InterPore2022 Invited Speaker: Prof. Dominique Derome

Prof. Dominique Derome, Université de Sherbrooke (Québec, Canada), will give an invited talk entitled Hysteresis of mass transport in porous media, featuring a discussion on the occurrence of hysteresis in different aspects of mass transport in porous media, including contact angle of advancing and receding flow in capillaries, occurrence of capillary condensation hysteresis at mesopore scale and hysteretic swelling of hygroscopic polymers upon sorption. The lecture will highlight the relevance of considering hysteresis in computational modeling, namely lattice Boltzmann and atomistic modeling.

Dominique Derome has been professor at the Department of Civil and Building Engineering, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada since 2019, and holds a Canada Research Chair tier 1 in Multi-scale Building Physics. She studies heat and mass transfer in the built environment, the related impacts on durability of materials and on thermal comfort of its inhabitants. Her research proposes innovative and multi-scale approaches of the highly coupled physical processes that occur in the built environment, intensively integrating advanced computational and experimental methods. This multidisciplinary research aims at developing solutions for a sustainable living environment, resilient in the face of climate change.

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