Jirka Šimunek

Soil Physicist/Hydrologist

Numerical Modeling of water flow and solute transport
Parameter Estimation of soil hydraulic properties
Major Ion Chemistry modeling of biogeochemical processes
Transport Processes in one and multi dimensions with various equilibrium and nonequilibrium solutes in variably saturated porous media

Graduate Students
- Julie Scanlan (Ph.D., Environmental Sciences program)
- Yusong Wang (Ph.D., Environmental Sciences program)
Other
- Feike Leij - Visiting Scholar
- Navin Kumar Twarakavi - Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Elizabeth Pontedeiro - Research Associate
- Masaru Sakai - Junior Specialist

Bradford, S. A., J. Šimunek, M. Bettahar, M. Th. van Genuchten, and S. R. Yates, Significance of straining in colloid deposition: evidence and implications, Water Resour. Res., 42, W12S15, doi:10.1029/2005WR004791, 16 pp., 2006.
Pang, L. and J. Šimunek, Evaluation of bacteria-facilitated cadmium transport in gravel columns using the HYDRUS colloid-facilitated solute transport model, Water Resour. Res., 42, W12S10, doi:10.1029/2006WR004896, 2006.
Gon�alves, M. C., J. Šimunek, T. B. Ramos, J. C. Martins, M. J. Neves, and F. P. Pires, Multicomponent solute transport in soil lysimeters irrigated with waters of different quality, Water Resour. Res., 42, W08401, doi:10.1029/2006WR004802, 17 pp., 2006.
Carrillo-Gonz�lez, R., J. Šimunek, S. Sauve, and D. Adriano, Mechanisms and pathways of trace element mobility in soils, Advances in Agronomy, 91, 111-178, 2006.
Šimunek, J., Changming He, J. L. Pang, and S. A. Bradford, Colloid-facilitated transport in variably-saturated porous media: Numerical model and experimental verification, Vadose Zone Journal, 5, 1035-1047, 2006.