engineering

InterPore

InterPore is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand InterPore rather than just read about it. In short: The International Society for Porous Media (InterPore) is a nonprofit independent scientific organization established in 2008. It aims to advance and disseminate knowledge for the understanding, description, and modeling of natural and industrial porous medium systems.

Key takeaways

InterPore belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect InterPore to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of InterPore from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

The International Society for Porous Media (InterPore) is a nonprofit independent scientific organization established in 2008. It aims to advance and disseminate knowledge for the understanding, description, and modeling of natural and industrial porous medium systems. It acts as a platform for researchers active in modeling of flow and transport in natural, biological, and technical porous media, such as soils, aquifers, oil and gas reservoirs, biological tissues, plants, fuel cells, wood, ceramics, concrete, textiles, paper, polymer composites, hygienic materials, food, foams, membranes, etc.

History In the course of 2006, researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University and Institute for Modelling Hydraulic and Environmental Systems, University of Stuttgart, under the leadership of Professor Rainer Helmig and Professor Majid Hassanizadeh, respectively, developed a proposal for setting up a joint international graduate research program. The proposal was submitted to German Research Foundation (DFG) and Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), and was successfully funded. The research school started its activities on January 1, 2007, under the name NUPUS (Non-linearities and Upscaling in PoroUS Media). This project led to the idea of creating an international center for porous media wherein scientists from diverse disciplines who study porous media could exchange ideas and research activities. The European Society for Porous Media (Europore) was established in Spring, 2008. By Summer 2008, the geographical scope was expanded beyond Europe and the name was changed to the International Society for Porous Media (InterPore.) Bylaws were approved and the society was officially registered in Fall 2008. InterPore Academy was established in 2020 to promote educational activities mainly to serve industrial and/or younger researchers. The academy is organizing short courses, webinars, and workshops.

National Chapters National chapters are country-wide activity groups of InterPore. They form platforms for bringing together porous media researchers from academia and industry of a given country or region. A variety of activities, such as porous media workshops, conferences, short courses, are organized by national chapters. National chapters compile a list of porous media companies in their countries to be able to interact with institutions and industries. As of 2021, InterPore has active national chapters in:

Australia Benelux countries Brazil China Colombia France Germany Greece India Iran Israel Italy Mexico Norway Saudi Arabia Spain United Kingdom United States (Southern)

InterPore Annual Meetings InterPore has organized the International Conference on Porous Media annually since 2009. General themes include: fundamentals of porous media; computational challenges in porous media simulation; experimental studies and applications involving porous media. Previous conferences have been hosted by in Fraunhofer ITWM in Kaiserslautern, Germany; Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, USA; I2M-Dept TREFLE (CNRS, ENSAM, University of Bordeaux), France; Purdue University in West Layfayette, Indiana, USA; Technical University of Prague, Czech Republic; University of Wisconsin, in Milwaukee, USA; University of Padova, Italy; University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; Technical University of Delft in Rotterdam, Netherlands; Louisiana State University in New Orleans, USA; Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain; and two online conferences (2020 & 2021.) InterPore2022 is scheduled for May 30 - June 2, 2022 at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

References

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with InterPore

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what InterPore claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to InterPore before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about InterPore ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of InterPore

In research: InterPore appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses InterPore in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: InterPore is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Materials science organizations, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for InterPore outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study InterPore in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what InterPore means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain InterPore out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is InterPore in simple terms?

Why does InterPore matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study InterPore?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on InterPore.