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41
Citations
5892
World Ranking
7054
National Ranking
173

Overview

Xavier Sanchez-Vila is affiliated with the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science with a notable emphasis on environmental engineering. The scientist's work spans several subfields, including pollution, ocean engineering, civil and structural engineering, and water science and technology.

Their research covers a variety of topics, including groundwater flow and contamination studies, microbial fuel cells and bioremediation, CO2 sequestration and geologic interactions, pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts, water systems and optimization, electrochemical sensors and biosensors, as well as analytical chemistry and sensors.

Xavier Sanchez-Vila has published extensively in several scientific journals, with a frequent presence in the following publication venues:

  • Water Resources Research
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Advances in Water Resources

Recent papers authored with various collaborators include:

  • ChatGPT in Hydrology and Earth Sciences: Opportunities, Prospects, and Concerns, 2023, Water Resources Research
  • Coupling Flow, Heat, and Reactive Transport Modeling to Reproduce In Situ Redox Potential Evolution: Application to an Infiltration Pond, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Lagrangian Modeling of Mixing-Limited Reactive Transport in Porous Media: Multirate Interaction by Exchange With the Mean, 2020, Water Resources Research
  • Probabilistic assessment of spatial heterogeneity of natural background concentrations in large-scale groundwater bodies through Functional Geostatistics, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Microbial activity enhancement in constructed wetlands operated as bioelectrochemical systems, 2021, Chemosphere

The scientist collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including Marta Fernández-Gatell, Jaume Puigagut, Audrey H. Sawyer, Georgia Destouni, and Brianna Tomko.

Best Publications

  • Representative hydraulic conductivities in saturated groundwater flow

    Xavier Sanchez-Vila;Alberto Guadagnini;Jesus 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

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

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

  • Anisotropic dispersive Henry problem

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

  • A procedure for the solution of multicomponent reactive transport problems

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

  • An approach to identify urban groundwater recharge

    Enric Vázquez-Suñé;Jesús Carrera;Isabel Tubau;Isabel Tubau;Xavier Sánchez-Vila

  • Transport upscaling in heterogeneous aquifers: What physical parameters control memory functions?

    M. Willmann;M. Willmann;Jesus Carrera;Xavier Sánchez-Vila

  • Pumping tests in heterogeneous aquifers: An analytical study of what can be obtained from their interpretation using Jacob's Method

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

  • A methodology to compute mixing ratios with uncertain end‐members

    J. Carrera;E. Vázquez-Suñé;O. Castillo;X. Sánchez-Vila

  • A mixing ratios‐based formulation for multicomponent reactive transport

    M. De Simoni;M. De Simoni;X. Sanchez-Vila;J. Carrera;M. W. Saaltink

  • A Synthesis of Approaches to Upscaling of Hydraulic Conductivities

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

  • Multicomponent reactive transport in multicontinuum media

    Leonardo David Donado;Leonardo David Donado;Xavier Sanchez-Vila;Marco Dentz;Jesus Carrera

  • Coupling of mass transfer and reactive transport for nonlinear reactions in heterogeneous media

    M. Willmann;M. Willmann;J. Carrera;X. Sanchez-Vila;O. Silva

  • Interpretation of column experiments of transport of solutes undergoing an irreversible bimolecular reaction using a continuum approximation

    Xavier Sanchez-Vila;Daniel Fernàndez-Garcia;Alberto Guadagnini

  • Relative importance of geostatistical and transport models in describing heavily tailed breakthrough curves at the Lauswiesen site.

    Monica Riva;Alberto Guadagnini;Daniel Fernandez-Garcia;Xavier Sanchez-Vila

  • Probabilistic risk analysis of groundwater remediation strategies

    D. Bolster;M. Barahona;Marco Dentz;Daniel Fernàndez-García

  • Optimal reconstruction of concentrations, gradients and reaction rates from particle distributions.

    Daniel Fernàndez-García;Xavier Sánchez-Vila

  • Variable-density flow in porous media

    M. Dentz;D. M. Tartakovsky;E. Abarca;A. Guadagnini

  • Probabilistic analysis of groundwater-related risks at subsurface excavation sites

    A. Jurado;A. Jurado;F. De Gaspari;F. De Gaspari;V. Vilarrasa;V. Vilarrasa;Diogo Bolster;Diogo Bolster

  • Quasi-horizontal circulation cells in 3D seawater intrusion

    Elena Abarca;Jesús Carrera;Xavier Sánchez-Vila;Clifford I. Voss

  • Microcosm experiments to control anaerobic redox conditions when studying the fate of organic micropollutants in aquifer material

    Manuela Barbieri;Jesús Carrera;Xavier Sanchez-Vila;Carlos Ayora

  • Point-to-point connectivity, an abstract concept or a key issue for risk assessment studies?

    Paolo Trinchero;Xavier Sánchez-Vila;Daniel Fernàndez-Garcia

Frequent Co-Authors

Jesús Carrera
Jesús Carrera Spanish National Research Council
Alberto Guadagnini
Alberto Guadagnini Polytechnic University of Milan
Diogo Bolster
Diogo Bolster University of Notre Dame
Marco Dentz
Marco Dentz Spanish National Research Council
Anna M. Romaní
Anna M. Romaní University of Girona
Carlos Ayora
Carlos Ayora Spanish National Research Council
Damià Barceló
Damià Barceló University of Almería
Ximing Cai
Ximing Cai University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jessica D. Lundquist
Jessica D. Lundquist University of Washington
Charles H. Luce
Charles H. Luce US Forest Service

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