About the group

Our research covers a wide range of topics in non-equilibrium statistical physics of porous media, disordered systems and ordered systems, including deformation,  flows, transport, damage and dynamical phase transitions. 

Research activities in statistical and dynamical systems focus on fundamental physics of porous media, and multiple scale modelling of dissipative damage processes such as fracture, friction, plasticity and defect dynamics. We study transport from diffusion to turbulent flows in a variety of systems and geometries, such as two-phase flows in porous media, diffusion in viscous fingering labyrinths, pipe flows, flows between rough, open fractures,  and quantum turbulence. 

Our approach is experimental, theoretical and computational, and cross-disciplinary. The geo-physics collaboration on the physics-based modelling of geological processes PGP covers many topics from crystal growth, ice and rock deformation, to earthquakes and landslides. This activity is now overlapping with the Njord center. 

Projects

Our group has two centers of excellence (CoE): 

Porous Media Laboratory PoreLab  (Knut Jørgen Måløy and Eirik Flekkøy):

PoreLab is a Norwegian Center of Excellence created in 2017 and situated at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, and the University of Oslo (UiO). It focuses on the physics of porous media using experimental, theoretical and computational methods. It is led by five principal scientists from physics, chemistry and reservoir engineering.

Centre for Computing in Science Education CCSE (Anders Malthe-Sørenssen)

The goal of the CCSE is to include computing as a natural tool for all science and engineering students from the first semester of their undergraduate studies. Not as a substitute for more traditional approaches, but as an extension of the classical toolbox.

 

Cooperation 

Our group promotes interdisciplinary, basic and applied research. We have close collaborations with several departments at UiO, including the Department of Geosciences (PGP), Department of Mathematics (Mechanics), Oslo University Hospital and Life Science. The centre of excellence PoreLab is in collaboration with NTNU. In addition, we have many international collaborators.   

Academic programmes and courses

Our group is involved in teaching of the following courses: