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John
John S. Tyner   Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Office: 312 OFC
Phone: (865) 974-7266
Email: jtyner@utk.edu
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    Specialty: Unsaturated flow and transport

    Area(s) of Interest:
    • Licensed Professional Engineer, Texas (Inactive)
    • Licensed Professional Geologist, Tennessee
    • Development of New Tools to Measure Soil Hydraulic Properties
    • Preferential Flow
    • Application of Gamma-Ray Attenuation
    • Infiltration
    • Tracer Methods
    Courses:
    • BSE 416 Environmental Hydrology
    • BSE 404 Engineering Project Management
    • BSET 506 Physical Phenomena

Recent selected publications

Cihan, A., J. S. Tyner, and E. Perfect.  2009.  Predicting relative permeability from water retention: A direct approach based on fractal geometry.  Water Resour. Res., 45, W04404, doi:10.1029/2008WR007038.

Cihan, A., M. Sukop, J. S. Tyner, E. Perfect, and H. Huang.  2009.  Analytical Predictions and Lattice Boltzmann simulations of intrinsic permeability for mass fractal porous media.  Vadose Zone J. 8(1): 187-196.

Tyner, J. S., W. C. Wright, and P. A. Dobbs.  2009.  Increasing exfiltration from pervious concrete and temperature monitoring.  J. Environ. Manage. 90(8):2636-2641.

Zhuang, J., J. S. Tyner, and E. Perfect.  2009.  Colloid transport and remobilization in unsaturated porous media during infiltration and drainange.  J. Hydrol. 377(1-2):112-119.

Cihan, A., E. Perfect, and J. S. Tyner.  2007.  Water retention models for scale-variant and scale invariant drainage of mass prefractal porous media.  Vadose Zone Journal. 6(4):786-792.

Tyner, J. S., W. C. Wright, and R. E. Yoder.  2007.  Identifying Long-Term Preferential and Matrix Flow Recharge at the Field Scale.  Trans. ASABE. 50(6):2001-2006.

Yoder, D. C., J. S. Tyner, J. D. Balousek, J. C. Panuska, J. R. Buchanan, K. J. Kirsch, and J. P. Lyon.  2007.  Conservation planning for construction sites.  Trans. ASABE. 50(5): 1613-1618 .

Zhuang, J., J. F. McCarthy, J. S. Tyner, E. Perfect, and M. Flury.  2007.  In-situ colloid mobilization in Hanford sediments under unsaturated transient flow conditions: effect of irrigation pattern.  Environ. Sci. & Technol. 41(9) 3199-3204.

Cihan, A., J. S. Tyner, and W. C. Wright.  2006.  Seal Formation beneath Animal Waste Holding Ponds.  Transactions of the ASABE. 49(5):1539-1544.

Freeland, R. S., L. O. Odhiambo, J. S. Tyner, J. T. Ammons, and W. C. Wright.  2006.  Non-intrusive mapping of near-surface preferential flow.  Applied Engineering in Agriculture. 22(2)315:319.

Tyner, J. S., L. M. Arya, and W. C. Wright.  2006.  The Dual Gravimetric Hot-Air Method for Measuring Soil Water Diffusivity.  Vadose Zone Journal. 5(4)1267-1272.

Tyner, J. S., W. C. Wright, and J. Lee.  2006.  Lagoon sealing and filter cakes.  Transactions of the ASABE. 49(2):527-531.

Recent bulletins/reports

Tyner, J. S.  2006.  Measurement and Development of a Pigeon River Temperature Model. 

Recent theses directed

Caldwell, E. F., B. G. Leib, H. J. Savoy, H. P. Denton, and J. S. Tyner.  2008.  A study of irrigation, fertigation, and plasticulture in Burley Tobacco production with a focus on yield, GRI, and TSNA concentration. 

Recent dissertations directed

Cihan, A.  2008.  Flow and Transport in Unsaturated Porous Media: Fractal Modeling, Experimental Methods, and Analytical Solutions. 

Recent grants/contracts

Tyner, J. S., H. J. Brown, W. C. Wright.  Measurement of TSS and Other Pollutant Removal by Pervious Concrete and Incorporation of Results int.  TDEC.

Tyner, J. S.  Development of an Automated Permeameter.  Decagon Devices Inc..

Tyner, J. S.  Permeable Concrete and Soil Infiltration Testing.  Tennessee Concrete Association.

Tyner, J. S.  Development of an Online Teaching Module to Apply Statistics to Hydrologic Problems.  Innovative technology Center.