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Jean-Yves Parlange

Jean-Yves Parlange

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Earth Science

D-Index
80
Citations
21256
World Ranking
539
National Ranking
274

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For fundamental contributions to the formulation of water flow and solute transport in soils and groundwater.
  • 1996 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Jean-Yves Parlange is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research spans several areas within environmental science, engineering, and agricultural and biological sciences, focusing particularly on hydrology and watershed management.

The main research topics covered in their work include:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques
  • Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Studies

Their studies are situated within subfields such as Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change, Pollution, Soil Science, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

Jean-Yves Parlange has published multiple papers across a range of journals. Recent publications include:

  • Connecting hillslope and runoff generation processes in the Ethiopian Highlands: The Ene-Chilala watershed, 2020, Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics
  • Self organizing hydrological processes in a runoff source area, 2021, CATENA
  • A theoretical underpinning of the pesticide Groundwater Ubiquity Score (GUS), 2024, Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics

Frequent venues for their publications are the Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics and CATENA.

The scientist collaborates regularly with other researchers in their field. Frequent co-authors include Tammo S. Steenhuis, Naaran Brindt, Steven Pacenka, Brian K. Richards, and Meseret B. Addisie.

Professional recognition includes being named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 1996. In 2006, they were inducted as a Member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions related to water flow and solute transport in soils and groundwater.

Best Publications

  • A parameter‐efficient hydrologic infiltration model

    R. E. Smith;J.-Y. Parlange

  • Wetting Front Instability in Layered Soils

    D. E. Hill;J.-Y. Parlange

  • Submarine groundwater discharge and associated chemical input to a coastal sea

    L. Li;D. A. Barry;F. Stagnitti;J.-Y. Parlange

  • PREDICTING THE WATER-RETENTION CURVE FROM PARTICLE-SIZE DISTRIBUTION: 1. SANDY SOILS WITHOUT ORGANIC MATTER1

    R. Haverkamp;J.-Y. Parlange

  • Water uptake, diameter change, and nonlinear diffusion in tree stems.

    Jean-Yves Parlange;Neil C. Turner;Paul E. Waggoner

  • Three‐dimensional analysis of infiltration from the disc infiltrometer: 2. Physically based infiltration equation

    R. Haverkamp;P. J. Ross;K. R. J. Smettem;J. Y. Parlange

  • Mechanism for finger persistence in homogeneous, unsaturated porous media: Theory and verification

    Robert J. Glass;Tammo S. Steenhuis;J. Yves Parlange

  • Physics of water repellent soils

    T. W.J. Bauters;T. S. Steenhuis;David DiCarlo;J. L. Nieber

  • Wetting front instability: 2. Experimental determination of relationships between system parameters and two‐dimensional unstable flow field behavior in initially dry porous media

    R. J. Glass;T. S. Steenhuis;J. Y. Parlange

  • Preferential Flow in Water-Repellent Sands

    Tim W. J. Bauters;Tammo S. Steenhuis;Jean-Yves Parlange;David A. DiCarlo

  • Theoretical analysis of wetting front instability in soils

    J. Y. Parlange;D. E. Hill

  • Wetting front instability as a rapid and far-reaching hydrologic process in the vadose zone

    R.J. Glass;T.S. Steenhuis;J.-Y. Parlange

  • Parameter constraints on closed-form soilwater relationships

    Carlos Fuentes;Randel Haverkamp;Jean-Yves Parlange

  • On Solving the Flow Equation in Unsaturated Soils by Optimization: Horizontal Infiltration

    Jean-Yves Parlange

  • Wetting front instability: 1. Theoretical discussion and dimensional analysis

    R. J. Glass;J. Y. Parlange;T. S. Steenhuis

  • Fingered flow in two dimensions: 2. Predicting finger moisture profile

    J. Selker;J.-Y. Parlange;T. Steenhuis

  • Beach water table fluctuations due to spring-neap tides: moving boundary effects

    L. Li;D.A. Barry;F. Stagnitti;J.-Y. Parlange

  • Sorptivity and the estimation of water penetration into unsaturated concrete

    D. Lockington;J. Y. Parlange;P. Dux

  • Water Transport in Soils

    J Y Parlange

  • A class of exact solutions for Richards' equation

    D.A. Barry;J.-Y. Parlange;G.C. Sander;M. Sivaplan

  • Theory Of Water-movement In Soils: I. One-dimensional Absorption

    Jean-Yves Parlange

Frequent Co-Authors

Tammo S. Steenhuis
Tammo S. Steenhuis Cornell University
David Andrew Barry
David Andrew Barry École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Calvin Wyatt Rose
Calvin Wyatt Rose Griffith University
Donald E. Aylor
Donald E. Aylor Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Ling Li
Ling Li University of Queensland
M. Todd Walter
M. Todd Walter Cornell University
Frank Stagnitti
Frank Stagnitti Deakin University
Marc B. Parlange
Marc B. Parlange University of Rhode Island
Neil C. Turner
Neil C. Turner University of Western Australia
John S. Selker
John S. Selker Oregon State University

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