HYDROLOGY: Recent submissions

  • FLOOD ESTIMATION IN MUMBAI METROPOLITAN REGION. 
    Chakrabarty, Dipankar (2008)
    A dependable estimation of flood in terms of their magnitude as well as their occurrence is very much relevant in developing countries like India. Mumbai Metropolitan Region having a large potential for future growth has ...
  • URBAN FLOOD MODELLING: A CASE STUDY OF ROORKEE CITY 
    Adam, Elhadi Eisa (2008)
    Urban development may lead to changes in local hydrology and water environment. Increasing levels of impervious surfaces in urban areas result in a higher volume of runoff with higher peak discharge, shorter travel time ...
  • HYDROLOGICAL STUDIES OF A SMALL WATERSHED IN INDIA USING ANSWERS MODEL 
    Joshi, Deepti (2008)
    Soil erosion is a serious problem which if left unchecked can have disastrous consequences on our environment. Every year millions of tonnes of top soil is are washed away into the rivers and sea by erosion. Proper and ...
  • STOCHASTIC MODELING OF NILE RIVER FLOWS 
    Yousif, Eltag Ibrahim (2008)
    The objective of the study is to develop a program in Matlab programming language to analyze the time series of the flows for Nile River Basin at various locations in order to check for any long term trend and periodicities ...
  • WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT FOR AN IRRIGATION PROJECT USING A DSS 
    Chaudhary, Pratap Chandra (2008)
    The operation of canal irrigation systems is a complex task with spatially variable soils, crops and weather conditions. The releases for the irrigation, reach the fields through a hierarchical network of main canals, ...
  • MODELING AND MANAGEMENT OF FLOOD FLOWS 
    Abuagla, Salah El-Din Mohammed (2008)
    In most developing countries of the tropics tremendous growth in population has been recorded during the last four to five decades. This has resulted into increased water demand in the domestic, agricultural, commercial ...
  • SIMULATION OF FLOOD FLOWS USING GIS 
    Gaur, Shweta (2008)
    Since its inception, the unit hydrograph has been used as a key concept in estimation of storm runoff from a catchment. Significant. contribution to the unit hydrograph theory was given by Clark (1945), Nash (1957) and SCS ...
  • SURFACE HYDROLOGIC APPRAISAL OF A NATURAL CATCHMENT 
    Bagde, Sunil (2008)
    Simple hydrological model such -as unit hydrograph is being used for making surface - hydrological appraisal from natural catchments. Several variations are available in literature for the same. The unit hydrograph method ...
  • PLANNING OF A SMALL RUNOFF RIVER HYDROPOWER SCHEME IN KARNATAKA 
    Khaire, Vivek S. (2008)
    Hydropower is currently the world's largest renewable source of electricity, accounting for 6% of worldwide energy supply or about 15% of the world's electricity. The main objective of the study is to know the maximum ...
  • MULTI-OBJECTIVE HYDROLOGICAL MODELING USING SWAT-2005 MODEL 
    Jain, Vinit Kumar (2008)
    The problem of water availability in the State of Uttarakhand can be summarized as "Water an abundant, yet scarce resource". Though the state receives abundant rainfall and is the source of many major rivers of the Northern ...
  • CROP AND IRRIGATION PLANNING OF KOSI IRRIGATION SYSTEM NEPAL 
    Jha, Madan Mohan (2008)
    Population •increase in developing countries needs an increase in agricultural production to meet their increasing food and nutritional demand. The goal to meet these demands can be achieved through irrigated agriculture ...
  • EVALUATION OF CROP WATER REQUIREMENT AND CROPPING PATTERN OF MAHAKALI IRRIGATION PROJECT 
    Bista, Prachand Dev (2008)
    Mahakali Irrigation Project (MIP) is a large irrigation project in Kanchanpur district of Nepal. Its development plan consists of three stages namely Stage-I with Net Command Area (NCA) of 4800 hectare (ha), Stage-II with ...
  • RIVER CONSERVATION PLAN FOR RIVER CAUVERY FROM METTUR DAM TO ERODE 
    Natarajan, T. (2007)
    The Cauvery River is important river in Southern India. It rises in Brahmagiri Range of the Western Ghats in Coorg District of Karnataka. After flowing 802km (381, 357 and 64 km in Karnataka, Tamilnadu and Kerala, ...
  • SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT FOR ABATEMENT OF POLLUTION OF RIVER AT PUDUKKOTTAI TOWN 
    Jayasankar, S. (2007)
    The problem of Municipal Solid Waste Management (MSWM) has acquired alarming dimensions in India especially during last decade. The present system of Solid Waste Management (SWM) in India is fraught with many inadequacies. ...
  • RESOURCE. RECOVERY FROM SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS (STPs) 
    Kumar, D. Suresh (2007)
    Resources are diminishing due to the vast utilization of Energy for meeting day to day demand in the 'competition and threats' environment. Exponential growth of population further puts pressure on energy heavily. Biologically ...
  • GRID POWER QUALITY WITH VARIABLE SPPED TURBINES (HYDRO TURBINES AND / OR WIND TURBINES) 
    Ananth, A. V. Seshagiri (2007)
    As the title of this dissertation indicates, variable-speed wind turbines are equipped with special synchronous generator drives which can run at any speed apart from their rated synchronous speed. This can be achieved ...
  • DEVELOPMENT OF COST EFFECTIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR HARNESSING RENEWABLE ENERGY IN REMOTE AREA 
    Kaneri, Bhupendra Singh (2007)
    Energy is the basic human need and critical input to the socio economic development of the country. Supply of reliable and quality power at reasonable rate is essential for overall development of a nation. The rural areas ...
  • GIS BASED ASSET MANAGEMENT OF TRANSMISSION & DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM 
    Upadhyay, Janmejay (2007)
    Deregulation and an increasing competition in electricity markets urge energy suppliers to optimize the utilization of their equipment, focusing on technical and cost-effective aspects. This has created the need for new ...
  • DESIGNING OF HYDRO TURBINE USING CFD 
    Tayal, Gaurav (2007)
    The aim of the present work is to carry out the free surface flow in a Pelton turbine bucket. Steady state numerical simulation has been done for the single bucket, for this the fixed configuration of Pelton turbine bucket ...
  • FLOW ANALYSIS OF MULTIPURPOSE LOW CAPACITY TURBINES USING CFD 
    Razi, Khalid (2007)
    In hilly region micro hydro up to 100 kW have momentous role in utilization of mechanical power and electricity generation. The capacity of micro hydro power plant up to 5.0 kW is considered under development of water mill ...