Aristotelis Mantoglou
Professor,
Director of Laboratory of Reclamation and
Water Resources Management
Technical University of Athens, Greece

 

Iroon Polytechneiou 9, Zografos, Athens, GR 15773,
Tel. +30-2107722763, Fax. +30-2107722632

email: mantog@central.ntua.gr

 
 

Graduate Studies

M.Sc. 1981. Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Mass. Institute of Technology

M.Sc. 1983. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, M. I. T.

Ph. D. 1984. Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering, M.I.T.

 
 

Research Interests

Groundwater hydrology
Groundwater management
Modeling and managing coastal aquifers
Optimal groundwater remediation
Stochastic groundwater hydrology
Estimation of aquifer parameters; Inverse modeling
Modeling unsaturated flow under uncertainty
System optimization
Geostatistics, Hydroinformatics, Neural networks in groundwater modeling

 
 

Academic and Professional Activity

AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA, 1984 - 1987.

Technical University  of Denmark  Lyngby, Denmark, Institute of Hydrodynamics and Hydraulic Engineering, 1988 - 1991.

National Technical University of Athens, Dept. of Rural and Surveying Engineering, 1995-  present.

 

Citations

The published works of Dr. Mantoglou have a significant international impact with many applications in the field of groundwater hydrology and water resources (more than 830 citations in the Science Citation Index).
His paper 'Pumping Management in Coastal Aquifers using Analytical Models of Saltwater Intrusion', Water Resources Research, 39(12), 2003 was selected as an American Geophysical Union 'Journal Highlight'.

 

Selected Publications

Mantoglou A. and  J.L. Wilson (1982). 'The Turning Bands Method for Simulation of Random Fields using Line Generation with a Spectral Method', Water Resources Research, (Impact Factor 2.154), ISSN 0043-1397, Vol. 18, No. 5, pg. 1379-1394.

Mantoglou A. (1987), 'Digital Simulation of Multivariate Two- and Three- Dimensional Stochastic Processes with a Spectral Turning Bands Method', Mathematical Geology, (Impact Factor 0.765), ISSN 0882-8121,  Vol. 19, No. 2, pg. 129 - 149.

Mantoglou A. and L.W. Gelhar , 'Stochastic Modelling of Large-Scale Transient Unsaturated Flow Systems', Water Resources Research, (Impact Factor 2.154), ISSN 0043-1397, Vol. 23, No. 1, pg. 37-46, 1987.

Mantoglou A. and L.W. Gelhar, 'Capillary Tension Head Variance, Mean Soil Moisture Content and Specific Soil Moisture Capacity of Transient Unsaturated Flow in Stratified Soils', Water Resources Research, (Impact Factor 2.154), ISSN 0043-1397, Vol. 23, No. 1, pg. 47-56, 1987.

Mantoglou A. and L.W. Gelhar, 'Effective Hydraulic Conductivities of Transient Unsaturated Flow in Stratified Soils', Water Resources Research, (Impact Factor 2.154), ISSN 0043-1397, Vol. 23, No. 1, 57-67, 1987.

Mantoglou A. and L.W. Gelhar, 'Three-Dimensional Unsaturated Flow in Heterogeneous Systems and Implications on Groundwater Contamination', Transport in Porous Media, Springer, (Impact Factor 1.012), ISSN: 0169-3913, Vol. 4, 529-548, 1989.

Mantoglou A., A Theoretical Approach for Modelling Unsaturated Flow in Spatially Variable Soils: Effective Flow Models in Finite Domains and Nonstationarity', Water Resources Research, (Impact Factor 2.154), ISSN 0043-1397, Vol. 28, No. 1, 251-257, 1992.

Jensen K.H. and A. Mantoglou, 'Application of Stochastic Unsaturated Flow, Numerical Simulations and Comparisons to Field Observations', Water Resources Research, (Impact Factor 2.154), ISSN 0043-1397, Vol. 28, No. 1, 269-284, 1992

Jensen K.H. and A. Mantoglou, 'Future of Distributed Modelling', Hydrological Processes, Willey, (Impact Factor 1.798), ISSN: 0885-6087, Vol. 6(3), pg. 269-284, 1992

Mantoglou A. 'Calibration of Aquifer Models using Neural Network Parameterization with a Simple Regularization', IAHS RB Series, ISSN 0144-7815, Vol. 277, pg. 219-226, 2003.

Mantoglou A.  'Estimation of Heterogeneous Aquifer Parameters from Piezometric Head Data using Ridge Functions and Neural Networks', 'Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment', (Impact Factor 0.789), ISSN: 1436-3240, Vol. 17, pg 1-14, 2003.

Mantoglou A.  'Pumping Management of Coastal Aquifers using Analytical Models of Saltwater Intrusion', Water Recourses Research, (Impact Factor 2.154), ISSN 0043-1397, 39(12), 2003 ('AGU Journal Highlight article').

Mantoglou A., M. Papantoniou and P. Giannoulopoulos. Management of coastal aquifers based on nonlinear optimization and evolutionary algorithms. Journal of Hydrology, (Impact Factor 2.161), ISSN 0022-1694, Vol. 297, pg. 209-228, (2004).

Mantoglou A., 'On Optimal Model Complexity in Inverse Modeling of Heterogeneous Aquifers', Journal of Hydraulic Research, (Impact Factor 0.436), ISSN 0022-1686,.Vol. 43, No. 5, pp. 574-583. (2005)

Mantoglou A. and G. Kourakos, 'Optimal Groundwater Remediation Under Uncertainty Using Multi-objective Optimization', Water Recourses Management,  (Impact Factor 0.79), ISSN 0920-4741, Springer, DOI 10.1007/s11269-006-9109-0,  (2007)

Kopsiaftis G., A. Mantoglou and P. Giannoulopoulos, 'Variable density coastal aquifer models with application to an aquifer on Thira Island', in press, Desalination, Elsevier, (Impact Factor 0.875) , ISSN 0011-9164 , (2008).

Kourakos G. and A. Mantoglou, 'Remediation of Heterogeneous Aquifers based on Multi-objective Optimization and Adaptive Determination of Critical Realizations', Water Recourses Research, doi:10.1029/2008WR007108, (Impact Factor 2.154), ISSN 0043-1397, (2008)

Mantoglou A. and M. Papantoniou, 'Optimal Design Of Pumping Networks In Coastal Aquifers Using Sharp Interface Models', Journal of Hydrology, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2008.07.022, (Impact Factor 2.161), ISSN 0022-1694, (2008)

Kourakos G. and A. Mantoglou, 'Pumping Optimization of Coastal Aquifers based on Evolutionary Annealing-Simplex Scheme and Artificial Neural Networks', under review Advances in Water Resources, (Impact Factor 1.817) , (2008)