Plenary Debate #1 1 Hour 15 Minutes
11:30 am – 12:45 pm (CDT), UTC -5
Fluids and solids are not fully coupled in porous media
Moderator: Gianluca Cusatis
Gilles Pijaudier-Cabot
“For” the Arguement
Gilles Pijaudier-Cabot graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan in 1985 and obtained a Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1987. His research activities dealt first with damage and fracture in quasi-brittle materials, with physical aspects of fracture and later on durability mechanics, combining damage mechanics with chemistry of cement. Starting in 2004, he focused interest on the permeation properties of concrete and rocks undergoing mechanical loads, with applications to waste storage, safety of nuclear vessels, and hydraulic fracture for unconventional hydrocarbon production…
Roland Pellenq
“Against” the Argument
Roland Pellenq is Director of Research at CNRS, the French Government Agency for Scientific Research at the EPiDaPo George Washington / CNRS joint laboratory and a Visiting Professor in the department of Physics at Georgetown University in Washington DC. Roland Pellenq is a computational materials scientist with a strong interest in the physics and mechanics of micro- and nanoporous materials and confined fluids. After a Master in Plasma Physics from Aix-Marseille University (France), He obtained a PhD in Chemical Physics from Imperial College London (UK) in 1994 and received his Habilitation degree in Physics from the University of Orléans (France) in 2000…