Pretty Porous Science Lecture #4 "From the brain to the fuel cell – porous media are everywhere" by Rainer Helmig

March 24, 2021 /

Due to the great demand, SFB 1313 spokesman Rainer Helmig will be giving his lecture "From the brain to the fuel cell – porous media are everywhere" again on 24 March 2021. The lecture is organised by InterPore and will at the same time be a "Pretty Porous Science Lecture"

SFB 1313 spokesman Rainer Helmig will give his lecture "From the brain to the fuel cell – porous media are everywhere" again this month due to the great demand. The lecture will at the same time take place within SFB 1313's "Pretty Porous Science Lecture" series.

Date: Wednesday, 24 March 2021
Time: 8 am CET | 3 pm China Standard Time | 3 am ET | 12 am (Midnight) PT 
Speaker: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rainer Helmig
Lecture title: "From the brain to the fuel cell – porous media are everywhere"
Registration via InterPore:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwsfuuppj8pHNyuicqo_lKDFVE5yj9EmSEw

About the lecture

Porous media are almost everywhere. The understanding of flow, transport and deformation processes in porous media is important for the optimization of fuel cells, energy storage, the prediction of landslides due to heavy rainfall or the spread of tumors in human tissue.

In the context of this lecture, we will give a short overview of the importance of porous media and show two specific examples of research applications: multiple sclerosis (modelling and analysis) and the optimization of the fuel cell as a drive technology. What happens in the porous medium "brain" if the blood-brain barrier no longer functions properly? How can research in the field of porous media positively influence the treatment of multiple sclerosis? What role does the understanding about porous media play in the context of alternative mobility forms? What significance does the fuel cell have for our climate as an alternative drive technology? This is where simulations help, because they make the invisible processes in the brain and in the fuel cell visible.

About Rainer Helmig

Prof. Rainer Helmig is the head of the Department of Hydromechanics and Modelling of Hydrosystems (LH2) at the Institute for Modelling Hydraulic and Environmental Systems (IWS) of the University of Stuttgart and is also spokesperson of the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 1313 “Interface-Driven Multi-Field Processes in Porous Media – Flow, Transport and Deformation”. His research interests include numerical studies of multiphase flow in porous media, modeling of coupling and complex structures, advanced modeling concepts for coupling of free flow with flow in porous media, etc.

Prof. Dr-Ing. Rainer Helmig, head of the Department of Hydromechanics and Modelling of Hydrosystems (University of Stuttgart)

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Pretty Porous Science Lecture #4, Rainer Helmig, University of Stuttgart
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Rainer Helmig

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Principal Investigator, Former Spokesperson, Research Projects A02 and C02, Central Project Z

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