About

Farhad Jazaei is graduated from the Department of Civil Engineering at Auburn University. His research efforts focus on understanding the physical groundwater flow groundwater flow and transport processes in porous media. His recent works deals with using the concepts of Mean Action Time theory to quantify the groundwater process time scales. Jazaei received M.Sc. in water resources management from Sharif University of Technology (Tehran-Iran) in 2009. He worked for three years in Environment & Water Research Center (EWRC) at Sharif university of Technology. In 2012, Jazaei began PhD at Auburn University.

Dr. Jazaei currently works with the Center for Applied Earth Science and Engineering Research at the University of Memphis. In this world-renowned research institute for hydrological science, Dr. Jazaei is conducting research in one of Tennessee’s largest well fields to study and model the region’s groundwater flow. Based on concerns that water from the Mississippi River had begun leaking into the Memphis area aquifer via breaches in the confining layer, Dr. Jazaei has begun developing an analytical framework featuring MODFLOW-based groundwater modeling tools, stochastic analysis, and custom calibration approaches. In his work, he combines state-of-the-art parallel supercomputing technology and field data in order to identify likely breach locations and vulnerable zones in the confining layer between the Memphis aquifer and the shallow aquifer.

Education

Civil Engineering, PhD, 2017, Auburn University

Civil Engineering, MS, 2008, Sharif University of Technology

Civil Engineering, BS, 2006, K.N. Toosi University of Technology

Awards/Honors

• 2024, National Science Foundation CAREER Award

• 2021, University of Memphis Private Investigator Award

• 2015, Farvolden Award, National Ground Water Association (NGWA)

• 2015, Outstanding International Student, Auburn University

• 2013, Feagin graduate fellowship, Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, Auburn University

• 2013, Outstanding research from Civil Engineering Department, Graduate Engineering Research Showcase, Auburn University

• 2012, Full Ph.D. scholarship, Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, Auburn University

Selected Publications

• Paul, S., Waldron, B., Jazaei, F., & Larsen, D., 2023. Wellfield optimization to minimize contaminant migration from a surficial to a semi‐confined aquifer using numerical modeling. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association. Paper No. JAWR-22-0064-P. https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.13150

• Giglou, A. N., Nazari, R. R., Jazaei, F., & Karimi, M. (2023). Numerical analysis of surface hydrogeological water budget to estimate unconfined aquifers recharge.Journal of Environmental Management,346, 118892. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.118892

• Bhattacharjee, L., Jazaei, F., & Salehi, M. (2023). Insights into the mechanism of plastics’ fragmentation under abrasive mechanical forces: An implication for agricultural soil health. CLEAN–Soil, Air, Water, 51(8), 2200395. https://doi.org/10.1002/clen.202200395

• Pierce, J.; Waldron, B.; Jazaei, F., 2023 . Manual Sensitivity Analysis to Enhance a Previously PEST-Calibrated Shallow Aquifer and Aquitard Breach Model. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 28(12), https://doi.org/10.1061/JHYEFF.HEENG-5829

• Ashiq, M.; Jazaei, F; et al. “Abundance, spatial distribution, and physical characteristics of microplastics in stormwater detention ponds.” Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering 17.10 (2023): 124. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11783-023-1724-y

• Giglou, A. N., Nazari, R., Jazaei, F., & Karimi, M., 2023. Assessing the effects of increased impervious surface on the aquifer recharge through river flow network, case study of Jackson, Tennessee, USA. Science of The Total Environment, 872, 162203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162203

• Jazaei, F.; Chy, T.; Salehi,M., 2022. Can Microplastic Pollution Change Soil-Water Dynamics? Results from Controlled Laboratory Experiments. Water, 14(21), P.3430. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14213430.

• Azizi, K., Kashani, A.R., Ebrahimi, S. and Jazaei, F., 2022. Application of a multi-objective optimization model for the design of piano key weirs with a fixed dam height. Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 49(11), 1764-1778. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjce-2022-0096

• Sondipon Paul, Waldron, B., Jazaei, F., Schoefernacker, S., Larsen, D, 2022. Groundwater Well Optimization to Minimize Contaminant Movement from a Surficial Shallow Aquifer to a Lower Water Supply Aquifer Using Stochastic Simulation-Optimization Modeling Techniques: Strategy Formulation. MethodsX 101765. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215016122001455

• Mahmoudi, D., Rezaei, M., Ashjari, J., Salehghamari, E., Jazaei, F. and Babakhani, P., 2020. Impacts of stratigraphic heterogeneity and release pathway on the transport of bacterial cells in porous media. Science of The Total Environment, p.138804. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138804

• Jazaei, F., Waldron, B., Schoefernacker, S., Larsen, D, 2019. Application of numerical tools to investigate a leaky aquitard beneath urban well Fields. Water, 11(1), p.5. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/w11010005. 

• Jazaei, F., Simpson, M.J., Clement, 2017. Understanding time scales of diffusive fluxes and the implication for steady state and steady shape conditions. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(1), 174-180. doi:10.1002/2016GL071914

• Jazaei, F., Clement, T.P., Simpson, M.J., 2016. Spatial analysis of aquifer response times for radial flow processes: Nondimensional analysis and laboratory-scale tests. Journal of Hydrology, 532, 1-8. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.11.024

• Jazaei, F., Simpson, M.J., Clement, T.P., 2014. An analytical framework for quantifying aquifer response time scales associated with transient boundary conditions. Journal of Hydrology 519, 1642–1648. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.09.018

• Simpson, M.J., Jazaei, F., Clement, T.P., 2013. How long does it take for aquifer recharge or aquifer discharge processes to reach steady state? Journal of Hydrology 501, 241-248. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.08.005