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61
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11831
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2081
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659

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Albert J. Valocchi is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of engineering and environmental science, with a notable concentration on environmental engineering. Additional subfields of study include biomedical engineering, ocean engineering, geophysics, and computational mechanics.

The main topics of Valocchi's work focus on groundwater flow and contamination studies, environmental remediation with nanomaterials, CO2 sequestration and geologic interactions, advanced numerical methods in computational mathematics, enhanced oil recovery techniques, earthquake and tectonic studies, and seismic imaging and inversion techniques.

Their recent publications include:

  • "Hydraulic characterization of a fault zone from fracture distribution", 2020, Journal of Structural Geology
  • "An adaptive global-local generalized FEM for multiscale advection-diffusion problems", 2023, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
  • "A transient global-local generalized FEM for parabolic and hyperbolic PDEs with multi-space/time scales", 2023, Journal of Computational Physics
  • "Hydrologic-Economic Trade-offs in Groundwater Allocation Policy Design", 2020, Water Resources Research
  • "Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria Enhance Abiotic Trichloroethene Reduction by Iron-Sulfur Mineral Precipitates", 2022, ACS ES&T Water

Frequent publication venues for Valocchi include:

  • ACS ES&T Water
  • Advances in Water Resources
  • Groundwater Monitoring & Remediation
  • Journal of Structural Geology
  • Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Collaborations with co-authors have been a part of their research efforts, with frequent co-authors being:

  • Charles J. Werth
  • Robert A. Sanford
  • Charles E. Schaefer
  • Glenn Hammond
  • Valentina Romanò

Valocchi's contributions to the field have been recognized by election as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Validity of the local equilibrium assumption for modeling sorbing solute transport through homogeneous soils

    Albert J. Valocchi

  • Multiphase lattice Boltzmann simulations for porous media applications : a review

    Haihu Liu;Qinjun Kang;Christopher R. Leonardi;Christopher R. Leonardi;Sebastian Schmieschek;Sebastian Schmieschek

  • Transport of ion‐exchanging solutes in groundwater: Chromatographic theory and field simulation

    Albert J. Valocchi;Robert L. Street;Paul V. Roberts

  • An evaluation of mathematical models of the transport of biologically reacting solutes in saturated soils and aquifers

    Philippe Baveye;Albert J Valocchi

  • Accuracy of operator splitting for advection‐dispersion‐reaction problems

    Albert J. Valocchi;Michael Malmstead

  • Expanding the role of reactive transport models in critical zone processes

    Li Li;Kate Maher;Alexis Navarre-Sitchler;Jennifer Druhan

  • Evaluation of the effects of porous media structure on mixing-controlled reactions using pore-scale modeling and micromodel experiments.

    Thomas W. Willingham;Charles J. Werth;Albert J. Valocchi

  • Three-dimensional lattice Boltzmann model for immiscible two-phase flow simulations.

    Haihu Liu;Albert J. Valocchi;Qinjun Kang

  • Comprehensive Comparison of Pore-Scale Models for Multiphase Flow in Porous Media

    Benzhong Zhao;Christopher W. MacMinn;Bauyrzhan K. Primkulov;Yu Chen

  • Cost-effective long-term groundwater monitoring design using a genetic algorithm and global mass interpolation

    Patrick Reed;Barbara Minsker;Albert J. Valocchi

  • Aquifer remediation design under uncertainty using a new chance constrained programming technique

    David R. Morgan;J. Wayland Eheart;Albert J. Valocchi

  • Monitoring network design to provide initial detection of groundwater contamination

    Philip D. Meyer;Albert J. Valocchi;J. Wayland Eheart

  • Pore-scale simulation of liquid CO2 displacement of water using a two-phase lattice Boltzmann model

    Haihu Liu;Haihu Liu;Albert J. Valocchi;Charles J Werth;Qinjun Kang

  • Spatial moment analysis of the transport of kinetically adsorbing solutes through stratified aquifers

    Albert J. Valocchi

  • Two-dimensional concentration distribution for mixing-controlled bioreactive transport in steady state

    Olaf A. Cirpka;Albert J. Valocchi

  • Pore-scale Simulation of Mixing-induced Calcium Carbonate Precipitation and Dissolution in a Microfluidic Pore Network.

    Hongkyu Yoon;Albert J. Valocchi;Charles J. Werth;Thomas Dewers

  • Pore-scale study of dissolution-induced changes in permeability and porosity of porous media

    Qinjun Kang;Li Chen;Albert J. Valocchi;Hari S. Viswanathan

  • Pore-Scale Study of Transverse Mixing Induced CaCO3 Precipitation and Permeability Reduction in a Model Subsurface Sedimentary System

    Changyong Zhang;Karl Dehoff;Nancy Hess;Mart Oostrom

  • Lattice Boltzmann simulation of immiscible fluid displacement in porous media: homogeneous versus heterogeneous pore network

    Haihu Liu;Yonghao Zhang;Albert J. Valocchi

  • Lattice Boltzmann simulation of immiscible two-phase flow with capillary valve effect in porous media

    Zhiyuan Xu;Haihu Liu;Albert J. Valocchi;Albert J. Valocchi

  • Quantitative Evaluation of the Enhancement of NAPL-Pool Dissolution by Flushing and Biodegradation.

    Eric A. Seagren;Eric A. Seagren;Bruce E. Rittmann;Bruce E. Rittmann;Albert J. Valocchi;Albert J. Valocchi

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles J. Werth
Charles J. Werth The University of Texas at Austin
Haihu Liu
Haihu Liu Xi'an Jiaotong University
Barbara S. Minsker
Barbara S. Minsker Southern Methodist University
Qinjun Kang
Qinjun Kang Los Alamos National Laboratory
Bruce E. Rittmann
Bruce E. Rittmann Arizona State University
Hari S. Viswanathan
Hari S. Viswanathan Los Alamos National Laboratory
Ximing Cai
Ximing Cai University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mart Oostrom
Mart Oostrom Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Patrick M. Reed
Patrick M. Reed Cornell University
Kenneth T. Christensen
Kenneth T. Christensen University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

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