Rishi Parashar, Ph.D.

Rishi Parashar, Ph.D.
Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV
My research interest is in the area of developing models to characterize movement of water and entities such as contaminants, microbes, and heat on a continuum of scales in porous and fractured media. I use discrete fracture network (DFN) modeling tools to understand influence of network-scale hydraulic and geometric properties on plume migration in fractured rock formations. My co-researchers and I are interested in developing techniques for upscaling transport in fracture networks which can effectively account for correlations and connectivity structures. I am also interested in employing coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical models for enhanced geothermal systems and other fields of research where faults and fractures play an important role. Outside of fracture media related topics, I have interest in the wider research field of anomalous transport, particularly in relation to motile microbes and their implications for in-situ bioremediation.