Dynamics of Fluids in Porous Media by Jacob Bear

Dynamics of Fluids in Porous Media by Jacob Bear

Jacob Bear is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Psychology. He was a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Technion - Israel University of Technology in Haifa, Israel, where he held the Albert and Anne Mansfield Chair in Water Resources for many years. He earned his B.Sc., P.E., and M.Sc. degrees. His bachelor's and master's degrees from the Technion, as well as his Ph.D. a bachelor's degree from the Univ.

University of California, Berkeley (1960). The Geological Society of America, Hydrogeological Division, Washington, D.C., awarded him the Birdsall Distinguished Lecturer in Hydrogeology for the first time in 1977. Both the Delft University and the Delft University of Technology awarded him Honorary Doctorates in Technical Sciences. E.T.H., Zurich, Switzerland (1988), and the Institute of Technology, The Netherlands (1978).

He was named a fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 1990 and received the K. The National Ground Water Association (USA) has given the Hubbert Award. He received the Rothschild Award in Engineering (Israel) in 1998 and the American Geophysical Union's (AGU) Achievement in Teaching Medal in 2003. The Boussinesq Institute for Hydrology in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, named him a Boussinesq Lecturer for 2006.

In 2009, INTERPORE--The International Society for Porous Medium--awarded him honorary lifetime membership for the first time. For his contributions to hydrology, the American Geophysical Union (AGU) awarded him the Horton medal in 2010. In 2014, he was inducted into the Israel Association for Water Resources as an honorary lifetime member. He enrolled at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology's Faculty of Civil Engineering.

He was appointed to professor in 1970 and served as deputy vice president (1970-1972), vice president for academic affairs (1972-1976), and dean of the Graduate School (1984-1986) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was the S.'s first director. From 1978 to 1982, he was the dean of the Neaman Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology, and from 1995 to 1997, he was the dean of Civil Engineering. He founded the Kinneret College School of Engineering on the Sea of Galilee in Zemach, Israel, in 2003 and served as its first dean until 2014.

Groundwater hydrology and hydraulics, water resource management, subsurface contamination and remediation, and the general theory of transport processes in porous media are all areas in which he teaches, researches, and consults. He has been working on CO2 sequestration in deep geological formations under the auspices of the European Union since 2008. He worked as a consultant on groundwater hydrology and management, as well as policy and development of water resources, for the Ministry of Agriculture's Hydrological Service Water Commission (1960-1987) and Water Planning for Israel Ltd. (TAHAL) from 1960 to 1989, Sandia National Laboratories from 1990 to 2010, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1990 to 2010, and commercial enterprises in Israel and around the world.

Around 200 papers in scholarly journals, research reports, and books have detailed his work. He wrote six well-known books that are widely used by students and practitioners all around the world.