Rohit Salve

Publications

Salve, R., 2005. Observations of preferential flow during a liquid release experiment in fractured welded tuffs, Water Resources Research 41:doi:10.1029/2004WR003570.

Salve, R., and T. Kneafsey, 2005. Vapor-phase transport in the near-drift environment at Yucca Mountain Water Resources Research 41: doi:10.1029/2004WR003373.

Salve, R., D. Hudson, H.H. Liu, and J.S.Y., 2005. Wang, Development of a wet plume following liquid release along a fault, Vadose Zone Journal, 4: 89-100.

Salve, R., 2005. A passive-discrete water sampler for monitoring seepage. Groundwater, 43: 133-137.

Salve, R., H.H. Liu, Q. Hu, D. Hudson, P. Cook, and A. Czarnomski, 2004. Unsaturated flow and transport through a fault embedded in fractured welded tuff, Water Resources Research 40: doi:10.1029/2003WR002571.

Liu, H.H., R. Salve, J.S.Y. Wang, G.S. Bodvarsson and D. Hudson, 2004. Field investigation into unsaturated flow and transport in a fault: Model analysis, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 74: 39-56.

Salve, R., C.M. Oldenburg and J.S.Y. Wang, 2003. In Situ flow experiments in nonwelded tuff: Conceptual models and implications for flow in the PTn, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 62-63: 269-286.

Faybishenko, B., G.S. Bodvarsson, and R. Salve, 2003. On the physics of unstable infiltration, seepage, and gravity drainage in partially saturated tuffs, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 62-63: 63-87.

Cook, P.J., R. Salve, B.M. Freifeld, and Y.T. Tsang, 2003. A measurement system for systematic hydrological characterization of unsaturated fractured welded tuff in a mined underground tunnel, Groundwater, 41: 449-457.

Salve, R. 2002. An automated tunnel evaporation measurement system for confined spaces, Hydrological Processes, 16: 1101-1109.

Salve, R., and T.K. Tokunaga, 2002. Seepage response along an alluvial valley in a semi-arid catchment in north-central California, Hydrological Processes, 16: 65-86.

Salve, R., J.S.Y. Wang and C. Doughty, 2002. Liquid flow in unsaturated fractured welded tuffs: I. Field Investigations, Journal of Hydrology, 256: 60-79.

Doughty, C., R. Salve, and J.S.Y. Wang, 2002. Liquid flow in unsaturated fractured welded tuffs: II. Numerical Modeling, Journal of Hydrology, 256: 80-105.

Salve, R., and C.M. Oldenburg, 2001.Water flow in a fault in altered nonwelded tuff, Water Resources Research, 37: 3043-3056.

Hu, Q., R. Salve, W. Stringfellow, and J.S.Y. Wang, 2001. Field tracer transport tests in unsaturated fractured tuff, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 51: 1-12.

Salve, R., and B. Allen-Diaz, 2001. Variations in flow in a rangeland catchment,Journal of Range Management, 54: 44-51.

Salve, R., and T.K. Tokunaga, 2000. Flow processes in a rangeland catchment in California,Journal of Range Management, 53: 489-498.

Salve, R., J.S.Y. Wang and T.K. Tokunaga, 2000. A probe for measuring wetting front migration in rocks, Water Resources Research, 36: 1359-1367. 

Salve, R., 1998. Near surface wetting of a ponded basalt surface: Observations using time domain reflectometry, Journal of Hydrology, 208: 249-261.

Tokunaga, T.K., and R. Salve, 1994. Gauge sensitivity and optimization in air-pocket tensiometry: Implications for deep vadose zone monitoring, Soil Science, 158: 389-397.

Conference Proceedings (First author contributions)

Salve, R., and T. A. Ghezzehei, Infiltration in Fractured Welded Tuffs, The Geological Society of American 2005 Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2005.

Salve, R.,Properties of Flow Zones in Fractured Rock, American Geological Union, Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2004.

Salve, R., Preferential flow in welded and nonwelded tuffs: Observations from Field Experiments, Symposium on Dynamics of Fractured Rock, Berkeley, CA, February 2004.

Salve, R., and T. Kneafsey, Vapor-phase transport in the near-drift environment at Yucca Mountain, American Geological Union, Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2003.

Salve, R., C.M. Oldenburg, and J.S.Y. Wang, The interactions between faults and the matrix in paintbrush group nonwelded tuff at Yucca Mountain, The Geological Society of American 2002 Annual Meeting Denver, Colorado, October 2002.

Salve, R., H.H. Liu and Q. Hu, Tracer transport along a vertical fault located in welded tuffs, American Geological Union, Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2002.

Salve, R., Investigations of fast flow paths at Yucca Mountain, Invited lecture to the Department of Geological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, September 2002.

Salve, R., C. Doughty, and J.S.Y. Wang, Measuring and modeling flow in welded fractured tuffs, Proceedings of the International Groundwater Symposium, Bridging the gap between measurement and modeling in heterogeneous media, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 2002.

Salve, R., D. Hudson and P.J. Cook, Investigation of flow along a vertical fault: field techniques, American Geological Union, Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2001.

Salve, R., C.M. Oldenburg and J.S.Y. Wang, Conceptual model of flow for liquid-release experiments in the PTn, 9th International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference, Las Vegas, NV, May 2001.

Salve, R., and C.M. Oldenburg, Conceptual models of flow in unsaturated fractured rock developed from in situ field experiments, American Geological Union, Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 1999.

Salve, R., Investigations of preferential flow through faults and fractures in the Exploratory Studies Facility at Yucca Mountain, Earth Sciences Division Seminar, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, August 1999.

Salve, R., C.M. Oldenburg and J.S.Y. Wang, Spatial and temporal flow variability in the PTn at Yucca Mountain, American Geological Union, Spring Meeting, Boston, MA, June 1999.

Salve, R., and J.S.Y. Wang, Field investigations of flow through fractures, American Geological Union, Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 1998.

Salve, R., C. Doughty, J.P. Fairley, and J.S.Y. Wang, Investigations of fracture/matrix interactions: Field tests and numerical models, FTAM 2nd Annual Workshop, Field testing and associated modeling of potential high-level nuclear waste geologic disposal sites, Berkeley, CA, December 1998.

Salve, R., T.K. Tokunaga, J.S.Y. Wang, R. Solbau, and J. Clyde, Hydrologic monitoring in unsaturated fractured tuff boreholes: Some preliminary results, American Geological Union, Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 1997.

Salve, R., and T.K. Tokunaga, Patterns of recharge and discharge on a rangeland catchment in California, American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting, Baltimore, MD, May 1994.

Salve, R., and T.K. Tokunaga, Spatial and temporal distributions of hydraulic head within a rangeland catchment in California, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 1993.