WATER RESOURCES & DEVELOPMENT MANAGMENT: Recent submissions

  • EFFECT OF PERIODICAL CO2 ENRICHMENT ON WHEAT cv. PBW 343 THROUGH FIELD AND SIMULATION STUDY 
    Dubey, Sunil Kumar (IIT Roorkee, 2017)
    The global population is rising and demand for protein-rich diets are increasing pressure to maximize the agricultural productivity. At the same time rising atmospheric CO2 altering the global temperature and precipitation ...
  • SENSORLESS CONTROL OF GRID CONNECTED DOUBLY FED INDUCTION MOTOR DRIVE 
    Saxena, Abhinav (2013)
    A simple and implicit sensorless algorithm for estimating the rotor position and speed of the doubly fed induction machine is proposed in this thesis. Instead of computing the stator magnetic flux directly or indirectly, ...
  • STREAMFLOW MODELING AND IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE FOR BEAS BASIN IN HIMALAYA 
    Thakural, Laxmi Narayan (Dept. of Water Resources Development & Management IIT Roorkee, 2014-12)
    Streamflow modeling is of foremost importance for appropriate planning, designing, development and decision-making activities of water resources. The snow-fed rivers originating from Himalayan basins receive ample amount ...
  • TECHNO-ECONOMIC STUDY OF AN EXISITNG PUMPED STORAGE PLANT 
    Sivakumar, N. (Dept. of Water Resources Development & Management IIT Roorkee, 2014-05)
    The growing economy with corresponding increase in power demand causes more challenges in power sector of developing countries. In India, the increase in peak power demand necessitates energy storage schemes over and above ...
  • EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS ON CHANNELIZATION OF RIVER KOSI FROM CHATRA TO NIRMALI 
    Burele, Sanjay Anandrao (Dept. of Water Resources Development & Management IIT Roorkee, 2015-08)
    The Kosi River is one of the most ancient rivers of India. It is also known as Kaushiki in Sanskrit literature. It is a perennial river. Its three main tributaries, viz. river Sun Kosi from West, river Arun from North and ...
  • STUDY OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS IMPACT ON A PART OF BRAHMAPUTRA RIVER BASIN 
    Warwade, Pratibha (WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT IIT ROORKEE, 2016-03)
    Before any long-term planning and management of water resources, the assessment of climate change impacts at catchment level is essential to the living being and are of the first and foremost priority. Previous studies ...
  • ANALYSIS OF DOUBLY-FED INDUCTION MACHINE OPERATING AT MOTORING MODE 
    Kumar, Navneet (WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT IIT ROORKEE, 2016-01)
    India, the land of agriculture is facing severe energy shortage even though the installed capacity of Indian power sector is increasing continuously, as demand outstrips incremental supply. India has an ambitious target ...
  • EFFECT OF CO2 ENRICHMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE ON RICE CROP THROUGH FIELD AND SIMULATION STUDY 
    Pranuthi, G. (WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT IIT ROORKEE, 2016-02)
    This study is directed to identify the probable effect of increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations and changing climate on rice crop yields in Haridwar Uttarakhand. Fine rice particularly the Basmati contributes substantially ...
  • IMPACT OF CLIMATE AND LANDUSE CHANGES ON GROUNDWATER IN A CANAL COMMAND 
    Shukla, Rituraj (WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT IIT ROORKEE, 2015-11)
    Climate change has been emerging as one of the challenges in the global environment. It is responsible for various substantial impacts on hydrological cycle, which influences the climatic parameters likely temperature ...
  • WATERSHED SUSTAINABILITY INDEX FRAMEWORK AND ITS ESTIMATION FOR A WATERSHED 
    Chandniha, Surendra Kumar (WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT IIT ROORKEE, 2015-12)
    There are several issues which affect the water sustainability in a watershed. Among these are hydrological, climatological, social, economic and technological. Most of the times these are considered separately, and not ...
  • EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF TURBULENCE CHARACTERISTICS NEAR PIANO KEY WEIR 
    Tiwari, Harinarayan (WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT IIT ROORKEE, 2016-06)
    Extensive laboratory investigations and then stringent analysis have been done to study the different aspects of turbulence hydraulics in open channel (with and without PKW) under multiple hydraulic conditions. Two types ...
  • ASSESSMENT OF CLIMATE AND LANDUSE CHANGE IMPACTS ON WATER BALANCE 
    Kundu, Sananda (WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT IIT ROORKEE, 2015-07)
    Occurrences of climate change are globally recognized and is responsible for various significant impacts on the hydrological cycle, which influences the rainfall and evapotranspiration. Increasing temperature is also ...
  • HYDROLOGICAL MODELLING OF A RIVER BASIN USING MULTI-SATELLITE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES 
    Kumar, Dheeraj (WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT IIT ROORKEE, 2015-07)
    Distributed hydrological models have become important tools for understanding the hydrological processes and achieving solutions for practical hydrological and water resources management problems. High spatial resolution ...
  • HYDROLOGICAL MODELLING AND EVALUATION OF BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN A WATERSHED 
    Bharti, Birendra (WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT IIT ROORKEE, 2016-03)
    In this study, a spatially distributed sediment yield model was developed in GIS environment which is capable to identify the sediment source and sink areas within the catchment. Transport capacity and gross soil erosion ...
  • IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF CLIMATE AND LANDUSE CHANGES ON SOIL EROSION AND CARBON LOSS 
    Mondal, Arun (WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT IIT ROORKEE, 2015-04)
    Threat of global warming is a major concern to the world. It is determined to change the future climate, which might cause an adverse impact on agriculture, water resources, environments, hydrological cycle, etc. It can ...
  • AN ANALYTICAL STUDY ON RIVERBED AND RIVERBANK FILTRATION 
    Bishnoi, Kailash (WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT IIT ROORKEE, 2015-06)
    Surface water as a source of drinking water requires costly treatment to make it free from physical, chemical, and bacteriological contamination. Therefore, the managers of various water utilities are exploring the other ...
  • RIVER WATER QUALITY ASSESSMENT –A CASE STUDY 
    Komba, Benny B (WATER RESOURCE DEVELPOMENT AND MANAGEMENT DEPARTEMENT IIT ROORKEE., 2016-05)
    The water quality assessment of the Yamuna River has been carried out to explore the status of the river water in terms of Water Quality Index (WQI). Eighteen water locations along the River Yamuna were checked for seven ...
  • WATER QUALITY MODELING THROUGH COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS (CFD) 
    Dhiryan, Navdeep Singh (WATER RESOURCE DEVELPOMENT AND MANAGEMENT DEPARTEMENT IIT ROORKEE., 2016-05)
    Flow modeling using CFD provides engineers with the ability to accurately determine the performance of design concepts, reducing the need for physical testing and building of prototypes. This makes it possible to evaluate ...
  • PARTICIPATORY IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT IN HILLY REGIONS OF NEPAL 
    Awasthi, Megh Raj (2016)
    The Participatory Irrigation Management also known as the Irrigation Management Transfer is popular and proclaimed as successful throughout most of the countries. Nepal embraced the IMT programs in the 1990’s along with ...
  • SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF HYDRODYNAMIC MODULE OF MIKE11 
    Chaurasia, Manisha (2016)
    Dam safety program of a country is an integral part of the dam break analysis because the casualities and destruction caused as a result of the large, sudden, unexpected and uncontrollable dam break flood waves is immeasurable. ...