Saturday
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Keynote Session: The Importance of Flow and Transport Processes in the Energy and Climate Transition
Discussion Leader: Sang Hyun Lee (University of Minnesota, United States)
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm
Thomas Ratouis (Carbfix, Iceland)
"Dynamic Flow and Transport Modelling of the Injection of Dissolved CO2 into Basaltic Reservoirs for Permanent Mineral Storage"
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Transport and Flow in Porous Media, and the Impact of Climate Change and Human Activity
Discussion Leader: Alessandra Bonazzi (University of California Davis, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Nathan Jones (California Institute of Technology, United States)
"Pattern Formation of Freezing Infiltration in Porous Media"
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm
Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:05 pm
Animesh Nepal (Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA-CSIC), Spain)
"Experiment and Simulation of Quasistatic Capillary Rise in an Ink-Bottle Setup Resulting in Pressure-Saturation (p-s) Hysteresis"
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm
Kevin Pierce (University of Oslo, Norway)
"Impact of Heterogeneity on Mixing in Porous Media Flows"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Collin Sutton (University of Wisconsin Madison, United States)
"A Reduced Physics Approach for Modeling Solute and Colloid Transport in Fractured Rock"
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm
Maximilian Stoll (Eawag, ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
"Bacterial Chemotaxis in Heterogeneous Porous Media in the Presence of Nutrient Hot Spots and Flow"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Hongfan Cao (University of Minnesota Twin Cities, United States)
"Effects of Fluid Inertia and Variable-Density Flows on Mineral Dissolution: 3D Pore-Scale Simulations and Millifluidics Experiments"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Porous Solutions to the Energy and Climate Transition
Discussion Leader: Paula Reis (University of Oslo, Norway)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
David Meer (Emory University, United States)
"Highly Deformable Droplet Dynamics in a Porous Maze"
9:15 am - 9:20 am
Discussion
9:20 am - 9:35 am
Hao Wu (Cella mineral storage, United States)
"Physics-Embedded Inverse Analysis with Algorithmic Differentiation for the Earth’s Subsurface"
9:35 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 9:55 am
Alessandro Lenci (University of Bologna, Italy)
"Polymer Fluids in Fractured Media: The Effects of Complex Rheology and Heterogeneity"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Sharon Ellman (Ghent University, Belgium)
"Multiphase Fluid Relaxation Processes at the μm – cm Scale During Storage of Gases in Rocks"
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:35 am
Ingrid Kristine Jacobsen (University of Bergen, Norway)
"An MPSA-Newmark Discretization of the Elastic Wave Equation with Absorbing Boundary Conditions"
10:35 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 10:55 am
Sanjana Kamath (Princeton University, United States)
"Movers and Swellers: Using the Power of Hydrogels for Enhancing Geothermal Energy Extraction"
10:55 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Communicating Your Research to Support Solutions to the Climate and Energy Transition
Discussion Leader: Lluís Saló-Salgado (Harvard University, United States)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Research Communication
Inga Berre (University of Bergen, Norway)
Anna Herring (University of Tennessee, United States)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Complete the GRS Evaluation Forms; Election of Future Chair(s)
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes