IIT

Water Resources Engineering and Management Laboratory

Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Guwahati

FACULTY-IN-CHARGE

Bimlesh Kumar

Professor

bimk@iitg.ac.in

FACULTY

Arup K. Sarma

Professor

aks@iitg.ac.in

Specialization: Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering

Areas of Interest:

  • Modeling and Simulation in Free Surface Flow
  • Heuristic Methods in Reservoir Optimization
  • GIS Based Watershed Modeling

Bimlesh Kumar

Professor

bimk@iitg.ac.in

Specialization: Environmental Hydraulics and Sediment Transport

Areas of Interest:

  • Small scale studies of mixing tanks
  • Experimental Studies of Aeration Systems
  • Sediment Transport analysis
  • Pipeline analysis
  • CFD simulation
  • Surge analysis

Chandan Mahanta

Professor

chandan@iitg.ac.in

Specialization: Environmental Engg. & Engineering Geology

Areas of Interest:

  • Water Quality
  • Engineering Geology
  • Environmental Geo-informatics
  • Sediment Dynamics in Fluvial Systems
  • Environmental Impact, Risk Assessment and Management

Gautam Barua

Professor

g_barua@iitg.ac.in

Specialization: Flow through porous media

Areas of Interest:

  • Flow through porous media

Subashisa Dutta

Professor

subashisa@iitg.ac.in

Specialization: Irrigation and Hydraulics Engineering

Areas of Interest:

  • Meso-scale distributed hydrological modeling
  • Satelite remote sensing and GIS for water resources management
  • Computational river hydraulics and its applications
  • Watershed and irrigation management
  • River bank protection and storm water drainage design
  • Hillslope hydrology, distributed hydrological modeling and its imapact of climate change

Technical Officer

Ms. Jonali Saikia

Technical Officer (Grade I)

jonali@iitg.ac.in

Specialization: Water Resources: Utilization and Environmental Management

Areas of Interest:

  • Water Quality
  • Removal of heavy metals from water
  • Fluid Mechanics

Technical Staff

Priyananda Saikia

Technical Superintendent

priyananda@iitg.ac.in

Specialization: Water Resource Engineering

Madhab Rajbongshi

Junior Technician

madhabrajbongshi@iitg.ac.in

Specialization: Water Resource Engineering