Ming Ye

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. Hydrology, University of Arizona, Tucson
B.S. Geology, Nanjing University, China

PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS:

Research interests are focused on the development and application of stochastic methods to describe flow and transport in randomly heterogeneous media; development and application of geostatistical methods for the spatial analysis of hydrologic data; develop and application efficient inverse methods under parameter and conceptual model uncertainty; integrated analysis of groundwater parameter, conceptual model, and scenario uncertainty; high performance computing using state-of-the-art algorithms and tools; computational investigation of flow and transport in unsaturated fractured systems; identification of geologic structure of unsaturated porous media and estimation of equivalent hydraulic parameters.

RESEARCH AREAS:

Vadose zone hydrology, stochastic subsurface hydrology, geostatistics, uncertainty and risk analysis

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Ye, M., R. Khaleel, and T.-C. J. Yeh, 2005.

Stochastic analysis of moisture plume dynamics of a field injection experiment. Water Resour. Res., 41, W03013, doi:10.1029/2004WR003735.

Yeh, T.-C. J., M. Ye, and R. Khaleel, 2005.

Estimation of effective unsaturated hydraulic conductivity tensor using spatial moments of observed moisture plume. Water Resour. Res., 41, W03014, doi:10.1029/2004WR003736.

Ye, M., S.P. Neuman, A. Guadagnini, and D.M. Tartakovsky, 2004.

Nonlocal and localized analyses of conditional mean transient flow in bounded, randomly heterogeneous porous media. Water Resour. Res., 40, W05104, doi:10.1029/2003WR002099.

Ye, M., S.P. Neuman, and P.D. Meyer, 2004.

Maximum likelihood Bayesian averaging of spatial variability models in unsaturated fractured tuff. Water Resour. Res., 40, W05113, doi:10.1029/2003WR002557.

Meyer, P.D., M. Ye, S.P. Neuman and K.J. Cantrell, 2004.

Combined Estimation of Hydrogeologic Conceptual Model and Parameter Uncertainty. NUREG/CR-6843 PNNL-14534, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, Washington, DC.