Schedule

Large-deformation mechanics of fluids with complex rheology

October 22 - 23, 2019 (1.30-5.30pm)

Department of Earth Sciences, Seminar Rooms 1-2

Tuesday, Oct 22

1:30 - 2:15    Luis Cueto-Felgueroso (Madrid Polytech) – Wetting, hysteresis and phase transitions in multiphase flow through permeable media: insights from modeling

2:15 - 2:35    Omid Dorostkar (Oxford) - Tuning gas migration in a soft porous medium

2:35 - 3.20    Xiaojing (Ruby) Fu (Berkeley) – Instabilities and Phase Transitions in Multiphase Flow through Porous Media – a story told by gas hydrates

3:20 - 4:05    Coffee break (45 min)

4:05 - 4:50    Tal Cohen (MIT) – Growth, instability, and failure: bringing order into the chaos of natural phenomena

4:50 - 5:10    Tom Eaves (Oxford) – Compaction of fibrous porous media

5:10 - 5:30    Alexei Gazca Orozco (Oxford) – Robust Solver for Incompressible Non-Newtonian Flow

7:00 -            Dinner with speakers (sign-up required)

Wednesday, Oct 23

2:00 - 2:45    Ludovic Pauchard (CNRS/Paris Sud) – Mechanical instabilities induced by drying complex fluids

2:45 - 3:05    Matt Hennessy (Oxford) – Instability in static and growing hydrogels

3:05 - 3:25    Andrew Wells (Oxford) – Convective localisation in reactive, porous, ‘mushy’ sea ice

3:25 - 4:10    Coffee break (45 min)

4:10 - 4:55    Tobias Keller (Glasgow) – Modelling magma transport with rock failure: the effective-viscosity approach

4:55 - 5:15    Richard Katz (Oxford) – Melt segregation in deforming, partially molten rock with anisotropic viscosity

5:15 - 5:35