Scientific Programme - InterPore Event Management (Indico) · Various applications of societal and technological relevance involve flow, (multi-phase) transport, deformation or reaction

InterPore2020

Monday 31 August 2020 - Friday 04 September 2020

Scientific Programme

InterPore2020 / Scientific Programme Sunday 19 July 2020

InterPore2020 / Scientific Programme

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(MS1) Porous Media for a Green World: Energy &Climate## Organisers ##(1) Sarah Gasda, NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, Norway(2) Sebastian Geiger, Heriot-Watt University, UK(3) Bo Guo, University of Arizona, USA(4) Hadi Hajibeygi, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands(5) Rainer Helmig, Stuttgart University, Germany

## Summary ##Porous media science and engineering has played an important historical role in the developmentof the current global energy system through the production of oil, natural gas, and coal.Unfortunately, combustion of the produced fuels has led to the current climate and carbon problem,prompting the urgent need to transition to a low carbon future. While renewables such as wind andsolar will play a major role in the energy transition, creative uses of natural and engineered porousmedia will also be a critical part of any viable low carbon energy system. Because fossil fuels willform a significant part of the foreseeable future energy mix, CO2 capture and subsequentsubsurface storage must play a major role in both direct carbon-capture-and-storage (CCS)projects and in negative emissions scenarios like Bio-Energy with CCS, or BECCS. In addition tolarge-scale carbon storage, more creative uses of porous media also need to be developed,including creative subsurface energy storage schemes to deal with intermittency of renewables,and novel capture technologies in engineered systems as well as naturally reactive rocks. Thesecapturing technologies also include reactive transport mechanisms for energy storage. In addition,geothermal energy production is expected to increase its contribution in the future energy mix. In allof these activities, safety and risk assessments are very important, so that societal concerns suchas induced-seismicity and surface subsidence (and uplift) are managed properly. In this session,we invite contributions on all aspects of utilization of porous media for energy and climate-drivenactivities. This can include improved methods for oil and gas production, all aspects of CCSsystems including storage in reactive rock systems as well as negative emissions involving BECCS,and new methods for subsurface energy storage including those that complement traditional windand solar. We especially invite collaborative efforts involving scientists, engineers and technologydevelopers to contribute to our mini-symposium.

(MS2) Porous Media for a Green World: Water &Agriculture## Organisers ##

## Summary ##Sustainable use of soil and water resources is crucial to preserve healthy terrestrial ecosystemsand maintaining food security. Many of the scientific and technical challenges related to theseissues hinge on understanding, controlling and optimizing processes that involve the multiscale (inboth space and time) dynamics of water and nutrients in the soil-plant system, arguably the porousmedium ‘par excellence’. With this theme in mind, this mini-symposium aims to bring togethercontributions on the physics, chemistry and biology of porous media with emphasis on applicationsto the ecohydrology and biogeochemistry of agroecosystems. Fundamental research on theseinterdisciplinary topics will provide guidance and novel solutions to improve human actions onagroecosystems and reduce their potential negative impacts. The long-lasting environmentalrepercussion of water and soil management in agroecosystems and the elements of irreversibilityon the microscale structure of soils in relation to soil degradation and salinization, groundwater


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dynamics, carbon and nutrient retention, which in turn affect plant status and productivity andultimately ecosystems conditions and human welfare, are of particular interest. We welcomecontributions toward optimal land-use management for sustainable use of terrestrial ecology andquantitative analysis of the effectiveness of applied human strategies on ecosystem managementfor food and water supply security.

(MS3) Flow, transport and mechanics in fracturedporous media## Organisers ##(1) Holger Steeb, Stuttgart University, Germany(2) Hamid Nick, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark(3) Benoit Noetinger, IFPEN, France(4) Liu Jianjun, Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, China

## Summary ##In modeling of flow, (multiphase) transport and mechanics in fractured porous media, challengesare related to the fractured structure’s impact on the processes and/or the processes’ impact on thefractured structure. Fractures may, for example, totally dominate flow-processes, and, vice versa,flow processes may alter the fractured structure of the medium, causing fractures to deform, slipand/or propagate. This mini-symposia invites presentations on advances within mathematical andnumerical modeling and experimental work related to flow, transport, chemical and mechanicalprocesses in fractured porous media.

(MS4) Swelling and shrinking porous media## Organisers ##(1) Jacques Huyghe, The University of Limerick, Ireland(2) Abdolreza Kharaghani, OVGU, Germany(3) Yihuai Zhang, Imperial College London, UK

## Summary ##Many porous media, from soils and clays to gels and tissues, will swell or shrink in response tothermal, mechanical, or chemical stimuli. The coupling between flow and deformation duringswelling/shrinking can give rise to a variety of complex phenomena, including changes inmechanical or transport properties, changes in size or shape, and the formation of fracture orwrinkle patterns. The goal of this mini-symposium will be to highlight new experiments that providedirect visualization and characterization of these phenomena, as well as new theories that harnessthe output of these tools to better model flow and transport during swelling/shrinking. Particularemphasis will be given to studies that provide a direct comparison between theoretical predictionsand experimental results.

(MS5) Biochemical processes and biofilms inporous media## Organisers ##(1) Al Cunningham, Montana State University, USA(2) Adie Phillips, Montana State University, USA(3) Anozie Ebigbo, ETH Zurich, Switzerland(4) Leon van Paassen, Arizona State University, USA


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## Summary ##Biochemical processes, including microbially driven mineral precipitation and biofilm accumulationand activity, can impact reactive mass transport and material properties of porous media. We invitecontributors to present and discuss results from microbial, enzymatic and temperature drivenexperimental and simulation modeling studies, at various scales of observation, which highlightrecent advances in this overall theme area. For example, microbially induced carbonateprecipitation (MICP) is being applied for permeability modification, e.g. improving well-bore cementintegrity and fracture sealing, in the deep subsurface along with improving soil strength andstiffness in the shallow subsurface. Improved understanding of basic biofilm process including cellattachment, growth, detachment and cell transport is needed for applications such as controllingsoil clogging and improving bioremediation of organics, metals and radionuclides. Other relevanttopics include engineered biogenic gas production and its effects on porous materials along withfurther understanding of the formation, retention, transport, and performance of biochemicalreaction products and by-products in both shallow and deep subsurface applications. Case studiesare encouraged along with studies which combine experimentation and simulation modeldevelopment.

(MS6-A) Physics of multi-phase flow in diverseporous media## Organisers ##(1) Aimy Bazylak, University of Toronto, Canada(2) Steffen Berg, Shell Global Solutions International B.V., The Netherlands(3) Yaniv Edery, Technion, Israel(4) Ryan Armstrong, University of New South Wales, Australia(5) Holger Ott, University of Leoben, Austria

## Summary ##The investigation of multiphase flow in porous media is relevant to many different disciplines andtypes of porous media, ranging from subsurface application areas, encompassing soil physics,contaminant hydrology, and petroleum engineering, to material science applications, such asmembranes and fuel cells. From a practical perspective, it is often desirable to establishrelationships between microstructural and surface properties of the porous medium, fluidproperties, and Darcy scale effective properties. However, much past research has focused ondescription of multiphase flow behavior at the Darcy scale, with purely phenomenological links tomicroscopic details and porous medium/fluid properties. Thanks to progress in imaging andnumerical modelling in the past decade, our understanding of the displacement physics at the poreand meso-scale has tremendously improved. The purpose of this mini-symposium is to explorerecent insights into multiphase displacement physics through experiment, modelling, and theory,with applications to a range of disciplines and materials. Examples of potential topics of interestinclude:• characterization of flow regimes and associated characteristic length and time scales, rangingfrom pore to Darcy scale• phenomenological and thermodynamic frameworks for upscaling from the pore to Darcy scales• applications to flexible materials• applications to spatially heterogeneous wettability conditions• applications involving complex / non-Newtonian fluids• investigation of pore-scale and upscaling of dynamic capillary effects


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(MS6-B) Interfacial phenomena in multiphasesystems## Organisers ##(1) Hai Sun, China University of Petroleum, China(2) Pacelli Zitha, TU Delft, The Netherlands(3) Grigori Chapiro, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil(4) Ke Xu, MIT, USA(5) Yashar Mehmani, Stanford University, USA

## Summary ##The existence of fluid-fluid interfaces poses numerous scientific complexities to multiphase flowproblems at different scales. This challenge is relevant to many porous media applications, inparticular in geoscience and engineering ones. Examples can be found in foam and (chemical)EOR methods, in conventional and unconventional subsurface formations. As for its specificmultidisciplinary nature, we establish a separate mini-symposium on this subject, aiming to bringtogether porous media scientists of different applications and disciplines (numerical, experimentaland real field experts) to share their state-of-the-art findings and challenges in this mini-symposium.

(MS7) Mathematical and numerical methods formulti-scale multi-physics, nonlinear coupledprocesses## Organisers ##(1) Eric Chung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong(2) Sorin Pop, Hasselt University, Belgium(3) Ivan Yotov, University of Pittsburgh(4) Peng Xu, China Jiliang University, China

## Summary ##Various applications of societal and technological relevance involve flow, (multi-phase) transport,deformation or reaction in natural (e.g. geological) or synthetic porous media. These applicationsare broad: from energy and environment to biosystems and high-tech materials. In many of thesesituations, experiments (or field observations) are either extremely costly (or even impossible) orthey are required to be complemented with models and simulations. In this context, mathematicaland numerical simulation methods are key tools for understanding processes as named above.When designing efficient simulation methods, at least two major challenges appear. The first isrelated to the fact that the mathematical models are coupled systems of highly nonlinear equations,and the second is due to the high complexity associated with porous media, e.g., highlyheterogeneous properties with scale separation (often for fabricated porous materials) and withoutscale separation (often with natural real-world porous media). The dynamic coupling of processestaking place at different scales (from micro to macro) also motivates the needs to account for allsuch multiscale aspects in the development of accurate mathematical and numerical methods. Inthis mini-symposium, we invite contributions related to the development of “advanced mathematicalmodels and related analyses” and “advanced numerical methods” including “advanceddiscretization methods” and “multiscale multilevel model order reduction techniques (multiscalemethods, homogenization and upscaling, etc.) ”, “topological model reduction for embeddedinclusions” (applied e.g. to fractures and wells), and “advanced nonlinear and linear solutionstrategies” for multi-scale, multi-component and multi-physics processes in porous media.


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(MS8) Mixing, dispersion and reaction processesacross scales in heterogeneous and fracturedmedia## Organisers ##(1) Marco Dentz, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain(2) Branko Bijeljic, Imperial College London, UK

## Summary ##An in-depth understanding of solute mixing and reactive transport is key in engineered and naturalporous media with applications ranging from the design of porous reactors to diffusion in humantissue to geothermal heat production and groundwater management. Spatial heterogeneity in poreand Darcy scale medium and flow properties leads to scale effects in system parameters (e.g.,hydraulic conductivity, dispersion coefficients, chemical rate constants) and emerging large scaleprocesses (e.g., anomalous diffusion, memory reactions, mechanical mixing) due to the interactionof small scale processes, segregation and mass transfer across heterogeneity-induced interfaces.Recent advances in experimental and theoretical approaches have shed new light into the pore andDarcy-scale mechanisms that govern these processes and their large scale quantification. Thissession addresses a diverse group of researchers investigating Eulerian and Lagrangian flowproperties, solute and particle transport, and mixing and reaction phenomena under spatialheterogeneity in fluids at rest and under single, multiphase and variable density flows on the poreand Darcy scales. It aims to bring together experimental observations from the lab to the field scalewith theory and numerical simulations to advance our understanding of heterogeneity-inducedmixing, transport and chemical reaction dynamics over a large range of spatial and temporal scales.

(MS9) Pore-scale modelling## Organisers ##(1) Martin Blunt, Imperial College London, UK(2) Stephane Zaleski, UPMC Paris 6, France(3) James McClure, Virginia Tech, USA

## Summary ##We invite contributions on all aspects of pore-scale modelling with an emphasis on new numericaldevelopments, validation against experiment, new physical insights, incorporation of advancedphysical and chemical models, and upscaling to the continuum scale. We will consider work ondifferent methods, including – but not limited to – pore-network modelling and direct simulationmethods, such as finite volume, finite element, phase field, level set and lattice Boltzmannapproaches, as well as hybrid methods.

(MS10) Advances in imaging porous media:techniques, software and case studies## Organisers ##(1) Liwei Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China(2) Adrian Sheppard, Australian National University, Australia

## Summary ##For many years, 3D imaging techniques have been applied for material characterization. The lastdecade, several advanced imaging techniques have been developing at a high speed both on the


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hardware and the software side. Because of this development and their added value, they areintensively used to study porous media for their characterization as well as to study the variousprocesses occurring inside porous media. For this mini-symposium we invite contributions thatfocus on advancements in 3D imaging techniques or 3D analysis software to study porous mediaas well as contributions that integrate these new developments in experiments and realcase-studies.

(MS11) Microfluidics in porous systems## Organisers ##(1) Hassan Mahani, Sharif University of Technology, Iran(2) Florian Doster, Heriot-Watt University, UK(3) Afshin Goharzadeh, Khalifa University, UAE(4) Yves Méheust, University of Rennes 1, France

## Summary ##Porous media research spans a very wide range of physical length scales: from micrometer up tothe km scale. However to address the large scale applications mostly the Darcy scale theories areused which are heavily based on the (upscaled) constitutive relations. Validity of thecontinuum-scale theories (e.g. Darcy's law for two-phase flow) have been seriously challenged inthe recent two decades through microscale experimental and computational research. Despiteseveral studies have been done, the impact of small, pore scale, processes on the larger scale,where system is continuous (Darcy and field scale), is still challenging and current models must beimproved. Microfluidics systems greatly improve our current understanding of small scaleprocesses taking place within tiny fluid volumes, like drops (e.g. picoliter or nanoliter), moving withinwell-defined geometries with controlled properties (like size, wettability, shape). Recently, suchtechnology has been also applied for the investigation of more complex media characterized by thepresence of obstacles mimicking porous materials. This mini-symposium aims to gatherresearchers with interest in the use of microfluidics devices for the investigation of pore-scaleprocesses that take place at the scale of individual pores in permeable media in order to highlightour understanding of their impact on the larger size phenomena such as solutes mixing, reactivetransport, electrokinetic effects and charged systems, colloids transport and filtration,microorganisms growth or mineral aggregates formation.

(MS12) Advances in modeling and simulation ofporomechanics## Organisers ##(1) Martin Vohralik, Inria Paris, France(2) Rafid Al Khouri, TU Delft, The Netherlands(3) Nasser Khalili, University of New South Wales, Australia

## Summary ##In the past decade, the numerical simulation of coupled mechanical deformation and fluid flow inporous media, shortly poromechanics, has become of increasing importance in several branches oftechnology and natural sciences. Among typical societal relevant applications of poromechanics wemention geothermal energy extraction, CO2 storage, hydraulic fracturing or cancer research. In thismini-symposium we will address recent developments in numerical solvers for poromechanics, e.g.iterative and monolithic schemes, multigrid, efficient preconditioners and (stable / multiscale / massconservative) discretization methods. In the same time new trends in the mathematical modeling ofporomechanics will be discussed. Especially, non-linear or non-stationary extensions of Biotequations, multiphase and/or reactive flow in deformable porous media, thermo-poroelasticity and


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the inclusion of fractures will be of interest.

(MS13) Fluids in Nanoporous Media## Organisers ##(1) Gennady Gor, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA(2) Patrick Huber, Technical University of Hamburg, Germany(3) Renyuan Sun, China University of Petroleum, China

## Summary ##Many porous media have characteristic pore sizes in the nanometer range. These media includenatural materials (clays, coal, and shale), concrete, as well as synthetic materials used forseparation, purification, and energy storage. In most natural or technological processes the pores inthese materials contain fluids: water in clays and concrete, hydrocarbons in coal and shale, etc. Innanopore-confined fluid, tight spatial confinement and solid-fluid interactions may significantly alterthe fluid's physical properties, causing, for example, the molecular structuring of the fluid, shifts ofthe freezing or evaporation points and the appearance of the disjoining pressure. These pore-scaleeffects necessarily lead to a change in the parameters of continuum models for fluid transport innanoporous media and poromechanics; moreover, they often require introducing new physics in thegoverning equations. The objective of this minisymposium is to provide a forum for the discussionof all possible aspects of fluid phases confined in nanoporous materials: fundamental and applied,theoretical and experimental.

(MS14) Uncertainty Quantification in Porous Media## Organisers ##(1) Shuyu Sun, KAUST, Saudi Arabia(2) Denis Voskov, TU Delft, The Netherlands(3) Zhiwen Zhang, The University of Hong Kong(4) Liang Xue, China University of Petroleum - Beijing, China

## Summary ##The goal of this mini-symposium is to provide a forum for discussion of common themes that arisein the application of stochastic (e.g., Markov chain Monte Carlo (McMC)) and deterministic (e.g.Adjoint formulation) uncertainty quantification (UQ) methods for porous media. We welcome UQmethods for all porous media applications, including flow in porous media and geophysics. We aimfor a multi-disciplinary mini-symposium which forms a basis for cross-discipline discussions of newfindings, challenges, and methods forward.

(MS15) Machine Learning and Big Data in PorousMedia## Organisers ##(1) Kai Zhang, China University of Petroleum, China(2) Bailian Chen, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA(3) Jianchun Xu, China University of Petroleum, East China

## Summary ##Recent advances in computer and data sciences have made machine learning (ML) techniques afrontier in porous media-related research. As a result, classical challenges in porous media arebeing addressed with new techniques based on ML. The aim of this mini-symposium is to present


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those most recent results and introduce new directions in porous media-related research toresearchers in our community. This session seeks abstracts in the following topics: 1) recentadvances in ML algorithms (including deep learning) with applications to porous media 2)development of computationally fast proxy models, reduced order models or predictive empiricalmodels using ML to address issues of interest in porous media; 3) other ML-related applications ordevelopments in porous media.

(MS16) Fluid Interactions with Thin Porous Media## Organisers ##(1) Nicolae Tomozeiu, Oce Technologies, Venlo, The Netherlands(2) Rui Wu, China-UK Low Carbon College, China

## Summary ##Thin porous media are extensively used in paper industry, fuel cell development, printingtechnologies, packaging, etc. Their diversity, considering structure, composition, physico-chemicalproperties, as well as their interactions with fluids are of current interest for both the fundamentalunderstanding and the industrial applications. Processes as liquid imbibition, drying, nanoparticlescarried by liquids into thin porous media structures, clogging are driving processes in oil recovery,water purification, high efficiency fuel cell, personal care products, organic membranes as well as inpaper manufacturing, printing technologies. In this mini-symposium we call for papers that focus onfluid transport through thin porous media considering evaporation, spreading, absorption, diffusion,capillary suction, clogging processes, while the media may deform due to swelling processes. Thetopics of this mini-symposium include different aspects of Thin Porous Media including: thin fibrousand granular porous media, liquid spreading, absorption /diffusion, mechanisms of liquidimbibition/drying, surface modification of fibers and implications on liquid transport,hydro-expansion and dimensional stability in presence of moisture, and from process modeling tothe real industrial applications.

(MS17) Thermal Processes, Thermal Coupling andThermal Properties of Porous Media: modeling andexperiments at different scales## Organisers ##(1) Moran Wang, Tsinghua University, China(2) Bernhard Krooss, RWTH Aachen University, Germany(3) Yingfang Zhou, University of Aberdeen, UK(4) Ruina Xu, Tsinghua University, China

## Summary ##Thermal processes (including fluid-solid-thermal coupled ones) in porous media play an importantrole in numerous applications, including unconventional energy resources, environments, industrialmaterials such as isolators, aerospace and medical engineering. At the same time, it is of greatimportance to obtain thermal properties of porous media (e.g. conductivity) and the fluids atdifferent scales, including micro and macro scales. The scope of this mini-symposia covers allstudies which deal primarily on thermal aspects of porous media, thermal coupling, and propertymeasurements in a multidisciplinary nature of analyses, modeling, experiment and field studies. Wealso include challenging fields such as geo-energy and geo-environment systems as well asinsulation materials under extreme conditions.


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(MS18) Innovative Methods for Characterization,Monitoring, and In-Situ Remediation ofContaminated Soils and Aquifers## Organisers ##(1) Christos Tsakiroglou, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece(2) Marios Valavanides, University of West Attica, Greece(3) Olga Vizika, IFPEN, France

## Summary ##The efficacy of methods used for the characterization, monitoring, and remediation of contaminatedsoils and aquifers is unavoidably associated with the multi-scale properties of unsaturated andsaturated zones. The development of innovative, and cost-effective methods for (i) mapping andmonitoring polluted soils and surface emissions from spread pollutants, and (ii) in situ soil andaquifer remediation rely on information resulting from lab-, pilot-, and field-scale tests along withprocess modeling and simulation in porous media. Toward this direction, earlier and newknowledge concerning the multiphase and multi-component transport and reactive processes inmulti-scale porous media must be handled in the light of interdisciplinary approaches (e.g. geology,chemistry, chemical engineering, physics, etc.) for understanding, analyzing, and modeling thecomplex processes involved. For this mini-symposium, we invite experimental and theoreticalcontributions that focus on the development, application, and interpretation of innovative techniquesfor the characterization / monitoring / in situ remediation (e.g. biological treatment, thermaltreatment, advanced oxidation, electro-remediation, nanoremediation, hybrid technologies, etc.) ofsoils and aquifers at a broad hierarchy of scales ranging from the pore- to the field-scale.

(MS19) Electrochemical processes in porous media## Organisers ##(1) Ezequiel Medici, Michigan Technological University, USA(2) Pablo A. García-Salaberri, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

## Summary ##The flow of electrolyte through porous media and the chemical reactions of the moving fluid with thesolid matrix, are encountered in different applications not only in nature but also by using porousmaterials in order to catalyze chemical reaction between fluids. The performance and durability ofelectrochemical devices, such as fuel cells, batteries, electrolyzes, electro-osmotic analyzers andelectro-osmotic filters, is largely dependent on mass, charge and heat transport though porousmedia. The diffusion of reactants in gas diffusion layers and catalyst layers, transport of ions inelectrolytes, species transport in osmotic membranes, and multiphase flow through thin porouslayers are among the topics that still require further research. Moreover, as the technologyimproves, new and more sophisticated porous materials are being used. These materials requirere-examination of the concepts employed to study transport in traditional non-chemicallyparticipating porous media. In this mini-symposium, attention will be devoted to the newdevelopments in characterization methods and modeling techniques addressing the challengesfound in porous media used in electrochemical applications. They include fundamental research ofthe transport resistance on the microscopic scale as well as the study of effective transportproperties on the macroscopic scale. Therefore, the aim of this mini-symposium is to provide avenue for scientists and engineers to discuss the recent advances in characterization and modelingof porous media in electrochemical science and technology. The list of topics includes, but is notlimited to, theoretical and computational modeling, and in-situ and ex-situ experiments.


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(MS20) Biophysics of living porous media: theory,experiment, modeling and characterization## Organisers ##(1) Fred Vermolen, TU Delft, Netherlands(2) Giuseppe Sciume, University of Bordeaux, France(3) Sylvie Lorthois, Toulouse Fluid Mechanics Institute (IMFT), France

## Summary ##This minisymposium will focus on modeling and characterization of living porous systems (plants,tissues, cell agglomerates, organs, etc.) and related applications in engineering sciences, biologyand medicine. Within this context, theoretical and experimental approaches based on porous mediamechanics are playing a pivotal role on understanding the behavior of such reactive multiphasesystems. Mechanistic modeling allows decrypting coupling between involved physical phenomenaand the role of biological and chemical factors, central in living systems. This is a wide researchfield because structure, function and evolution of living porous medium systems are studied at abroad spectrum of scales: from cells to tissues and from organs to the entire living system and itsinteraction with the environment. Discussed topics include (but not limited to): tissue and organporomechanics, tissue remodeling, mass transport and multiphase flow in living systems,multiphase modeling of biological tissues, tumor growth modeling, transport oncophysics, drugsdelivery. We welcome contributions from all applications of living porous media.

(MS21) Effective elastic, thermal, electrical andoptical properties of porous materials, cellularmaterials, foams and metamaterials## Organisers ##(1) Willi Pabst, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague(2) Liping Cheng, Math2Market, Germany

## Summary ##Porous materials (more precisely, those without a liquid partially or completely saturating the porespace) and their highly porous counterparts, sometimes called cellular materials or foams, can beconsidered as metamaterials, i.e. as materials of a given phase composition whose properties arecontrolled exclusively via their microstructure or internal architecture. Metamaterials of this type canbe random or periodic, wall-based (closed-cell) or strut-based (open-cell), isotropic or anisotropic,with fractal or non-fractal features, as well as containing structural elements or characteristic lengthscales ranging from macro-, meso-, micro- and nano-domains. This minisymposium is mainlydesigned for scientists and engineers interested in porous media properties other than fluid flowand permeability, that means it includes also materials with exclusively closed porosity (but is ofcourse not limited to the latter). It concerns essentially all classes of materials (rocks, ceramics,glasses, metals, polymers etc.) and addresses all scientists interested in basic research onmicrostructure-property relations, analytical or numerical modeling of effective properties of porousmedia, geoscientists interested in the effective properties of natural materials such as dry rocksamples, bioscientists interested in the effective properties of natural biomaterials (e.g. wood,sponge, nacre) or artificial biomaterials (e.g. ceramic bone tissue engineering scaffolds) as well asmaterials engineers interested in the preparation and properties of porous materials, cellularmaterials, foams and metamaterials, including those prepared by additive manufacturingtechniques (3D printing etc.).


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(MS22) Catalysis and adsorption/absorptionprocesses in porous media## Organisers ##(1) Oleg Oliev, Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics, Germany(2) Satoru Katoh, TOYOTA Central R&D Labs., Japan

## Summary ##Catalytic and adsorption/absorption phenomena in porous media play important role in manyindustrial and environmental processes. The goal of this minisymposium is to provide insight intomodeling, theoretical, numerical and experimental issues related to these processes, as well as toprovide forum for intensive discussions. Pore scale, Darcy scale and multiscale considerations willcontribute to the understanding of the catalytic and adsorption/absorption phenomena in differentapplications, e.g.catalytic converters, fuel cells, among others. Participation of researchers and practitioners fromindustry will help to learn more about the current challenges which the industry faces in this area.Synergy between developments performed in different industries and/or in different scientificcommunities is targeted.

(MS23) Special Session for Professor RainerHelmig## Organisers ##(1) Wolfgang Ehlers, Stuttgart University, Germany(2) Bernd Flemisch, Stuttgart University, Germany

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