Igor Jankovic

Igor Jankovic is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering at the University at Buffalo's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. His research focuses on groundwater flow and contaminant transport in heterogeneous aquifers, with particular emphasis on the impact of aquifer heterogeneity on solute movement and transport modeling.

• Education:
  • PhD in Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota (1997)
  • MS in Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota (1993)
  • BS in Civil Engineering, University of Split, Croatia (1990)

His work addresses critical issues in groundwater hydrology including:

• Advective transport mechanisms in heterogeneous media
• Breakthrough curve prediction and analysis
• Effective hydraulic conductivity modeling
• Upscaling of flow and transport parameters
• Application of the Analytic Element Method (AEM) for complex aquifer simulations
• Comparison of transport models (CTRW, MRMT) in heterogeneous environments

Research trends in his publications reveal a focus on:

• Three-dimensional heterogeneous aquifer modeling
• Non-Fickian and anomalous transport behavior
• Impact of spatial variability on contaminant migration
• Development of numerical algorithms for large-scale groundwater simulations
• Validation of stochastic transport theories against field experiments (e.g., MADE and Borden aquifers)
• Interaction between physical and chemical heterogeneity in reactive transport