{"id":159915,"date":"2025-05-21T03:00:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T01:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/?p=159915"},"modified":"2025-05-20T14:08:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T12:08:19","slug":"phd-position-in-theory-of-multiphase-flow-in-porous-media-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/en\/phd-position-in-theory-of-multiphase-flow-in-porous-media-norway\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD – Position in theory of multiphase flow in porous media – Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NTNU has a vacancy for a PhD position in theory of multiphase flow in porous media at PoreLab, Department of Physics, NTNU. This PhD position is financed via the European Research Council\u2019s Advanced Grant Program. The candidate needs to fulfill the requirements of NTNU for obtaining a PhD. The appointment has a duration of 3 years.<\/p>\n

For a position as a PhD Candidate, the goal is a completed doctoral education up to an obtained doctoral degree.<\/p>\n

The position is organized at the Department of Physics in close collaboration with the Center of Excellence PoreLab.<\/p>\n

Your immediate leader will be the Head of Department. Your supervisor will be Professor Alex Hansen from PoreLab, Department of Physics, NTNU.<\/p>\n

PoreLab is a Norwegian Center of Excellence under the auspices of the Research Council of Norway. It was created in 2017 and it is situated at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, and the University of Oslo.<\/p>\n

PoreLab is an interdisciplinary center with joint efforts in theory, computer simulations and experiments, both in fundamental and in more applied directions. The center works to advance the understanding of porous media by developing theories, principles, tools and methods to replace ad hoc approaches to porous media with a fundamental understanding of porous media with relevance in biology, chemistry, geology and geophysics based on fluid mechanics, non-equilibrium thermodynamics and statistical mechanics.<\/p>\n

The position forms part of the ERC project AGIPORE, which aims to derive effective equations describing the simultaneous flow of immiscible fluids in porous media at length scales where the porous medium appears continuous.\u00a0This is accomplished by constructing a version of statistical mechanics that takes the physical processes at the pore scale as a starting point.\u00a0 This leads to emergent variables at the continuum scale.\u00a0 These emergent variables need to be connected to variables that are observable in the laboratory.\u00a0 Of special interest is the information entropy that characterizes the flow distribution, velocity distribution and the geometry of the porous medium itself at the continuum scale.\u00a0 Accompanying the information entropy is a temperature-like emergent variable. There is a connection between this variable and the pressure gradient that drives the flow, which is still unknown.\u00a0 It is the aim of the PhD project to establish interpretation and relationships between emergent variables such as the one described.<\/p>\n

The student will be required to write academic papers and submit them to international scientific journals, and participate as well in international scientific conferences. She\/he will be required to complete the mandatory courses for the PhD, write a PhD thesis using academic papers as basis and defend the PhD when completed.<\/p>\n

Required selection criteria<\/strong><\/p>\n