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.
| SATURDAY |
| 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
| 3:15 pm - 4:00 pm | Keynote 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 pm | Poster Session I |
| 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm | Scaling 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 pm | Dinner |
| SUNDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Multiscale 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 pm | Poster Session II |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | From 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 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill out GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 pm | Gordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm. |