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 (annelies.vandebunte@wur.nl)

Photo by Bram te Brake