Dr. Xiong Yunwu

　　Education

　　2011 Ph.D. Soil and Water Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ISRAEL

　　2006 M.Sc. Agricultural Soil and Water Engineering, China Agricultural University, CHINA

　　2003 B.Sc. Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, China Agricultural University, CHINA

　　Research Interests

　　Environmental soil physics / Soil water dynamics

　　Ecohydrology in semiarid region

　　Water flow and solute transport in porous media

　　Research Experiences

　　Ecohydrologic Process in Prolonged Conservative Grassland was supported by Ministry of Education of China (Grant No.: 2014XJ024, PI)

　　Soil Moisture Dynamics and Its Carrying Capacity for Vegetation in Semiarid Grassland of Loess Plateau was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.: 41201037, PI)

　　Impacts of Groundwater Table Variations on the Evapotranspiration and Carbon Assimilation Processes of Tamrix Thickets was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.: 41271050, Participant)

　　Multi-Dimensional Infiltration and Distribution of Water of Different Qualities and Solutes Related through Artificial Neural Networks which was supported by BARD, United States - Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund (Grant No.: US-3662-05R, Participant).

　　Solute Non-Fickian Transport in Heterogeneous Porous Media which was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.: 50479011, Participant).

　　Selected Refereed Journal Articles

　　Xiong Y., 2014. Flow of water in porous media with saturation overshoot: a review. J. Hydrol., 10, 353-362

　　Xiong Y., A. Furman, R. Wallach, 2012. Moment analysis description of wetting and redistribution plumes in wettable and water-repellent soils. J. Hydrol., 422-423, 30-42.

　　Xiong Y., R. Wallach, A. Furman, 2011. Modeling multidimensional water flow in wettable and repellent soils using artificial neural networks. J. Hydrol., 410, 92-104.

　　Xiong Y., G. Huang, Q. Huang, 2006. Modeling solute transport in one-dimensional homogeneous and heterogeneous soil columns with continuous time random walk. J. Contam. Hydrol., 86, 163-175.

　　Huang G.., Q. Huang, H. Zhan, J. Chen, Y. Xiong, S. Feng, 2005. Modeling contaminant transport in homogeneous porous media with fractional advection-dispersion equation. Sci. China Ser. D, 48, 295-302.

　　Work Experiences

　　2013-present China Agricultural University, Beijing, CHINA

　　2011-2013  Assistant Research Professor Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, CHINA

　　2009-2011  Research Student  Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, ISRAEL

　　2006             Assistant Engineer  Beijing Hydraulic Research Institute, Beijing, CHINA

    Contact

　　College of Water Resources and Civil Engineering

　　China Agricultural University

　　Beijing 100083 P. R. China

　　Tel: 86-10-6273-7144

　　E-mail: yxiong@cau.edu.cn