Selected Porous Media Contributions from the 1st Iran InterPore Conference

It is my great pleasure to introduce this special issue featuring the top papers presented at the 1 st Iran InterPore Conference.The first national conference of the Iran InterPore Chapter marked a significant milestone for the country's porous media community.The event brought together more than 120 researchers, industry practitioners, and students spanning reservoir and geoenergy engineering, geotechnical engineering, environmental sciences, medical science, geothermal energy, digital rock physics, and computational modeling-reflecting the inherently interdisciplinary nature of porous media science.A defining characteristic of the Iran InterPore community is the breadth of its application domains, extending well beyond conventional petroleum systems.This special issue features the six top-ranked papers selected from more than seventy contributions presented at the conference, each representing a distinct and impactful application of porous media research in Iran.The selected papers illustrate how porous media science supports innovation across diverse fields:• Reservoir engineering -underground hydrogen storage optimization, tracer-transport characterization, and digital rock analysis.• Geotechnical engineering -modeling debris-flow interactions and understanding the behavior of cracked, deformable strata.• Geothermal energy -optimizing heat-extraction processes in enhanced geothermal systems.• Environmental and climate-related studies -analyzing coupled heat-water transfer under varying climatic conditions.