Amir Taghavy
Assistant Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
United States of America
Biography
A Civil Engineer by training, Dr. Taghavy built his research profile at Tufts University as a modeler in the field of flow and reactive transport in porous media, with focus on the fate and transport of nanoparticles that can be regarded either as environmental agents (e.g., zero valent iron nanoparticles) or subsurface contaminants (e.g., silver or other metal oxide nanoparticles). He then joined the Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin as a postdoctoral research fellow. His postdoctoral research centered on the upscaling of nanotechnology-based solutions for subsurface engineering problems including the enhanced oil recovery and CO2 flood conformance.
Research Interest
Computational Hydrogeology, Fate and Transport of Emerging Contaminants in the Subsurface, Nanotechnology Applications in Subsurface Engineering Problems, Numerical Methods – Hybrid Eulerian-Lagrangian Models, Environmental Statistics .
Publications
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Influence of dissolved oxygen on silver nanoparticle mobility and dissolution in water-saturated quartz sand AM Mittelman, A Taghavy, Y Wang, LM Abriola… - Journal of nanoparticle research, 2013
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Mathematical modeling of the transport and dissolution of citrate-stabilized silver nanoparticles in porous media A Taghavy, A Mittelman, Y Wang, KD Pennell… - Environmental science & technology, 2013
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Effectiveness of nanoscale zero-valent iron for treatment of a PCE–DNAPL source zone A Taghavy, J Costanza, KD Pennell, LM Abriola - Journal of contaminant hydrology, 2010
