The hydrodynamics of real things are very often cases of flow in porous media. It could be a pollutant spreadining a ground water reservoir, the airflow in a raindeers nose or the sap rising in a flower.
The mission statement of PoreLab, a two-node center shared between UiO and NTNU, is to understand such processes, and provide unified descriptions of them where possible. The talk will be about the center itself and some of the topics we focus on.
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Eirik Grude Flekkøy (56) has been a professor at the Physics department since 2001. He works in the intersection between statistical physics and hydrodynamics and is a co-leader of the SFF PoreLab.
He has spent formative years at MIT, ESPCI Paris and the university of Honolulu. Apart from his scientific work he has produced several popular science- and text books.