadeh (University of Utrecht)
"Capillarity in Porous Media, at Micro- and Macroscale, Revisited"
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm Discussion
4:00 pm - 5:30 pmPoster Session I
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmScaling of Constitutive Relations
Discussion Leaders: Kathleen Smits (Colorado School of Mines) and Adriano Santos (Federal University of Rio Grande)
5:30 pm - 5:50 pm Florian Doster (Princeton University and University of Bergen)
"Scale dependent coupling of hysteretic capillary pressure, trapping and mobilities"
5:50 pm - 6:00 pm Discussion
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm Robin Zhao (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Capillary pinning of CO2 gravity currents"
6:20 pm - 6:30 pm Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:50 pm Hamidreza Salimi (Delft University of Technology)
"Upscaling of fractured oil reservoirs using homogenization including non-equilibrium capillary pressure and relative permeability"
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:20 pm Karen Schmid (Heriot-Watt University)
"Universal scaling of spontaneous imbibition for arbitrary petrophysical properties"
7:20 pm - 7:30 pm Discussion
8:00 pmDinner
SUNDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 amMultiscale Modeling
Discussion Leader: Annette Stephansen (Uni CIPR)
9:00 am - 9:20 am Benjamin Faigle (University of Stuttgart)
"Adaptive modeling of compositional multiphase flow"
9:20 am - 9:30 am Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am Ashwin Venkatraman (University of Texas Austin)
"Prediction of compositional profiles for multicomponent ion-exchange"
9:50 am - 10:00 am Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am Giorgos Kourakos (University of California Davis)
"Simulation of non-point source pollution based on substructuring domain decomposition methods"
10:20 am - 10:30 am Discussion
10:30 am - 10:50 am Ali Qaseminejad Raeini (Imperial College London)
"Two-phase flow simulation at pore scale using a volume of fluid approach"
10:50 am - 11:00 am Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pmPoster Session II
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pmFrom Pore to Core Scale
Discussion Leader: Luis Cueto-Felgueroso (MIT)
1:30 pm - 1:50 pm Ran Holtzman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Capillary fracturing in granular media"
1:50 pm - 2:00 pm Discussion
2:00 pm - 2:20 pm Peter Kang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Macroscopic Modeling of Anomalous Transport on Heterogeneous Lattice Networks"
2:20 pm - 2:30 pm Discussion
2:30 pm - 3:00 pmEvaluation Period
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3:00 pmGordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm.

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