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March 21, 2011 |
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ISSUE N0. 84 |
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Hydro(geo)logy Newsletter
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Universiteit Utrecht |
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The 84th edition of Hydro(geo)logy newsletter.
Cheers,
The wise learn many things from their enemies. Aristophanes.
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Workshops, Lectures and Conferences
¨ A workshop on Fluid Dynamics in Porous Media will take place from the 12th until the 14th of September, 2011, in the Department of Mathematics, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal. For more information on the workshop, please click here.
¨ A SIAM Conference on “Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences” will take place from the 21st until the 24th of March, 2011, in Hilton Long Beach and Executive Meeting Center, Long Beach, USA. For more information on the conference, please click here.
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Presentations, Visits and Conference Participations
¨ On the 10th of March, Dr. ir. Michiel T. Kreutzer from the Department of Chemical Engineering in TU Delft gave a presentation on “Multiphase flows in porous media and labs-on-chip: breakup models and wetting”. This presentation took place in the framework of the Environmental Hydrogeology Colloquium Series.
¨ Majid Hassanizadeh has been invited and has accepted to give a keynote lecture on “Continuum description of two-phase flow in porous media; rational thermodynamics approach” in the session about “Continuum description of flows and coupled phenomena” in International Conference entitled “Flows and Mechanics in Natural Porous Media from the Pore to the Field Scale” organized by IFP Energies Nouvelles. Here you may find the tentative program. For more information on the conference, please refer to the previous Newsletter issue.
¨ Majid Hassanizadeh has been invited and accepted to give a keynote lecture in the Fluid Dynamics in Porous Media Workshop. For more information on the workshop, please refer to the section on Workshops, Lectures and Conferences below.
¨ Reza Sadeghi gave a presentation entitled “Study of an applied model for virus transport in the groundwater" by R. Sadeghi, S. Majid Hassanizadeh, Jack Schijven and Thilo Behrends at the “Iranian Water Conference on Clean Water” that took place from the 2nd until the 3rd of March, 2011, in Tehran, Iran. His presentation was selected as the top presentation of the conference and he received an award certificate from the conference organizers.
¨ Majid Hassanizadeh, Muhammad Imran, Shuai Li, Qiulan Zhang, Mojtaba Mahmoodlu, Wouter van Leeuwen, Ali Sadraddini, Ehsan Nikooee and Nikos K. Karadimitriou participated in the NUPUS meeting that took place from the 13th until the 16th of March in Freudenstadt, Germany. Qiulan gave an oral presentation on “Colloid Transport Under Transient Conditions in Unsaturated Porous Media”.
¨ Majid Hassanizadeh, Vahid Joekar Niasar, Muhammad Imran, Shuai Li, Qiulan Zhang, Ehsan Nikooee and Nikos K. Karadimitriou will participate in the 3rd InterPore Conference that will take place from the 29th until the 31st of March in Bordeaux, France. For more information on the conference please click here.
¨ Qiulan Zhang, Pieter J. Kleingeld and Nikolaos K. Karadimitriou will visit Prof. Christoph Cremer and his laboratory of Applied Optics and Information Processing in the University of Heidelberg. The purpose of this visit is to perform some preliminary experiments of fluorescent microscopy on colloid mobilization in porous media with the prospect of a possible collaboration between our group and Prof. Cremer’s group.
¨ The Executive Board of Utrecht University has approved the application of N. Seetha’s from Indian Institute of Science, Banglore, India, for a Short Stay Fellowship 2011. This is Fellowship of € 5,000 for PhD candidates from an Utrecht University Partner and covers costs (e.g. ticket, health and liability insurance, accommodation) for a period of three months.
¨ Dr. Steffen Berg, who is a researcher in Shell International Exploration and Production BV in the Netherlands, will visit our group on the 4th of April. Dr. Berg is interested in getting informed on the two-phase flow experiments with the use of micro-models that take place in our lab. Our experimental setup along with some preliminary results will be presented to him and his colleagues.
¨ Mirjana Velickovic, Ph.D candidate from Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium , has been visiting our group from the 7th until the 11th of March. Mirjana gave a presentation in the framework of the Environmental Hydrogeology Colloquium Series on “Modelling flood in urban areas with an isotropic model”.
¨ Ehsan Nikooe has visited Bochum University on the 3rd of March in order to attend an International Workshop on “Characterisation of materials with inherent micro structure: Towards modelling of hydro-mechanical behavior”. Here you may find the workshop’s flyer.
¨ Ehsan Nikooe has visited Stuttgart University in order to attend a NUPUS course on multi-scale thermodynamics. The course took place from the 7th until the 11th of March, in the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering, Department of Hydromechanics and Modeling of Hydrosystems, Stuttgart University.
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Articles and Publications
¨ The article entitled “Comparison of Two-Phase Darcy’s Law with a Thermodynamically Consistent Approach” by J. Niessner, S. Berg and S. M. Hassainzadeh published in Transport in Porous Media journal is now available online .
¨ The article entitled “From local measurements to an upscaled capillary
¨ The article entitled “A hybrid finite-element finite-volume method with embedded discontinuities for solute transport in heterogeneous media” by H.M. Nick and S.K. Matthäi has been accepted for publication in the Vadose Zone Journal and is now available online.
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Miscellaneous:
¨ Majid Hassanizadeh will participate in the 39th Symposium of Research Awardees of the Alexander von Humbolt Foundation that will take place from the 24th until the 27th of March in Bamberg, Germany. Part of the program is the official conferment of von Humboldt prize to 2010 awardees. For more information please click here.
¨ Majid Hassanizadeh participates in the SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences. Majid is a member of the Organizing Committee and chairs the session entitled “IP1: Multiscale Model Reduction Techniques for Flows in High-contrast Heterogeneous Media and Applications”. He will also give presentations of Vahid and Amir, who cannot attend the conference. For more information on the conference, please refer to the section on Workshops, Lectures and Conferences below. |
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M.Sc. Students abroad
¨ Jasper Havik is currently in Kampala, Uganda, to carry out research related to his Master thesis about the fate of nutrients such as nitrate and phosphate in the groundwater in a slum area of the African mega city of Kampala in Uganda. Here you may find a short description of his research from Jasper.
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