Salinity in estuarine environments has been traditionally simulated using process-based models. More recently, data-driven models including artificial neural networks (ANNs) have been developed for simulating salinity. Compared to process-based model...
Understanding the salinity transport process around the sediment–water interface is important for water resources management in the upper reach of an estuary. In this study, we developed a baroclinic fluid dynamic model for investigating the fl...
Low-salinity waterflooding (LSWF) represents a cost-effective enhanced oil recovery (EOR) strategy for mature sandstone reservoirs. However, its success strongly depends on pore-scale transport and wettability mechanisms that conventional reservoir s...
In industrial production and water resource management involving fluid flows, two-phase flow measurement in complex environments has always been a research hotspot. In this study, a broadband detection device (40–110 MHz) suitable for two-phase...
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The Yangtze River Estuary (YRE) is the largest estuary in China. Recently, due to the increase of extent and frequency, saltwater intrusion has received more and more attention. In this paper, with the adoption of hydrodynamic and salinity transport...
Scrub mangrove forests, dominated by Rhizophora mangle L., are characterized by high porewater salinity, which might compromise individual sap flow rates (SF) due to seasonal and diurnal microenvironmental variations. We tested the functional, anatom...
A model experiment monitoring the fate of total residue oxidant (TRO) in water at a constant temperature and salinity indicated that it decayed exponentially with time, and with TRO decaying faster in seawater than in distilled water. The reduction o...
Accurate information regarding crop evapotranspiration (ETc) and its components is essential for proper water management. Salinity has become increasingly serious in many parts of the world, affecting the use of saline water in irrigation for various...
Saline lakes are mostly located in endorheic basins in arid and semi-arid regions, where the excess of evaporation over precipitation promotes the accumulation of salts on the surface. As the salinity of these lakes increases, their mass balance chan...
Membrane desalination (MD) is preferred over other desalination techniques since it requires a lower temperature gradient. Its performance can be further enhanced by preheating the intake of saline water. In this context, a novel solar-assisted air g...
Surface currents in the Alboran Sea are characterized by a very fast evolution that is not well captured by altimetric maps due to sampling limitations. On the contrary, satellite infrared measurements provide high resolution synoptic images of the o...
Concentration–discharge (C-Q) relationships are a convenient and increasingly popular tool for interpreting the episodic hydrochemical response to the varying discharge in small basins, providing insights into solute transport and streamflow ge...
A survey of the hydrochemistry and isotopes of the Quaternary aquifer on the southern coast of Laizhou Bay provides new insights into the hydrodynamic and geochemical relationships between freshwater, seawater, and brine at different depths in coasta...
Reverse electrodialysis (RED) is a promising technology to extract sustainable salinity gradient energy. However, the RED technology has not reached its full potential due to membrane efficiency and fouling and the complex interplay between ionic flo...
Groundwater resources in Jordan are under severe stress due to rapidly increasing water demand and over-abstraction that far exceeds natural replenishment. In addition, water quality is threatened by pollution from the misuse of fertilizers and pesti...
Model selection for water quality forecasting depends on many factors including analyst expertise and cost, stakeholder involvement and expected performance. Water quality forecasting in arid river basins is especially challenging given the importanc...
High salt levels in soil can severely limit plant development and diminish the positive effect of plant-growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR). However, extracts of organisms adapted to high salinity, such as Opuntia ficus-indica (OFI) and Enteromorph...
The lymphatic system collects excess fluid and molecules from the interstitial space back into the venous system mainly via the thoracic duct (TD). Despite the importance of the lymphatic flow in health and disease, a validated pressure–flow re...
The Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Biosphere Reserve (TCBR), the southernmost semi-arid zone of North America, includes two dryland streams, the Río Salado (RS) and Río Grande (RG); it is surrounded by high vegetation diversity, a cac...
The initiation and evolution of seismic activity in intraplate regions are controlled by heterogeneous stress and highly fractured rocks within the rock mass triggered by fluid migration. In this study, we imaged the electrical structure of the crust...
In low-permeability reservoirs, studying reservoir sensitivity is crucial for optimizing water flooding, as it identifies detrimental mineral-fluid interactions that can cause formation damage and reduce injection efficiency. However, existing diagno...
Groundwater resources in semi-arid regions are increasingly threatened by agricultural intensification, irrigation expansion, and climate variability. This study investigates the influence of irrigation practices on groundwater recharge and quality d...
Medetomidine has been reported to decrease tear flow significantly in dogs, cats, and pigs when used as a sedative or analgesic; however, there are no such reports when it comes to rats. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of medetomidi...
To elucidate the mechanism by which soil disturbance affects tillage performance during subsoiling remediation of northeastern primary sodic saline–alkali soil, this study established a mathematical prediction model linking subsoiler configurat...
Seawater intrusion represents the flow of seawater through coastal aquifers, but it also affects surface water bodies such as channels, canals, and wetlands. Transitional water volumes, variable density and salinity distributions, and heterogeneous h...
Mine leachate and saline industrial wastewater streams are often treated as liabilities to be remediated or disposed of. These flows often contain substantial water and dissolved mineral resources that can be reclaimed. In this work, a waste-heat-ass...
To understand the adaptive evolution of endangered plateau freshwater fishes to environmental stress and to better explore the underlying mechanisms in Aspiorhynchus laticeps—a critically endangered fish endemic to the Tarim Basin, Xinjiang, Ch...
In polder-type land, water dynamics are heavily influenced by the artificial maintenance of water levels. Polders are low-lying areas of land that have been reclaimed from the sea or from freshwater bodies and are protected from flooding by dikes or...
From 2011 to 2013, a mega project, known as the Gully Land Consolidation Project (GLCP), was implemented in the hilly gully region atop China’s Loess Plateau. However, the GLCP involved large-scale slope excavation and gully backfilling that ch...
Variable density flow (VDF) modeling is a valuable tool for assessing the potential impacts of global climate change and sea level rise on coastal aquifers. When using any of these modeling tools, a quantitative relationship is needed to compute the...
The CO2-brine dissolution homogenizes the distribution of residual CO2 and reduces the leakage risk in the saline aquifer. As a key parameter to immobilize the free CO2, the dissolution rate of CO2-brine could be accelerated through mechanisms like d...
Using geographic sea surface current data, long-term changes in spatial and temporal variations in the Kuroshio Current 1993–2021 were analyzed, and the relationship between the Kuroshio Current and oceanic conditions, such as water column stru...
Underground hydrogen storage in porous formations requires numerical models able to represent multiphase flow, gas dissolution, diffusion, capillary effects, and gas mixture behaviour under conditions that may involve temperature changes, salinity an...
Mediterranean coastal groundwater-dependent ecosystems are among the most vulnerable environments to the combined effects of climate change and local anthropogenic pressures, yet long-term quantitative assessments disentangling these drivers remain l...
Traditional investigations of fluid flow in porous media often rely on a continuum approach, but this method has limitations as it does not account for microscale details. However, recent progress in imaging technology allows us to visualize structur...
Landslides are common in the Northern Apennines (Italy) and their resulting changes in soil structure affect edaphic fauna biodiversity, whose activity has concurrent impacts on soil structural stability and water-holding capacity. The aim of this st...
Geological CO2 sequestration (GCS) has been proposed as an effective approach to mitigate carbon emissions in the atmosphere. Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis of the fate of CO2 dynamics and storage are essential aspects of large-scale reservoir...
Increasing human populations and global climate change will severely stress our water resources. One potential unforeseen consequence of these stressors is accelerated stream channel erosion due to increased stream temperatures and changes in stream...
Longitudinal dispersion coefficient is a key parameter governing solute transport in porous media, with significant implications for various industrial processes. However, the impact of microfractures on the longitudinal dispersion coefficient remain...
To quantify the variation of red blood cells (RBCs) or plasma proteins in blood samples effectively, it is necessary to measure blood viscosity and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) simultaneously. Conventional microfluidic measurement methods req...
Saltwater intrusion, leading to the salinization of fresh groundwater, is the most challenging problem in coastal regions. Saltwater pumping from a barrier well is widely applied to prevent saltwater intrusion. Owing to its easy installation, many st...
Ensuring sustainability of groundwater (GW) resources requires understanding the interplaying factors in the hydrogeochemical evolution of the system (cause and effect relationships), which is the subject of the current work concerning the groundwate...
For the high-salt reservoir of the Fengcheng Formation in the Mahu area, the production decreases rapidly due to the conductivity decrease after fracturing. The analysis shows that this has a great relationship with the special salt dissolution chara...
The Upper Messinian reservoirs located in the Salma Field of the Nile Delta area contain variable facies. The key reservoir interval of the Abu Madi Formation was deposited in fluvial to deltaic environments. These fine-grained facies form significan...
Marine invertebrates exhibit diverse thermoregulatory capabilities enabled by hierarchical architectures, porous skeletal frameworks, and adaptive interfaces. These biological features provide engineering cues for controlling heat conduction, convect...
The global water scarcity crisis requires urgent action to improve wastewater treatment and develop sustainable water resources. This study focuses on producing Thin Film Composite (TFC) membranes based on polyethylene terephthalate track membranes (...
Membrane-based reverse electrodialysis (RED) can convert the salinity gradient energy between two solutions into electric power without any environmental impact. Regarding the practical application of the RED process using natural seawater and river...
Bacteria of the genus Listeria (phylum Firmicutes) include both human and animal pathogens, as well as saprophytic strains. A common component of Listeria spp. genomes are plasmids, i.e., extrachromosomal replicons that contribute to gene flux in bac...
This study used the sweeping air approach to conduct a comparative analysis of pervaporation (PV) and membrane distillation (MD) in the context of desalinating saline/hypersaline water. An experimental setup of the sweeping air arrangement was design...
The Mississippi Valley-type (MVT) Pb-Zn deposits and hydrocarbon reservoirs coexist around the margin of the eastern Sichuan basin. This study examined the fluid inclusions, Sr isotope and systematic Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd geochronology for the distinct ore an...
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