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2026

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Engineering and Technology

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77
Citations
20977
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663
National Ranking
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Earth Science

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81
Citations
21965
World Ranking
496
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Spain Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Spain Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Spain Leader Award
  • 2018 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For leadership in the development and application of subsurface flow and transport models in hydrology, mining, and geotechnical engineering.

Overview

Jesús Carrera is a researcher affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain, specializing in environmental science, engineering, and earth and planetary sciences. Their research primarily focuses on environmental engineering, geophysics, pollution, mechanical engineering, and geochemistry and petrology.

The scientist has contributed to key topics including groundwater flow and contamination studies, hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, groundwater and isotope geochemistry, geophysical and geoelectrical methods, soil and unsaturated flow, CO2 sequestration and geologic interactions, as well as pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts.

Frequent coauthors in Jesús Carrera's publications include Cristina Valhondo, Albert Folch, Maarten W. Saaltink, Lurdes Martínez-Landa, and María Pool.

Jesús Carrera's research has been published extensively in various scientific venues. Notable publication venues with multiple contributions are:

  • Water Resources Research
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Advances in Water Resources
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Representative recent papers authored or coauthored by Jesús Carrera include:

  • Time-lapse cross-hole electrical resistivity tomography (CHERT) for monitoring seawater intrusion dynamics in a Mediterranean aquifer, 2020, Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • Reactive Transport: A Review of Basic Concepts with Emphasis on Biochemical Processes, 2022, Energies
  • Combining fiber optic DTS, cross-hole ERT and time-lapse induction logging to characterize and monitor a coastal aquifer, 2020, Journal of Hydrology
  • Unraveling the Causes of the Seismicity Induced by Underground Gas Storage at Castor, Spain, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • A multidisciplinary approach to characterizing coastal alluvial aquifers to improve understanding of seawater intrusion and submarine groundwater discharge, 2022, Journal of Hydrology

Among recognitions, Jesús Carrera was named a Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2018 for leadership in the development and application of subsurface flow and transport models in hydrology, mining, and geotechnical engineering.

Best Publications

  • Estimation of Aquifer Parameters Under Transient and Steady State Conditions: 1. Maximum Likelihood Method Incorporating Prior Information

    Jesus Carrera;Shlomo P. Neuman

  • Numerical formulation for a simulator (CODE_BRIGHT) for the coupled analysis of saline media

    S. Olivella;A. Gens;J. Carrera;E.E. Alonso

  • Estimation of Aquifer Parameters Under Transient and Steady State Conditions: 2. Uniqueness, Stability, and Solution Algorithms

    Jesus Carrera;Shlomo P. Neuman

  • Inverse problem in hydrogeology

    Jesús Carrera;Andrés Alcolea;Agustín Medina;Juan Hidalgo

  • Occurrence of 95 pharmaceuticals and transformation products in urban groundwaters underlying the metropolis of Barcelona, Spain.

    Rebeca López-Serna;Anna Jurado;Anna Jurado;Enric Vázquez-Suñé;Jesus Carrera

  • Emerging organic contaminants in groundwater in Spain: a review of sources, recent occurrence and fate in a European context.

    Anna Jurado;Enric Vàzquez-Suñé;Jesus Carrera;Miren López de Alda

  • On matrix diffusion: formulations, solution methods and qualitative effects

    Jesús Carrera;Xavier Sánchez-Vila;Inmaculada Benet;Agustín Medina

  • Estimation of Aquifer Parameters Under Transient and Steady State Conditions: 3. Application to Synthetic and Field Data

    Jesus Carrera;Shlomo P. Neuman

  • 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

  • Nonisothermal multiphase flow of brine and gas through saline media

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  • Representative hydraulic conductivities in saturated groundwater flow

    Xavier Sanchez-Vila;Alberto Guadagnini;Jesus Carrera

  • On the relationship between indicators of geostatistical, flow and transport connectivity

    Christen Knudby;Jesús Carrera

  • Introductory review of specific factors influencing urban groundwater, an emerging branch of hydrogeology, with reference to Barcelona, Spain

    E. Vázquez-Suñé;Xavier Sánchez-Vila;Jesús Carrera

  • Scale effects in transmissivity

    Xavier Sánchez-Vila;Jesús Carrera;Jorge P. Girardi

  • An evaluation of Jacob's Method for the interpretation of pumping tests in heterogeneous formations

    Peter M. Meier;Jesús Carrera;Xavier Sánchez-Vila

  • A mathematical formulation for reactive transport that eliminates mineral concentrations

    Maarten W. Saaltink;Carlos Ayora;Jesús Carrera

  • Anisotropic dispersive Henry problem

    Elena Abarca;Jesús Carrera;Xavier Sánchez-Vila;Marco Dentz

  • Lagrangian Statistical Model for Transport in Highly Heterogeneous Velocity Fields

    Tanguy Le Borgne;Marco Dentz;Jesus Carrera

  • Geologic carbon storage is unlikely to trigger large earthquakes and reactivate faults through which CO2 could leak

    Victor Vilarrasa;Victor Vilarrasa;Jesus Carrera

  • Coupled hydromechanical modeling of CO2 sequestration in deep saline aquifers

    Victor Vilarrasa;Victor Vilarrasa;Diogo Bolster;Diogo Bolster;Sebastia Olivella;Jesus Carrera

  • Simulation of groundwater age distributions

    Marcelo Varni;Jesús Carrera

  • State of the Art of the Inverse Problem Applied to the Flow and Solute Transport Equations

    Jesus Carrera

  • A procedure for the solution of multicomponent reactive transport problems

    M. De Simoni;J. Carrera;X. Sánchez-Vila;A. Guadagnini

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco Dentz
Marco Dentz Spanish National Research Council
Victor Vilarrasa
Victor Vilarrasa Spanish National Research Council
Xavier Sanchez-Vila
Xavier Sanchez-Vila Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Carlos Ayora
Carlos Ayora Spanish National Research Council
Linda Luquot
Linda Luquot Laboratory HydroSciences Montpellier
Diogo Bolster
Diogo Bolster University of Notre Dame
Damià Barceló
Damià Barceló University of Almería
Alberto Guadagnini
Alberto Guadagnini Polytechnic University of Milan
Shlomo P. Neuman
Shlomo P. Neuman University of Arizona
Philippe Pezard
Philippe Pezard University of Montpellier

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