Inaugural messages
We are honored to welcome you to the first day of the 1st Iran InterPore Conference with inaugural messages from two distinguished invited speakers. Professor Majid Hassanizadeh and Professor Michel Quintard will commence the event, offering their insights and perspectives to set the tone for the days ahead.
Event Date: September 24, 2024
Time: 8:30-9:30
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| Prof. Majid Hassanizadeh, Utrecht University, Netherlands | Prof. Michel Quintard, Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse, France |
Invited Speakers
Professor Behrouz Gatmiri (Emeritus)
University of Tehran, Iran & Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, France
Title: Discussion on stress variables in unsaturated soils
Event Date: September 24, 2024
Time: 12:00-12:45
Professor Shahab Ayatollahi
Sharif University of Technology, Iran
Title: Biological systems and new research perspective in porous media
Event Date: September 25, 2024
Time: 8:30-9:30
Biography: Shahab Ayatollahi is a Professor in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran. He received his BSc and MSc in Chemical Engineering both from Shiraz University and received his PhD in Chemical Engineering in 1995 from the University of Waterloo, Canada. He has published more than three hundred papers related to oil reservoir engineering. The research works he is pioneering are focused on multiphase flow in porous media, enhanced oil recovery (EOR), rock-fluid and fluid-fluid interactions.
Professor Nima Shokri
Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
Title: Solute Transport Dynamics in Drying Porous Media: Key Mechanisms and Implications on Global Soil Salinity
Event Date: September 25, 2024
Time: 12:00-12:45
Abstract: Understanding the physics of evaporation from saline porous media is important for prediction of durability of building materials and preservation of monuments, water quality, and mineral-fluid interactions. From an environmental perspective, excessive solute accumulation in soils can lead to salinization, affecting soil fertility, plant growth, and water quality. In arid regions, the concentration of solutes near the surface may increase, potentially resulting in desertification. Drying rates from porous media may exhibit complex dynamics reflecting internal transport mechanisms and motion of phase change fronts that determine rates of drying. These interactions and resulting drying dynamics present a challenge to the prediction of drying rates and interplay among mass and energy exchange.
Biography: Nima Shokri is a Professor and Chair of Geo-Hydroinformatics at the Hamburg University of Technology. His main interests lie in creating new knowledge through research and innovation, developing new measurement tools and predictive capabilities to provide accurate understanding of multiphysics, multiscale, and multiphase processes occurring near Earth’s surface. He combines theory, state-of-the-art modelling, and experiments using cutting-edge tools such as thermal imaging, microfluidics, synchrotron X-ray tomography, satellite remote sensing, advanced machine learning, and computational fluid dynamics simulations, to cross disciplinary boundaries required to understand the complex mechanisms controlling heat, energy and mass transfer near Earth’s surface with a particular focus on the processes occurring in soil coupled with climatic parameters.
