Dr. Sergio E. SerranoDr. Sergio E. Serrano
Published by HydroScience Inc., 2001. ISBN: 0-9655643-8-X, soft cover, 472 pages, 151 solved examples, 50 short computer programs in Maple, 136 figures, 51 data and statistical tables, 152 proposed problems, 145 answers to problems, index, references. For textbook examination copies, please contact the publisher.
HYDROLOGY FOR ENGINEERS, GEOLOGISTS, Published by HydroScience Inc. , 1997. ISBN: 0-9655643-9-8, Hardcover, 470 pages, includes an educational version of the KYSPILL groundwater pollution software, over 70 solved examples, over 150 illustrations, index, references. For textbooks examination copies, please contact the publisher.
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Ph.D., University of Waterloo, Canada, 1985
M.Sc., University of Guelph, Canada, 1982
B.Sc., Xavier University (Universidad Javeriana, the Jesuits University of Colombia), 1977
HONORS AND AWARDS
Award recipient, Research Fellowship for Non-National Hispanics, Scientific and Cultural Affairs, Spain (2000)
Appointed Associate Editor, Water Science & Technology Library (1999)
Associate Editor, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers (since 1995)
Award recipient, National Science Foundation (1997)
Award recipient, National Science Foundation (1994)
Award Recipient, National Science Foundation (1992)
Award Recipient, National Science Foundation (1990)
Award recipient, U.S. Geological Survey (1992)
Award recipient, U.S. Geological Survey (1988)
Summer Research Award, Graduate School, University of Kentucky (1987, 1988)
Nominated for the Presidential Young Investigator Award (1986)
First Place, Best Journal Research Paper in Civil Engineering, University of Kentucky (1995)
First Place, Best Journal Research Paper in Civil Engineering, University of Kentucky (1992)
First Place, Best Journal Research Paper in Civil Engineering, University of Kentucky (1989)
Second Place, Best Journal Research Paper in the College of Engineering, University of Kentucky (1989)
First Place, Best Journal Research Paper in Civil Engineering, University of Kentucky (1988)
Special Faculty Award for Outstanding Research, University of Kentucky President (1988, 1990)
Distinguished Teacher, Collegians for Academic Excellence (a student organization focusing on teaching excellence), University of Kentucky (1990)
Cited in Who's Who Among Hispanic Americans
Cited in Contributions in Hydrology", The U.S. National Report to the 20th General Assembly International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Vienna, Austria, August 1124, 1991
Cited in several research articles in the following journals:Water Resources Research, Advances in Water Resources, Journal of Stochastic Hydrology and Hydraulics
Academic Scholarship, University of Waterloo (1982)
Academic Scholarship, University of Waterloo (1984)
International Scholarship, Rotary International (1980 1981)
Academic Scholarship, Colombian Geological Survey (1978)
Academic Scholarship, Institute ICETEX, Colombia (1972 1976)
AREA OF SPECIALIZATION
Surface and subsurface hydrologic engineering
Effects of climate change on water resources
Theoretical analyses; analytical solutions of nonlinear differential equations in hydrology
Groundwater flow and groundwater pollution modeling
Mathematics and physics of multi-phase transport in soils and aquifers
Stochastic analysis and stochastic differential equations of engineering systems
SELECTED RESEARCH PAPERS IN REFEREED JOURNALS AS OF JANUARY 2007
Srivastava, K., Serrano, S.E., and Workman, S.R., 2006. Stochastic Modeling of Stream-Aquifer Interaction with the Nonlinear Boussinesq Equation. Journal of Hydrology, 328:538-547. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2005.12.035
Serrano, S.E., 2006. Development and Verification of an Analytical Solution for Forecasting Nonlinear Kinematic Flood Waves. ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 11(4):347-353. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0699(2006)11:4(347)
Serrano, S.E., 2004. Modeling Infiltration with Approximate Solutions of Richard's Equation. ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 9(5):421-432. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0699(2004)9:5(421)
Serrano, S.E., 2003. Improved Decomposition Solution to Green and Ampt Equation. ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering,, 8(3):158-160. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0699(2003)8:3(158)
Serrano, S.E., 2003. Propagation of Nonlinear Reactive Contaminants in Porous Media. Water Resources Research, American Geophysical Union, 39(8):1228-1242
Serrano, S.E., 2003. Modeling Groundwater Flow under a Transient Non-linear Free Surface. ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 8(3):123-132. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0699(2003)8:3(123)
Serrano, S.E., 2001b. An Explicit Solution to the Green and Ampt Infiltration Equation. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, 6(4):336-340. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0699(2001)6:4(336)
Serrano, S.E., 2001a. Solute Transport under Non-Linear Sorption and Decay. Water Research, International Association of Water Quality, 35(6):1525-1533
Gelegenis, J., and Serrano, S.E.,2000 Analysis of Muskingum Equation Based Flood Routing Schemes. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, 5(1):102-105
Workman, S.R. and S.E. Serrano. 1999. Recharge to Alluvial Valley Aquifers from Overbank Flow and Excess Infiltration. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 35(2): 425-432
Serrano, S.E., 1999a. KYSPILL: A Practical System of Modeling Scale-Dependent Dispersion After Chemical Spills. Ground Water, 37(1):18-22
Serrano, S.E., and Workman, S.R., 1998c. Modeling Transient Stream/Aquifer Interaction with the Non-Linear Boussinesq Equation and its Analytical Solution, Journal of Hydrology, 206:245-255
Serrano, S.E., 1998b. Analytical Decomposition of the Non-Linear Infiltration Equation. Water Resources Research, American Geophysical Union, 34(3):397-407
Adomian, G., and Serrano, S.E., 1998a. Stochastic Contaminant Transport Equation in Porous Media. Applied Mathematics Letters, 11(1):53-55
Workman, S.R., Serrano, S.E., and Liberty *, K., 1997. Development and Application of an Analytical Model of Stream/Aquifer Interaction. Journal of Hydrology, 200:149-163
* Mr. K. Liberty was a student of Dr. Serrano
Serrano, S.E., 1997b. The Theis Solution in Heterogeneous Aquifers. Ground Water, 35(3):463-467
Serrano, S.E., 1997a. Non-Fickian Transport in Heterogeneous Saturated Porous Media. Journal of Engineering Mechanics, American Society of Civil Engineers, 123(1):70-76
Serrano, S.E., and Adomian, G., 1996. New Contributions to the Solution of Transport Equations in Porous Media. Mathematical and Computer Modeling, 24(4):15-25
Serrano, S.E., 1996c. Hydrologic Theory of Dispersion in Heterogeneous Aquifers. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1(4):144-151
Serrano, S.E., 1996b. Towards a Non-Perturbation Transport Theory in Heterogeneous Aquifers. Mathematical Geology, 28(6):701-721
Serrano, S.E., 1995b. Forecasting Scale Dependent Dispersion from Spills in Heterogeneous Aquifers. Journal of Hydrology, 169:151-169
Serrano, S.E., 1995a*. Analytical Solutions of the Non-Linear Groundwater Flow Equation in Unconfined Aquifers and the Effect of Heterogeneity. Water Resources Research, American Geophysical Union, 31(11):2733-2742
* This paper won the first place in the Best Journal Research Paper in Civil Engineering competition of 1995
* The College of Engineering suspended this competition in 1996
Serrano, S.E., 1992c*. The Form of the Dispersion Equation Under Recharge and Variable Velocity, and its Analytical Solution. Water Resources Research, American Geophysical Union, 28(7):1801-1808
* This paper won the first place in the Best Journal Research Paper in Civil Engineering competition of 1992
Serrano. S.E., 1992b. Semi-Analytical Methods in Stochastic Groundwater Transport. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 16:181-191
Serrano, S.E., 1992a. Migration of Chloroform in Aquifers. Journal of Environmental Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, 118(2):167-182
Serrano, S.E., and Liang*, J., 1992. A Stochastic Groundwater Model and Its Parameter Estimation. Chinese Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 11(2):11-21
* Mr. J. Liang was a student of Dr. Serrano
Serrano, S.E., 1990c. Using the C Language to Approximate Non-Linear Stochastic Systems. Advances in Engineering Software, 12(2):59-68
Serrano, S.E., 1990b. Stochastic Differential Equation Models of Erratic Infiltration. Water Resources Research, American Geophysical Union, 26(4):703-712
Serrano, S.E., 1990a. Modeling Infiltration in Hysteretic Soils. Advances in Water Resources, 13(1):12-23
Serrano S.E., and Unny, T.E., 1990. Random Evolution Equations in Hydrology. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 38:201-226
Sarino*, and Serrano, S.E., 1990. Development of the Instantaneous Unit Hydrograph Using Stochastic Differential Equations. Stochastic Hydrology and Hydraulics, 4(2):151-160
* Mr. Sarino was a student of Dr. Serrano
Serrano, S.E., 1989*. A New Approach in Modeling Groundwater Pollution Under Uncertainty. Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, 4(2):85-98
* This paper won the first place in the Best Journal Research Paper in Civil Engineering competition of 1989
*This paper won the second place in the competition Best Journal Research Paper in the College of Engineering competition of 1989
Serrano, S.E., 1988b*. General Solution to Random Advective-Dispersive Equation in Porous Media. Part II: Stochasticity in the Parameters. Stochastic Hydrology and Hydraulics, 2(2):99-112
* This paper won the first place in the Best Journal Research Paper in Civil Engineering competition of 1988
Serrano, S.E., 1988a. General Solution to Random Advective-Dispersive Equation in Porous Media. Part I: Stochasticity in The Sources and in the Boundaries. Stochastic Hydrology and Hydraulics, 2(2):79-98
Serrano, S.E., and Unny, T.E., 1987b. Semigroup Solutions of the Unsteady Groundwater Flow Equation with Stochastic Parameters. Stochastic Hydrology and Hydraulics, 1(4):281-296
Serrano, S.E., and Unny, T.E., 1987a: Predicting Groundwater Flow in a Phreatic Aquifer. Journal of Hydrology, 95:241-268
Serrano, S.E., and Unny, T.E., 1986. Boundary Element Solution of the Two-Dimensional Groundwater Flow Equation With Stochastic Free-Surface Boundary Condition. Numerical Methods in Partial Differential Equations, 2:237-258
Serrano, S.E., Unny, T.E. and Lennox, W.C., 1985c. Analysis of Stochastic Groundwater Flow Problems. Part III: Approximate Solution of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations. Journal of Hydrology, 82(3-4): 285-306
Serrano, S.E., Unny, T.E., and Lennox, W.C., 1985b. Analysis of Stochastic Groundwater Flow Problems. Part II: Stochastic Partial Differential Equations in Groundwater Flow. A Functional-Analytic Approach. Journal of Hydrology, 82(3-4): 265-284
Serrano, S.E., Unny, T.E., and Lennox, W.C., 1985a. Analysis of Stochastic Groundwater Flow Problems. Part I: Deterministic Partial Differential Equations in Groundwater Flow. A Functional Analytic Approach. Journal of Hydrology, 82(3-4): 247-263
Serrano, S., Whiteley, H.R., and Irwin, R., 1985. Drainage Effects on Streamflow in The Middle Thames River, 1949-1980. Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 12:875-885
Jousma, G., and Serrano, S., 1980. Hydrologic Study of the Middle and Low Guajira. Journal of the Colombian Geological Survey, 23(3):39-80
TECHNICAL NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS
Serrano, S.E., 2007. Closure to Discussion of "Development and Verification of an Analytical Solution for Forecasting Nonlinear Kinematic Flood Waves." Accepted for publication ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering. To Appear November, 2007.
Serrano, S.E., 2006. Closure to "Discussion of Closure to Explicit Solution to Green and Ampt Infiltration Equation." ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 11(3):284-290
Serrano, S.E., 2005. Closure to Discussion of "Improved Decomposition Solution to Green and Ampt Equation". ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering,, 10(5):435-436
Serrano, S.E., 2005. Closure to Discussion of "Modeling Groundwater Flow under Transient Nonlinear Free Surface." ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 10(5):429-433
Serrano, S.E., 2003. Closure to Discussion of "Explicit Solution to Green and Ampt Infiltration Equation." ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 8(3)168-170
Kacimov, A.R., and Serrano, S.E.., 2003. Comments on an Exact Analytical Solution of the Boussinesq Equation. Transport in Porous Media, 52:389-394
Serrano, S.E., 2002. Comment on "Beach Water Fluctuations due to Spring-Neap Tides:Moving Boundary Effects." Advances in Water Resources, 25:585-588.
Serrano, S.E., 2002. Reply to Comment on "Solute Transport Under Non-Linear Sorption and Decay." Water Research, 36(12):3171-3172.
Serrano, S.E., and Workman, S.R., 2000. Reply to Comment on "Modeling Transient Stream/Aquifer Interaction with the Non-Linear Boussinesq Equation and its Analytical Solution. " Journal of Hydrology, 235:293-296
Serrano, S.E., 1999. Reply to Comment on "Analytical Decomposition of the Non-Linear Unsaturated Flow Equation." Water Resources Research, 35(2):611-612
Serrano, S.E., 1999. Reply to Comment on Application of the Water-Content-Based Form of Richards' Equation to Heterogeneous Soils by Russo and by Serrano. Water Resources Research, 35(2):611-612
Serrano, S.E., 1999. Reply to Comment on "Analytical Solutions of the Non-Linear Groundwater Flow Equation in Unconfined Aquifers and the Effect of Heterogeneity." Water Resources Research, 35(1):345-346
Serrano, S.E., 1996. Reply to Comment on "The Form of the Dispersion Equation Under Recharge and Variable Velocity, and Its Analytical Solution." Water Resources Research, American Geophysical Union, 32(9):2967-2968
Serrano, S.E., 1996. Comment on "Operator and Integro-Differential Representations of Conditional and Unconditional Stochastic Subsurface Flow." Stochastic Hydrology and Hydraulics, 10(2):151-161
Serrano, S.E., 1993b. Reply to Comment on "The Form of the Dispersion Equation Under Recharge and Variable Velocity, and Its Analytical Solution." Water Resources Research, American Geophysical Union, 29(7):2467-2468
Serrano, S.E., 1993. Closure to Discussion on "Migration of Chloroform in Aquifers." Journal of Environmental Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, 119(4):755-756
BOOKS
Serrano, S.E., 2001. Engineering Uncertainty and Risk Analysis. A Balanced Approach to Probability, Statistics, Stochastic Processes, and Stochastic Differential Equations. ISBN 0-9655643-8-X. 470 pages, 151 solved examples, 50 short computer programs, 136 figures, 51 data and statistical tables, 152 proposed problems, 145 answers to problems, bibliography, references, statistical tables, and index. HydroScience Inc., Lexington, Kentucky
Serrano, S.E., 2001. Instructor's Manual for: Engineering Uncertainty and Risk Analysis. A Balanced Approach to Probability, Statistics, Stochastic Processes, and Random Differential Equations. Instructors Manual. The complete set of overhead transparencies for class lecturing (over 150) with figures and equations formatted in WordPerfect. Solutions to all proposed problems and computer programs in the textbook (152). HydroScience Inc., Lexington, Kentucky
Serrano, S.E., 1997. Hydrology for Engineers, Geologists, and Environmental Professionals. An Integrated Treatment of Surface, Subsurface, and Contaminant Hydrology. ISBN: 0-9655643-9-8. 470 pages, over 70 solved examples, over 150 illustrations, includes a student version of the KYSPILL software, proposed problems, chapter references, index. HydroScience Inc., Lexington, Kentucky
* As of 2001, the following institutions have adopted the book as the official textbook of hydrology in programs in civil engineering, biosystems engineering, chemical engineering, geography, hydrometeorology, and geology:
University of California, Davis
North Dakota State University
State University of New York
Purdue University
Tennessee State University
University of Kentucky
University of Mississippi
Kent State University
University of Findlay
Prairie View A&M University
Hardwick College
Texas A&I University
Mississippi State University
Creighton University
University of Arkansas
University of Nevada
University of Chicago
University of Maine
Southern Methodist University
University Rovira i Virgili (Spain)
Serrano, S.E., 1997. Instructor's Manual for: Hydrology for Engineers, Geologists, and Environmental Professionals. An Integrated Treatment of Surface, Subsurface, and Contaminant Hydrology. Instructors Manual. The complete set of overhead transparencies for class lecturing (over 150) with figures and equations formatted in WordPerfect. Solutions to over 70 proposed problems of the book. 80 pages. HydroScience Inc., Lexington, Kentucky
BOOK CHAPTERS
Serrano, S.E., 2002. Semigroup an Decomposition Methods in Solving Stochastic Subsurface Contamination Problems. In Stochastic Methods in Subsurface Contaminant Hydrology, edited by Rao S. Govindaraju, pp. 307-326. ASCE Press, Reston, Virginia.
Serrano, S.E., 1993. Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport in Aquifers Subject to Large Parameter Uncertainty. In Computational Stochastic Mechanics, pages 475-491, edited by A.H-D. Cheng and C.Y. Yang, Computational Mechanics Publications, Elsevier Applied Science, New York, NY
Serrano, S.E., and Unny, T.E., 1987(1). Stochastic Partial Differential Equations in Hydrology. In Stochastic Hydrology, edited by I.B. MacNeill and G.J. Umphrey, pages 113-130. D. Reidel Publishing Co., Dordrecht, Holland
Serrano, S.E., Unny, T.E., and Lennox, W.C., 1986. Analysis of Stochastic Groundwater Flow Problems in Sobolev Space. In Multivariate Analysis of Hydrologic Processes, edited by H.W. Shen, J.T.B. Obeysekera, V. Yevjevich, and D.G. Decoursey, pp. 304-321. Engineering Research Center, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
RESEARCH REPORTS
Serrano, S.E., 2002. The Hydrology of Dispersion in Regional Aquifers: The Influence of Transient Boundary Conditions and Recharge. Final Report National Science Foundation
Serrano, S.E., 1996. A Preliminary Sampling Strategy Design for the UK Federal Facilities Oversight Unit. Report, Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute. Lexington, KY
Serrano, S.E., 1994. The Effect of Regional Hydrologic and Hydraulic Parameters on Macrodispersion in Heterogeneous Aquifers. Final Report, National Science Foundation
Serrano, S.E., 1993. Chloroform Contamination in the Louisville Aquifer: An Investigation on Its Occurrence and propagation. Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute Research Report No. 187
Serrano, S.E., 1992. Modeling Mass Transport in Aquifers: The Distributed Source Problem (Phase II). Final Report, National Science Foundation
Serrano, S.E., 1990. Modeling Mass Transport in Aquifers: The Distributed Source Problem (Phase I). Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute Research report No. 176
Serrano, S.E., 1987. Modeling Groundwater Flow Subject to Stochastic Parameters. Report to the Graduate School, University of Kentucky
Jousma, G., Serrano, S.E., and Molano, C., 1981. Hidrología del Area de Cúcuta, Colombian National Geological Survey INGEOMINAS, Report 1826, 150 pages
Serrano, S.E., 1980. Estudio Hidrogeológico de El Cerrejón. Investigación Hidrológica Preliminar. Colombian National Geological Survey INGEOMINAS, Report 1798, 31 pages
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Serrano, S.E., 1995. KYSPILL: A Groundwater Pollution Modeling System. User's Manual, HydroScience Inc., 70 pages, Lexington, Kentucky
Serrano, S.E., 1994. KYSPILL: A Groundwater Pollution Forecasting System. User's Manual, HydroScience Inc., 56 pages, Lexington, Kentucky
Serrano, S.E., 1985. Analysis of Stochastic Groundwater Flow Problems in Sobolev Space. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Waterloo, Canada
Serrano, S.E., 1982. A Review of Methodologies to Detect the Impact of Drainage on Streamflow. M.Sc. Thesis, University of Guelph, Canada
Serrano, S.E., 1976. Análisis Dimensional de Espolones Hidráulicos en Meandros. Degree Thesis, University Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
PUBLISHED COMPUTER SOFTWARE
Serrano, S.E., 1996. KYSPILL Version 2: A Groundwater Pollution Modeling System. A menu-driven, graphics-oriented computer software to simulate chemical spills in soils and aquifers, and the propagation of contaminants through random porous media. 6 modules, online help system, graphics and self-supported windows written in C. HydroScience Inc., Lexington, Kentucky
* Sample institutions using KYSPILL for teaching, research, or consulting:
American Institute of Hydrology, University of Kansas, Colorado State University, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, International Association of Hydrological Sciences Press, Research Institute of Natural Resources (Saudi Arabia), New Energy Techniques (Greece), University Di Perugia (Italia), University of Miami, Ondoan Corporation (Spain), University Nacional (Colombia), Hidrogeocol (Colombia), Ecole Poloytechnique de Montreal (Canada), Follin Consulting (Sweden), University of Waterloo (Canada), University of Arizona, Kansas Geological Survey, Kentucky Division of Waste Management, University of Kentucky, National Science Foundation, Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute, University of New Mexico, Lethbridge Community College (Canada), Hocol Ltda. (Colombia), Universite des Sciences de Lille (France), Norwegian Institute of Technology (Norway), Technische Universitat Clausthal (Germany), Kiso Jiban Consultants (Japan), Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain), Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain), Universidad de Oviedo (Spain), University of California-Davis, Purdue University, Tennessee State University, University of Nevada-Reno, Kent State University, Prairie View A&M, University of Maryland, Texas A&I University, Universidad of Los Andes (Colombia), Environmental Strategies Corporation, Agricultural University of Athens (Greece), Mississippi Department of Agriculture & Commerce, Commonwealth Technology Inc.
Serrano, S.E., 1994. KYSPILL Version 1: A Groundwater Pollution Forecasting System. A menu-driven, graphics-oriented computer software to simulate chemical spills in soils and aquifers, and the propagation of contaminants through random porous media. 2 modules, online help system, graphics and self-supported windows written in C. HydroScience Inc., Lexington, Kentucky