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Heidi Nepf

Heidi Nepf

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
64
Citations
19153
World Ranking
1612
National Ranking
530

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
67
Citations
19908
World Ranking
1941
National Ranking
805

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Heidi Nepf is a researcher affiliated with MIT in the United States, specializing in environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work spans a range of subfields including ecology, earth-surface processes, soil science, oceanography, and global and planetary change.

The main topics of their research include coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, hydrology and sediment transport processes, soil erosion and sediment transport, aeolian processes and effects, coastal and marine dynamics, marine and coastal plant biology, and plant responses to water stress.

Recent publications by Heidi Nepf cover various aspects of environmental fluid dynamics and sediment transport. Notable papers include:

  • Measured and Predicted Turbulent Kinetic Energy in Flow Through Emergent Vegetation With Real Plant Morphology (2020, Water Resources Research)
  • Impact of Stem Size on Turbulence and Sediment Resuspension Under Unidirectional Flow (2021, Water Resources Research)
  • Turbulence and Bed Load Transport in Channels With Randomly Distributed Emergent Patches of Model Vegetation (2020, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • Competing effects of vegetation density on sedimentation in deltaic marshes (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Momentum and Energy Predict the Backwater Rise Generated by a Large Wood Jam (2020, Geophysical Research Letters)

Heidi Nepf frequently collaborates with a group of co-authors, including Isabella Schalko, Xiaoxia Zhang, Rachel Schaefer, Yuan Xu, and C. R. Esposito.

Their research has been published predominantly in the following venues:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Water Resources Research
  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Limnology and Oceanography

In 2018, Heidi Nepf was recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

Best Publications

  • Drag, turbulence, and diffusion in flow through emergent vegetation

    Heidi Nepf

  • Flow and Transport in Regions with Aquatic Vegetation

    Heidi M. Nepf

  • Flow structure in depth-limited, vegetated flow

    H. M. Nepf;E. R. Vivoni

  • Mixing layers and coherent structures in vegetated aquatic flows

    Marco Ghisalberti;Heidi M. Nepf

  • Hydrodynamics of vegetated channels

    Heidi M. Nepf

  • Laboratory Investigation of Mean Drag in a Random Array of Rigid, Emergent Cylinders

    Yukie Tanino;Heidi M. Nepf

  • The structure of the shear layer in flows over rigid and flexible canopies

    Marco Ghisalberti;Heidi Nepf

  • The limited growth of vegetated shear layers

    Marco Ghisalberti;Heidi Nepf

  • Flow-induced reconfiguration of buoyant and flexible aquatic vegetation

    Mitul Luhar;Heidi M. Nepf

  • Flow and transport in channels with submerged vegetation

    Heidi Nepf;Marco Ghisalberti

  • Shear instability and coherent structures in shallow flow adjacent to a porous layer

    Brian L. White;Heidi M. Nepf

  • Interaction between flow, transport and vegetation spatial structure

    Mitul Luhar;Jeffrey Tsaros Rominger;Heidi Nepf

  • Prediction of velocity profiles and longitudinal dispersion in salt marsh vegetation

    Anne F. Lightbody;Heidi M. Nepf

  • Retention time and dispersion associated with submerged aquatic canopies

    Heidi M. Nepf;M. Ghisalberti;Brian L. White;E. Murphy

  • Flow and deposition in and around a finite patch of vegetation

    Lijun Zong;Heidi Nepf

  • Vortex development behind a finite porous obstruction in a channel

    Lijun Zong;Heidi Nepf

  • Lateral dispersion in random cylinder arrays at high Reynolds number

    Yukie Tanino;Heidi M. Nepf

  • The wake structure behind a porous obstruction and its implications for deposition near a finite patch of emergent vegetation

    Zhengbing Chen;Zhengbing Chen;Alejandra Campbell Ortiz;Lijun Zong;Heidi Nepf

  • A vortex‐based model of velocity and shear stress in a partially vegetated shallow channel

    Brian L. White;Heidi M. Nepf

  • From the blade scale to the reach scale: A characterization of aquatic vegetative drag

    Mitul Luhar;Heidi M. Nepf

  • A model for diffusion within emergent vegetation

    H. M. Nepf;J. A. Sullivan;R. A. Zavistoski

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen G. Monismith
Stephen G. Monismith Stanford University
Tjeerd J. Bouma
Tjeerd J. Bouma Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Jorge Terrados
Jorge Terrados Spanish National Research Council
Alejandro Orfila
Alejandro Orfila Spanish National Research Council
Pedro Reis
Pedro Reis École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Leonardo P. Chamorro
Leonardo P. Chamorro University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Scott A. Isard
Scott A. Isard Pennsylvania State University
F. Douglas Shields
F. Douglas Shields Agricultural Research Service
Gabriel G. Katul
Gabriel G. Katul Duke University
Enrique R. Vivoni
Enrique R. Vivoni Arizona State University

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