Themes

Researchers, scientists, scholars, and industrialists working in the field of porous media research are invited to submit abstracts aligned with the following themes and sub-themes 

Water, Energy, and Environment 

• Flow and transport in subsurface

• Water filtration

• Salt water intrusion in coastal aquifers

• Remediation of contaminated sites

• Managed aquifer recharge

• River bank filtration

• Storage of hazardous wastes in underground tanks

• Surface water-groundwater interaction

• CO2 sequestration

• Subsurface CO2 and hydrogen storage

• Enhanced oil recovery

• Multiphase flow in porous media

• Poromechanics

Industrial and Biological Porous Media

•  Membranes for water and wastewater treatment

• Batteries and Fuel cells

• Semiconductors

• Textiles, paper, air filters, face mask

• Adsorbents, concrete, metal-organic frameworks, ceramics

• Transport in plants

• Microbial dynamics and biofilm formation in porous media

• Biophysics in living porous media

• Mass transport and multiphase flow in living systems, tissue and organ poromechanics

• Drug delivery in the microcirculation (skin, brain, kidney, heart)