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Robert W. Ritzi is affiliated with Wright State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental science, engineering, and earth and planetary sciences, with a focus on environmental engineering, atmospheric science, and ocean engineering. The scientist's work involves various topics, including CO2 sequestration and geologic interactions, enhanced oil recovery techniques, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, advanced mathematical modeling in engineering, groundwater flow and contamination studies, methane hydrates and related phenomena, and geological formations and processes.

Their recent scholarly output includes the following papers:

  • Application of upscaling methods for fluid flow and mass transport in multi-scale heterogeneous media: A critical review, 2021, Applied Energy
  • CO2 geological sequestration in multiscale heterogeneous aquifers: Effects of heterogeneity, connectivity, impurity, and hysteresis, 2021, Advances in Water Resources
  • Interpreting pre-vegetation landscape dynamics: The Cambrian Lower Mount Simon Sandstone, Illinois, U.S.A., 2020, Journal of Sedimentary Research
  • El Niño Southern Oscillation (1896 to 2016): Quantifying Effects on Winter Precipitation and Temperature in Southwest Ohio, USA, 2021, The Ohio Journal of Science
  • Effective Constitutive Relations for Simulating CO2 Capillary Trapping in Heterogeneous Reservoirs with Fluvial Sedimentary Architecture, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Corey D. Wallace
  • Mohamad Reza Soltanian
  • Naum I. Gershenzon
  • Xiaoying Zhang
  • Funing Ma

Ritzi's publications have appeared in a range of scientific venues such as Applied Energy, Advances in Water Resources, Journal of Sedimentary Research, The Ohio Journal of Science, and arXiv (Cornell University).

The main fields of study covered by their research are:

  • Environmental Science
  • Engineering
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Subfields that frequently appear in their work include:

  • Environmental Engineering
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Ocean Engineering
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics

The scientist's main research topics address:

  • CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions
  • Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering
  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Geological formations and processes

Best Publications

  • Application of upscaling methods for fluid flow and mass transport in multi-scale heterogeneous media: A critical review

    Xiaoying Zhang;Funing Ma;Shangxian Yin;Corey D Wallace

  • Behavior of indicator variograms and transition probabilities in relation to the variance in lengths of hydrofacies

    Robert W. Ritzi

  • Dissolution Trapping of Carbon Dioxide in Heterogeneous Aquifers

    Mohamad Reza Soltanian;Mohamad Reza Soltanian;Mohammad Amin Amooie;Naum Gershenzon;Zhenxue Dai;Zhenxue Dai

  • Porosity and Permeability in Sediment Mixtures

    Patrick J. Kamann;Robert W. Ritzi;David F. Dominic;Caleb M. Conrad

  • Spatial correlation of permeability in cross‐stratified sediment with hierarchical architecture

    Robert W. Ritzi;Zhenxue Dai;David F. Dominic;Yoram N. Rubin

  • Influence of small-scale fluvial architecture on CO 2 trapping processes in deep brine reservoirs

    Naum I. Gershenzon;Robert W. Ritzi;David F. Dominic;Mohamad Reza Soltanian

  • Geostatistical Modeling of Heterogeneity in Glaciofluvial, Buried-Valley Aquifers

    Robert W. Ritzi;Dale F. Jayne;Arthur J. Zahradnik;Adrian A. Field

  • Relation Between Anisotropic Transmissivity and Azimuthal Resistivity Surveys in Shallow, Fractured, Carbonate Flow Systems

    Robert William Ritzi;Robert Henry Andolsek

  • Influence of Small Scale Heterogeneity on CO2 Trapping Processes in Deep Saline Aquifers

    Naum I. Gershenzon;Mohamadreza Soltanian;Robert W. Ritzi;David F. Dominic

  • Improving Permeability Semivariograms with Transition Probability Models of Hierarchical Sedimentary Architecture Derived from Outcrop-Analog Studies

    Zhenxue Dai;Robert W. Ritzi;David F. Dominic

  • Transport in heterogeneous sediments with multimodal conductivity and hierarchical organization across scales

    Zhenxue Dai;Robert W. Ritzi;Chaocheng Huang;Yoram N. Rubin

  • Analysis of Temporal Variability in Hydrogeochemical Data Used for Multivariate Analyses

    Robert W. Ritzi;Stephen L. Wright;Barbara Mann;Manling Chen

  • Capillary trapping of CO2 in heterogeneous reservoirs during the injection period

    Naum I. Gershenzon;Robert W. Ritzi;David F. Dominic;Edward Mehnert

  • Modeling Multiscale Heterogeneity and Aquifer Interconnectivity

    Christopher J. Proce;Robert W. Ritzi;David F. Dominic;Zhenxue Dai

  • Comparing statistical models of physical heterogeneity in buried-valley aquifers

    Robert W. Ritzi;David F. Dominic;Andris J. Slesers;Christopher B. Greer

  • Hydrofacies distribution and correlation in the Miami Valley Aquifer System

    Robert W. Ritzi;David F. Dominic;Nathan R. Brown;Kenneth W. Kausch

  • Simulating the heterogeneity in braided channel belt deposits: 1. A geometric‐based methodology and code

    Ramya Ramanathan;Arijit Guin;Robert W. Ritzi;David F. Dominic

  • The estimation of fluid flow properties from the response of water levels in wells to the combined atmospheric and Earth tide forces

    Robert William Ritzi;Soroosh Sorooshian;Paul A. Hsieh

  • Representing aquifer architecture in macrodispersivity models with an analytical solution of the transition probability matrix

    Zhenxue Dai;Andrew Wolfsberg;Zhiming Lu;Robert W. Ritzi

  • Characterization and modeling of spatial variability in a complex alluvial aquifer: Implications on solute transport

    Alexander Y. Sun;Robert W. Ritzi;Darrell W. Sims

  • Simulating the heterogeneity in braided channel belt deposits: 2. Examples of results and comparison to natural deposits

    Arijit Guin;Ramya Ramanathan;Robert W. Ritzi;David F. Dominic

  • Introduction to Geostatistics: Applications in Hydrogeology

    Robert W. Ritzi

Frequent Co-Authors

Mohamad Reza Soltanian
Mohamad Reza Soltanian University of Cincinnati
Zhenxue Dai
Zhenxue Dai Los Alamos National Laboratory
Yoram Rubin
Yoram Rubin University of California, Berkeley
Soroosh Sorooshian
Soroosh Sorooshian University of California, Irvine
James Leonard Best
James Leonard Best University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Graham E. Fogg
Graham E. Fogg University of California, Davis
Paul A. Hsieh
Paul A. Hsieh United States Geological Survey
Shlomo P. Neuman
Shlomo P. Neuman University of Arizona
Alexander Y. Sun
Alexander Y. Sun The University of Texas at Austin

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