26th Anniversary Pore-Scale Imaging and Modelling Meeting
Wednesday 14th January 2026
Imperial College London in RSM 1.47 (first floor of the Royal School of Mines)
Agenda:
9:00am Wellcome coffee and Introduction (Martin Blunt)
Session 1: Hydrogen and carbon dioxide storage: from pore-scale experiments to field-scale modelling
9:20am Waleed Dokhon – The combined effects of displacement, exsolution and pressure decline in hydrogen storage
9:50am Ahmed Alzaabi: Pore-scale displacement and trapping: a comparative study of nitrogen, carbon dioxide and hydrogen
10:20am Ibrahim Alobaidan – Field-scale analysis of hydrogen storage incorporating pore-scale hysteresis models
10:50am: Coffee break
11:20am Rukuan Chai – Pore-scale dynamics and relative permeability in carbon dioxide storage
11:50am Anfal Al Zarafi – Measurement and interpretation of low carbon dioxide-brine relative permeability
12:10pm Oranan Ariyarit – How relative permeability affects the design of carbon dioxide storage in oilfields
12:30pm: Lunch
Session 2: Reactive transport experiments and modelling
1:30pm Branko Bijeljic – Introduction
1:40pm Qianqian Ma – Pore-scale mechanisms of reactive transport and carbon dioxide injection in the presence of oil
2:10pm Olatunbosun Adedipe – Flow fields in reactive transport and carbon-dioxide-cement interactions
Session 3: Pore-scale simulation and machine learning
2:40pm Sasha Karabasova: Direct pore-scale simulation of the origins of intermittency in multiphase flow
3:10 pm: Coffee break
3:40pm Ademola Adebimpe – Pore-scale modelling of Ostwald ripening: equilibrium and rate-dependence
4:10pm Yuxi Liang – Pore-scale modelling of salt precipitation in carbon dioxide storage
4:30pm Jack Ma – AI-powered four-dimensional image segmentation
5:00pm: Discussion and close
6:30pm: Consortium dinner, Polish Club