Akram Hossain

• Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Washington State University, 1989
• M.S. in Environmental  Engineering, Washington State University, 1986
• M.S. in Civil Engineering (Geotechnical), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1984
• B.Sc.Eng. in Civil Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1979

Joined WSU Tri-Cities in 1994 from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois

• Reaction kinetics
• Groundwater flow
• Modeling of flow and contaminant transport in the subsurface
• Modeling of adsorption in packed bed reactors

• Hossain, M.A. and M.E. Barber, “Optimized Petrov-Galerkin Model for Advective-Dispersive Transport”, Applied Mathematics and Computation, 115:1-10, 2000
• Hossain, M.A. and M.R. Taha, “Simulating Advective-Dispersive Transport by Finite Elements: Criteria for Accuracy of an Explicit Runge-Kutta Method”, Applied Mathematics and Computation, 112:309-316, 2000
• Hossain, M.A. and A.S. Miah, “Crank-Nicholson-Galerkin Model for Transport in Groundwater – Refined Criteria for Accuracy”, Applied Mathematics and Computation, 105:173-181, 1999
• Hossain, M.A. and D.R. Yonge, “Simulating Advective-Dispersive Transport in Groundwater – An Accurate Finite Difference Model”, Applied Mathematics and Computation, 105:221-230, 1999
• Hossain, M.A. and D.R. Yonge,”Accuracy of Taylor Galerkin Model for Contaminant Transport in Groundwater”, Applied Mathematics and Computation, 102:109-119, 1999