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PoreLab Center of Excellence
PoreLab Center of Excellence

PoreLab Center of Excellence
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).
We work to advance the understanding of flow in porous media. Starting from a sound basis in physics we aim for a better description of flows that range from geological to biological and technological.
Porous media are all around us. In the ground, water fills the pores of aquifers, oil is found in porous medium. Pollutants may follow rainwater into the ground which is a porous medium; where do the pollutants end up? When underground water rises during earthquakes, they may push the soil particles apart so that it looses it strength with the results that building topple. Less dramatically, but extremely importantly, the physics of porous media is at the core of fuel cell technology.