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International Society for Porous Media
AbbreviationInterPore
Formation2008; 16 years ago (2008)
TypeScientific society
PurposePorous material
Region served
Worldwide
Membership
48 institutions
Michel Quintard
Majid Hassanizadeh
Past-President
Laura Pyrak-Nolte
AffiliationsInternational Science Council
Websitewww.interpore.org

The International Society for Porous Media (InterPore) is a nonprofit independent scientific organization established in 2008. It aims to advance and disseminate knowledge for the understanding, description, and modeling of natural and industrial porous medium systems. It acts as a platform for researchers active in modeling of flow and transport in natural, biological, and technical porous media, such as soils, aquifers, oil and gas reservoirs, biological tissues, plants, fuel cells, wood, ceramics, concrete, textiles, paper, polymer composites, hygienic materials, food, foams, membranes, etc.

History

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In the course of 2006, researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University and Institute for Modelling Hydraulic and Environmental Systems, University of Stuttgart, under the leadership of Professor Rainer Helmig[1] and Professor Majid Hassanizadeh, respectively, developed a proposal for setting up a joint international graduate research program. The proposal was submitted to German Research Foundation (DFG) and Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), and was successfully funded. The research school started its activities on January 1, 2007, under the name NUPUS (Non-linearities and Upscaling in PoroUS Media). This project led to the idea of creating an international center for porous media wherein scientists from diverse disciplines who study porous media could exchange ideas and research activities. The European Society for Porous Media (Europore) was established in Spring, 2008. By Summer 2008, the geographical scope was expanded beyond Europe and the name was changed to the International Society for Porous Media (InterPore.) Bylaws were approved and the society was officially registered in Fall 2008.[2]

InterPore Academy was established in 2020 to promote educational activities mainly to serve industrial and/or younger researchers. The academy is organizing short courses, webinars, and workshops.

National Chapters

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National chapters are country-wide activity groups of InterPore. They form platforms for bringing together porous media researchers from academia and industry of a given country or region. A variety of activities, such as porous media workshops, conferences, short courses, are organized by national chapters. National chapters compile a list of porous media companies in their countries to be able to interact with institutions and industries.[3][4][5]

As of 2021, InterPore has active national chapters in:

  • Australia[6]
  • Benelux countries[7]
  • Brazil[8]
  • China
  • Colombia
  • France[9]
  • Germany[10]
  • Greece
  • India
  • Iran
  • Israel[11]
  • Italy[12]
  • Mexico[13]
  • Norway[14]
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Spain[15]
  • United Kingdom
  • United States (Southern)

InterPore Annual Meetings

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InterPore has organized the International Conference on Porous Media annually since 2009. General themes include: fundamentals of porous media; computational challenges in porous media simulation; experimental studies and applications involving porous media. Previous conferences have been hosted by in Fraunhofer ITWM in Kaiserslautern, Germany; Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, USA; I2M-Dept TREFLE (CNRS, ENSAM, University of Bordeaux), France; Purdue University in West Layfayette, Indiana, USA; Technical University of Prague, Czech Republic; University of Wisconsin, in Milwaukee, USA; University of Padova, Italy; University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; Technical University of Delft in Rotterdam, Netherlands; Louisiana State University in New Orleans, USA; Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain; and two online conferences (2020 & 2021.[16]) InterPore2022 is scheduled for May 30 - June 2, 2022 at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, UAE.[17]

References

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  1. ^ "InterPore Academy lecture by Rainer Helmig on 3rd March 2021 entitled "From the brain to the fuel cell – porous media are everywhere" | News | Mar 3, 2021 | Institute for Modelling Hydraulic and Environmental Systems". University of Stuttgart.
  2. ^ Schreyer, Lynn; O’Carroll, Denis M.; Ranganathan, Sridhar; Schmidt, Mattias (2019-10-01). "Editorial for Special Issue in Honor of InterPore's 10th Anniversary". Transport in Porous Media. 130 (1): 1–4. doi:10.1007/s11242-019-01330-x. ISSN 1573-1634. S2CID 201124932.
  3. ^ "Researchers Develop Method to 'Instantly Recharge' Batteries". NDTV.
  4. ^ "Congreso con avances en medios porosos". Las Provincias (in Spanish). 5 May 2019.
  5. ^ "Interpore 2019 expondrá los últimos avances en el campo de los medios porosos". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 5 May 2019.
  6. ^ "International Conference on Porous Media | Particles and Catalysis Research Laboratory". www.pcrg.unsw.edu.au. Retrieved 2021-11-17.
  7. ^ "The 4th Interpore Benelux day, 2 Nov 2020". Universiteit Twente. Retrieved 2021-11-17.
  8. ^ "BR InterPore 2019: Third Brazil International Conference on Porous Media". www.interpore2019br.lncc.br. Retrieved 2021-11-17.
  9. ^ "15èmes JOURNEES D'ETUDES DES MILIEUX POREUX - Sciencesconf.org". jemp2021.sciencesconf.org. Retrieved 2021-11-17.
  10. ^ "Review: Online InterPore German Chapter Meeting 2021 | News | Feb 3, 2021 | SFB1313 | University of Stuttgart". www.sfb1313.uni-stuttgart.de. Retrieved 2021-11-17.
  11. ^ "InterPore Israel National Chapter | Faculty of Aerospace Engineering". Retrieved 2021-11-17.
  12. ^ "IDRA16 - Opening meeting dell'Italian Chapter di Interpore | GRUPPO iTALIANO DI iDRAULICA". www.gii-idraulica.net (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-11-17.
  13. ^ "CMI". cmi.imta.mx. Retrieved 2021-11-17.
  14. ^ "Interpore Norwegian Chapter - NTNU". www.ntnu.edu. Retrieved 2021-11-17.
  15. ^ "Spanish InterPore Chapter".
  16. ^ "Chair of Reservoir Engineering Participates in InterPore 2021 - News from DPE Department Petroleum Engineering". dpe.ac.at. Retrieved 2021-11-17.
  17. ^ "InterPore Events – InterPore". Retrieved 2021-11-17.
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