Civil and Environmental Engineering
A133 Engineering Research Complex
East Lansing, MI 48824

Phone: (517) 432-1929
Fax: (517) 355-0250
E-mail: lishug@egr.msu.edu
Web: http://www.egr.msu.edu/~lishug/

• Introduction to Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport
• Numerical Modeling of Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport
• Stochastic Subsurface Hydrology and Modeling
• Water Resources Engineering
• Fluid Mechanics

• Real-time, Interactive and Visual Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport Modeling and Environmental Engineering Curriculum Innovations, National Science Foundation.
• Stochastic Flow and Transport in Heterogeneous Soils - Nonstationarity, Scale Effects, and Modeling, National Science Foundation.
• Optimal Data Assimilation in Stochastic Groundwater Models, National Science Foundation.
• Three-Dimensional Modeling of Groundwater Flow and Solute Transport at the St Johns Landfill, Portland, Oregon, Portland METRO.
• Mathematical Modeling of Mobile-bed Hydraulics and Contaminated Sediment Transport in the Columbia Slough System, EPA via City of Portland, Oregon.

Dr. Li is developing improved methods for characterizing groundwater contamination at hazardous waste sites, with emphasis on the integration of simulation models and field data. He is particularly concerned with developing characterization approaches that can adapt to complex and heterogeneous field conditions. Dr. Li is also developing interactive modeling tools that accelerate research transfer and bring cutting-edge research into practice and classroom. In particular, Dr. Li has recently developed a sophisticated interactive and visual software system for deterministic and stochastic modeling of groundwater flow and contaminant transport. The software represents perhaps the first comprehensive stochastic modeling system that allows real-time and interactive simulation, visualization, and analysis.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Ph.D., Water Resources and Environmental Engineering

• A Real-Time, Computational Steering Environment for Integrated Groundwater Modeling, with Q. Liu, Accepted, Ground Water.
• An Object-Oriented Hierarchical Patch Dynamics Paradigm (HPDP) for Groundwater Modeling, with Q. Liu and S. Afshari, Accepted, Environmental Modeling and Software.
• Simple Closed-Form Formulas for Predicting Groundwater Flow Model Uncertainty in Complex, Heterogeneous Trending Media, with C.F. Ni, Accepted, Water Resources and Research.
• Interactive Ground Water (IGW), with Q. Liu, Environmental Modeling and Software, Vol. 20, No. 12 (In Press). Download PDF
• A Finite Analytic Method for Solving the 2-D Time-Dependent Advection-Diffusion Equation with Time-Invariant Coefficients, with T. Lowry, Advances in Water Resources, Vol. 28, Issue 2, February, 2005.
• A Computationally Practical Approach for Modeling Complex Mean Flows in Mildly Heterogeneous Media, with H.S. Liao and C.F. Ni, Water Resources and Research, Vol. 40, No. 12, 2004.
• Stochastic Modeling of Complex Nonstationary Groundwater Systems, with H.S. Liao and C.F. Ni, Advances in Water Resources, 27(11), pp 1087-1104, 18 pages, 2004.
• Interactive Ground Water (IGW): An Innovative Digital Laboratory for Groudwater Education and Research, with Q. Liu, Computer Applications in Engineering Education, Vol. 11(4):179~202, 2003.
• A Computationally Practical Method for Stochastic Groundwater Modeling, with D. McLaughlin and HS Liao, Advances in Water Resources, 26(11): 1137-1148, 12 pages, Nov. 2003.
• A Characteristic-Based Finite-Analytic Method for Solving the Two-Dimensional Steady-State Advection-Diffusion Equation, with T. Lowry, Water Resources and Research, 38 (7): 1123-1137, 15 pages, July 2002.
• A Stochastic Theory for Irregular Stream Modeling. Part 2: Solute Transport, with X.Q. Zhou, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 123, No. 7, July, 1997.
• Using Nonstationary Spectral Method for Analyzing Groundwater Flow in Heterogeneous Trending Media, with D.B. McLaughlin, Water Resources and Research, AGU, Vol. 31, No. 3, 1995.
• A Stochastic Method for Characterizing Groundwater Contamination, with D.B. McLaughlin, L.B. Reid and J.A. Hyman, Journal of Groundwater, March, Vol. 31, No. 2, 1993.
• A Space-Time Accurate Method for Solving Solute Transport Problems, with F. Ruan and D.B. McLaughlin, Water Resources Research, Vol. 28, No. 9, 1992.
• A Stochastic Theory for Irregular Stream Modeling, Part 1: Flow Resistance, with L. Venkataraman and D.B. McLaughlin, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 118, No. 8, 1992.
• A Nonstationary Spectral Method for Solving Stochastic Groundwater Problems, Part 1: Unconditinal Analysis, with D.B. McLaughlin, Water Resources Research, 27(7), 1991.