Advanced Modelling and Innovations in Water Resources Engineering, 1st ed. 2022 Select Proceedings of AMIWRE 2021 Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering Series, Vol. 176

This book presents select proceedings of the national conference on Advanced Modelling and Innovations in Water Resources Engineering (AMIWRE 2021) and examines numerous advancements in the field of water resources engineering and management towards sustainable development of environment. The topics covered includes river basin planning and development, reservoir planning and management, integrated water management, reservoir sedimentation, soil erosion and sedimentation, agricultural technologies for climate change mitigation, uncertainty analysis in hydrology, water distribution networks, floods and droughts management, water quality modelling, environmental modelling, environmental impact assessment, urban water management, open channel hydraulics, hydraulic structures, groundwater hydraulics, groundwater flow and contaminant transport modelling, computational fluid dynamics, ocean engineering, HEC-RAC, SWAT, MIKE, MODFLOW  models applications, numerical analysis in water resources engineering, climate change impacts on hydrology, optimization techniques in water resources, soft computing techniques and applications in water resources and remote sensing / geospatial techniques in water resources. This book will be beneficial for water sectors development mainly agricultural production, reservoir operations, improvement of water quality, flood and drought controls, designing hydraulic structures and geospatial analysis. This book will be a valuable reference for faculties, research scholars, students, design engineers, industrialists, R & D personnel and practitioners working in water resources engineering and its related fields.

Madhusudana Rao, C. is an Associate Professor of the Department of Civil Engineering of NIT Jamshedpur. He holds PhD degree in Hydrology from the Department of Hydrology, IIT Roorkee; an ME degree in Irrigation Water Management from Centre for Water Resources & Ocean Management of Anna University, Guindy, Chennai; and a B.Tech degree in Civil Engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College, Vijayawada affiliated to Nagarjuna University, Guntur. His research interest includes surface water and groundwater hydrology, Geospatial technology applications for water resources engineering, rainfall-runoff modelling, climate change impact assessment, watershed modelling, river flood modelling, flood forecasting, river water quality modelling, open channel hydraulics and applications of optimization tools for water resources planning and management. He has 22 years of academic experience. He has published more than 30 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and national and international conferences. Presently he is the Co-Principal Investigator of Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS), Govt. of India sponsored project titled “Spatial Distribution of Uranium and Associated Water Quality Parameters in groundwater/drinking water of seven districts (East Singhbhum, Saraikela Kharsawan, West Singhbhum, Khunti, Simdega, Gumla, Latehar) of Jharkhand”. He is the reviewer for Journal of Climate Change (Springer Series), Journal of Hydrologic Engineering and Book Projects (ASCE Publications), International Journal of Environmental Studies (Taylor & Francis Group), Current Science Journal (Indian Academy of Sciences) and Applied Water Science journal (Springer).

Professor Kanhu Charan Patra is a Civil Engineer of international repute who is currently working as professor (HAG) in the Civil Engineering Department at the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha. He has worked as the Head of Civil Engineer