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Holder of Endowed Dudley J. Hughes Chair in Geology and Geophysics

Positions:

Holder of Endowed Dudley J. Hughes Chair in Geology and Geophysics, College of Geosciences, Texas A&M University
Endowed Ray C. Fish Professor, Geology and Geophysics, College of Geosciences
Faculty Affiliate, Energy Institute, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), Division of Research

Research Areas:

Heat--Transmission, Hydrogeology--Mathematical models, Soil physics, Groundwater--Pollution, Landslide hazard analysis, Zone of aeration, Groundwater, Water resources development

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zhan@tamu.edu

1 979 862 7961

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Hongbin Zhan

ORCID

0000-0003-2060-4904

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Research Areas:

Heat--Transmission, Hydrogeology--Mathematical models, Soil physics, Groundwater--Pollution, Landslide hazard analysis, Zone of aeration, Groundwater, Water resources development

overview

My teaching and research interests are primarily in fundamental processes of groundwater hydrology, flow and transport in geological formations, and their applications in water resources management and geological, environmental, and petroleum engineering. I am recently interested in unconventional subsurface flow and transport processes, with the studied media changing from permeable porous and fractured ones to much less permeable ones such as clay and shale, and the studied pore sizes also changing from millimeters to micro-meters or even nano-meters. I am interested in the following research:

1. Flow and solute transport in highly deformable low-permeability porous media

2. Interaction of aquifer with connected and disconnected rivers

3. Vapor flow and transport in the subsurface

4. Non-Darcian flow and its impact on anomalous transport

5. Coupled unsaturated-saturated flow and transport problems

6. Radial dispersion and push-and-pull tests

7. Flow and transport in sloping aquifers

8. Coupled aquifer-conduit-fracture flow and transport

9. Flow and transport in fracture-matrix systems

10. Vadose zone infiltration well

education and training

Ph.D. in Hydrology/Hydrogeology, University of Nevada Reno - (Reno, Nevada, United States) 1996
M.S. in Physics, University of Nevada Reno - (Reno, Nevada, United States) 1993
B.S. in Physics, University of Science and Technology of China - (Hefei, China) 1989

selected publications

Academic Articles166

Wang, Z., Li, Z., Zhan, H., & Yang, S (2022). Effect of long-term saline mulched drip irrigation on soil-groundwater environment in arid Northwest China. Science of The Total Environment. 820, 153222-153222.
Zhou, R., Zhan, H., & Wang, Y (2022). On the role of rock matrix to heat transfer in a fracture-rock matrix system. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 245, 103950-103950.
Yao, W., Li, C., Yan, C., & Zhan, H (2022). Slope reliability analysis through Bayesian sequential updating integrating limited data from multiple estimation methods. Landslides. 19(5), 1101-1117.
Qi, C., & Zhan, H (2022). Soil Property and Subsurface Heterogeneity Control on Groundwater Recharge of Vadose Zone Injection Wells. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering. 27(3), 04021052.
Sedghi, M. M., & Zhan, H (2021). Discharge variation of multiple springs associated with a fractured aquifer. Journal of Hydrology. 603, 127030-127030.

Chapters2

Wang, Q., & Zhan, H (2015). Chapter 10 Characteristic and Role ofGroundwater in the Critical Zone. Developments in Earth Surface Processes. 295-318. Elsevier.
Wang, Q., & Zhan, H (2015). Characteristic and Role ofGroundwater in the Critical Zone. Developments in Earth Surface Processes. Developments in Earth Surface Processes. 295-318. Elsevier.

Conference Papers8

Chen, K., Zhan, H., Burns, E., Ingebritsen, S. E., & Agrinier, P (2019). THE INFLUENCE OF EPISODIC SHALLOW MAGMA DEGASSING ON HEAT AND CHEMICAL TRANSPORT IN VOLCANIC HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEMS. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 115th Annual GSA Cordilleran Section Meeting - 2019.
Zhu, Y., Zhan, H., Burns, E., Jin, M., Manga, M., & Ingebritsen, S. E (2017). UNDERSTANDING TRANSPORT IN DIFFUSION-LIMITED SYSTEMS. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, GSA Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington, USA - 2017.
Burns, E., Zhu, Y., Zhan, H., Manga, M., Williams, C., & Ingebritsen, S. E (2016). WHERE, WHEN, AND HOW MUCH WILL CLIMATE CHANGE AFFECT TEMPERATURES IN GROUNDWATER-FED ECOSYSTEMS?. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, USA - 2016.
Chen, Z., Qian, J., Zhan, H., Chen, L., & Luo, S (2011). Mobile-immobile model of solute transport through porous and fractured media. CALIBRATION AND RELIABILITY IN GROUNDWATER MODELLING: MANAGING GROUNDWATER AND THE ENVIRONMENT. 341, 154-+.
Chen, Z., Qian, J. Z., Zhan, H. B., Chen, L. W., & Luo, S. H (2009). Mobile-immobile model in solute transport through porous and fracture media. CALIBRATION AND RELIABILITY IN GROUNDWATER MODELING: MANAGING GROUNDWATER AND THE ENVIRONMENT. 313-316.