Andrea Cortis' Publications

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Journal and Peer-Reviewed Publications

  1. Cortis A., Dror, I. and Berkowitz, B. Catalytic Transformation of Persistent Environmental Contaminants Using Nanosized Zero-Valent Metal Particles Encapsulated in a Diatomite Matrix with Electron Mediator. (submitted)
  2. Zoia, A., Neel, M.C., and Cortis, A. A continuous time random walk model of transport in variably saturated heterogeneous porous media. (submitted), arXiv:0910.3044, pdf.
  3. Cortis A., Puente, C.E., and Sivakumar, B. (2009) Encoding hydrologic information via a fractal geometric approach and its extensions. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (SERRA),  10.1007/s00477-009-0349-4, pdf.
  4. Cortis, A., and Oldenburg, C.M. (2009) Short-range atmospheric dispersion of carbon dioxide. Boundary-Layer Meteorology. doi:10.1007/s10546-009-9418-y, pdf.
  5. Cortis, A., and Zoia, A. (2009) Model of dispersive transport across sharp interfaces between porous materials. Phys. Rev. E 80, 011122 (2009), DOI:10.1103/PhysRevE.80.011122, pdf.
  6. Berkowitz, B., Cortis A., Dror, I., and Scher, H. (2009) Laboratory Experiments on Dispersive Transport Across Interfaces: The Role of Flow Direction. Water Resour. Res. , VOL. 45, W02201, doi:10.1029/2008WR007342, pdf.
  7. Cortis, A. and Puente, C.E. and Sivakumar, B. (2009) Nonlinear Extensions of a Fractal-Multifractal Approach For Environmental Modeling. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (SERRA), 23:897-906,  10.1007/s00477-008-0272-0, pdf.
  8. Puente, C.E. and Cortis, A. and Sivakumar, B. (2008) Bells Galore: Oscillations and Circle-Map Dynamics from Space-Filling Fractal Functions. Fractals, Vol. 16(4), 367-378, pdf.
  9. Cortis, A., Oldenburg, C.M., and Benson, S.M. (2008) The role of optimality in CO2 seepage detection for geological carbon sequestration sites. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, Vol. 2(4) Special Issue: Sp. Iss. SI, 640-652. doi:10.1016/j.ijggc.2008.04.008, pdf.
  10. Anwar, S., Cortis, A. & Sukop, M. (2008). Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of Solute Transport in Heterogeneous Porous Media with Conduits to Estimate Macroscopic Continuous Time Random Walk Model Parameters. Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Vol. 8, Nos. 14, 213-221, pdf.
  11. Cortis, A., and Birkholzer, J. (2008) Continuous Time Random Walk Analysis of Contaminant Transport in Fractured Rock. Water Resour. Res. , VOL. 44, W06414, doi:10.1029/2007WR006596, pdf.
  12. Cortis, A. (2007) Péclet-dependent Memory Kernels for Transport in Heterogeneous Media. Phys. Rev E , 76, 030102, pdf.
  13. Boano, F., Cortis, A., Packman, A., Revelli, R. and Ridolfi, R. (2007). A Continuous Time Random Walk approach to the stream transport of solutes. Water Resour. Res., VOL. 43, W10425, doi:10.1029/2007WR006062, pdf.
  14. Cortis, A., and Ghezzehei, T. A. (2007) On the Transport of Emulsions in Porous Media. J. Colloid Interface Sci., doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2007.04.021. (Priority Comm.), pdf.
  15. Cortis, A., Dobson, P., & Liu, H.-H. (2007). Book review of Understanding the Micro to Macro Behaviour of Rock-Fluid Systems, R.P. Shaw (ed.) Journal of Sedimentary Research, http://spot. colorado.edu/~jsedr/BookReviews/BR2007/ShawBR.pdf
  16. Cortis, A., Harter, T., Hou, L., Atwill, E. R., Packman, A., and Green, P. (2006). Long-time Elution of Cryptosporidium parvum Oocysts in Porous Media. Water Resour. Res., (42), W12S13, doi:10.1029/2006WR004897, pdf.
  17. Cortis, A., and Knudby, C. (2006). A CTRW Approach To Anomalous Transient Flow In Heterogeneous Porous Media. Water Resour. Res., (42), W10201, doi:10.1029/2006WR005227, pdf.
  18. Berkowitz, B., Cortis, A., Dentz, M., & Scher, H. (2006) Modeling non-Fickian Transport in Geological Formations as a Continuous Time Random Walk. Rev. Geophys., (44), No. 2, RG2003, doi:10.1029/2005RG000178, pdf.
  19. Amitay-Rosen, T., Cortis, A., and Berkowitz, B. (2005) Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Quantitative Analysis of Particle Deposition in Porous Media. Environ. Sci. Technol., 39, 18, 7208–7216, 2005, 10.1021/es048788z S0013-936X(04)08788-7, pdf.
  20. Cortis, A., and Berkowitz, B. (2005) Computing the full time evolution of anomalous breakthrough curves:The CTRW Matlab toolbox. Ground Water, Vol. 43, No. 6: 947–950, pdf.
  21. Smeulders, D., Cortis, A., Guermond, J.-L., & Lafarge, D. (2005) Pore Roughness Effects on High-Frequency Permeability. Solid Mechanics and its Applications, 125:53–60 Jacques M. Huyghe et al. (eds), IUTAM Proceedings on Physicochemical and Electromechanical Interactions in Porous Media, (2005) pdf.
  22. Cortis, A., Chen, Y., Scher, H., & Berkowitz, B. (2004) Quantitative characterization of pore-scale disorder on transport in “homogeneous” granular media. Physical Review E (Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics), 70(4):041108, pdf.
  23. Cortis, A. and Berkowitz, B. (2004) Anomalous transport in “classical” soil and sand columns. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 68: 1539-1548, pdf.
  24. Emmanuel, S., Cortis, A., and Berkowitz, B. (2004). Diffusion in multicomponent systems: A free energy approach. Chem. Phys., 302:21–30, doi:10.1016/j.chemphys.2004.03.013, pdf.
  25. Cortis, A., Gallo, C., Scher, H., and Berkowitz, B. (2004). Numerical simulation of non-Fickian transport in geological formations with multiple-scale heterogeneities. Water Resour. Res., (40), W04209, doi:10.1029/2003WR002750, pdf.
  26. Dentz, M., Cortis, A., Scher, H., and Berkowitz, B. (2004). Time behavior of solute transport in heterogeneous media: transition from anomalous to normal transport. Adv. Water Resour., 27(2):155–173, doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2003.11.002, pdf.
  27. Cortis, A., Smeulders, D., Guermond, J.-L., & Lafarge, D. (2003). Influence of pore roughness on high-frequency permeability. Phys. Fluids, 15 (6):1766–1775, pdf.
  28. Lafarge, D., Smeulders, D., Cortis, A., & Guermond, J.-L., (2002). Influence of pore roughness on high-frequency permeability. Revista de Acustica, Vol. 33, 1–6, pdf.
  29. Smeulders, D., Cortis, A., Lafarge, D., & Guermond, J.-L., (2002). Influence of pore roughness on high-frequency permeability. In Poromechanics II, Auriault et al. (eds.), 807–812.
  30. Cortis, A. & Smeulders, D. (2001). On the viscous length scale of wedge–shaped porous media. Int. J. Eng. Sci., 39, 951–962, pdf.
  31. Cortis, A., Smeulders, D., Lafarge, D., Firdaouss, M., & Guermond, J. (2001). Geometry effects on sound in porous media. In Ehlers, W. (Ed.), Proc. IUTAM Symposium on Theoretical and Numerical Methods in Continuum Mechanics of Porous Media. University of Stuttgart, Germany, September 5-10, 1999, volume 87 of Solid Mechanics and its applications, (pp. 187–192). Kluwer, pdf.
  32. Barrocu, G., Sciabica, M., Uras, G., Cortis, A., & Vernier, E. (1997). Saltwater intrusion and artificial recharge modelling in the coastal aquifer system of Capoterra (southern Sardinia). In Proc. International Conference on Water Problems in the Mediterranean Countries. Near East University Civil Engineering Department Nicosia, North Cyprus, pdf.

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Dissertations and Theses

  1. Cortis, A. (2002). Dynamic acoustic parameters of porous media: a theoretical, numerical and experimental investigation. Ph.D. Thesis, Delft University Press. ISBN 90-407-2294-3, pdf.
  2. Cortis, A. (1997). Study on the relationship between microgeometry and permeability of porous media. M.Sc. Thesis, University of Cagliari, Italy.
  3. Cortis, A. (1994). Fluid flow in a rough single fracture. D.E.A. Thesis, L.E.P.T-ENSAM Bordeaux, France.

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Presentations at Conferences

  1. Oldenburg, C.M., and Lewicki, J.L., and Cortis, A., and Dobeck, L., and Spangler, L. (2008). ZERT CO2 Shallow-Release Test: Predictions and Analysis of Near-Surface Migration of CO2. Seventh Annual Conference on Carbon Capture & Sequestration, May 5–8, 2008, Pittsburgh, Pa.
  2. Cortis, A. (2008) P´eclet-dependent memory kernels for transport in heterogeneous media. XVII International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources (CMWR 2008), 6-10 July, 2008, San Francisco.
  3. Ghezzehei, T.A. and Cortis, A. (2008) Transport of Emulsions in Porous Media. XVII International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources (CMWR 2008), 6-10 July, 2008, San Francisco.
  4. Birkholzer, J. and Cortis, A. (2008) Continuous Time Random Walk Analysis of Solute Transport in Fractured Porous Media. XVII International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources (CMWR 2008), 6-10 July, 2008, San Francisco.
  5. Harter, T. and Cortis, A., and VanderSchans, M. (2008) Upscaling Nonpoint Source Pollution with Nitrate: A Regional Modeling Approach. XVII International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources (CMWR 2008), 6-10 July, 2008, San Francisco.
  6. Puente, C.E., and Cortis, A. (2008). Understanding complexity: a geometric perspective. 8th Understanding Complex Systems Symposium, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 1215, 2008.
  7. Puente, C.E. and Sivakumar, B. and Cortis, A. (2007). Deterministic modeling of natural complexity. MODSIM07 Conference, 10–13 December 2007, Christchurch, New Zealand.
  8. Cortis, A., Oldenburg, C. M. & Benson, S.M. (2007). The Role of Optimality in Characterizing CO2 Seepage from Geological Carbon Sequestration Sites. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 10–14 December 2007, San Francisco.
  9. Puente, C.E. and Cortis, A. and Sivakumar, B. (2007). Geometric Modeling of Rainfall Distributions. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 10–14 December 2007, San Francisco.
  10. Dror, I. and Cortis, A. and Berkowitz, B. (2007). Use of New Composite Material Based on Nanosized Zero Valent Iron for Catalytic Transformations of Water Contaminants. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 10–14 December 2007, San Francisco.
  11. Puente, C. E. & Cortis, A. (2007). Deterministic Geometric Modeling of Natural Complexity. AGU Joint Assembly, 22-25 May 2007, Acapulco, Mexico.
  12. Cortis, A., Oldenburg, C. M. & Benson, S.M. (2007). On the optimality of above-ground monitoring networks for Carbon Capture and Storage. Sixth Annual Conference on Carbon Capture & Sequestration, May 7–10, 2007, Pittsburgh, Pa.
  13. Cortis, A. (2006). Identification of transition-rate probability distributions for transport from macroscopic experimental observations. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 11–15 December 2006, San Francisco.
  14. Oldenburg, C. M., & Cortis, A. (2006). Near-Surface Dispersion of Carbon Dioxide Seepage from Geologic Storage Sites: Interplay of Process and Detection Strategy. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 11–15 December 2006, San Francisco.
  15. Anwar, S., Cortis, A. & Sukop, M. (2006). Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of Solute Transport in Heterogeneous Porous Media with Conduits to Estimate Macroscopic Continuous Time Random Walk Model Parameters. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 11–15 December 2006, San Francisco.
  16. Birkholzer, J., & Cortis, A. (2006). Continuous Time Random Walk Analysis of Contaminant Transport in Fractured Rock. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 11–15 December 2006, San Francisco.
  17. Duclos, A., Lafarge, D., Pagneux, V., & Cortis, A. (2007). Multiple scattering and visco-thermal effects. Fourth Joint Meeting: ASA and ASJ, 28 November–2 December 2006 Honolulu, Hawaii J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 120, No. 5, Pt. 2, November 2006, p. 3282.
  18. Sukop, M., Cortis, A. & Anwar, S. (2006). Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of Solute Transport in Heterogeneous Porous Media with Conduits to Estimate Macroscopic Continuous Time Random Walk Model Parameters. 3rd International Conference for Mesoscopic Methods in Engineering and Science, Hampton, Virginia, USA July 24–28, 2006.
  19. Oldenburg, C. M., Saripalli, P., Viswanathan, H. S. & Cortis, A. (2006) Seepage Detection Modeling and Optimization. In Fifth Annual Conference on Carbon Capture and Sequestration May 8-11, 2006, Alexandria, VA
  20. Dror, I., Cortis, A., & Berkowitz, B. (2006). Catalytic transformation of water contaminants using new composite materials: Properties and activity. In Preprints of Extended Abstracts, Symposium on Advances In Surface-Mediated Transformation In Environmental Systems, Division of Environmental Chemistry, 231th ACS National Meeting, Atlanta, GA, March 26–30, 2006. American Chemical Society.
  21. Harter, T., Searcy, K. E., Cortis, A., Hou, L., Packman, A. I. & Atwill E. R. (2006). Cryptosporidium parvum in Small Watersheds: Transport in Streams and Streambed Sediments. USDA-CSREES National Water Conference, February 5-9, 2006 , San Antonio, TX.
  22. Knudby, C., & Cortis, A. (2005). Analysis of pumping tests in heterogeneous aquifers using CTRW theory. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 5–9 December 2005, San Francisco.
  23. Cortis, A., Harter, T., Hou, L., & Atwill, R. (2005). Long term transport of Cryptosporidium parvum: Experiments vs Theory. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 5–9 December 2005, San Francisco.
  24. Cortis, A., Scher, H., & Berkowitz, B. (2004). Correct Characterization of Passive Tracer Dispersion in Porous Columns: Experiments vs Theory. Eos Trans. AGU, 85(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H14B-04.
  25. Amitay-Rosen, T, Cortis, A. & Berkowitz, B. (2004) Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Theoretical Analysis of Particle Deposition in Porous Media. Eos Trans. AGU, 85(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H32A-04.
  26. Cortis, A., Dentz, M., Margolin G., Scher, H., & Berkowitz, B. (2003). Simulation of non-Fickian transport in geological formations with variable-scale heterogeneities. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 8-12, San Francisco. Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H11G-0924, 2003.
  27. Dentz, M., Cortis, A., Scher, H., & Berkowitz, B. (2003). Time behavior of solute transport in heterogeneous media: Transition from anomalous to normal transport. EGS * AGU * EUG Joint Assembly, April 7-11, Nice, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 5, 04499, 2003.
  28. Cortis, A., Gallo, C., Scher, H., & Berkowitz, B. (2003). Numerical simulation of non-Fickian transport in geological formations with multiple-scale heterogeneities. em EGS * AGU * EUG Joint Assembly, April 7-11, Nice, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 5, 03191, 2003.
  29. Scher, H., Cortis, A., & Berkowitz, B. (2002). A unified framework for anomalous transport in geological formations. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 6-10, San Francisco.
  30. Cortis, A., Gallo, C., Scher, H., & Berkowitz, B. (2002). Numerical simulation of non-Fickian transport in geological formations with multiple-scale heterogeneities. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 6-10, San Francisco.
  31. Smeulders, D., Cortis, A., Guermond, J.-L., & Lafarge, D. (2002). Influence of pore roughness on high-frequency permeability. Forum Acusticum Sevilla, 16-20 September 2002.
  32. Smeulders, Cortis, A., D., Guermond, J.-L., & Lafarge, D. (2002). Influence of pore roughness on high-frequency permeability. Biot2002 conference, Grenoble, August 26-28; 6 page publication.
  33. Cortis, A. & Smeulders, D. (2000). Visco-thermal interaction in porous media. (book of abstracts of the 4th Euromech Fluid Mechanics Conference, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, November 19-23, 2000).
  34. Cortis, A. & Smeulders, D. (2000). Dynamic viscous and thermal permeabilities for sharp-edged porous media. (book of abstracts of the 33rd Solid Mechanics Conference, Zakopane, Poland, September 5-9, 2000 ).
  35. Cortis, A., Firdaouss, M., Guermond, J.-L., Lafarge, D., & Smeulders, D. (1999). Propagation du son dans des géométries 2d avec des pointes: limite de la définition classique de la longuer caractéristique λ. Book of Abstracts of the: 4-émes Journées d’étude sur les milieux poreux, Nancy, France, June 1999.

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Reports

  1. Cortis, A., & Berkowitz, B. (2004). The CTRW Matlab toolbox: a practical users guide. http://www.weizmann.ac.il/ESER/People/Brian/CTRW.

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