Water Resources and Environmental Engineering II

R. Maheswaran is currently associated with the Department of Civil Engineering at MVGR College of Engineering, Vizianagaram. He completed his Ph.D. at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 2012.  He is the recipient of  Alexander Von Humboldt Fellowship, Germany and Inspire Faculty Award, GoI. His areas of interest include stochastic hydrology, hydrological modeling, scaling concepts, application of wavelet analysis in understanding the hydrologic system and hydrologic forecasting. He has guided 4 M.Tech. and 30 B.Tech. students, and has published over 25 journal papers, 18 conference papers.  S. Chandramouli has been engaged in the academic field since August 2002, and is an expert on water resources engineering with a special interest in optimization techniques. His areas of interest include water resources systems planning and management, analysis and design of pipe networks, design of pumps and turbines, design of storm water drainage system, applications of ANN, fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms in water resources engineering. He completed his Ph.D. at Andhra University in 2013. He has over 15 years of teaching experience and also guided one Ph.D student and 2 M.Tech students and currently guiding four M.Tech students. He is currently working as a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, MVGRCE, Vizianagaram. He has published 16 journal papers, and over 15 conference papers (national and international). K.B.V.N. Phanindra is Assistant Professor in Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. He completed his PhD. from New Mexico State University, USA (2010) in Water Resource Engineering and M.Tech. from IIT Kanpur (2002) in Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering. Previously, he has also worked in Birla Institute of Technology, Pilani. His area of research interests is in Groundwater flow and transport modeling, RS & GIS applications in waterresources, Hydro-geologic characterization, Soil-Water-Crop interactions and Eco-hydrological processes. He has published many papers in international journals and conferences in these areas. Umamahesh N.V. is a Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India. His areas of interest include water resources systems, hydrologic modeling, irrigation management, water quality modeling and management, applications of soft computing techniques, and modeling impacts of climate change. He has published 20 journal papers and 50 conference papers. He has supervised 6 Ph.D. students and is currently guiding 7 Ph.D. students.

Components of The Payaswani River Basin (India) Using SWAT Model.- Estimation of Evapotranspiration in the part of Doon Valley Using Landsat TM Data.- Assessment of Changes in Wetland Storage in Gurupura River Basin of Karnataka, India, Using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques.- Statistical Analysis of Long Term Spatial and Temporal Trends of Temperature During 1901 -2002 at Kancheepuram in Tamil Nadu.- Evaluation of Different Solar Radiation Estimation Methods for Indian Locations.- On-Farm Reservoir Rainwater Harvesting Technology for Dryland Agriculture Systems in India to Enhance Water Productivity Under Vulnerable Climate Change.- Comparative Analysis of the Performance of Wavelet- Based and Standalone Models in Capturing Non-Stationarity in Climate Downscaling Models.- Impact of Climate Change on the Hydrology of the Giri River Basin, India.- Impact of Land Use Land Cover and Climate Change on a Watershed Using SWAT.- A Study on Seasonal Variation of the Groundwater Chemistry in AU Campus, Vizag.- Water Quality Assessment of Pydhibhimavaram Industrial Area: A Case Study.- Ceramic Membrane: Synthesis and Application for Wastewater Treatment – A Review.- A Brief Study of the 28 Jan 2017 Chennai Oil Spill.- A Study on Disposal of Untreated Sewage for Land Treatment in Amalapuram Town, East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, India.- Vermicomposting of Primary Clarified Tannery Sludge Employing Eisenia Fetida.- Temperature Phased Anaerobic Co-Digestion of Food Waste and Rice Husk Using Response Surface Methodology.- Study on Mechanical Properties of Innovative Concrete with Hybrid Mortar Made with Epoxy Resin, Fly Ash and Quarry Dust for Use in Offshore Structures.- Effective Utilization of Re-Use Water in Urban Areas: A Case Study of MVGR Engineering College Campus.- Water Quality Index for Godavari River Basin.- Water Quality Index for Godavari River Basin.- A Study on Effect of Water Temperature on the Seepage Pressure Under Subsurface Floor of a Barrage: A CaseStudy of Taraka Rama Tirtha Sagar Barrage, Vizianagaram.