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Edmund Perfect is affiliated with the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in the United States. Their research primarily spans across environmental science and engineering, with particular focus on environmental engineering and civil and structural engineering subfields. Mechanical engineering and mechanics of materials are also among their areas of study.

Their scientific work covers a range of topics including groundwater flow and contamination studies, soil and unsaturated flow, hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, enhanced oil recovery techniques, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, soil erosion and sediment transport, as well as plant water relations and carbon dynamics.

Frequent publication venues where Edmund Perfect's research has appeared include Rhizosphere, Vadose Zone Journal, Advances in Water Resources, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, and Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure.

Several recent papers provide insight into their research interests and contributions:

  • "Influence of living grass Roots and endophytic fungal hyphae on soil hydraulic properties" (2022, Rhizosphere)
  • "Forward prediction of early-time spontaneous imbibition of water in unsaturated rock fractures" (2020, Vadose Zone Journal)
  • "Onset dynamics of air-water menisci on rock fracture surfaces" (2020, Advances in Water Resources)
  • "Analysis of Spatially Distributed Fracture Attributes: Normalized Lacunarity Ratio" (2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth)
  • "The effect of stormwater infiltration and surrounding built infrastructure on local groundwater dynamics: a case study for regenerative stormwater conveyances" (2020, Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure)

Edmund Perfect has collaborated extensively with several researchers. Frequent co-authors include Hassina Bilheux, J. M. Warren, Jared William Brabazon, Christopher H. Gates, and Joanna McFarlane.

Best Publications

  • Characterization of the least limiting water range of soils

    A. P. da Silva;B. D. Kay;E. Perfect

  • Disruptive methods for assessing soil structure

    M Dı́az-Zorita;M Dı́az-Zorita;E Perfect;J.H Grove

  • Fractal models for predicting soil hydraulic properties: a review

    D. Giménez;E. Perfect;W.J. Rawls;Ya. Pachepsky

  • Effects of organic and inorganic fertilization on soil aggregation in an Ultisol as characterized by synchrotron based X-ray micro-computed tomography

    Hu Zhou;Xinhua Peng;Edmund Perfect;Tiqiao(肖体乔) Xiao

  • Protection of organic carbon in soil microaggregates via restructuring of aggregate porosity and filling of pores with accumulating organic matter

    John F. McCarthy;Jan Ilavsky;Julie D. Jastrow;Lawrence M. Mayer

  • Neutron imaging of hydrogen-rich fluids in geomaterials and engineered porous media: A review

    E. Perfect;C.-L. Cheng;C.-L. Cheng;M. Kang;M. Kang;H.Z. Bilheux

  • Fecal coliform transport through intact soil blocks amended with poultry manure

    S. W. McMurry;Mark S. Coyne;E. Perfect

  • Fractal dimension, lacunarity and succolarity analyses on CT images of reservoir rocks for permeability prediction

    Yuxuan Xia;Jianchao Cai;Edmund Perfect;Wei Wei;Wei Wei

  • Soil Structural Disturbance Effects on Crop Yields and Soil Properties in a No-Till Production System

    M. Díaz‐Zorita;J. H. Grove;L. Murdock;J. Herbeck

  • Prediction of Dispersivity for Undisturbed Soil Columns from Water Retention Parameters

    E. Perfect;M. C. Sukop;G. R. Haszler

  • In situ colloid mobilization in Hanford sediments under unsaturated transient flow conditions: effect of irrigation pattern.

    Jie Zhuang;John F. Mccarthy;John S. Tyner;Edmund Perfect

  • Fractal characterization of fracture networks: An improved box-counting technique

    Ankur Roy;Edmund Perfect;William M. Dunne;Larry D. McKay

  • Soil Water Hysteresis in Water-Stable Microaggregates as Affected by Organic Matter

    J. Zhuang;J. F. McCarthy;E. Perfect;L. M. Mayer

  • Water calibration measurements for neutron radiography: Application to water content quantification in porous media

    M. Kang;M. Kang;H.Z. Bilheux;S. Voisin;C.L. Cheng

  • Internal Domains of Natural Porous Media Revealed: Critical Locations for Transport, Storage, and Chemical Reaction.

    John M. Zachara;Susan L. Brantley;Jon D. Chorover;Robert P. Ewing

  • Rapid imbibition of water in fractures within unsaturated sedimentary rock

    Chu-Lin Cheng;Edmund Perfect;B. Donnelly;Hassina Z. Bilheux

  • Thermally induced water migration in frozen soils

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  • Modeling the Primary Drainage Curve of Prefractal Porous Media

    E. Perfect

  • Multifractal Sierpinski carpets: Theory and application to upscaling effective saturated hydraulic conductivity

    E. Perfect;R.W. Gentry;M.C. Sukop;J.E. Lawson

  • Neutron imaging reveals internal plant water dynamics

    Jeffrey Warren;Hassina Z Bilheux;Misun Kang;Misun Kang;Sophie Voisin

  • An Algorithm for Calculating the Least Limiting Water Range of Soils

    Tairone Paiva Leao;Alvaro Pires Da Silva;E. D. Perfect;Cassio Antonio Tormena

  • A prefractal model for predicting soil fragment mass-size distributions

    E Perfect

  • Lacunarity analysis of fracture networks: Evidence for scale-dependent clustering

    Ankur Roy;Edmund Perfect;William M. Dunne;Noelle Odling

  • Extraction of organic compounds from representative shales and the effect on porosity

    Victoria H. DiStefano;Victoria H. DiStefano;Joanna McFarlane;Lawrence M. Anovitz;Andrew G. Stack

  • Colloid transport and remobilization in porous media during infiltration and drainage

    Jie Zhuang;John S. Tyner;Edmund Perfect

  • Solvent-pore interactions in the Eagle Ford shale formation

    Victoria H. DiStefano;Victoria H. DiStefano;Joanna McFarlane;Andrew G. Stack;Edmund Perfect

Frequent Co-Authors

Larry D. McKay
Larry D. McKay University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Jeffrey M. Warren
Jeffrey M. Warren Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jie Zhuang
Jie Zhuang University of Tennessee at Knoxville
John F. McCarthy
John F. McCarthy University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Yakov A. Pachepsky
Yakov A. Pachepsky Agricultural Research Service
Jianchao Cai
Jianchao Cai China University of Petroleum, Beijing
Julie D. Jastrow
Julie D. Jastrow Argonne National Laboratory
Jonathan D. Istok
Jonathan D. Istok Oregon State University
Patrick J. Mulholland
Patrick J. Mulholland Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Terry C. Hazen
Terry C. Hazen University of Tennessee at Knoxville

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