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GIOVANNI MICHELE PORTA
Curriculum vitae
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Place and date of birth: Milano, 29/10/1981
Phone: +39 0223996256
Email: [email protected]
SUMMARY
I am currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of
Politecnico di Milano. My recent and ongoing research is focused on developing models to understand
flow and transport processes in porous media from pore to basin scale. Specific topics of research include
upscaling reactive transport in porous media, pore scale numerical modelling of reactive flows, basin
compaction modelling, uncertainty propagation and inverse modelling techniques, multiphase flow in
porous media, mesh adaptation techniques for flow and transport problems.
In 2010 I obtained a PhD (with honours) in Hydraulic Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. The PhD
work focused on the development of a numerical model for the shallow water equations coupled with an
anisotropic mesh adaptation technique. Since 2010 I participated in several research projects funded by
industrial and public bodies. In particular I have been involved in 4 projects funded by Eni SpA and I am
co-author of the related advancement reports. I am part of several scientific collaborations with national
and international partners. In 2011 I was visiting researcher at Institut Pprime, CNRS, France. From 2010
onwards I supervised the research activities of six PhD students, several master students and a research
associate. I have been reviewer for several international journal. Since 2008, I have co-authored 15 papers
in international scientific journals, 4 papers in conference proceedings. I hold the tenure of courses of
Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics at Politecnico since 2011.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
2015-ongoing: Assistant professor Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di
Milano.
2010 - 2015 Research associate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di
Milano.
2013 - 2015 Adjunct professor, School of Industrial and Information Engineering, Politecnico di
Milano.
5/2011-8/2011: Visiting researcher at Institut Pprime, CNRS, Futuroscope Cedex, France.
EDUCATION
2007-2010:
PhD in Hydraulic Engineering at DIIAR, Politecnico di Milano (with honours).
Thesis title: Anisotropic Mesh Adaptation for Shallow Water Modelling.
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2006:
Master Degree in Civil Engineering, at Politecnico di Milano, 107/110.
2004-2005: Erasmus student at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona.
PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCH PROJECTS
Modelling basin scale geochemical compaction. Funded by Eni SpA, 7/2010-6/2011, project leaders A.
Guadagnini, L. Formaggia. Related activities: development of a global sensitivity analysis and uncertainty
quantification tool for mechanical and geochemical compaction modelling at basin scale.
Water alternating gas injection. Funded by Eni SpA, 4/2011-4/2014, project leader: A. Guadagnini.
Objectives and activities: theoretical upscaling of multiphase flow in porous media from pore to
continuum scale approximations, three-phase oil relative permeability models and validation through
experimental datasets, supervision of a PhD student.
Inverse modelling of geochemical and mechanical compaction processes. Funded by Eni SpA 6/201212/2013, project leaders A. Guadagnini, L. Formaggia. Objectives and activities: development of an
inverse modelling technique for basin compaction models, detailed study of the smectite-illite
geochemical reaction, supervision of a research associate.
EU Marie Curie Initial Training Network IMVUL (Towards Improved Groundwater Vulnerability
Assessment) funded by European Union with the FP7-PEOLE-2007-1-1-ITN, 2/2011-9/2012. Objectives
and activities: direct supervision of the research work of the project fellow Sergey Chaynikov.
PRIN 2010/11 "Hydroelectric energy by osmosis in coastal areas", funded by MIUR 7/2013-4/2015,
project leader: Monica Riva. Objectives and activities: upscaling of flow and transport processes in
coastal aquifers.
Generation and migration of non-hydrocarbon components in sedimentary basins. Funded by Eni
SpA, from 5/2014 (ongoing), project leader: A. Guadagnini. Objectives and activities: Formulation of
reactive transport models for the quantification of generation and migration of non-hydrocarbon
components in sedimentary basin, supervision of a PhD student.
OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Research collaborations:
From 2015: Prof. D. Bolster, University of Notre-Dame. Research topics: upscaling reactive transport
through Lagrangian methods.
From 2013: Prof. M.J. Blunt, Dr. B. Bijeljic, Imperial College London. Research topics: upscaling solute
transport processes in porous media using information derived from imaging of pore spaces.
From 2011: L. Tamellini, Imati - CNR, Pavia. Research topics: reduced complexity models, global
sensitivity analysis and model calibration.
2011-2013: Prof. P.M. Adler, UPMC, Paris; J.-F. Thovert, Institut Pprime, CNRS, Futuroscope. Reserach
topic: pore-scale modeling of reactive flows and upscaling.
From 2008: Prof. S. Perotto, Prof. L. Formaggia, Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di Milano.
Reasearch topics: Numerical modeling of flow and transport processes, space-time mesh adaptation.
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Reviewer for international journals, among which Water Resources Research, Advances in Water
Resources, Transport in Porous Media, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Journal of Contaminant
Hydrology, Chemical Engineering and Science, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control.
STUDENTS SUPERVISION
Supervision of several Master Level final thesis projects.
Co-advisor of PhD students:
Sergey Chaynikov (Final Dissertation: 3/2013)
Thesis title: Theoretical and numerical upscaling of solute transport in porous media.
Ehsan Ranaee (Final Dissertation: 4/2015)
Thesis title: Uncertainty assessment of three-phase relative permeability models
Bahman Esfandiar Jahromi (Final Dissertation: 4/2015)
Thesis title: Mesh adaptation technique for solute transport modelling in porous media.
Ivo Colombo (expected graduation: 3/2017)
Thesis title: Inverse modelling of basin scale compaction processes.
Giulia Ceriotti (expected graduation:3/2018)
Research topic: Reactive transport modeling at various scales.
TEACHING
From 2012: Tenure of the course of Fluid Mechanics, School of Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di
Milano.
2011-13: Tenure of the course of Hydraulics, School of Construction Engineering, Politecnico di
Milano.
2008-2010: Assistant lecturer in Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics courses at Politecnico di Milano.
2007-2010: Seminars on Shallow Water modelling for the courses River Hydraulics and Advanced
Hydraulics at Politecnico di Milano, in English.
2011-2013: Seminars “Upscaling solute transport processes in porous media” within the PhD course
“Reactive transport in aquifer systems” (Prof. X. Sanchez-Vila), in English.
PUBLICATIONS
Papers in scientific journals:
1. Edery Y., Porta G.M., Guadagnini A., Scher H., Berkowitz B. (2016) Characterization of
bimolecular reactive transport in heterogeneous porous media. Transport in Porous Media, in
press.
2. Porta G.M., Ceriotti G., Thovert J.-F. (2016) Comparative assessment of continuum-scale
models of bimolecular reactive transport in porous media under pre-asymptotic conditions.
Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 185-6, 1-13.
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3. Porta G.M., Bijeljic B., Blunt M.J., Guadagnini A. (2015) Continuum-scale characterization of
solute transport based on pore-scale velocity distributions. Geophysical Research Letters, 42(18),
7537-7545.
4. Esfandiar B., Porta G.M., Perotto S., Guadagnini A. (2015) Impact of space-time mesh
adaptation on solute transport modeling in porous media. Water Resources Research, 51(2),
1315-1332.
5. Ranaee E., Porta G.M., Riva M., Blunt M.J., Guadagnini A. (2015) Prediction of three-phase oil
relative permeability through a sigmoid-based model. Journal of Petroleum Science and
Engineering, 126, 190-200.
6. Porta G.M., Lever V., Riva M., Tamellini L. (2014) Inverse modeling of geochemical and
mechanical compaction in sedimentary basins through Polynomial Chaos Expansion. Water
Resources Research, 50(12), 9414-9431.
7. Porta G.M., Chaynikov S., Thovert J.-F., Riva M., Guadagnini A., Adler P.M. (2013) Numerical
investigation of pore and continuum scale formulations of bimolecular reactive transport in
porous media. Advances in Water Resources, 62. 243-253.
8. Porta G.M., Chaynikov S., Riva M., Guadagnini A. (2013) Upscaling solute transport in porous
media from the pore scale to dual- and multi- continuum formulations. Water Resources
Research, 49(4), 2025-39.
9. Formaggia L., Guadagnini A., Imperiali I., Lever V., Porta G.M., Riva M., Scotti A., Tamellini
L. (2013) Global sensitivity analysis through polynomial chaos expansion of a basin-scale
geochemical compaction model. Computational Geosciences, 17(1), 25-42.
10. Porta G.M., Thovert J.-F., Riva M., Guadagnini A., Adler P.M. (2012) Microscale simulation
and numerical upscaling of a reactive flow in a plane channel. Physical Review E, 86(3), 036102.
11. Porta G.M., Riva M., Guadagnini A. (2012) Upscaling solute transport in porous media in the
presence of an irreversible bimolecular reaction. Advances in Water Resources, 35, 151-162.
12. Porta G.M., Perotto S., Ballio F. (2012) A space-time adaptation scheme for unsteady shallow
water problems. Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 82(12), 2929-2950.
13. Porta G.M., Perotto S., Ballio F. (2012) Anisotropic mesh adaptation driven by a recovery-based
error estimator for shallow water flow modeling. International Journal for Numerical Methods in
Fluids, 70 (3), 269-299.
14. Radice A., Porta G.M., Franzetti S. (2009) Analysis of the time average properties of sediment
motion in a local scour process. Water Resources Research, 45, W03401.
15. Radice A., Ballio F., Porta G.M. (2009) Local scour at a trapezoidal abutment: the sediment
motion pattern. Journal of Hydraulic Research, 47 (2), 250-262.
Conference proceedings:
1. Ruffo P., Porta G.M., Colombo I., Scotti A., Guadagnini A. Global sensitivity analysis of
geochemical compaction in a sedimentary basin. 1st EAGE Basin and Petroleum Systems
Modeling Workshop: Advances in Basin and Petroleum Systems Modeling in Risk and Resource
Assessment, Dubai, UAE, 19-22 October 2014.
2. Esfandiar B., Porta G.M., Perotto S., Guadagnini A., Anisotropic space-time adaptation for the
numerical solution of solute transport in porous media, submitted to SEMA SIMAI Springer
Series, Proceedings of the Fourth Tetrahedron Workshop on Grid Generation for Numerical
Computations, Verbania, 1-3 July 2013.
3. Scrofani G, Ruffo P., Imperiali I., Lever V., Porta G.M., Riva M., Scotti A., Preliminary analysis
of diagenetic effects on basin scale over pressure dynamics, International Petroleum Technology
Conference, Beijing, 26-28 March 2013.
4. Porta G.M., Lever V., Scotti A., Imperiali I., Riva M., Uncertainty propagation in basin scale
sandstone compaction modeling, XXXIII Convegno Nazionale di Idraulica e Costruzioni
Idrauliche, Brescia, 10-15 September 2012.
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PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES
Invited presentations:
1. Porta G.M., Comparative assessment of continuum-scale models of bimolecular reactive
transport in porous media under pre-asymptotic conditions, PMPM/Interpore UK joint annual
meeting, Edinburgh, 13-15 January 2016.
2. Lever V., Porta G.M., Riva M. Uncertainty propagation through polynomial chaos expansion of
a sedimentary basin compaction model, SIMAI 2012, Torino, 25-29 June 2012.
3. Porta G.M., Riva M., Guadagnini A. Upscaling solute transport in porous media in the presence
of an irreversible bimolecular reaction, Workshop: Novel multi-scale methods for porous media
flow II, Edinburgh, 14-16 February 2011.
Invited Seminars:
1. Porta G.M. Characterization across scales of transport and reactions in porous media. July 10
2015, ITWM Fraunhofer, Kaiserslautern.
Conference presentations:
1. Porta G.M., Ceriotti G. Characterization of continuum reactive transport models through pore
scale information. 7th Interpore Conference & Annual Meeting, Padova 18-22 May 2015.
2. Porta G.M., Esfandiar B., Perotto S., Guadagnini A. Impact of mesh adaptivity on the
interpretation of transport processes in porous media. International Conference on Adaptive
Modeling and Simulation ADMOS 2015, Nantes 7-10 July 2015.
3. Porta G.M., Ceriotti G., Riva M., Blunt M.J., Guadagnini A. Effective models and parameter
calibration for bimolecular reactive transport in porous media. XX. International Conference on
Computational Method in Water Resources, Stuttgart, 10-13 June 2014.
4. Porta G.M., Esfandiar B., Perotto S., Guadagnini A. Modeling solute transport in porous media
through anisotropic mesh adaptation Fourth Tetrahedron Workshop on Grid Generation for
Numerical Computations, Verbania, 1-3 July 2013.
5. Porta G.M., Chaynikov S., Thovert J.-F., Riva M., Guadagnini A., Adler P.M. Microscale
simulation of bimolecular reaction in two dimensional porous media, AGU Fall Meeting, San
Francisco, 3-7 December 2012.
6. Porta G.M., Riva M., Guadagnini A. Upscaling solute transport in porous media in the presence
of an irreversible bimolecular reaction, 3rd Interpore Conference, Bordeaux, 29-31 March 2011.
7. Porta G.M., Perotto S., Ballio F. Anisotropic recovery-based mesh adaptivity applied to shallow
water modelling, MASCOT09, Roma 28-30 October 2009.
8. Porta G.M., Perotto S., Ballio F. Recovery based mesh adaptivity for shallow water problems,
WAVES 2009 9th International Conference on Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Waves
Propagation, Pau, 15-19 June 2009.
9. Porta G.M., Perotto S., Ballio F. Mesh adaption for unsteady shallow water problems, SIMAI
2008, Roma, 15-19 September 2008.
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