DOCTORAL THESES (Hydrology): Recent submissions

  • EFFECT OF FRESHWATER RECHARGE ON SALTWATER INTRUSION THROUGH AQUIFER 
    Sharma, Saurabh (DEPARTMENT OF HYDROLOGY IITR, 2016-05)
    The management of salt water intrusion in the coastal aquifer is the major environmental problem faced by water resource planners worldwide. Saltwater intrusion is the process of movement of saline water into the fresh ...
  • ANALYSIS OF CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS IN MARSHYANGDI RIVER BASIN, NEPAL 
    Karna, Pankaj (DEPARTMENT OF HYDROLOGY IITR, 2016-05)
    Climate change is impacting Nepal’s economy, health and communities in diverse ways. Rising temperatures are responsible for the glacier melt as well as shift in precipitation pattern. Changes in the climatology of ...
  • EVALUATING SAMPLING STRATEGIES FOR RAINFALL SIMULATION STUDIES 
    Chandra, Pravesh (DEPARTMENT OF HYDROLOGY IITR, 2016-05)
    Rainfall simulation experiments were carried out on an outdoor experimental plot in the Department of Hydrology at IIT Roorkee, India using a rainfall simulator fabricated with four fixed stand pipes on which a header with ...
  • MODIFIED CHANNEL ROUTING METHOD FOR SWAT MODEL 
    Pati, Ashutosh (HYDROLOGY IITR, 2016-05)
    Soil Water Assessment Tool model is a watershed-scale model, widely used for various watershed management, land use-land cover scenario, and climate change studies. Due to its deterministic nature, stream flow is a key ...
  • SUSTAINABLE WATER AND WASTE MANAGEMENT IN URBAN AREAS 
    Bala, Niki (HYDROLOGY IITR, 2016-05)
    The world is witnessed of rapid urbanization in the last few decades. Currently 31 percent of India’s population lives in cities and these cities are responsible for driven socio-economic activities. As concern by the ...
  • NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF EFFECT OF GROUNDWATER VELOCITY ON EFFICIENCY OF GROUND SOURCE HEAT EXCHANGER 
    Pal, Jogendra (HYDROLOGY IITR, 2016-05)
    Geothermal heat pumps are used for various purposes as a green energy source. These pumps are used as an alternative of conventional heating/cooling devices in heat ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems and in ...
  • RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING OF A WATERSHED USING SWAT MODEL 
    Kurbah, Shanbhor (HYDROLOGY IITR, 2016-05)
    The present study was undertaken with an aim to test the performance of SWAT model on Sher River at Belkheri in Narsimhpur District of Madhya Pradesh, India. Sher River is fairly big tributary of Narmada River joining ...
  • MODELLING OF A RIVER SYSTEM USING MIKE-11 
    Parvaze, Sabah (HYDROLOGY IITR, 2016-05)
    An integrated MIKE 11 NAM and HD model has been developed to simulate the rainfall-runoff process in the Ram Munshi Bagh Sub-basin of Jhelum Basin. The model was calibrated using daily rainfall, evaporation, temperature ...
  • PRETREATMENT OPTIONS WITH RO AS TERTIARY TREATMENT OF DISTILLERY SPENTWASH 
    Sharma, Pinki (2015)
    India is one of the leading country in the field of alcohol production. There are around 360 distilleries in India, producing 2300 liters of alcohol per annum. The wastewater generated (spentwash) per liter of alcohol ...
  • MODELLING SEDIMENT YIELD FROM NATURAL WATERSHEDS 
    Tyagi, Jaivir (2007)
    The rainfall-runoff-soil erosion process in a watershed is a very complicated phenomenon that is controlled by a large number of known and unknown climatic, geologic and physiographic factors that vary both in time and ...
  • IMPACT OF CLIMATE AND CATCHMENT DYNAMICS ON RUNOFF GENERATION 
    Amencho, Negash Wagesho (2012)
    The Sub-Saharan region of Africa has been challenged by natural and man-made stresses extending from flood and prolonged drought to poor economic and institutional developments. Ethiopia, situated in the horn of Africa ...
  • FLOOD ESTIMATION AND FORECASTING IN MAHANADI RIVER BASIN USING SOFT COMPUTING TECHNIQUES 
    Kar, Anil Kumar (2011)
    Water is known as the most precious gift of nature for growth of civilization as well as a destructive element causing mass devastation. Flood hazards have become ever increasing natural disasters resulting in the highest ...
  • EVALUATION OF TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL CLIMATIC VARIABILITY OVER INDIAN HIMALAYA 
    Shrivastava, Salil Kumar (2011)
    The Indian Himalayas, the originating point of many important rivers, plays a vital role in controlling the weather of India. Despite this fact, the climate of Indian Himalayas is less studied because of its inaccessibility ...
  • A HYDROMETRIC DATA-BASED FLOOD FORECASTING MODEL USING A SIMPLIFIED ROUTING TECHNIQUE 
    Rao, Chintalacheruvu Madhusudana (2011)
    Adverse effects are experienced when high river flows occur in the form of floods causing loss of life and damage to property which have to be mitigated by employing economically feasible structural measures such as ...
  • SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF WATER RESOURCES IN AN INTERMONTANE SUB-HIMALAYAN WATERSHED 
    Yadav, Santosh Rangrao (2010)
    Groundwater utilization has increased dramatically in developing cities of the world over last few decades. With the increasing urbanization, the need to protect water resources from different types of contamination has ...
  • OVERLAND FLOW MODELLING USING APPROXIMATE CONVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATIONS 
    Vitthal, Kale Ravindra (2010)
    This study deals with the development of variable parameter Muskingum overland flow routing methods as an extension of the variable parameter Muskingum discharge hydrograph (VPMD) river routing method advocated by Perumal ...
  • FLOOD FORECASTING AND EARLY WARNING STUDIES FOR PARTS OF BANGLADESH 
    Rahman, Md. Mizanur (2010)
    Bangladesh is a flood prone country and extreme floods inundate more than half of the country's landmass almost every year. The country is in the lowest ridge of Hindu Kush Himalayan region, which makes the country ...
  • STUDY OF ARTIFICIAL GROUNDWATER RECHARGE FROM A POND IN A SMALL WATERSHED 
    Ali, Shakir (2009)
    Artificial groundwater recharge (AGR) by conservation of surface runoffs on watershed basis, as a measure to restore back the depleted groundwater level and to augment the groundwater resource in phreatic aquifer, is ...
  • SCS-CN BASED LONG TERM HYDROLOGIC SIMULATION 
    Durbude, Dilip G. (2010)
    The hydrologic cycle is a conceptual model that describes the storage and movement of water between the biosphere, atmosphere, lithosphere, and hydrosphere. Continuous accounting of this movement of water involves ...
  • REGIONAL FLOOD FREQUENCY ESTIMATION IN INDIA 
    Kumar, Rakesh (2009)
    Estimation of magnitudes of likely occurrence of floods is of great importance for design of various types ofhydraulic structures. Floods ofdifferent return periods are also required for taking up some of the non-structural ...