Participation in the conference courses is in-person only (online participation is not possible.) Registration for conference courses can be made in conjunction with your conference registration. If you would like to register for a conference course, but will not be attending InterPore2025, please contact conference2025@interpore.org to obtain a registration form.
CONFERENCE COURSE #1: Geochemical reactions in porous media: overview and modeling basics - Instructor: Sergi Molins | Sunday, 18 May | Time: 9:00 - 12:00
CONFERENCE COURSE #2: Thin porous media and complex fluids: interactions in printing - Instructor: Nicolae Tomozeiu | Sunday, 18 May | Time: 14:00 - 17:00
CONFERENCE COURSE #3: Importance and quantification of interfaces in porous media - Instructors: Dorthe Wildenschild & Maša Prodanović | Friday, 23 May | Time: 9:00 - 12:00
CONFERENCE COURSE #4: Pore- and reservoir-scale flow simulation for geologic carbon storage - Instructor: Sahar Bakhshian | Friday, 23 May | Time: 14:00 - 17:00
CONFERENCE COURSE #1
Geochemical reactions in porous media: overview and modeling basics
Instructor:
 Sergi Mollins Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory USA |
Event Date: Sunday, 18 May 2025
Time: 9:00 - 12:00
Duration: Half-day
Location: Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town (Conference Venue)
Registration Fee: €75 (For InterPore2025 Participants) / €110 (Conference Course only)
Description:
Geochemical reactions play a key role in controlling the evolution of porous media and the properties of the fluids in the pore space. In this short course, we will provide an overview of the geochemical reactions relevant in porous media in multicomponent systems, including adsorption, aqueous reactions, microbial mediated redox reactions, and solid dissolution and precipitation. Hands-on exercises with geochemical reactive transport software will be used to illustrate the key aspects of geochemical dynamics in porous media. The trainees will learn to use geochemical models in batch and 1D systems to simulate geochemical equilibrium, kinetically controlled processes, geochemical evolution, and geochemically driven changes in porous media properties.
CONFERENCE COURSE #2
Thin porous media and complex fluids: interactions in printing
Instructor:  Nicolae Tomozeiu | Event Date: Sunday, 18 May 2025 Time: 14:00 - 17:00 Duration: Half-day Location: Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town (Conference Venue) Registration Fee: €75 (For InterPore2025 Participants) / €110 (Conference Course only) |
Description: The physical processes which regulate the interactions between ink droplets and a thin porous paper have been the subject of many studies considering both theoretical understanding and sustainable industrial applications. This course is aiming to present, as fundamentals in a nutshell, the physics of water-based inkjet printing. The edifice of this amazing course in inkjet printing is based on i) experimental studies using Optical Spectroscopy & Microscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), Automatic Scanning Absorptiometer (ASA), Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS), etc and, ii) computational simulations used to data analyze. Moreover, the latter is used to predict image quality as a print output, revealing the relation between the compositional properties (pigment distribution, layer thickness, concentration, and distribution of voids) of the ink layer and the color properties of the print. | |
CONFERENCE COURSE #3
Importance and quantification of interfaces in porous media
Instructors:
| Dorthe Wildenschild Oregon State University USA | Maša Prodanović The University of Texas at Austin USA |
Event Date: Friday, 23 May
Time: 9:00 - 12:00
Duration: Half-day
Location: Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town (Conference Venue)
Registration Fee: €75 (For InterPore2025 Participants) / €110 (Conference Course only)
Description:
Three-dimensional (3D) imaging has allowed many porous media processes to be observed in detail, providing key insights into the mechanisms that directly impact their behaviors at larger scales. We will first review the importance of interfacial (fluid/fluid, fluid/solid) areas in porous media, the basics of their quantification from the high-resolution three-dimensional x-ray microtomography data and the challenging applications such as three-phase flow or biofilms. We will then demonstrate and upload an example research dataset to the Digital Rocks Portal (https://www.digitalrocksportal.org/, to be renamed Digital Porous Media) and quantify and visualize interfaces captured in the data. This hands-on practice will include Jupyter Notebook (Python) workflows that can be run remotely within Digital Rocks Portal or on a personal laptop (they are open source applications Digital Porous Media Tools, https://github.com/digital-porous-media).
We gratefully acknowledge the high performing computing systems that will be provided by the Texas Advanced Computing Center available through the Digital Rocks Portal. This workshop is sponsored in part by NSF GEO OSE grant #2324786. As part of the NSF grant, 10 early career researchers affiliated with the US institutions will be able to reimburse $500 of their travel expenses associated with the attending the course.
Software Use and Requirements: The workshop will be a combination of presentations, literature overview and hands-on exercises. Presenters need to use and project their laptops, and a good internet connection. Attendees need to bring and use their laptops (and charge/plug them in – extension cords might be necessary) and internet access as well. Attendees will be expected to bring their laptops for hands-on exercises to either access Digital Rocks Portal or run the code independently (both options will be available). Visualization and image analysis software used in class include Python 3 programming environment (Anaconda distribution) for advanced exercises. All the open source code used in the workshop will be shared via GitHub. We do not assume working/programming knowledge for any of these software packages beyond basic familiarity with programming basics in Python (or similar language).
CONFERENCE COURSE #4
Pore- and reservoir-scale flow simulation for geologic carbon storage
Instructor:  Sahar Bakhshian | Event Date: Friday, 23 May Time: 14:00 - 17:00 Duration: Half-day Location: Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town (Conference Venue) Registration Fee: €75 (For InterPore2025 Participants) / €110 (Conference Course only) |
| Description: Carbon capture and storage offers a promising solution that entails capturing CO2 emissions from industrial sources and safely storing them deep underground within sedimentary rocks. Multiphase flow modeling is a key tool for predicting fluid behavior and long-term security of geological CO2 storage. The physics of multiphase flow in heterogeneous geologic formation, particularly in the context of carbon storage, is complex due to the need to account for coupled physicochemical processes occurring at different scales. This course will explore the underlying physics of the carbon storage at the pore- and reservoir scales. CO2 trapping mechanisms, such as capillary and dissolution trapping, and different CO2 displacement patterns will be discussed from the pore-scale perspective. Key pore-scale factors such as wettability and heterogeneity that control the macroscopic behavior of multiphase flow will be discussed, with providing relevant pore-scale simulation examples to illustrate these concepts. Furthermore, we will focus on dynamic reservoir modeling of CO2 storage in saline formations. This includes establishing reservoir models to address specific issues such as injectivity, storage capacity and security, pressure buildup, and the long-term fate of the CO2. Finally, the course will cover the modeling of CO2 leakage risk through wellbores and faults, along with reactive transport modeling to assess the impact of CO2 and brine leakage on drinking water resources. | |
