Flood Forecasting and Hydraulic Structures

Impact of Encroachment of Floodplains of Adyar River on Chennai Floods.- Modeling of Flood Inundation Extent in Data-scare Regions: The Case Study of Bhavnagar District.- Hydrodynamic Modelling and Satellite Altimeter based Establishment of Virtual Gauging Network in Flood Prone River Basin.- Flood Inundation Mapping using 2D Hydrodynamic Model and GIS Technique for Lower Tapi Basin, India.- Unsteady Flood Modelling using HEC-RAS: Chaliyar River Basin, Kerala.- 2D Flood Simulation and Mapping using Hydraulic Model and GIS Technology.- Use of Big Data for Flood Assessment through HEC-RAS Model: A Study of Purna River of Navsari.- Flood Mitigation in and around Sangli, Maharashtra by Modification of River Meander Geometry.- Performance Evaluation of 2D Hydrodynamic Model for Lower Narmada River Basin, India.- UAV (Drone) for Preparation of High Resolution DEM/DTM - A Case Application of Post Flood Assessment of Dhanera City, Rel River Catchment.- Computation of Socio-economic Vulnerability for Densely Populated Surat City, India.- Two Dimensional Flood Inundation Mapping under Overtopping Failure of Umrar Dam Effect of Terrain Resolution and Sensitivity Analysis.

P. V. Timbadiya is an Associate Professor in the Water Resources Engineering section, Department of Civil Engineering, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT), Surat, India. He secured his doctoral degree and post-graduation in Water Resources Engineering from SVNIT Surat in 2012 and 2004, respectively. He did his under graduation in Civil Engineering from Sardar Vallabhbhai Regional College of Engineering Technology (now SVNIT). He has guided two Doctoral Thesis and 29 Master's Dissertations. He has more than 110 research papers to his credit, including 25 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He served as Dean (Alumni and Resources Generation), and currently serving as Sectional Head, Water Resources Engineering Section at SVNIT. He played an instrumental role in setting up infrastructure facilities in the Centre of Excellence on 'Water Resources and Flood Management' such as the Experimental Hydraulics Lab, Computational Hydraulics Lab, Water Circulation System, and others. He is appointed as 'National Consultant' for Kalpsar Project by Narmada, Water Resources, Water Supply and Kalpsar Department of Govt. of Gujarat. He is a recipient of 'Best Case Study Award - 2015' award by the American Society of Civil Engineers for his publication in the Journal of Hydrologic Engineering and 'Young Engineers Award' by the Institution of Engineers (India) in the year 2015. He received 'Prof. R. J. Garde Research Award' for the year 2020 by the Indian Society for Hydraulics. He has awarded DST-SERB Core Research Grant for the project on 'Local Scouring around tandem and staggered bridge piers on Non-uniform mobile bed' in the year 2021. He is active in various professional bodies and organized numerous conferences, workshops, and short-term training programmes in his academic career.  Prem Lal Patel is a Professor of Hydraulics and Water Resources in the Department of Civil Engineering, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of