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40
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4410
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8194
National Ranking
378

Overview

Jason I. Gerhard is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Their research spans engineering and environmental science, focusing on several subfields including safety, risk, reliability and quality, environmental engineering, biomedical engineering, computational mechanics, and mechanical engineering.

Their work engages with topics such as fire dynamics and safety research, thermochemical biomass conversion processes, toxic organic pollutants impact, combustion and flame dynamics, combustion and detonation processes, geophysical and geoelectrical methods, and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Jason I. Gerhard include José L. Torero, Tarek L. Rashwan, Marco A.B. Zanoni, Gavin P. Grant, and T. Fournie.

Jason I. Gerhard's publications often appear in several key academic venues, notably:

  • Combustion and Flame
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Waste Management
  • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
  • Water Research

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Jason I. Gerhard include:

  • Processes defining smouldering combustion: Integrated review and synthesis, 2020, Progress in Energy and Combustion Science
  • Remediation of PFAS-Contaminated Soil and Granular Activated Carbon by Smoldering Combustion, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Field test of electrokinetically-delivered thermally activated persulfate for remediation of chlorinated solvents in clay, 2020, Water Research
  • Heat losses in a smouldering system: The key role of non-uniform air flux, 2021, Combustion and Flame
  • Scaling up self-sustained smouldering of sewage sludge for waste-to-energy, 2021, Waste Management

Best Publications

  • Predicting colloid transport through saturated porous media: A critical review

    Ian L. Molnar;William P. Johnson;Jason I. Gerhard;Clinton S. Willson

  • Measurement and prediction of the relationship between capillary pressure, saturation, and interfacial area in a NAPL-water-glass bead system.

    Mark L. Porter;Dorthe Wildenschild;Gavin Grant;Jason I. Gerhard

  • Processes defining smouldering combustion: Integrated review and synthesis

    José L. Torero;Jason I. Gerhard;Marcio F. Martins;Marco A.B. Zanoni

  • Remediation of PFAS-Contaminated Soil and Granular Activated Carbon by Smoldering Combustion

    Alexandra L. Duchesne;Joshua K. Brown;David J. Patch;David Major

  • Self-Sustaining Smoldering Combustion: A Novel Remediation Process for Non-Aqueous-Phase Liquids in Porous Media

    C. Switzer;P. Pironi;J.I. Gerhard;G. Rein

  • Small-scale forward smouldering experiments for remediation of coal tar in inert media

    Paolo Pironi;Christine Switzer;Guillermo Rein;Andres Fuentes

  • Smouldering combustion as a treatment technology for faeces: Exploring the parameter space

    L. Yermán;Rory M. Hadden;J. Carrascal;Ivo Fabris

  • Self-sustaining smoldering combustion for NAPL remediation: laboratory evaluation of process sensitivity to key parameters.

    Paolo Pironi;Christine Switzer;Jason I. Gerhard;Guillermo Rein

  • pH control for enhanced reductive bioremediation of chlorinated solvent source zones

    Clare Robinson;D.A. Barry;Perry L. McCarty;Jason I. Gerhard;Jason I. Gerhard

  • Variability of point source infiltration rates for two‐phase flow in heterogeneous porous media

    Bernard H. Kueper;Jason I. Gerhard

  • Capillary pressure characteristics necessary for simulating DNAPL infiltration, redistribution, and immobilization in saturated porous media

    J. I. Gerhard;J. I. Gerhard;B. H. Kueper

  • Application of self-sustaining smouldering combustion for the destruction of wastewater biosolids

    Tarek L. Rashwan;Jason I. Gerhard;Gavin P. Grant;Gavin P. Grant

  • Smoldering remediation of coal-tar-contaminated soil: pilot field tests of STAR

    Grant C. Scholes;Jason Ian Gerhard;Gavin P. Grant;David W. Major

  • Electrokinetic-enhanced permanganate delivery and remediation of contaminated low permeability porous media.

    Ahmed I.A. Chowdhury;Jason I. Gerhard;David Reynolds;Brent E. Sleep

  • Simulating the dissolution of a complex dense nonaqueous phase liquid source zone: 1. Model to predict interfacial area

    G. P. Grant;G. P. Grant;J. I. Gerhard;J. I. Gerhard

  • Relative permeability characteristics necessary for simulating DNAPL infiltration, redistribution, and immobilization in saturated porous media

    J. I. Gerhard;J. I. Gerhard;B. H. Kueper

  • Field test of electrokinetically-delivered thermally activated persulfate for remediation of chlorinated solvents in clay.

    Nicholas A. Head;Jason I. Gerhard;Ainsley M. Inglis;Ariel Nunez Garcia

  • Influence of wettability variations on dynamic effects in capillary pressure

    Denis M. O'Carroll;Kevin G. Mumford;Linda M. Abriola;Jason I. Gerhard

  • Volumetric scale-up of smouldering remediation of contaminated materials

    Christine Switzer;Paolo Pironi;Jason I. Gerhard;Guillermo Rein

  • Influence of constitutive model parameters on the predicted migration of DNAPL in heterogeneous porous media

    J. I. Gerhard;J. I. Gerhard;B. H. Kueper

  • Improved time-lapse electrical resistivity tomography monitoring of dense non-aqueous phase liquids with surface-to-horizontal borehole arrays

    Christopher Power;Jason I. Gerhard;Panagiotis Tsourlos;Pantelis Soupios

  • Time Scales of DNAPL Migration in Sandy Aquifers Examined via Numerical Simulation

    Jason I. Gerhard;TiWee Pang;Bernard H. Kueper

Frequent Co-Authors

Jose L. Torero
Jose L. Torero University College London
Denis M. O'Carroll
Denis M. O'Carroll University of New South Wales
Guillermo Rein
Guillermo Rein Imperial College London
David Andrew Barry
David Andrew Barry École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Bernard H. Kueper
Bernard H. Kueper Queen's University
Brent E. Sleep
Brent E. Sleep University of Toronto
Perry L. McCarty
Perry L. McCarty Stanford University
Elizabeth A. Edwards
Elizabeth A. Edwards University of Toronto
Linda M. Abriola
Linda M. Abriola Tufts University
William P. Johnson
William P. Johnson University of Utah

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