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Acknowledgements
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Sam Dubbin
It is a pleasure to thank several individuals who contributed to the completion
of this study, and assisted me during its preparation.
First and foremost, my utmost gratitude to my supervisor Majid
Hassanizadeh. It has been an honor to be his Ph.D. student. Majid, you have
always supported me throughout my research with your insightful knowledge
while at the same time allowing me to work independently. I always enjoyed
our discussions and learned so much from it.
Furthermore, I would like to thank Ruud Schotting for all his support. I am
grateful to Toon Leijnse and Sjoerd van der Zee from Wageningen University
for their valuable advice on numerical simulations and pore scale modeling. A
sincere gratitude to Scott Bradford from USDA, for reading this dissertation.
Scott, you invited me to UC Riverside, where we had extensive discussions
about pore scale modeling of adsorption. Your wonderful hospitality made my
visit from Riverside unforgettable. I would also like to thank Brent Lindquist
from Stony Brook University for his careful review and constructive comments
on this thesis. His input greatly improved production of this book. I would like
to show gratitude towards Mike Celia from Princeton University for very fruitful
discussions we had during meetings and conferences. I would like to thank
Helge Dahle, who invited me to visit University of Bergen. We had constructive
discussions on pore scale modeling. I enjoyed being involved in NUPUS
international research training group. I had very useful discussions with Rainer
Helmig, and other colleagues from University of Stuttgart, during several meetings
and throughout my visit to Stuttgart. I would like to acknowledge Hamid
M. Nick for having useful discussions on numerical programming.
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