BANEBRYTENDE-BANEBRYTENDE

SCAL3D - Exploring Scaling Laws for Drainage in 3D Porous Media

The displacement of gases and liquids in porous media is present in several everyday circumstances, such as water soaking into a dry paper towel or water leaving the fabric of drying clothes. These apparently simple situations conceal complex flow phenomena at the microscale, as the interface bet...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Nanoscale controls of reaction-induced fracturing from first principles

The oceanic crust, the part of the Earth's crust that lies beneath the ocean, is subject to chemical reactions. Seawater flows in and reacts with dry rocks like peridotite and basalt. When these rocks react with water, new minerals are formed with a larger volume than the original minerals. This ...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Mineralization as a fluid mixing process

Mineralization, the process where minerals form from dissolved elements, plays a crucial role in many environmental, geological, and engineering processes. Although scientists have a good grasp of the basic chemistry behind mineralization, how it interacts with fluid flow in rocks and porous mate...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Uncovering the coupled fluid and solid dynamics driving highly-localized rupture in geomaterials (UNLOC)

Earthquakes, glacier collapses, land and rock slides; many of the various kinds of unpredictable natural disasters are preceded by a rupture running through rock mass or sediments. In UNLOC, we will study the physical similarities at the origin of these different kinds of catastrophic failure and...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Conditions for earthquake nucleation in the lower crust

Earthquake initiation within the deep crust requires very high stresses, which are not expected elsewhere in the Earth’s crust. Several mechanisms have been proposed to generate these unusually high stresses, but direct measurements are lacking. This is a fundamental gap of knowledge, because mod...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

BEYOND ELASTICITY - How inelastic properties of crustal rocks control the propagation of dykes and sills in volcanic plumbing systems

Understanding the dynamics of volcanoes’ roots is of paramount important to predict volcanic eruptions, assess volcanic hazards, and explore for natural resources (geothermal, ore deposits, hydrocarbons) associated with active and ancient volcanoes. The main conduits transporting magmas in volcan...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

INTSAMARBEID-INTSAMARBEID

Tracking geophysical and geodetic signals of magma-structure coupling using analog and numerical modelling

The aim of this project is to establish a novel collaboration in order to reconcile several research approaches in volcanology, namely geophysics in active volcanoes, and field geology in exhumed extinct volcanoes and physical modelling of magma emplacement. Dykes are the most fundamental magma p...

Awarded: NOK 21,775

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove