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Conference dates

7.-12. April 2006

January 20, Information of pre-registered participants

February 28, Deadline for definitive registration and payment

March 1, Notification of schedule

March 19, Final information (local facilities, clothing, program update, etc.)

Preregistration and abstract submission deadline: by December 19, 2005
Preregistration is done by submitting an abstract and completing the form under ABSTRACT UPLOAD

Notification of acceptance of abstracts: by the end of January, 2006

Please use the icon templates for your abstract and submit it through the workshop website! Please indicate, wether you wish to submit a poster or a presentation in the template.

The workshop format is Gordon-type (full attendance) and the capacities of the congress facilities are limited.The fees for participants are as follows:

Accomodation for five days including full board:

Double Room: CHF 1025,- (CHF 920,- excl. VAT, CHF 105,- for VAT)
[ ca. $US 800,- | ca. € 700,- ]
Single Room: CHF 1125,- (CHF 1020,- excl. VAT, CHF 105,- for VAT)
[ ca. $US 900,- | ca. € 750,- ]

Registration: CHF 150.- [ ca. $US 115,- | ca. € 100,- ]
(includes social event + special Conference dinner)

Registration for Students: CHF 50.- [ ca. $US 40,- | ca. € 35,- ]
(Letter of institution required)

PLEASE NOTE: The number of single rooms is very limited, thus we appreciate your willingness to share a room with another participant.
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Written by az   
Wednesday, 29 June 2005

Dear participant of the congress:

Multi-scale Modeling of Flow and Transport in Porous Media
Congress Centre Stefano Franscini
Monte Verita, Switzerland
April 7 - 12, 2006

Please find below the preliminary schedule and the abstracts of the presentations.
More information and a definite program will follow in about two weeks!

Oral presentations:
The duration of an oral presentation is 15 minutes plus additional 5 minutes for discussions. Due to the large number of oral presentations (39), the chairmen and chairwomen are obliged to strictly enforce the limit of 15 minutes to give all participants the same opportunity to present their work. For a keynote, 30 minutes of presentation plus 15 minutes of discussion are scheduled.



Poster presentations:
The poster presentations are scheduled for Sunday afternoon. The posters will remain on the boards for the rest of the conference. Before the opening of the poster session, all authors of a poster have the opportunity to present the topic of the poster with ONE Power Point slide. You can upload your transparency on a laptop at Monte Verità. The poster format is A0 including both letter and landscape format

Please check carefully if your contribution has been classified as a poster or oral presentation and let us know immediately if you do not agree. In addition, control the uploaded abstracts at the homepage of the congress, http://porous-media.org

Please send all comments and questions to
Liliana Cantoreggi,
Phone:           +41 91 785 4055
Fax:                +41 91 785 4050

See you soon at Monte Verità!

For the organizing committee:
Liliana Cantoreggi

icon all_Oral_Presentations ( 2006-03-17 09:27:59)

icon all_Poster_Presentations ( 2006-03-17 09:28:52)

PROGRAM (keynotes in italic)

Oral presentations
Friday April 7th

 
evening session Physics of flow and transport
Dani Or A framework for unifying capillary, gravity and viscous forces affecting flow morphology in unsaturated porous media
Allen Hunt Percolation Theory for Flow in Porous Media

 

Saturday April 8th

 
Morning session 1 Reconstruction of pore scale geometries
Hans Rudolf Künsch Characterizing and simulating porous media on the basis of Minkowski functionals
Hans- Jörg Vogel Searching the bridge between structure and function
Morning session 2 Reconstruction of pore scale geometries
Peter Lehmann The geometrical interpretation of the air-entry value
Lyesse Laloui Structure evolution of an unsaturated double porous soil under hydro-mechanical loading
Markus Berli Linking soil micro-mechanics and hydraulic conductivity
afternoon session 1 Lab- scale testing of structures and flow
Dorthe Wildenschild Effect of pore structure on multi-phase flow - pore and lab scale experiments
Milena Cislerova Soil structure and preferential flow
afternoon session 2 Lab- scale testing of structures and flow
Anders Kaestner Imaging as a tool to investigate water flow in soil
Rene Hassanein Investigation of water distribution and flow processes by quantitative neutron tomography
Andrea Carminati Infiltration in aggregated soils: the role of the contacts

 

Sunday April 9th

 
Morning session 1 Lattice Boltzmann and other numerical methods for pore scale simulations of flow and transport
Stephane Zaleski Recent advances in Volume-Of-Fluid interface calculations
Jonathan Summers Multiphase flow in porous media - modelling microfluidic effects
Morning session 2 Lattice Boltzmann and other numerical methods for pore scale simulations of flow and transport
Jonas Tölke Simulation of multiphase flow in porous media using lattice Boltzmann methods - from qualitative to quantitative predictions
Jürgen Becker Determination of material parameters by combining pore-morphology and single phase simulations

 

Monday April 10th

 
morning session1 Upscaling
Mike Celia Impacts of Upscaling on Two-Phase Flow and Reactive Transport Systems
Majid Hassanizadeh Upscaling flow and transport theories from core to field scale
morning session2 Upscaling
Sjoerd van der Zee Upscaling nonlinear biogeochemical reactions and transport in porous media
Insa Neuweiler Influence of soil connectivity on upscaled models for unsaturated flow
David Russo Block-effective conductivity and macrodispersion in variably saturated heterogeneous formation

 

Tuesday April 11th

 
morning session 1
 Numerical modelling concepts including extended constitutive relationships
Rudolf Hilfer Physical foundations for macroscopic capillarity and fluid flow in porous media
Irina Ginzburg Lattice Boltzmann modeling with discontinuous collision components, focused on Richard's equation in heterogeneous anisotropic stratified aquifers
morning session 2 Numerical modelling concepts including extended constitutive relationships
Olaf Ippisch Hydraulic Parameter Estimation in Heterogeneous Porous Media
Panos Nikolopoulos Experimental and numerical study of heterogeneity effect on source zone dissolution using the Mass Flux approach
Simona Bottero Experimental and numerical study to investigate dynamic capillary pressure effect in two-phase flow in porous media
Sabine Manthey Discussion of dynamic effects on the Darcy scale: problem identification, simulation, and sensitivity analysis
afternoon session 1 Numerical modelling concepts including extended constitutive relationships
Patrick Jenny Multi-Scale Finite-Volume Method for Multi-Phase Flow and Transport in Highly Heterogeneous Porous Media
Ivan Lunati A local correction to the MSFV coarse-scale operator: application to density driven problems
Hamdi Tchelep Adaptive Multiscale Finite-Volume Method for Flow and Transport in Heterogeneous Porous Media (unofficial title)

 

Tuesday April 11th

 
afternoon session2 Lab/field- scale testing of structures and flow
Horst Gerke Dual-porosity compared to local 3D modelling of flow experiments in sandy mine soil with embedded porous lignitic fragments
Mathieu Javaux Explicit modelling of 3-D soil-root fluxes at the plant scale with an effective subgrid soil-root resistance factor
Rony Wallach The role of irrigation frequency and water extraction by roots on the deviation between in-situ and laboratory-measured retention curves

 

Wednesday April 12th

 
morning session1 Field- scale testing of structures and flow
Stefano Ferraris Spatial variability of soil water content as assessed by TDR, GPR and Network Analyser measurements in a field sandy soil
Heiner Stoffregen GPR-tomography: heterogeneous water flow inside a Lysimeter
Peter Germann Implications on flow geometry from dynamic patterns of soil moisture
morning session2 Field- scale testing of structures and flow
Wolfgang Durner Nonequilibrium phenomena in soil water movement
Jan Vanderborght Why it is necessary to know the structure of the flow and transport processes at the soil profile scale and how can we investigate it?

 

Poster presentations
Sunday April 9th

 
1100 - 1140 Poster summary (1 transparency per poster)
1400 – 1630 Poster discussion
Dominik Bänninger Permittivity profile retrieval along TDR traces measured under field conditions
Maik Berchtold
Hans-Rudolf Künsch		 Generating random porous media with predetermined values for the Minkowski functionals
Hartmut Eichel Effective equations for two-phase flow in porous media incorporatig micro-scale effects
Hartmut Eichel
Benjamin Ahrenholz		 Basic model comparison of a numerical drainage problem: pore scale vs. Darcy scale
Ingrid Hincapie Collapse of capillary potential during infiltration in sandstone
Sabine Manthey Two-phase flow processes with dynamic effects in the capillary
pressure-saturation relationship -- simulation
Sabine Manthey Dimensional analysis for two-phase flow on the macro-scale including dynamic effects
Alexandros Papafotiou Problem identification and sensitivity analysis for a well-controlled 3d lab-scale multistep experiment
Andre Peters Improved estimation of soil water retention characteristics from hydrostatic column experiment
Eckart Priesack Using terrain analysis and climate regionalisation to predict spatial distribution of soil attributes and crop growth parameters
Michela Rossi
Nadia Ursino		 Hysteresis of solute mixing in a macroscopically heterogeneous structure: laboratory experiments and numerical simulations
Sigvat Stensholt Modelling the corrosive effect of CO2 solutions in water using a Lattice Boltzmann method
Milos Vasin Influence of soil structure on flow of water and air -  Experimental study

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS (Part I)

Name

 First Name Institution
Ahrenholz Benjamin TU Braunschweig
Bänninger Dominik ETH Zürich
Becker Jürgen Fraunhofer Institut für Technomathematik
Berli Markus Agroscope Zürich
Bottero Simona Utrecht University
Carminati Andrea ETH Zürich
Celia Mike Princeton University
Cislerova Milena CTU Prague
Dukpa Dowchu Geological Survey of Buthan
Durner Wolfgang TU Braunschweig
Eichel Hartmut Uni Stuttgart
Ferraris Stefano University of Torino
Flühler Hannes ETH Zürich
Gerke Horst ZALF Müncheberg
Germann Peter Universität Bern
Ginzburg Irina Cemagraf
Hassanein Rene Paul Scherrer Institut
Hassanizadeh Majid Utrecht University
Helmig Rainer Uni Stuttgart
Hilfer Rudolf Universität Stuttgart
Hincapie Ingrid University Bern
Hunt Allen Wright State University
Ippisch Olaf Universität Heidelberg
Javaux Mathieu Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH
Jenny Patrick ETH Zürich
Karma (Toeb Karma) Geological Survey of Buthan
Kästner Anders ETH Zürich
Krafczyk Manfred TU Braunschweig
Künsch Hans Rudolf ETH Zürich

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS (Part II)

Name

 First Name Institution
Laloui Lyesse EPF Lausanne
Lehmann Peter ETH Zürich
Lunati Ivan ETH Zürich
Manthey Sabine Universität Stuttgart
Moosmann Yvonne ETH Zürich
Neuweiler Insa Universität Stuttgart
Nikolopoulos Panos University of Cambridge
Or Dani EPF Lausanne
Papafotiou Alexandros Uni Stuttgart
Peters Andre TU Braunschweig
Priesack Eckart GSF Institute of Soil Ecology
Rossi Michela ETH Zürich
Russo David Agricultural Research Organization
Stensholt Sigvat University of Bergen
Stoffregen Heiner TU Berlin
Summers Jonathan Leeds University
Tchelepi Hamdi Stanford University
Tölke Jonas TU Braunschweig
Trinks Steffen TU Berlin
Ursino Nadia University of Padova
van der Zee Sjoerd Wageningen University
Vanderborght Jan Forschungszentrum Jülich
Vasin Milos Uni Stuttgart
Vogel Hans-Jörg UFZ Leipzig
Wallach Rony Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Wildenschild Dorthe Oregon State University
Zaleski Stephane University of  Paris
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