We are pleased to announce that Ruben Juanes, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), and holder of the InterPore Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lectureship 2024, will give a Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lecture on "Fluids, Fingers, Fractures and Fractals: Patterns in Porous Media". The talk will take place in the framework of the SFB 1313 Pretty Porous Science Lecture Series (PPSL#62).
Date: Thursday, 23 January 2025
Time: 4 pm CET
Speaker: Prof. Ruben Juanes, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)
Lecture title: "Fluids, Fingers, Fractures and Fractals: Patterns in Porous Media"
Place: Multi Media Lab (MML), U1.003, Pfaffenwaldring 61, 70569 Stuttgart, Campus Vaihingen. If you are interested in participating in the lecture online, please contact samaneh.vahiddastjerdi@mechbau.uni-stuttgart.de
Abstract
The displacement of one fluid by another in a porous medium gives rise to a rich variety of hydrodynamic instabilities. Beyond their scientific value as fascinating models of pattern formation, unstable porous-media flows are essential to understanding many natural and man-made processes, including water infiltration in the vadose zone, carbon dioxide injection and storage in deep saline aquifers, methane venting from organic-rich sediments, and fracturing from fluid injection. Here, I review a handful of these hydromechanical instabilities, elucidate the key physics at play, and point to modeling frameworks at either the pore scale or the continuum (Darcy) scale that permit quantitative assessments of their impact at the geologic scale.
About Ruben Juanes
Prof. Juanes is a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. He has an outstanding track record of achievements and contributions to the field of porous media research, by his commitment to excellence in education and mentoring and by his exceptional skills as lecturer and communicator.
Ruben Juanes is a world-renowned expert in the field of multiphase flow in porous media. His research aims at advancing fundamental understanding and predictive capabilities of the simultaneous flow of two or more fluids through rocks, soils, and other porous materials. It combines theory, simulation, and experiments, to elucidate fundamental aspects of multiphase flow.
His contributions provide fundamental understanding of natural phenomena and have the potential to radically advance the deployment of energy systems, which depend critically on multiphase flow processes.
