Advanced Modelling and Innovations in Water Resources Engineering

This book presents select proceedings of the national conference on Advanced Modelling and Innovations in Water Resources Engineering (AMIWRE 2021) and examines numerous advancements in the field of water resources engineering and management towards sustainable development of environment. The topics covered includes river basin planning and development, reservoir planning and management, integrated water management, reservoir sedimentation, soil erosion and sedimentation, agricultural technologies for climate change mitigation, uncertainty analysis in hydrology, water distribution networks, floods and droughts management, water quality modelling, environmental modelling, environmental impact assessment, urban water management, open channel hydraulics, hydraulic structures, groundwater hydraulics, groundwater flow and contaminant transport modelling, computational fluid dynamics, ocean engineering, HEC-RAC, SWAT, MIKE, MODFLOW  models applications, numerical analysis in water resources engineering, climate change impacts on hydrology, optimization techniques in water resources, soft computing techniques and applications in water resources and remote sensing / geospatial techniques in water resources. This book will be beneficial for water sectors development mainly agricultural production, reservoir operations, improvement of water quality, flood and drought controls, designing hydraulic structures and geospatial analysis. This book will be a valuable reference for faculties, research scholars, students, design engineers, industrialists, R & D personnel and practitioners working in water resources engineering and its related fields.

Madhusudana Rao, C. is an Associate Professor of the Department of Civil Engineering of NIT Jamshedpur. He holds PhD degree in Hydrology from the Department of Hydrology, IIT Roorkee; an ME degree in Irrigation Water Management from Centre for Water Resources & Ocean Management of Anna University, Guindy, Chennai; and a B.Tech degree in Civil Engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College, Vijayawada affiliated to Nagarjuna University, Guntur. His research interest includes surface water and groundwater hydrology, Geospatial technology applications for water resources engineering, rainfall-runoff modelling, climate change impact assessment, watershed modelling, river flood modelling, flood forecasting, river water quality modelling, open channel hydraulics and applications of optimization tools for water resources planning and management. He has 22 years of academic experience. He has published more than 30 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and national and international conferences. Presently he is the Co-Principal Investigator of Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS), Govt. of India sponsored project titled “Spatial Distribution of Uranium and Associated Water Quality Parameters in groundwater/drinking water of seven districts (East Singhbhum, Saraikela Kharsawan, West Singhbhum, Khunti, Simdega, Gumla, Latehar) of Jharkhand”. He is the reviewer for Journal of Climate Change (Springer Series), Journal of Hydrologic Engineering and Book Projects (ASCE Publications), International Journal of Environmental Studies (Taylor & Francis Group), Current Science Journal (Indian Academy of Sciences) and Applied Water Science journal (Springer).

Professor Kanhu Charan Patra is a Civil Engineer of international repute who is currently working as professor (HAG) in the Civil Engineering Department at the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha. He has worked as the Head of Civil Engineering Department and DEAN (Alumni Relations and Resources Generation) at the Institute. Prof. Patra graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from NIT Rourkela, in 1981. He obtained his M. Tech and PG (Diploma) from the University of (IIT) Roorkee, where he stood first amongst first class in the entire University in 1987 and received the Prestigious Chancellors Gold Medal. He obtained PhD degree from IIT Kharagpur. Prof Patra has vast teaching, research and administrative experience spanning over the last 39 years. He has published several books on water resources and hydraulic engineering. Prof Patra has published more than 232 papers in water resources and hydraulic engineering. He is a member of the editorial board of Advances of Fluid Mechanics and reviewer of many international journals.

Professor Deepak Jhajharia, Ph. D., is currently working as Professor in Department of Soil & Water Conservation Engineering, College of Agricultural Engineering & Post Harvest Technology (Central Agricultural University), Ranipool, Gangtok, Sikkim, India. He is also acting as principal investigator of All India Coordinated Research Project on Plasticulture Engineering Technology CAEPHT (Gangtok) centre, which is funded entirely by ICAR (Indian Council of Agricultural Research) Central Institute of Post Harvest Engineering and Technology, Ludhiana, India, since 2016. He did graduation from College of Technology and Engineering (MPUAT), Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, in Agricultural Engineering in 1998, and post-graduation from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, in Water Resources Engineering from Department of Civil Engineering. He obtained his Ph. D. degree from Department of Hydrology, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India. He is one of the co-authors of Handbook of Conservation Agriculture published by CRC Press, Tayor and Francis Group, Boca Raton, USA. He along with Prof. Kumar, Prof. V P Singh, Prof. Mirabbasi published “Agricultural Impacts of Climate Change” and “Applied Agricultural Practices for Mitigating Climate Change” published by CRC Press, Tayor and Francis Group, Boca Raton, USA. He was elected as the Fellow of Indian Association of Hydrologists, Roorkee (in 2015), Society of Extension Education, Agra (in 2018) and Indian Water Resources Society, Roorkee (2019). He is recipient of Distinguished Alumni Award (in 2016) by College of Technology and Engineering Alumni Society, CTAE (MPUAT), Udaipur. He is the recipient of the prestigious Science Without Border scholarship - Young Talent of CNPq, Brazil and has spent about 6 months as Research Collaborator at Department of Agronomy, Universidade Federal Rural De Pernambuco (UFRPE), Ministry of Education, Brazil.

Dr. Sangeeta Kumari is currently working as an assistant professor at National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India. She holds Ph.D. degree in water resources engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; M.S. (by research) in water resources engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai; and B.Sc. Engineering in Civil Engineering from Muzaffarpur Institute of Technology, Bihar, India. Her research area includes water resources systems, applied hydrology, hydraulic engineering, reservoir operation, fuzzy set theory, uncertainty analysis, genetic algorithm, irrigation and drainage engineering, infiltration models, ground water and stochastic hydrology. She has published research papers in ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering and ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering. She has recently authored one book chapter in the book “An Introduction to Fuzzy Sets, Series: Mathematics Research Developments”, Nova Science Publishers. She has participated in international conferences such as American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, and International Conference on Hydraulics, Water resources & Environmental Engineering, (ISH - HYDRO). She is reviewer of journals such as ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Journal of Hydrology and Water Supply. She is associate member of American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) and life members of Indian Society for Hydraulics (ISH) and Indian Water Works Association (IWWA). She has industrial experience of 4.5 years in consultancy firms.