National Institute of Technology Rourkela

राष्ट्रीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान राउरकेला

ଜାତୀୟ ପ୍ରଯୁକ୍ତି ପ୍ରତିଷ୍ଠାନ ରାଉରକେଲା

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EXPERTISE INFORMATION

Research Group
  • Water Resource Engineering
Areas of Interest
  • Surface Hydrology
  • Flow and Solute Transport Dynamics
  • Soft Computing in Hydrology
  • Remote Sensing and GIS application in Water Resources
  • Watershed Development & Management
  • Water Quality Assessment

Ratnakar Swain Assistant Professor Grade-II

Civil Engineering

swainrk@nitrkl.ac.in

Biosketch

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PUBLICATIONS

5

DOCTORAL STUDENTS

3

CONTINUING EDUCATION

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Ratnakar Swain

Assistant Professor Grade-II

Civil Engineering

Room Number: CE-003

Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Sundargarh, Odisha, India - 769008

2017

Ph.D.
A Coupled Flow and Solute Transport Model for Real-Time Monitoring of Conservative River Pollutants using Remote Sensing Observations
IIT Kharagpur

2009

M.Tech
Hydraulic & Water Resources Engineering
IIT Kharagpur

2007

B.Tech
Civil Engineering
IGIT Sarang/ BPUT Rourkela

Teaching Experience
  • B.tech (Civil Engineering),  PMEC Berhampur (Govt.),   23 Dec 2016 - 09 Mar 2020
  • B.tech (Civil Engineering),  KIIT University, Bhubaneswar (DEEMED TO BE University),   23 Jul 2010 - 23 Dec 2012
  • B.tech (Civil Engineering),  CET Bhubaneswar (Govt.),   10 Aug 2009 - 22 Jul 2010

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Total Publications: 33
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R. Swain, B. Sahoo, and M. Perumal,"An embedded VPMM-AD model for riverine transient flow and non-reactive contaminant transports", Journal of Hydrology, vol.563, pp.711-725, Elsevier 2018, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.06.025       Article

R. Swain and B. Sahoo,"Mapping of heavy metal pollution in river water at daily time-scale using spatio-temporal fusion of MODIS-aqua and Landsat satellite imageries", Journal of Environmental Management, vol.192, pp.1-14, Elsevier 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.01.034       Article

R. Swain and B. Sahoo,"Improving river water quality monitoring using satellite data products and a genetic algorithm processing approach", Sustainability of Water Quality and Ecology, vol.9-10, pp.88–114, Elsevier 2017, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.swaqe.2017.09.001       Article

R. Swain and B. Sahoo,"Variable parameter McCarthy–Muskingum flow transport model for compound channels accounting for distributed non-uniform lateral flow", Journal of Hydrology, vol.530, pp.698-715, Elsevier 2015, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.10.030       Article

R. Swain and B. Sahoo,"Comparative evaluation of VPMM and MIKE11 models for estimating ungauged river floods", in Hydraulics, Water Resources, Coastal and Environmental Engineering (HYDRO 2014), pp.70-82, Excellent Publishing House 2014       Inproceedings

Computer Applications in Water Resources Engineering (CAWRE-2024) Civil Engineering (Workshop)
Computer Applications in Water Resources Engineering (CAWRE-2023) Civil Engineering (Workshop)
  • Co-Coordinator
  • 01 Jun 2023 - 05 Jun 2023
  • Brochure
HYDRO 2020 INTERNATIONAL (25th International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering) Civil Engineering (Conference)
  • Co-Coordinator
  • 26 Mar 2021 - 28 Mar 2021
  • Brochure

  • CE3401 : Water Resources Engineering {Theory}
  • CE4400 : Hydraulic Engineering {Theory}
  • CE4401 : Irrigation Engineering {Theory}
  • CE6434 : Ground Water Assessment and Development {Theory}
  • CE6435 : Integrated River Basin Management {Theory}
  • CE1010 : Computer Aided Drawing and Graphics {Practical}
  • CE1701 : Engineering Drawing {Practical}
  • CE3703 : Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Machines Laboratory {Practical}
  • CE4702 : Water resources Engineering Design Practice {Practical}

Ph.D. Students [5]
Development of a physically-based coupled flow and solute transport modelling
Manoj Kumar Pujari
Enrolled: Aug 2021
Continuing
Supervisor
Water Resources Engineering
Debabrata Mishra
Enrolled: Jul 2022
Continuing
Supervisor
Environmental Engineering
Jayashree Ojha
Enrolled: Aug 2024
Continuing
Co-Supervisor
WATER RESOURCES
Prachi Pragyan Mahanta
Enrolled: Aug 2024
Continuing
Supervisor
Surface flow and solute transport modelling
Chitrabhanu Sahoo
Enrolled: Jul 2024
Continuing
Supervisor
M.Tech by Research Students [1]
Parametric Analysis of Tailings Dam Breach
Ayashkant Sahoo
Continuing
Co-Supervisor

Awards And Honours
  • G.M. Nawathe Best Paper Award, 2022 by Indian Society of Hydraulics during HYDRO-2022 International Conference,   2022
  • Best Presentation Award, HYDRO-2020 International Conference,   2021
  • Best Poster presentation Award in CBSA-2019,   2019
  • University Foundation Day Research Award-2019 from BPUT for outstanding research contribution during 2017-19,   2019
Memberships / Fellowships
  • International Water Association (IWA) (2023-2025),   2023
  • American Geophysical Union (AGU) (1340208) (2022-2023),   2022
  • The Institution of Engineers (IE) (ID: M-1757711) (Life Member),   2022
  • Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS) (ID: L-5650) (Life Member),   2021
  • Indian Society of Geomatics (ISG-L-2251) (Life Member),   2020
  • The Indian Society for Hydraulics (ISH) (LM-1526) (Life Member),   2020