Scaling Up and Modeling for Transport and Flow in Porous Media

Dubrovnik, Croatia, 13-16 October 2008

Contact: upscaling08@math.hr

NEWS

• Conference photo
• Conference slides are now available.
• Conference program is now available.
• Book of abstracts is now available.
• The lists of invited and contributed talks are now available.
• Instructions for oral presentation are now available.
• The conference will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Monday the 13th of October and end at 18 p.m. on Thursday the 16th of October.
• Here you can download the circular and the poster.

The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers, scientists, engineers, and students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about upscaling for modeling, analysis and simulation of flow and transport in porous media and application to problems including subsurface hydrology, petroleum exploration, contaminant remediation, carbon sequestration and nuclear waste storage.

During this conference a special session will be devoted to the 60^th anniversary of Professor Alain Bourgeat.

Selected papers from the conference will be published as a Special Issue of Journal Applicable Analysis.

Topics of the conference:

• Flow and Transport in Heterogeneous Porous Media
• Multiphase Flows
• Multiscale Phenomena
• Scaling and Heterogeneity
• Scaling in porous media, in particular
  • scaling of processes from the microscale to the mesoscale
  • the use of coarse grid descriptions in modeling multiphase flow phenomena
• Numerical Homogenization
• Numerical simulation of multiphase flow in heterogeneous porous media
• Mathematical modeling of multiphase flow in porous media

Invited Plenary Speakers:

• Grégoire Allaire, Ecole Polytechnique, France
• Tod Arbogast, University of Texas at Austin, USA
• Gilles Bernard-Michel, CEA, France
• Jacques Blum, University of Nice, France
• Guy Bouchitté, University of Toulon & Var, France
• Guy Chavent, INRIA, France
• Gregory A. Chechkin, Moscow Lomonosov State University, Russia & Narvik University, Norway
• Jim Douglas, Purdue University, USA
• Hans van Duijn, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
• Robert P. Gilbert, University of Delaware, USA
• Jérôme Jaffré, INRIA, France
• Peter Knabner, University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
• Roland Masson, IFP, France
• Andro Mikelić, University of Lyon, France
• François Murat, University Paris VI, France
• Grigory Panasenko, University of Saint-Etienne, France
• Mikhail Panfilov, LEMTA-ENSEM, France
• Leonid Pankratov, FTINT, Ukraine
• Andrey Piatnitski, Narvik University, Norway and Lebedev Physical Institute, Russia
• Olivier Pironneau, University of Paris VI, France
• Michel Quintard, IMFT, France
• Jean Roberts, INRIA, France
• Thomas F. Russell, National Science Foundation, USA
• Ralph E. Showalter, Oregon State University, USA
• Peppino Terpolilli, Total, France
• Damien Tromeur-Dervout, Université de Lyon, France
• Mary F. Wheeler, University of Texas at Austin, USA
• Yannis Yortsos, University of Southern California, USA

Key Dates:

• Registration Opens January 21, 2008
• Registration Closes June 30, 2008
• Abstract Submission: from January 21 to May 31, 2008
• Notification of acceptance of abstracts June 15, 2008

Registration and accommodation:

• Conference fee (Including Conference proceedings, Lunches, Coffee breaks, Gala Dinner)
  • Before June 1^st 2008: Basic fee is 300 EUR. For graduate students and accompanying persons the fee is 250 EUR.
  • After June 1^st 2008: Basic fees is 350 EUR. For graduate students and accompanying persons the fee is 300 EUR.
  • Payment details
• Registration form
• Accommodation and arrival to reach Dubrovnik
• Abstracts (pdf and LaTeX files, see details) should be sent by email to upscaling08@math.hr.

Organizing committee:

B. Amaziane, A. Ern, O. Gipouloux, M. Jurak, M. Kern, E. Marušić-Paloka, I. Mortazavi, R. Tapiero

Organizers:

• Department of Mathematics, University of Zagreb.
• Laboratoire de Mathématiques Appliquées de l'Université de Pau et des de l'Adour, CNRS UMR 5142
• Institut Camille Jordan, UMR 5208 du CNRS, Université de Lyon
• Groupement MoMaS 2439 CNRS ANDRA BRGM CEA EDF IRSN

Conference sponsors:

• Ambassade de France en Croatie
• Institut Français du Pétrole (IFP)
• Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, unité de recherche de Rocquencourt
• Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN)
• Republic of Croatia: Ministry of Science, Education and Sport
• Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles
• Total, Centre Scientifique et Technique

For all questions, please send an email to:  upscaling08@math.hr

Last updated: October 2008