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Overview

Dirk Mallants is affiliated with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia. Their research spans environmental science and engineering, with a focus on groundwater flow, contamination studies, and soil and unsaturated flow processes. Their work also involves atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, hydrocarbon exploration, nuclear materials, isotope geochemistry, and geophysical methods.

The scientist has contributed frequently to journals such as the Journal of Hydrology, Energies, Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies, Applied Clay Science, and Geofluids.

Dirk Mallants' recent papers include:

  • Impact of long-term recycled water irrigation on crop yield and soil chemical properties, 2020, Agricultural Water Management
  • Preface: Advances in hydrogeologic understanding of Australia's Great Artesian Basin, 2020, Hydrogeology Journal
  • The State of the Science and Technology in Deep Borehole Disposal of Nuclear Waste, 2020, Energies
  • Episodic extreme rainfall events drive groundwater recharge in arid zone environments of central Australia, 2022, Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies
  • Molecular dynamics study of uranyl adsorption from aqueous solution to smectite, 2022, Applied Clay Science

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Cornelia Wilske
  • Axel Suckow
  • Christoph Gerber
  • Punjehl Crane
  • Alec Deslandes

Dirk Mallants' main fields of study are Environmental Science with 35 publications and Engineering with 27. Their subfields include Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Mechanics of Materials, Civil and Structural Engineering, and Materials Chemistry.

Specific topics he has contributed to include:

  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Nuclear Materials and Properties
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Geophysical Methods and Applications

Best Publications

  • Efficient posterior exploration of a high‐dimensional groundwater model from two‐stage Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation and polynomial chaos expansion

    Eric Laloy;Bart Rogiers;Jasper A. Vrugt;Dirk Mallants

  • Spatial variability of hydraulic properties in a multi-layered soil profile

    Dirk Mallants;Binayak P. Mohanty;Diederik Jacques;Jan Feyen

  • Spatial analysis of saturated hydraulic conductivity in a soil with macropores

    Dirk Mallants;Binayak P. Mohanty;André Vervoort;Jan Feyen

  • Hydrogeological conceptual model building and testing: A review

    Trine Enemark;Trine Enemark;Luk J.M. Peeters;Dirk Mallants;Okke Batelaan

  • Gas generation and migration in Boom Clay, a potential host rock formation for nuclear waste storage

    L Ortiz;G Volckaert;D Mallants

  • Modelling coupled water flow, solute transport and geochemical reactions affecting heavy metal migration in a podzol soil

    D. Jacques;J. Šimůnek;D. Mallants;M.Th. van Genuchten

  • Development and analysis of the Soil Water Infiltration Global database

    Mehdi Rahmati;Mehdi Rahmati;Lutz Weihermüller;Jan Vanderborght;Yakov A. Pachepsky

  • Radionuclide and Metal Sorption on Cement and Concrete

    Dirk Mallants;Michael Ochs;Lian Wang

  • Universal Stochastic Multiscale Image Fusion: An Example Application for Shale Rock.

    Kirill M. Gerke;Marina V. Karsanina;Marina V. Karsanina;Dirk Mallants

  • Comparison of three methods to calibrate TDR for monitoring solute movement in undisturbed soil

    D. Mallants;M. Vanclooster;J. Vanderborght;J. Feyen

  • Universal spatial correlation functions for describing and reconstructing soil microstructure.

    Marina V. Karsanina;Kirill M. Gerke;Elena B. Skvortsova;Dirk Mallants

  • Modelling chemical degradation of concrete during leaching with rain and soil water types

    D. Jacques;L. Wang;E. Martens;D. Mallants

  • Determining local-scale solute transport parameters using time domain reflectometry (TDR)

    M Vanclooster;D Mallants;Jan Diels;Jan Feyen

  • Calibration, Validation and Sensitivity Analysis of the MIKE-SHE Model Using the Neuenkirchen Catchment as Case Study

    E. Xevi;K. Christiaens;A. Espino;W. Sewnandan

  • Estimating solute transport in undisturbed soil columns using time-domain reflectometry

    D. Mallants;M. Vanclooster;M. Meddahi;J. Feyen

  • Monitoring Solute Transport in a Multi-Layered Sandy Lysimeter using Time Domain Reflectometry

    Marnik Vanclooster;D. Mallants;J. Vanderborght;J. Diels

  • Improving pattern reconstruction using directional correlation functions

    Kirill M. Gerke;Marina V. Karsanina;Roman V. Vasilyev;Dirk Mallants

  • Operator-splitting errors in coupled reactive transport codes for transient variably saturated flow and contaminant transport in layered soil profiles

    D. Jacques;J. Šimůnek;D. Mallants;M.Th. van Genuchten

  • MULTICOMPONENT GEOCHEMICAL TRANSPORT MODELING USING HYDRUS‐1D AND HP11

    Jirka imůnek;Diederik Jacques;Martinus Th. Genuchten

  • Finite-difference method Stokes solver (FDMSS) for 3D pore geometries: Software development, validation and case studies

    Kirill M. Gerke;Roman V. Vasilyev;Siarhei Khirevich;Daniel Collins

  • Performance assessment of the disposal of vitrified high-level waste in a clay layer

    Dirk Mallants;Jan Marivoet;Xavier Sillen

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Feyen
Jan Feyen University of Cuenca
Okke Batelaan
Okke Batelaan Flinders University
Alain Dassargues
Alain Dassargues University of Liège
Marnik Vanclooster
Marnik Vanclooster Université Catholique de Louvain
Jan Vanderborght
Jan Vanderborght Forschungszentrum Jülich
Jirka Šimůnek
Jirka Šimůnek University of California, Riverside
M. Th. van Genuchten
M. Th. van Genuchten Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Binayak P. Mohanty
Binayak P. Mohanty Texas A&M University
Roy C. Sidle
Roy C. Sidle University of Central Asia

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