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Earth Science
Iran
2025

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
47
Citations
9104
World Ranking
4829
National Ranking
256

Earth Science

D-Index
47
Citations
8824
World Ranking
3988
National Ranking
210

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Iran Leader Award

Overview

Behzad Ataie-Ashtiani is affiliated with Sharif University of Technology in Iran and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Engineering. Their work spans several subfields including Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Civil and Structural Engineering, and Ocean Engineering.

The scientist's research focuses on multiple topics within hydrology and environmental studies. Key areas include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Groundwater flow and contamination studies, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Groundwater and Watershed Analysis, and Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry.

Behzad Ataie-Ashtiani has co-authored numerous papers with frequent collaborators including Seiyed Mossa Hosseini, Craig T. Simmons, Marwan Fahs, Anis Younés, and Shabnam Taghipour.

The scientist's recent publications cover a range of topics related to hydrology, groundwater, and environmental change. Selected recent papers are:

  • "Land subsidence: A global challenge," 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Review of assimilating GRACE terrestrial water storage data into hydrological models: Advances, challenges and opportunities," 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • "Interaction of lake-groundwater levels using cross-correlation analysis: A case study of Lake Urmia Basin, Iran," 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Normalized difference vegetation index as the dominant predicting factor of groundwater recharge in phreatic aquifers: case studies across Iran," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Comparison of statistical and MCDM approaches for flood susceptibility mapping in northern Iran," 2022, Journal of Hydrology

Their publications appear frequently in several academic journals, with multiple papers published in the Journal of Hydrology, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, The Science of The Total Environment, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, and Journal of Great Lakes Research.

Best Publications

  • Seawater intrusion processes, investigation and management: Recent advances and future challenges

    Adrian Deane Werner;Mark Bakker;Vincent E. A. Post;Alexander Vandenbohede

  • Tidal effects on sea water intrusion in unconfined aquifers

    B. Ataie-Ashtiani;R.E. Volker;D.A. Lockington

  • Experimental Investigation of Clear-Water Local Scour at Pile Groups

    B. Ataie-Ashtiani;A. A. Beheshti

  • Sea-level rise impacts on seawater intrusion in coastal aquifers: review and integration.

    Hamed Ketabchi;Davood Mahmoodzadeh;Behzad Ataie-Ashtiani;Behzad Ataie-Ashtiani;Craig T. Simmons

  • Land subsidence: A global challenge.

    Mehdi Bagheri-Gavkosh;Seiyed Mossa Hosseini;Behzad Ataie-Ashtiani;Yasamin Sohani

  • Numerical simulation of landslide impulsive waves by incompressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics

    B. Ataie-Ashtiani;G. Shobeyri

  • Numerical modeling of subaerial and submarine landslide-generated tsunami waves—recent advances and future challenges

    S. Yavari-Ramshe;B. Ataie-Ashtiani;B. Ataie-Ashtiani

  • Nitrate reduction by nano-Fe/Cu particles in packed column

    S. Mossa Hosseini;B. Ataie-Ashtiani;M. Kholghi

  • Impulsive waves caused by subaerial landslides

    B. Ataie-Ashtiani;A. Nik-Khah

  • A stable moving-particle semi-implicit method for free surface flows

    B. Ataie-Ashtiani;Leila Farhadi

  • Experimental Investigation of Clear-Water Local Scour of Compound Piers

    B. Ataie-Ashtiani;Z. Baratian-Ghorghi;Aliasghar Beheshti

  • Tidal effects on groundwater dynamics in unconfined aquifers

    B. Ataie-Ashtiani;R. E. Volker;D. A. Lockington

  • Estimation of current-induced scour depth around pile groups using neural network and adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system

    Mohammad Zounemat-Kermani;Ali-Asghar Beheshti;Behzad Ataie-Ashtiani;Saeed-Reza Sabbagh-Yazdi

  • Evolutionary algorithms for the optimal management of coastal groundwater: A comparative study toward future challenges

    Hamed Ketabchi;Behzad Ataie-Ashtiani

  • Analysis of threshold and incipient conditions for sediment movement

    Aliasghar Beheshti;B. Ataie-Ashtiani

  • Sea-level rise impact on fresh groundwater lenses in two-layer small islands

    Hamed Ketabchi;Davood Mahmoodzadeh;Behzad Ataie-Ashtiani;Behzad Ataie-Ashtiani;Adrian D. Werner

  • Polynomial chaos expansions for uncertainty propagation and moment independent sensitivity analysis of seawater intrusion simulations

    Mohammad Mahdi Rajabi;Behzad Ataie-Ashtiani;Craig T. Simmons

  • Flow Field Around Single and Tandem Piers

    Behzad Ataie-Ashtiani;Abolfazl Aslani-Kordkandi

  • How important is the impact of land-surface inundation on seawater intrusion caused by sea-level rise?

    Behzad Ataie-Ashtiani;Adrian D. Werner;Craig T. Simmons;Leanne K. Morgan

  • Numerical simulation of wave generated by landslide incidents in dam reservoirs

    Behzad Ataie-Ashtiani;Saeedeh Yavari-Ramshe

  • Modified incompressible SPH method for simulating free surface problems

    B Ataie-Ashtiani;G Shobeyri;L Farhadi

  • Engineering nanomaterials for water and wastewater treatment: review of classifications, properties and applications

    Shabnam Taghipour;Seiyed Mossa Hosseini;Behzad Ataie-Ashtiani;Behzad Ataie-Ashtiani

  • Review: Coastal groundwater optimization—advances, challenges, and practical solutions

    Hamed Ketabchi;Behzad Ataie-Ashtiani

Frequent Co-Authors

Craig T. Simmons
Craig T. Simmons University of Newcastle Australia
Anis Younes
Anis Younes University of Strasbourg
David Lockington
David Lockington University of Queensland
Adrian D. Werner
Adrian D. Werner Flinders University
Michael A. Celia
Michael A. Celia Princeton University
Amir Etemad-Shahidi
Amir Etemad-Shahidi Griffith University
Mart Oostrom
Mart Oostrom Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Jichun Wu
Jichun Wu Nanjing University
S. Majid Hassanizadeh
S. Majid Hassanizadeh Utrecht University
Jian Song
Jian Song Tsinghua University

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