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Israel
2023

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Engineering and Technology

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65
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19374
World Ranking
1496
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4

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68
Citations
20328
World Ranking
1112
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Israel Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Israel Leader Award
  • 1989 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Gedeon Dagan was affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel. Their research contributed extensively to environmental science, engineering, and earth and planetary sciences, with a strong focus on groundwater flow and contamination studies. They worked also in subfields such as environmental engineering, geophysics, civil and structural engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, and mechanical engineering.

Their work addressed several key topics, including:

  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Geophysical and geoelectrical methods
  • Soil and unsaturated flow
  • Electrical and bioimpedance tomography
  • Hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis
  • Reservoir engineering and simulation methods
  • Hydrology and watershed management studies

Dagan published in several frequent venues, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach:

  • Water Resources Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Ground Water
  • Advances in Water Resources
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their recent publications include:

  • "Evidence Based Estimation of Macrodispersivity for Groundwater Transport Applications," 2022, Ground Water
  • "Equivalent and effective conductivities of heterogeneous aquifers for steady source flow, with illustration for hydraulic tomography," 2020, Advances in Water Resources
  • "A Comparison of Six Transport Models of the MADE-1 Experiment Implemented With Different Types of Hydraulic Data," 2021, Water Resources Research
  • "Statistical Analysis of Aquifer Hydraulic Properties by a Continuous Pumping Tomography Test: Application to the Boise Hydrogeophysical Research Site," 2022, Water Resources Research
  • "Baseflow Statistics in Aggregated Catchments," 2023, Water Resources Research

Dagan collaborated frequently with several co-authors throughout their career, including:

  • Aldo Fiori
  • Alberto Bellin
  • Kan Bun Cheng
  • Avinoam Rabinovich
  • Alraune Zech

Among awards received, Dagan was named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 1989.

Best Publications

  • Flow and Transport in Porous Formations

    Gedeon Dagan

  • Solute transport in heterogeneous porous formations

    Gedeon Dagan

  • Statistical Theory of Groundwater Flow and Transport: Pore to Laboratory, Laboratory to Formation, and Formation to Regional Scale

    Gedeon Dagan

  • Stochastic modeling of groundwater flow by unconditional and conditional probabilities: 1. Conditional simulation and the direct problem

    G. Dagan

  • Stochastic modeling of groundwater flow by unconditional and conditional probabilities: 2. The solute transport

    G. Dagan

  • Theory of Solute Transport by Groundwater

    Gedeon Dagan

  • Time‐dependent macrodispersion for solute transport in anisotropic heterogeneous aquifers

    Gedeon Dagan

  • Transport in heterogeneous porous formations: Spatial moments, ergodicity, and effective dispersion

    Gedeon Dagan

  • Solute Dispersion in Unsaturated Heterogeneous Soil at Field Scale: I. Theory

    Gedeon Dagan;Eshel Bresler

  • A comparison of seven geostatistically based inverse approaches to estimate transmissivities for modeling advective transport by groundwater flow

    D. A. Zimmerman;G. de Marsily;G. de Marsily;C. A. Gotway;M. G. Marietta

  • Stochastic Modeling of Groundwater Flow by Unconditional and Conditional Probabilities: The Inverse Problem

    Gedeon Dagan

  • Models of groundwater flow in statistically homogeneous porous formations

    G. Dagan

  • Unsaturated flow in spatially variable fields: 1. Derivation of models of infiltration and redistribution

    G. Dagan;E. Bresler

  • Transport of kinetically sorbing solute by steady random velocity in heterogeneous porous formations

    Vladimir Cvetkovic;Gedeon Dagan

  • Subsurface flow and transport : a stochastic approach

    Gedeon Dagan;Shlomo P. Neuman

  • A solute flux approach to transport in heterogeneous formations: 1. The general framework

    G. Dagan;V. Cvetkovic;A. Shapiro

  • Convective and pore scale dispersive solute transport in unsaturated heterogeneous fields

    Eshel Bresler;Gedeon Dagan

  • Stochastic identification of transmissivity and effective recharge in steady groundwater flow: 2. Case study

    Yoram Rubin;Gedeon Dagan

  • Dispersion of a passive solute in non-ergodic transport by steady velocity fields in heterogeneous formations

    Gedeon Dagan

  • Solving The Problem Of Local Interface Upconing In A Coastal Aquifer By The Method Of Small Perturbations

    G. Dagan;J. Bear

  • Transport in Porous Media

    G. Dagan;Aldo Fiori;I. Jankovic

Frequent Co-Authors

Aldo Fiori
Aldo Fiori Roma Tre University
Vladimir Cvetkovic
Vladimir Cvetkovic Royal Institute of Technology
Yoram Rubin
Yoram Rubin University of California, Berkeley
Peter Dietrich
Peter Dietrich University of Tübingen
Sabine Attinger
Sabine Attinger Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Alberto Bellin
Alberto Bellin University of Trento
Shlomo P. Neuman
Shlomo P. Neuman University of Arizona
Georg Teutsch
Georg Teutsch Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Touvia Miloh
Touvia Miloh Tel Aviv University
David Russo
David Russo Agricultural Research Organization

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