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Flow and Transport in Permeable Media (GRS)

Gordon Research Seminar

Fluid-Solid Coupling in Permeable Media

July 5 - 6, 2014
Chairs and
Bates College
2 Andrews Road
Lewiston, Maine, United States
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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 focus of this meeting is on different approaches to understanding complex mechanical, chemical, and biological couplings between the pore fluid and the solid matrix across all scales; possible topics include theoretical, experimental, and numerical approaches to problems such as geomechanics, hydraulic fracture, erosion, and biofilm growth. The program also includes a panel discussion among young scientists and engineers pursuing a variety of post-PhD career tracks.

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
1:00 pm - 5:00 pmArrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pmIntroductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pmFluid-Solid Coupling in Permeable Media
Discussion Leader: Michael Szulczewski (Aramco Services Company)
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm Martin Blunt (Imperial College London)
"A Revolution in Our Understanding of Flow and Transport in Porous Media: The Pore-Scale Basis of Coupled Transport and Reaction"
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session I
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 8:45 pmCapillarity: Measurement at the Pore Scale
Discussion Leader: Florian Doster (Heriot-Watt University)
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm Anna Herring (Oregon State University)
"Pore-Scale Fluid Topology and Nonwetting Phase Trapping During Geologic CO2 Sequestration"
7:45 pm - 8:00 pm Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm Matthew Andrew (Imperial College London)
"Reservoir-Condition Pore-Scale Imaging of Super-Critical Carbon Dioxide"
8:15 pm - 8:30 pm Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:30 pmCapillarity: Impact at the Core Scale
Discussion Leader: Florian Doster (Heriot-Watt University)
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm Jing Fan (Harvard University)
"Targeted Delivery of Chemicals in the Vicinity of Oil-Water Interface for Enhanced Oil Recovery"
8:45 pm - 9:00 pm Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:15 pm Boxiao Li (Stanford University)
"Modeling Capillary Heterogeneity in Porous Media: A Key from Core to Field Scales"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
SUNDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 9:45 amPanel on Post-PhD Career Tracks
Discussion Leader: Martin Blunt (Imperial College London)
Panelists:
  • Michael Szulczewski (Aramco Services Company)
  • Florian Doster (Heriot-Watt University)
  • Jean Elkhoury (Schlumberger-Doll Research Lab)
  • Christopher MacMinn (University of Oxford)
9:00 am - 9:15 amBrief Remarks from Each Panelist: What Led You to Your Current Career?
9:15 am - 9:45 amDiscussion
9:45 am - 11:00 amConvection and Reaction
Discussion Leader: Juan José Hidalgo (IDAEA-CSIC)
9:45 am - 10:00 am Kiran Sathaye (University of Texas Austin)
"Geochemical Dynamics of Bravo Dome Carbon Dioxide Field"
10:00 am - 10:10 am Discussion
10:10 am - 10:25 am Xiaojing (Ruby) Fu (MIT)
"Rock Dissolution Patterns and Geochemical Shutdown During Convective Mixing in Porous Media"
10:25 am - 10:35 am Discussion
10:35 am - 10:50 am David Rees Jones (University of Oxford)
"Boundary Conditions for Solidifying Porous Media"
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 - 2:45 pmCoupled Flow and Deformation
Discussion Leader: Ran Holtzman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
1:30 pm - 1:45 pm Cian Wilson (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University)
"Fluid Flow in Subduction Zones: The Role of Solid Rheology and Compaction Pressure"
1:45 pm - 1:55 pm Discussion
1:55 pm - 2:10 pm Birendra Jha (MIT)
"Geomechanics of Faults and Induced Seismicity"
2:10 pm - 2:20 pm Discussion
2:20 pm - 2:35 pm Carlos Ortiz (University of Pennsylvania)
"Rigidity in Microsphere Heaps"
2:35 pm - 2:45 pm Discussion
2:45 pm - 3:00 pmEvaluation Period
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3:00 pmSeminar Concludes

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