PoreLab Courses

Bacterial Suspension Flow in Porous Media

Explore how bacteria move through porous media, examining their swimming behavior, active filtration, collective interactions, and the resulting effects on fluid viscosity and hydrodynamic dispersion.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Compressibility-Induced Destabilisation of Falling Liquid Films - An Integral Approach

Explore the mathematical analysis of compressible liquid films falling down inclined surfaces, examining stability mechanisms and wave dynamics through asymptotic expansion methods.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Flow, Transport and Mixing Limited Bioprocesses in Confined and Heterogeneous Media

Explore microscopic processes in porous media, from fluid dynamics to bacterial transport, and understand their impact on large-scale environmental phenomena through experimental and theoretical approaches.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Importance of Seepage Forces in Soil Liquefaction

Discover how seepage forces drive soil liquefaction during earthquakes, challenging traditional theories and revealing new insights for seismic hazard assessment and structural safety.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Morphologies and Growth Kinetics of Interfacial Patterns in Viscoelastic Suspension Displacement

Explore the complex interfacial patterns formed when Newtonian fluids displace viscoelastic suspensions, examining growth mechanisms and morphologies for applications in mud and cement displacement.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Viscous Fingering Revisited - General Criterion for Onset and Darcy Scale Wavelength

Delve into the physics of viscous fingering in porous media, exploring stability criteria, finger wavelength analysis, and implications for CO2 storage in deep saline aquifers through novel theoretical frameworks.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Interfacial Pattern Morphologies in Radial Displacement of Aging Viscoelastic Suspensions - Lecture 11

Explore interfacial pattern morphologies in radial displacement of viscoelastic suspensions. Analyze growth mechanisms, structural features, and correlations with fluid properties and flow conditions.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Novel Non-Equilibrium Behavior of Spin Systems - Experiments and Simulation Match

Explore novel non-equilibrium behavior in spin systems through experiments and simulations. Investigate metamagnetic anomalies in thin Co films and their origins using Monte Carlo calculations.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Microbial Behavior in Porous Media: Hydrodynamics Control on Bacterial Chemotaxis and Biofilm Morphogenesis

Explore microbial behavior in porous media, focusing on bacterial chemotaxis and biofilm formation. Discover how fluid flow and chemical landscapes impact microbial life and applications in bioremediation and biomineralization.

• YouTube
• 53 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Continuous Upscaling in Multiscale Modeling

Explore continuous upscaling methods for multi-scale modeling. Learn about gradual smoothing transformations, upscaling rules for various physical quantities, and applications to steady-state diffusion problems.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Pattern Formation in Fluid-Fluid Displacement Through Simple Porous Media

Explore fluid-fluid displacement patterns in porous media, examining reactive flows and mixed-wet systems. Gain insights into underlying physics and applications in subsurface processes.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Defect Structures and Patterns in Ultrathin Layers

Explore modeling of out-of-plane deformation in 2D sheets and bilayers, focusing on graphene and hBN. Examine applications to strained sheets, dislocation dipoles, and grain boundaries in flexible layers.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Active Reorganisation in Tissues

Explore collective cell motion in tissues, examining topology-preserving and breaking components, and their implications for wound healing, embryogenesis, and cancer metastasis.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Dispersion in Slow Capillary Force Dominated Flows

Explore multiphase fluid transport in porous media, focusing on capillary forces and their impact on solute spreading. Gain insights into computer simulations and theoretical approaches for understanding complex flow systems.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Viscously Stable Frictional Fingers in Hele-Shaw Cells

Explore viscously stable frictional fingers in Hele-Shaw cells, examining the interplay of friction, capillarity, and viscous forces in pattern formation during fluid invasion through granular media.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video