Espen Jettestuen holds a PhD in solid state physics from the University of Oslo. His main research interests involve complex systems, where the topics of research have been mineral surface growth, reactive transport models, single and multi-phase flow, flow in porous media and fracture mechanics. He has experience in both using and developing numerical methods for scientific computation.
Espen Jettestuen
Senior Researcher
esje@norceresearch.no
+47 51 87 56 75
+47 932 19 697
Tullins gate 2, 0166 Oslo, Norway
Division
Energy and Technology
Research Groups
Computational Geosciences and Modelling
More information about Espen
Projects
Publications
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Conference lectureOstwald ripening of trapped gas in the presence of oil and water in subsurface storage– InterPore Norway 2023 2023
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Conference lectureSubcritical Fracture Growth Modeling in Brittle Solids– NanoHeal Meeting 2018
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Conference lectureModeling of carbonate Surfaces– EGU General Assembly 2006
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Academic articleScaling properties of a one-dimensional sandpile model with grain dissipation– Physical Review E. Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 2005
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Academic chapterWorkflow for Direct Pore-Scale Simulation of Relative Permeability and Capillary Pressure Curves with Hysteresis at Low Capillary Numbers– 2024
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Faglig foredragReactive flow during water flooding -from pore2core– JCR Symponium 2014
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Research reportJCR-7 Symposium 2014 Transaction - Reactive flow during water flooding – from pore2core– Join Chalk Research 2014
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Academic articleThermodynamics and roughening of solid-solid interfaces– Physical Review E. Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 2009
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Academic articleA multiphase level set approach to motion of disconnected fluid ganglia during capillary-dominated three-phase flow in porous media: Numerical validation and applications– Chemical Engineering Science (CES) 2019
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Conference lectureOstwald ripening of trapped gas in the presence of oil and water in subsurface storage – A level set pore-scale modelling approach– Shell Pore Scale Physics Seminar 2024
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Conference lectureThermo-Chemistry Reservoir Simulation for Better EOR Prediction– IEA EOR 34th Annual Symposium Stavanger 2013 2011
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Academic articleEvolution of a fracture network in an elastic medium with internal fluid generation and expulsion– Physical Review E. Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 2014
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Academic articleA generalized bodyforce scheme for lattice Boltzmann simulations of incompressible flow in complex geometries– Physics of Fluids 2023
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Conference lecturePore scale simulation of electro-chemical induced wettability changes in three dimensional pore scale geometries– Interpore 2017-9th International Conference on Porous Media & Annual Meeting 2017
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Research reportReactive flow at pore and core scale using the lattice Boltzmann technique– International Research Institute of Stavanger 2014
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Academic articlePore-Scale Level Set Simulations of Capillary-Controlled Displacement with Adaptive Mesh Refinement– Transport in Porous Media 2019
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Faglig foredragData availability– CSSR Partner Workshop 2022
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Academic chapterPore-scale simulation of three-phase capillary pressure and trapping on 3D rock images– 2017
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Academic articleA node-splitting lattice spring model coupled with a J-integral formulation as a fracture criterion– International Journal of Fracture 2023
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Conference lectureThe adhesion theory for dry friction– PGP internal seminar 2005
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Research reportSmart Water flooding: Part 2: Important input parameters for modeling and upscaling workflow– Universitetet i Stavanger 2022
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Conference lectureModelling of snap-off mechanisms during three-phase flow in porous media– 7th International Conference on Porous Media & Annual Meeting of the International Society of Porous Media 2015
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Conference lectureA level set approach to Ostwald ripening of real gases in porous media– InterPore2021 - 13th International Conference on Porous Media 2021
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Academic articleA Discrete-Domain Approach to Three-Phase Hysteresis in Porous Media– Water Resources Research 2021
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Academic articleDiscrete-Domain Model for Hysteresis and its Application on Porous Rocks– EarthDoc 2025
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Academic articleMicroscopic modeling of confined crystal growth and dissolution– Physical Review E (PRE) 2016
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Conference lecturePore Scale Modeling of Brine Dependent Pore Space Evolution in Carbonates– EAGE Annual Conference & Exhibition incorporating SPE Europec 2013
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Academic articleEvaluation of WSS Distributions in Pulsatile Non-Newtonian Fluid Flows Using the MRT-LB Model– Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering 2024
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Conference lectureField scale simulations using streamlines– workshop / Training school within the FlowTrans project (EU FP7 ITN) 2014
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Faglig foredragSimulating gelation of silica for in-depth reservoir plugging using IORSim as an add on tool to ECLIPSE– Møte ENI 2016
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Academic articleOn the inclusion of mass source terms in a single-relaxation-time lattice Boltzmann method– Physics of Fluids 2018
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Conference lectureSimulation of capillary-controlled three-phase displacements in realistic pore geometries– IOR-OPM Workshop 2014
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Academic articleXurography for microfluidics on a reactive solid– Lab on a Chip 2017
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Faglig foredragPore scale simulation and non-Newtonian flow– Møte ENI 2016
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Conference lectureOstwald ripening of trapped gas in the presence of oil and water in subsurface storage– The CSSR conference 2023
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Conference lectureA three-dimensional variational level set method for simulating multiphase displacements at the pore scale– AGU Fall Meeting 2012 2012
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Academic articleCompetition on the Rocks: Community Growth and Tessellation– PLOS ONE 2010
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Conference lectureQuantifying the microscopic morphology of SEM images– Annual IEA-EOR 2016
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Conference lectureSimulation of Capillary Trapping in Three-Phase Displacement Using a Locally Conservative Level Set Approach– Workshop i anledning IOR Norway 2019 2019
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Academic chapterIORSim - A Simulator for Fast and Accurate Simulation of Multi-phase Geochemical Interactions at the Field Scale– 2016
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Conference lectureSimulation Tools for Predicting IOR Potential on the Norwegian Continental Shelf– IOR NORWAY 2018 2018
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Academic articleMechanisms for trapping and mobilization of residual fluids during capillary-dominated three-phase flow in porous rock– Water Resources Research 2016
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Conference lectureOstwald ripening of trapped gas in the presence of oil and water in subsurface storage – A level set pore-scale modelling approach– Porelab Lecture Series 2024
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Academic articleMicroscopic modeling of contact formation between confined surfaces in solution– arXiv.org 2020
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Academic articleLimits to Crystallization Pressure– Langmuir 2022
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Faglig foredragValue of publicly available data, and expected added value from industry data for CSSR– CSSR Joint Industry Workshop 2022
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Academic articleDirect Pore-Scale Numerical Simulation of Microbially Induced Calcium Carbonate Precipitation– Water Resources Research 2023
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Conference lectureGrowth of complex carbonate surfaces– EGU 2006
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Conference lectureDiscrete-Domain Model for Hysteresis and its Application on Porous Rocks– IOR+ 2025 - 23rd European Symposium on IOR 2025
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Conference lectureNUMERICAL SIMULATION OF CAPILLARY-CONTROLLED THREE-PHASE DISPLACEMENTS ON 3D ROCK IMAGES– International Symposium of the Society of Core Analysts 2014
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Faglig foredragNumerical Modelling of Wettability– Wettability workshop 2019
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Academic articleAn improved lattice Boltzmann method for simulating advective–diffusive processes in fluids– Journal of Computational Physics 2017
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Academic chapterMineral Dissolution and Precipitation Rate Laws Predicted from Reactive Pore Scale Simulations– 2017
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Research reportReactive flow during water flooding – from pore to core, Quartely report 2, 2014– Join Chalk Research 2014
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Academic articleImproved Lattice Boltzmann Models for Precipitation and Dissolution– Transport in Porous Media 2014
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Academic articleClassification of fracture patterns by heterogeneity and topology– Europhysics letters 2014
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Conference lectureSimulation of capillary-dominated three-phase flow experiments on 3-D bead packs– Interpore 2019 2019
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Academic articleA dissolution model that accounts for coverage of mineral surfaces by precipitation in core floods– Advances in Water Resources 2016
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Academic articleA level set method for simulating capillary-controlled displacements at the pore scale with nonzero contact angle– Water Resources Research 2013
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Conference lectureWater weakening of chalk at realistic reservoir conditions– JCR-7 Symposium 2014 2014
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Academic articleStress-driven phase transformation and the roughening of solid-solid interfaces– Physical Review Letters 2008
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Conference lectureNumerical investigations of particle suspensions– The 33rd IGC 2008
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Conference lectureChemical and mechanical alteration of chalk - from pore to field– Workshop / Training school within the FlowTrans project (EU FP7 ITN) 2013
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Conference lectureResearch at IRIS: secondment opportunities– Workshop / Training school within the FlowTrans project (EU FP7 ITN) 2014
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Academic articleA node-splitting discrete element model for fluid-structure interaction– Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 2014
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Academic articleEffects of hematocrit and non-Newtonian blood rheology on pulsatile wall shear stress distributions in vascular anomalies: A multiple relaxation time lattice Boltzmann approach– Physics of Fluids 2024
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Academic chapterIntegration of IOR Research Projects through Generic Case Studies– 2017
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Academic articleDissolution–precipitation recrystallization of miscut crystal surfaces under stress– Journal of Crystal Growth 2009
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Academic articleConstrained optimization of offshore wind turbine positions under uncertain wind conditions with correlated data– Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS) 2023
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Academic chapterDynamic Torque and Drag Model Coupled With Transient Hydraulic– 2023
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Academic articleGrowth and characterization of complex mineral surfaces– Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2006
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Conference lectureCombining in situ Interferometry and Kinetic Monte Carlo to Study Mechanisms of Nanoconfined Crystallization– Goldschmidt2016 2016
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Faglig foredragEnergy-efficient and effective reservoir drainage– CSSR Partner Workshop 2022
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Conference lectureA study on the effect of pore goemetry on mineral changes– Goldschmidt conference 2011 2011
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Academic articleStress driven stress transformation and the roughening of solid-solid interfaces– Physical Review Letters 2008
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Academic articlePore-scale Ostwald ripening of gas bubbles in the presence of oil and water in porous media– Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 2023
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Academic articleEnhanced double distribution function lattice Boltzmann method for simulation of viscoelastic and shear-thinning fluids flow– Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics 2025
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Faglig foredragPore scale simulation of electro-chemically induced wettability changes– 9th International Conference on Porous Media & Annual Meeting 2017
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Conference lectureA FULLY COUPLED GEOCHEMICAL MODEL WITH A PORE SCALE LATTICE BOLTZMANN SIMULATOR - PRINCIPLES AND FIRST RESULTS– Society of Core Analysts 2010 International Symposium 2010
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Faglig foredragChalk-calcite-microfluidic experiments: construction and flooding of microsystems with reactive fluids, oral presentation– IOR workshop 2015, Stavanger, Norway 2015
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Conference lectureLevel-set simulation of capillary-controlled displacement on the pore scale with mixed wettability– 8th International Conference on Porous Media and Annual Meeting (Interpore 8) 2016
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Academic articleOstwald ripening of gas bubbles in porous media: Impact of pore geometry and spatial bubble distribution– Advances in Water Resources 2024
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Faglig foredragSimple models for travertine structurs– Local seminar at PGP (UiO) 2005
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Conference lectureApplication to viscous force on a non-uniform pipe diameter with variable flowrate– 6nDOF Transient Torque & Drag Workshop 2023
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Academic articleA level set approach to Ostwald ripening of trapped gas bubbles in porous media– Transport in Porous Media 2022
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Conference lectureOstwald ripening: Bubble distribution evolution in porous media– SIAM 2023 - Conference on Mathematical & Computational issues in the Geosciences 2023
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Conference lecturePore-scale Ostwald ripening of residually trapped CO2 in the presence of oil and water at immiscible and near-miscible conditions– Interpore 2023 2023
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Conference lectureReactive flow simulations: one-to-one comparison with experiments– EGU General Assembly 2014
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Conference lectureUHP PTtime loops: A record of ultradeep subduction or tectonic overpressure?– International Eclogite Conference 2005
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Conference lectureOstwald ripening of trapped gas in the presence of oil and water in subsurface storage– InterPore Norway 2023 2023
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Conference lectureA variational level set method for simulation of capillary-controlled displacements– XIX International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources 2012
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Academic articleEvaluation of the non-Newtonian lattice Boltzmann model coupled with off-grid bounce-back scheme: Wall shear stress distributions in Ostwald-de Waele fluids flow– Physical Review E (PRE) 2024
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Academic articleRipening of Capillary-Trapped CO2 Ganglia Surrounded by Oil and Water at the Pore Scale: Impact of Reservoir Pressure and Wettability– Energy & Fuels 2024
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Academic articleDynamic capillary pressure curves from pore-scale modeling in mixed-wet-rock images– SPE Journal 2013
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Conference lectureComputation of three-phase fluid configurations at the pore scale by a variational level set method– SIAM Geosciences 2013 2013
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Conference lectureReactive flow of brines in calcite pores using Lattice - Boltzmann– Gordon Research Conferences, Rock Deformation 2012
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Academic articleSolving the constitutive equation of dilute polymeric flows: A general Fokker-Planck approach for linear elastic dumbbell models– Physics of Fluids 2023
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Academic articleAdaptive mesh refinement in locally conservative level set methods for multiphase fluid displacements in porous media– Computational Geosciences 2023
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Conference lectureSimulation of Capillary Trapping in Three-phase Displacement using a Level Set Approach with Local Volume Preservation– SIAM Conference on Mathematical & Computational Issues in the Geosciences (GS19) 2019
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Conference lectureA pore-scale level-set approach to Ostwald ripening of gas bubbles in porous media in the presence of residual oil and water– Interpore 2022 2022
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Conference lectureVariational level set method for volume-preserving motion of a disconnected oil phase during three-phase flow in porous media– 6th International Conference on Porous Media & Annual Interpore Meeting 2014
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Academic articleAn adaptive mesh scheme of the lattice spring model based on geometrical continuity– Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering 2024
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Conference lectureInsight into core scale oil release from pore scale simulations– SPE EUROPEC featured at 80th EAGE Conference and Exhibition 2018
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Conference lectureCan we get more knowledge on solid dissolution processes using microfluidic chips?– MADICA conference (Material and applications to systems and sensors) 2016
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Conference lectureA Simplified Approach to Translate Chemical Alteration in Core Experiments to Field Conditions– International Symposium of the Society of Core Analysts 2011
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Conference lecturePore-scale level-set simulation of drainage-imbibition cycles of trapped gas during decline and incline of reservoir pressure– Interpore2025 2025
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Conference lectureA computer model for non-invasive heart diagnostics– Pumps & Pipes 10 2016
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Academic articleMorphological transitions in partially gas-fluidized granular mixtures– Physical Review E. Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 2010
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Conference lectureLevel set approach for multiphase motion with isolated ganglia on the pore scale– 8th International Conference on Porous Media and Annual Meeting (Interpore 8) 2016
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Conference lectureMineral Dissolution and Precipitation Rate Laws Predicted from Reactive Pore Scale Simulations– IOR NORWAY 2017 - 19th European Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery. Stavanger 2017
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Conference lectureCan we measure core scale properties in pore scale models? 3D imaging and pore scale modelling of carbonate rocks– IOR NORWAY 2016 2016
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Conference lectureLattice Boltzmann Simulation– 6nDOF Transient Torque & Drag Workshop 2023
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Academic articleSandstone dikes in dolerite sills: Evidence for high-pressure gradients and sediment mobilization during solidification of magmatic sheet intrusions in sedimentary basins– Geosphere 2010
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Academic articleScaling properties of European research units– Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) 2009
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Conference lecturePore Scale Modeling of Brine Dependent Permeability– International Symposium of the Society of Core Analysts 2013
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Academic articleA One-Dimensional Reactive Transport Model for Microbially Induced Calcium Carbonate Precipitation (MICP) in Phreeqc– Geomicrobiology Journal 2024
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Research reportQuantitative Image Analysis Phase II– The National IOR Centre of Norway 2016
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Academic articleExperimental and analytic modeling of piercement structures– Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Solid Earth 2010
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Academic articleDrainage fracture networks in elastic solids with internal fluid generation– Europhysics letters 2013
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Academic articleNetwork formation by contact arrested propagation– Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 2014
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Faglig foredragQuantifying the microscopic morphology of SEM microscopy images– Workshop 2016
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Conference lecturePore-scale simulation of three-phase gas and water invasion processes on 3D rock images– 9th International Conference on Porous Media & Annual Meeting 2017 (Interpore 9) 2017
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Conference lecturePore-scale simulation of three-phase capillary pressure and trapping on 3D rock images– IOR NORWAY 2017 - 19th European Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery 2017
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Conference lectureThree-dimensional level set modelling of capillary-controlled displacements in digital porous media– 2011 AGU Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union 2011
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Academic articlePrecipitation, dissolution, and ion exchange processes coupled with a lattice Boltzmann advection diffusion solver– Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 2013
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Research reportReactive flow during water flooding – from pore to core Half-year progress report 2015– JCR 2015
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Academic articleFootprints of spontaneous fluid redistribution on capillary pressure in porous rock– Geophysical Research Letters 2017
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Faglig foredragWorkflow for direct pore-scale simulation of relative permeability and capillary pressure curves with hysteresis at low capillary numbers– SPE Norway Subsurface Conference 2024
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Faglig foredragMicrofluidic experiments: construction and flooding of microsystems with reactive fluids– IOR Norway 2015 2015
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Academic articleA locally conservative multiphase level set method for capillary-controlled displacements in porous media– Journal of Computational Physics 2021
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Conference lectureSound propagation in granluar media– Internal seminar 2005
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Conference lectureModels for evolution of reactive surface area during dissolution and precipitation– European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2014
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Conference lectureThe National IOR Centre of Norway– 6th November Conference 2018
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Conference lectureDigital EOR from pore to core– FORCE Lunch & Learn 2018
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Conference lectureThree-phase fluid displacements on the pore scale: method and mechanisms– IOR NORWAY 2015 2015
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Academic articleDirect Coupling of Free Diffusion Models to Microscopic Models of Confined Crystal Growth and Dissolution– arXiv.org 2020
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Conference lectureEffects of nucleation on mineral dissolution and precipitation predicted from reactive pore scale simulations– EGU2018 2018
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Conference lectureA multi scale approach to interpret chalk core experiments– IEA Collaborative Project on EOR 2014
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Academic articleLattice Boltzmann simulations of non-Newtonian fluids in annular geometries– Geoenergy Science and Engineering 2025
