David A. Benson

12.8k total citations · 6 hit papers
141 papers, 9.5k citations indexed

About

David A. Benson is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering and Modeling and Simulation. According to data from OpenAlex, David A. Benson has authored 141 papers receiving a total of 9.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Environmental Engineering, 26 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 26 papers in Modeling and Simulation. Recurrent topics in David A. Benson's work include Groundwater flow and contamination studies (57 papers), Fractional Differential Equations Solutions (26 papers) and Soil and Unsaturated Flow (22 papers). David A. Benson is often cited by papers focused on Groundwater flow and contamination studies (57 papers), Fractional Differential Equations Solutions (26 papers) and Soil and Unsaturated Flow (22 papers). David A. Benson collaborates with scholars based in United States, New Zealand and Spain. David A. Benson's co-authors include Mark M. Meerschaert, Stephen W. Wheatcraft, Boris Baeumer, Anil V. Rao, R. Schumer, Geoffrey T. Huntington, Diogo Bolster, Yong Zhang, Amir Paster and Michael Patterson and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

David A. Benson

137 papers receiving 9.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Application of a fractional advection‐dispersion equation

2000 999 citations David A. Benson, Mark M. Meerschaert et al. Water Resources Research profile →
The fractional‐order governing equation of Lévy Motion

2000 620 citations David A. Benson, Mark M. Meerschaert et al. Water Resources Research profile →
A unified framework for the numerical solution of optimal control problems using pseudospectral methods

2010 521 citations David A. Benson et al. profile →
Algorithm 902

2010 515 citations David A. Benson et al. profile →
Direct Trajectory Optimization and Costate Estimation via an Orthogonal Collocation Method

2006 490 citations David A. Benson et al. profile →
Particle tracking and the diffusion‐reaction equation

2012 390 citations Diogo Bolster, David A. Benson et al. Water Resources Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David A. Benson United States	45	3.5k	2.7k	2.0k	1.4k	1.3k	141	9.5k
Mark M. Meerschaert United States	63	10.6k 3.1×	2.3k 0.8×	6.0k 3.0×	1.5k 1.0×	59 0.0×	203	16.2k
L. F. Shampine United States	45	709 0.2×	328 0.1×	3.8k 1.9×	620 0.4×	852 0.7×	187	12.5k
Randall J. LeVeque United States	51	451 0.1×	603 0.2×	1.5k 0.7×	700 0.5×	951 0.8×	134	16.4k
Yong Zhang United States	37	2.6k 0.7×	1.5k 0.5×	1.2k 0.6×	843 0.6×	30 0.0×	202	6.0k
Claude Brezinski France	36	681 0.2×	303 0.1×	1.8k 0.9×	300 0.2×	314 0.3×	221	8.5k
C. T. Kelley United States	35	346 0.1×	494 0.2×	2.3k 1.1×	547 0.4×	451 0.4×	185	7.4k
Г. И. Баренблатт United States	36	291 0.1×	1.8k 0.7×	430 0.2×	1.4k 0.9×	888 0.7×	138	11.0k
Julian D. Cole United States	22	700 0.2×	277 0.1×	1.4k 0.7×	498 0.3×	886 0.7×	97	8.0k
Brian Berkowitz Israel	60	937 0.3×	8.4k 3.1×	180 0.1×	3.8k 2.6×	438 0.3×	279	14.4k
Alexandre J. Chorin United States	45	285 0.1×	1.5k 0.6×	1.2k 0.6×	461 0.3×	1.9k 1.5×	123	18.7k

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Benson, David A., et al.. (2025). Exploring the Influence of Morphologic Heterogeneity and Discharge on Transient Storage in Stream Systems: 1. Insights From the Field. Water Resources Research. 61(1). 3 indexed citations

Benson, David A., et al.. (2024). Parallelization of particle-mass-transfer algorithms on shared-memory, multi-core CPUs. Advances in Water Resources. 193. 104818–104818.

Benson, David A., et al.. (2024). Concentration and Geographic Proximity in Antitrust Policy: Evidence from Bank Mergers. American Economic Journal Microeconomics. 16(3). 107–133. 2 indexed citations

Schmidt, Michael J., et al.. (2023). Parallelized domain decomposition for multi-dimensional Lagrangian random walk mass-transfer particle tracking schemes. Geoscientific model development. 16(3). 833–849. 1 indexed citations

Benson, David A., et al.. (2023). Size and Survival of Entrants to Retail Banking. FEDS Notes. None–None. 1 indexed citations

Schmidt, Michael J., Stephen Pankavich, Alexis Navarre‐Sitchler, et al.. (2020). Reactive particle-tracking solutions to a benchmark problem on heavy metal cycling in lake sediments. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 234. 103642–103642. 12 indexed citations

Schmidt, Michael J., et al.. (2019). Numerical equivalence between SPH and probabilistic mass transfer methods for Lagrangian simulation of dispersion. Advances in Water Resources. 126. 108–115. 15 indexed citations

Benson, David A., et al.. (2019). Participatory groundwater protection regimes in Turkey: influence, control and institutional incoherence. AGUFM. 2019. 2 indexed citations

Bolster, Diogo, et al.. (2016). Testing the limits of the spatial Markov model for upscaling transport: The role of nonmonotonic effective velocity autocorrelations. Physical review. E. 94(4). 43107–43107. 12 indexed citations

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Bolster, Diogo, David A. Benson, Mark M. Meerschaert, & Boris Baeumer. (2013). Mixing-driven equilibrium reactions in multidimensional fractional advection–dispersion systems. Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 392(10). 2513–2525. 16 indexed citations

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Benson, David A., et al.. (2012). Fractional calculus in hydrologic modeling: A numerical perspective. Advances in Water Resources. 51. 479–497. 163 indexed citations

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Benson, David A.. (2011). Macroeconomic policy and labor markets: Lessons from Dale Mortensen's research. Chicago Fed Letter. 1. 2 indexed citations

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Benson, David A., et al.. (2011). Comparison of Fickian and Temporally Non-Local Transport Theories Over Many Scales in an Exhaustively Sampled Sandstone Slab. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2011. 1 indexed citations

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French, Eric & David A. Benson. (2011). How Do Sudden Large Losses in Wealth Affect Labor Force Participation. Chicago Fed Letter. 1. 9 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yong, David A. Benson, & Boris Baeumer. (2007). Predicting the Tails of Breakthrough Curves in Regional‐Scale Alluvial Systems. Ground Water. 45(4). 473–484. 76 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yong, David A. Benson, Mark M. Meerschaert, Eric M. LaBolle, & Hans‐Peter Scheffler. (2006). Random walk approximation of fractional-order multiscaling anomalous diffusion. Physical Review E. 74(2). 26706–26706. 63 indexed citations

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Baeumer, Boris, David A. Benson, & Mark M. Meerschaert. (2002). Advection and dispersion in time and space. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 2002. 1 indexed citations

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Benson, David A., et al.. (2001). Hydraulic Conductivity, Velocity, and the Order of a Fractional Dispersion Derivative in a Highly Heterogeneous System. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2001. 1 indexed citations

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Meerschaert, Mark M., et al.. (1999). Multidimensional advection and fractional dispersion. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 59(5). 5026–5028. 229 indexed citations

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Benson, David A. & Paul Cahill. (1990). Dynamic high-pressure studies of an electrothermal capillary. University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas). 18. 5–9. 2 indexed citations

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