The ALERT PhD Prize 2012 was awarded to Thomas Blanc from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid for his PhD thesis entitled “The Runge-Kutta Taylor-SPH, A new improved model for soil dynamics problems” (abstract), and to Mohammad Monfared from École des Ponts – Paris Tech for his PhD thesis entitled “Temperature-damage-permeability coupling in clayey soils and rocks” (abstract). See more details and the winners from the previous years.
The annual meeting of ALERT Geomaterials in Aussois is over. A collection of impressions photographed by David Mašín can be found on his webpage. More news from the meeting will follow soon.
A session named Computational Models and Methods for Multiphysics Processes in Multiphase Porous Media (session code 103) will be organized by Lorenzo Sanavia and Claudio Tamagnini at the Vth International Conference on Computational Methods for Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering – COUPLED PROBLEMS 2013. This ECCOMAS thematic conference and IACM Special Interest Conference celebrating the 60th birthday of Professor Eugenio Oñate, will be held in Ibiza Island, Spain, June 17-19, 2013. Continue reading
A mini-symposium on Micro-scale and field-scale modeling of underground storage of wastes and hydrocarbons will be organized within the 5th Biot Conference on Poromechanics. For details, see http://biot2013.conf.tuwien.ac.at/programme/mini-symposia.html.