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Porous Media Physics and Mathematics
Symposium in Honor of Pieter Raats
Tuesday, 31 May, 2011
Wageningen University
Wageningen University and Technical University Eindhoven present
Atlas (Building 104, room 1-3) 6708 PB Wageningen
Photo by Corrie de Kuijer-Raats
Porous Media Physics and Mathematics
Symposium in honor of Pieter Raats
Wageningen, 31 May 2011
09.30-09.55 Arrival and coffee/tea
09.55-10.00 Welcome
10.00-10.30 Reinder Feddes, Wageningen University
Parameterizing the soil-water-plant root system
10.30-11.00 Majid Hassanizadeh, University of Utrecht
Applications of the theory of mixtures in soil physics; including fundamental contributions
of P.A.C. Raats
11.00-11.30 Marius Heinen, Wageningen University and Research Centre
The use of matric flux potential
11.30-12.00 Sorin Pop, TU Eindhoven
Dynamic effects in the capillary pressure: travelling waves and saturation overshoot
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00-13.30 Dani Or, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ) Zurich, Switzerland
On evaporation from discrete soil pores to a boundary layer
13.30-14.00 Gedeon Dagan, Tel Aviv University
Transverse mixing at the interface between freshwater and saltwater in steady flow
14.00-14.30 Jacques Huyghe, TU Eindhoven
Load-free, mesh-free fracture propagation as a model of intervertebral disc degeneration
14.30-15.00 Wilfred Otten, SIMBIOS Centre, Abertay University, Dundee, Scotland
Network models for biological invasions in heterogeneous crop and soil environments
15.00-15.15 Coffee/ Tea break
15.15-15.45 Vahid Joekar Niasar, University of Utrecht
Electrohydrodynamic flow and transport in porous media: from pore scale to Darcy scale
15.45-16.15 Kees Rappoldt, EcoCurves, Haren
Buoyancy-driven flow in a peat moss layer
16.15-16.45 Hans van Duijn, TU Eindhoven
Steady flows in unsaturated soils are stable
16.45-17.15 Pieter Raats, Wageningen University and Research Centre
Mutualistic interaction between mathematics and soil physics
Drinks
Please: Let us know if you plan to attend ([email protected])
Photo by Bram te Brake
