Marwan Fahs

Maitre de Conférence - ENGEES

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Research activities

  • Modeling water flow, mass and heat transfer in aquifers.
  • Development of efficient and robust numerical models.

Teaching activities

  • Numerical Methods for Engineers in geoscience
  • Introduction to simulation in multiphysics
  • Hydrogeology
  • Soil mechanics
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Thermodynamics

Publications

  1. Shafabakhsh P., Ataie-Ashtiani B., Simmons C. T., Younes A., Fahs M. (2021). Convective-Reactive Transport of Dissolved CO2 in Fractured-Geological Formations. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control (minor revisions).
  2. Drouin G., Fahs M., Droz B., Younes A., Imfeld G., Payraudeau S. (2021). Pollutant dissipation at the sediment‐water‐interface: a robust discrete continuum numerical model and recirculating laboratory experiments. Water Resources Research, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR028932
  3. Raeisi Isa-Abad, A., Fontaine, V., Ghafouric, H.-R., Younes, A., & Fahs, M. (2020). A fully interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin method for variable density groundwater flow problems. Computers & Fluids. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compfluid.2020.104744
  4. Tabrizi Nejad As, M., Fahs, M., Ataie-Ashtiani, B., Simmons, C. T., di Chiara Roupert, R., & Younes, A. (2020). A Fourier series solution for transient three-dimensional thermohaline convection in porous enclosures. Water Resources Research. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR028111
  5. Koohbor, B., Fahs, M., Hoteit, H., Doummar, J., Younes, A., & Belfort, B. (2020). An advanced discrete fracture model for variably saturated flow in fractured porous media. Advances in Water Resources, 140, 103602. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2020.103602
  6. Rajabi, M. M., Belfort, B., Lehmann, F., Weill, S., Ataie-Ashtiani, B., & Fahs, M. (2020). An improved Kalman filtering approach for the estimation of unsaturated flow parameters by assimilating photographic imaging data. Journal of Hydrology, 590, 125373. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125373
  7. Rajabi, M. M., Fahs, M., Panjehfouladgaran, A., Ataie-Ashtiani, B., Simmons, C. T., & Belfort, B. (2020). Uncertainty quantification and global sensitivity analysis of double-diffusive natural convection in a porous enclosure. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 162, 120291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2020.120291
  8. Younes, A., Fahs, M., Ataie-Ashtiani, B., & Simmons, C. T. (2020). Effect of distance-dependent dispersivity on density-driven flow in porous media. Journal of Hydrology, 589, 125204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125204
  9. Younes, A., Shao, Q., Mara, T. A., Baalousha, H. M., & Fahs, M. (2020). Use of Global Sensitivity and Data-Worth Analysis for an Efficient Estimation of Soil Hydraulic Properties. Water, 12(3), 736. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12030736
  10. Fahs, M., Graf, T., Tran, T.V., Ataie-Ashtiani, B., Simmons, Craig.T., Younes, A., 2020. Study of the Effect of Thermal Dispersion on Internal Natural Convection in Porous Media Using Fourier Series. Transp Porous Med 131, 537–568. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-019-01356-1
  11. Mara, T.A., Fahs, M., Shao, Q., Younes, A., 2019. Random Sampling from Joint Probability Distributions Defined in a Bayesian Framework. SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 41, A316–A338. https://doi.org/10.1137/18M1168467
  12. Koohbor, B., Fahs, M., Ataie-Ashtiani, B., Belfort, B., Simmons, C.T., Younes, A., 2019. Uncertainty analysis for seawater intrusion in fractured coastal aquifers: Effects of fracture location, aperture, density and hydrodynamic parameters. Journal of Hydrology 571, 159–177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.01.052
  13. Baalousha, H., Fahs, M., Ramasomanana, F., Younes, A., 2019. Effect of Pilot-Points Location on Model Calibration: Application to the Northern Karst Aquifer of Qatar. Water 11, 679. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11040679
  14. Belfort, Weill, M. Fahs, Lehmann, 2019. Laboratory Experiments of Drainage, Imbibition and Infiltration under Artificial Rainfall Characterized by Image Analysis Method and Numerical Simulations. Water 11, 2232. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11112232
  15. Shafabakhsh, P., Fahs, M., Ataie-Ashtiani, B., Simmons, C.T., 2019. Unstable Density-Driven Flow in Fractured Porous Media: The Fractured Elder Problem. Fluids 4, 168. https://doi.org/10.3390/fluids4030168
  16. Younes, A., Zaouali, J., Kanzari, S., Lehmann, F., Fahs, M., 2019. Bayesian Simultaneous Estimation of Unsaturated Flow and Solute Transport Parameters from a Laboratory Infiltration Experiment. Water 11, 1660. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11081660
  17. Q. Shao, M. Fahs, H. Hoteit, J. Carrera, P. Ackerer, A. Younes: A 3D semi-analytical solution for density-driven flow in porous media, Water Resources Research, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018WR023583
  18. T. Mara, M. Fahs, Q. Shao, A. Younes: Random sampling from joint probability distributions in a Bayesian framework, accepted in SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 2018
  19. A. Younes, J. Zaoualia, M. Fahs, F. Slama, O. Grunberger, T.A. Mara: Bayesian soil parameter estimation: Results of percolation-drainage vs infiltration laboratory experiments, Journal of Hydrology, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.08.082
  20. A. Younes, T. Mara, M. Voltz, L. Guellouz, H. Musa Baalousha, M. Fahs: A new efficient Bayesian parameter inference strategy: Application to flow and pesticide transport through unsaturated porous media. Journal of Hydrology, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.06.043
  21. A. Younes, J. Zaouali, F. Lehmann, M. Fahs:  Sensitivity and identifiability of hydraulic and geophysical parameters from streaming potential signals in unsaturated porous media. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2018. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-3561-2018.
  22. B. Koohbor, M. Fahs, B. Ataie-Ashtiani, C.T. Simmons, A. Younes: Semi-analytical solutions for contaminant transport under variable velocity field in a coastal aquifer, Journal of hydrology, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.03.048 
  23. M. Fahs, B. Koohbor, B. Belfort, B. Ataie-Ashtiani, C.T. Simmons, A. Younes and P. Ackerer, A Generalized Semi-Analytical Solution for the Dispersive Henry Problem: Effect of Stratification and Anisotropy on Seawater Intrusion, Water, 2018. https://doi.org/doi:10.3390/w10020230. 
  24. F. Ramasomanana, M. Fahs, H. Balousha, N. Barth, S Ahzi: An Efficient ELLAM Implementation for Modeling Solute Transport in Fractured Porous Media, Water air and soil pollution, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-018-3690-8.

Contact

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Email
marwan.fahs(-at-)unistra.fr