Behzad Ghanbarian

University of Texas at Arlington | Associate Professor

Subject Areas: Transport in porous media, Hydrogeology

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This database includes breakthrough curves from the following references:

(1) Hu, Q., 1995. Effect of solute size and mass transfer on transport of contaminants in porous media. The University of Arizona.
(2) Huang, K., Toride, N., van Genuchten, M.T., 1995. Experimental investigation of solute transport in large, homogeneous and heterogeneous, saturated soil columns. Transp. Porous Media 18, 283–302.
(3) Toride, N., Leij, F., van Genuchten, M.T., 1995. The CXTFIT code for estimating transport parameters from laboratory or field tracer experiments. Version 2.0. U.S. Salinity Lab., Riverside, CA.
(4) Dyson, J.S., White., R.E., 1987. A comparison of the convective–dispersive equation and transfer function model for predicting cloride leaching through an undisturbed structured clay soil. J. Soil Sci. 38, 157–172.
(5) Schmadel, N.M., Ward, A.S., Kurz, M.J., Fleckenstein, J.H., Zarnetske, J.P., Hannah, D.M., Blume, T., Vieweg, M., Blaen, P.J., Schmidt, C., Knapp, J.L.A., Klaar, M.J., Romeijn, P., Datry, T., Keller, T., Folegot, S., Marruedo Arricibita, A.I., Krause, S., 2016. Stream solute tracer timescales changing with discharge and reach length confound process interpretation. Water Resour. Res. 52, 3227–3245.
(6) McInnis, D.P., Bolster, D., Maurice, P.A., 2015. Mobility of dissolved organic matter from the Suwannee River (Georgia, USA) in sand-packed columns. Environ. Eng. Sci. 32, 4–13.
(7) Particle tracking simulations in a uniform sphere pack performed by Dr. Saeid Sadeghnejad

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This Python code estimates the hydrogen relative permeability curve from the capillary pressure curve, mercury intrusion porosimetry curve, or pore-throat size distribution. The theoretical foundation is based on combining two upscaling techniques from statistical physics, i.e., percolation theory and effective-medium approximation. We apply the universal scaling law from percolation theory and the effective-medium approximation scaling to model hydrogen relative permeability at low and high hydrogen saturations, respectively.

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This database is a collection of electrical conductivity data measured or simulated from the literature. It includes data from Ren et al. (1999), Kechavarzi and Soga (2002), Binley et al. (2001), Binley et al. (2002) and Cassiani et al. (2004), Roberts (2002) and Gostick and Weber (2015). The Kechavarzi and Soga (2002), Binley et al. (2001), Binley et al. (2002) and Cassiani et al. (2004) datasets can be found in the Ewing and Hunt (2006) dataset.

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This database includes precipitation (P), evatranspiration (ET), potential evapotransiration (PET) and subsequent calculations for different continents.

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This database includes digitized data from various publications and consists of porosity and Young's modulus or bulk modulus measured/simulated on different types of porous materials.

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This dataset includes 102 soil samples from the UNSODA database. Soil water retention and unsaturated hydraulic conductivity curves are available.

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This database includes simulations of permeability in twelve synthetic and four Fontainebleau pore networks.

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Scale-dependent permeability
Created: Aug. 21, 2021, 5:48 p.m.
Authors: Ghanbarian, Behzad

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Four databases including 11 simulations. References are:

Berg, S., Rücker, M., Ott, H., Georgiadis, A., van der Linde, H., Enzmann, F., et al. (2016). Connected pathway relative permeability from pore-scale imaging of imbibition. Advances in Water Resources, 90, 24–35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2016.01.010

Gao, Y., Yao, J., Yang, Y., & Zhao, J. (2014). REV identification of tight sandstone in sulige gas field in changqing oilfield china using CT based digital core technology. In 2014 International Symposium of the Society of Core Analysts, Avignon, France (pp. SCA2014-036).

Gerke, K. M., & Karsanina, M. V. (2021). How pore structure non‐stationarity compromises flow properties representativity (REV) for soil samples: Pore‐scale modelling and stationarity analysis. European Journal of Soil Science, 72, 527–545.

Sahimi, M., Hughes, B. D., Scriven, L. E., & Davis, H. T. (1986). Dispersion in flow through porous media-I. One-phase flow. Chemical Engineering Science, 41(8), 2103–2122. https://doi.org/10.1016/0009-2509(86)87128-7

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GRIZZLY database_59 soil samples
Created: Nov. 23, 2021, 3:08 a.m.
Authors: Ghanbarian, Behzad

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This dataset including 59 soil samples is part of the GRIZZLY database that consists of 660 soil samples from different parts of the world e.g., USA, Hungary, Spain, the Netherlands, France, Australia, and Senegal (Haverkamp et al., 1998).
Haverkamp, R., C. Zammit, F. Boubkraoui, K. Rajkai, J.L. Arrúe, et al. 1998. GRIZZLY, Grenoble soil catalogue: Soil survey of field data and description of particle-size, soil water retention and hydraulic conductivity functions. Laboratoire d’Etude des Transferts en Hydrologie et en Environnement Grenoble, France.

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Arrival time data for rough pore-wall media
Created: June 24, 2022, 6:26 p.m.
Authors: Ghanbarian, Behzad · Yashar Mehmani · Brian Berkowitz

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This dataset includes arrival time data simulated by a particle tracking method in three domains with different surface fractal dimensions and Peclet numbers.

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Permeability and renormalization group theory
Created: Aug. 15, 2022, 11:46 p.m.
Authors: Misagh Esmaeilpour · Ghanbarian, Behzad · Rita Sousa · Peter R. King

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This database consists of MATLAB m files including simulations of scale-dependent permeability in 25 pore networks as well as REV permeability in 40 synthetic pore networks.

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PNM-K(Sw)-240
Created: Oct. 17, 2022, 1:12 a.m.
Authors: Ghanbarian, Behzad

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240 pore network simulations of capillary pressure and unsaturated hydraulic conductivity curves. The data were originally published by Yokeley et al. (2021).

Reference
Yokeley, B. A., Ghanbarian, B., & Sahimi, M. (2021). Rock Typing Based on Wetting-Phase Relative Permeability Data and Critical Pore Sizes. SPE Journal, 26(06), 3893-3907.

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Net Primary Productivity
Created: April 27, 2023, 2:11 a.m.
Authors: Allen G. Hunt · Muhammad Sahimi · Ghanbarian, Behzad · German Poveda

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This dataset includes the (digitized) original data of Budyko (1974) for NPP versus P/Ep.

Budyko, M.I. (1974). Climate and Life (Academic Press, New York).

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Streamflow Elasticity
Created: April 30, 2023, 5:55 p.m.
Authors: Allen G. Hunt · Muhammad Sahimi · Ghanbarian, Behzad

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How much terrestrial precipitation is used by vegetation and how much runs off, represents central issues in hydrologic science, ecology, climate change, and even geopolitics. We present a theory for the water balance to predict the fractional change in streamflow due to given fractional changes in temperature and precipitation. The theory involves a single parameter whose value is derived under the conditions of neither energy- nor water-limitations and, therefore, is not an adjustable parameter. By comparison with extensive data for precipitation elasticity εp at global scale, we find that the theory captures the key trends of the variations of the median value of εp with the aridity index AI . In contrast to a shortcoming of the classical Budyko phenomenology, namely, convergence to εp = 4 for large AI , our theory yields a value of 2 for the median value of εp for all AI > 1, in accord with the data for major river basins, as well as with the median value of summaries of global and continental data sets. Incorporating in the theory the effects of annual changes in water storage leads to the ability to predict the range of observed values of the elasticity as a function of the aridity index, or its inverse, the humidity index, as well as the run-off ratio. When changes in storage are neglected, the theory yields more accurate predictions for major river drainages than for small watersheds, particularly if the large basin spans various climate regimes and, as such, an integration over climates tends to reduce relative changes in the storage.

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Biological and physical transport processes: Gaia
Created: June 10, 2023, 5:21 p.m.
Authors: Allen G. Hunt · Muhammad Sahimi · Boris Faybishenko · Markus Egli · Zbigniew J. Kabala · Ghanbarian, Behzad · Fang Yu

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Data are related to biological and physical transport processes. This dataset includes “BAAD”, the biometric and allometric database for plant heights (Falster et al., 2015), “plants”m from many sources, selected for faster growth, and “soils”, which are soil depths.

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Representative sample size for estimating saturated hydraulic conductivity via machine learning
Created: Sept. 8, 2023, 12:11 p.m.
Authors: Amin Ahmadisharaf · Reza Nematirad · Sadra Sabouri · Yakov Pachepsky · Ghanbarian, Behzad

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This database including saturated hydraulic conductivity data from the USKSAT database as well as the associated Python codes used to analyze learning curves and train and test the developed machine learning models.

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Net primary productivity and plant species richness
Created: May 6, 2024, 2:18 a.m.
Authors: Allen G. Hunt · Muhammad Sahimi · Ghanbarian, Behzad

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Evapotranspiration, ET, is the most important climatic predictor of the net primary productivity, NPP, of ecosystems. It has also been shown that ET is the single climatic variable that best predicts plant species richness, n. We investigate whether a new theoretical expression for NPP in terms of climatic variables can be utilized to predict the variability of n across geographic regions. Our main hypothesis is that the most important input to the variability of n is climatic. We evaluate the proposed theoretical approach using a wide range of experimental data, collected from the literature. Our results appear to confirm the hypothesis underlying the research and are, therefore, compatible with the existing observations that n is strongly correlated with NPP.

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Porosity-dependent of elastic moduli of porous materials
Created: June 16, 2024, 3:39 a.m.
Authors: Nelsy Osorio · Muhammad Sahimi · Reza Barati · Ghanbarian, Behzad

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This database includes digitized data from various publications and consists of porosity and Young's modulus or bulk modulus measured/simulated on different types of porous materials.

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Continental and Global Scale Water Balance
Created: Dec. 9, 2024, 7:22 p.m.
Authors: Allen G. Hunt · Ghanbarian, Behzad · Muhammad Sahimi

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This database includes precipitation (P), evatranspiration (ET), potential evapotransiration (PET) and subsequent calculations for different continents.

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Electrical conductivity in porous media with surface conduction
Created: April 18, 2025, 5:58 p.m.
Authors: David McLachlan · Meysam Ramezani · Robert Horton · Ghanbarian, Behzad

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This database is a collection of electrical conductivity data measured or simulated from the literature. It includes data from Ren et al. (1999), Kechavarzi and Soga (2002), Binley et al. (2001), Binley et al. (2002) and Cassiani et al. (2004), Roberts (2002) and Gostick and Weber (2015). The Kechavarzi and Soga (2002), Binley et al. (2001), Binley et al. (2002) and Cassiani et al. (2004) datasets can be found in the Ewing and Hunt (2006) dataset.

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ABSTRACT:

This Python code estimates the hydrogen relative permeability curve from the capillary pressure curve, mercury intrusion porosimetry curve, or pore-throat size distribution. The theoretical foundation is based on combining two upscaling techniques from statistical physics, i.e., percolation theory and effective-medium approximation. We apply the universal scaling law from percolation theory and the effective-medium approximation scaling to model hydrogen relative permeability at low and high hydrogen saturations, respectively.

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Scaling analysis of solute transport and breakthrough curves
Created: July 26, 2025, 5:58 a.m.
Authors: Ghanbarian, Behzad · Saeid Sadeghnejad · Frieder Enzmann

ABSTRACT:

This database includes breakthrough curves from the following references:

(1) Hu, Q., 1995. Effect of solute size and mass transfer on transport of contaminants in porous media. The University of Arizona.
(2) Huang, K., Toride, N., van Genuchten, M.T., 1995. Experimental investigation of solute transport in large, homogeneous and heterogeneous, saturated soil columns. Transp. Porous Media 18, 283–302.
(3) Toride, N., Leij, F., van Genuchten, M.T., 1995. The CXTFIT code for estimating transport parameters from laboratory or field tracer experiments. Version 2.0. U.S. Salinity Lab., Riverside, CA.
(4) Dyson, J.S., White., R.E., 1987. A comparison of the convective–dispersive equation and transfer function model for predicting cloride leaching through an undisturbed structured clay soil. J. Soil Sci. 38, 157–172.
(5) Schmadel, N.M., Ward, A.S., Kurz, M.J., Fleckenstein, J.H., Zarnetske, J.P., Hannah, D.M., Blume, T., Vieweg, M., Blaen, P.J., Schmidt, C., Knapp, J.L.A., Klaar, M.J., Romeijn, P., Datry, T., Keller, T., Folegot, S., Marruedo Arricibita, A.I., Krause, S., 2016. Stream solute tracer timescales changing with discharge and reach length confound process interpretation. Water Resour. Res. 52, 3227–3245.
(6) McInnis, D.P., Bolster, D., Maurice, P.A., 2015. Mobility of dissolved organic matter from the Suwannee River (Georgia, USA) in sand-packed columns. Environ. Eng. Sci. 32, 4–13.
(7) Particle tracking simulations in a uniform sphere pack performed by Dr. Saeid Sadeghnejad

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