PMRL

The Porous Media Research Laboratory within the Geotechnical Research Group focuses on i) energy geotechnics, ii) the fundamental pore scale understanding of soil behaviour and geo-related phenomena, along with other porous materials, and iii) near surface geophysics... In particular, the PMRL at the University of Melbourne, addresses shallow geothermal energy research (ground heat exchangers), coupled phenomena in porous media, including the electro-chemo-mechanical aspects of fine grained soils, and the thermo-hydro-mechanical aspects of coarse-grained soils and porous rocks, and the use of electromagnetic and mechanical waves for soil characterisation, including IoT, machine learning and robotic automation.

Also known as: Porous Media Research Laboratory

Primary location: Parkville