Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics

Effect of Emergent Rigid Vegetation on Flow Properties in an Open Channel.- Double-Averaged Turbulence Characteristics over Hemi-spherical Rough Bed.- Quantification of Wake Vortices around Tandem Piers on Rigid Bed Channel.- Evaluation of Selected Bed Load Transport Equation for Different Representative Sediment Sizes in Mountain Rivers.- The Experimental Analysis of Incipient Motion Condition of Nonuniform Sediment.- Local Scour Near Sluice Gate in Clay-Sand Mixtures.- Bridge Pier Scour Depth Prediction Model - A Review.- Analysis of Scour Depth around a Bridge Pier using HEC-RAS Modeling tool - A Case Study.- Numerical Investigation of Secondary Flow Structures in a Gravel Bed Asymmetric Compound Channel.- Numerical Solution of Two-Dimensional Shallow Water Flow with Finite Difference Scheme.

P. V. Timbadiya is an Associate Professor in the Water Resources Engineering section, Department of Civil Engineering, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT), Surat, India. He secured his doctoral degree and post-graduation in Water Resources Engineering from SVNIT Surat in 2012 and 2004, respectively. He has guided two doctoral thesis and 29 master's dissertations. He has over 110 research papers to his credit, including 25 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He served as Dean (Alumni and Resources Generation), and currently serving as Sectional Head, Water Resources Engineering Section at SVNIT. He played an instrumental role in setting up infrastructure facilities in the Centre of Excellence on 'Water Resources and Flood Management' such as the Experimental Hydraulics Lab, Computational Hydraulics Lab, Water Circulation System, and others. He is appointed as 'National Consultant' for Kalpsar Project by Narmada, Water Resources, Water Supply and Kalpsar Department of Government of Gujarat, India. He received 'Prof. R. J. Garde Research Award' for the year 2020 by the Indian Society for Hydraulics. He has awarded DST-SERB Core Research Grant for the project on 'Local Scouring around tandem and staggered bridge piers on Non-uniform mobile bed' in the year 2021. He is active in various professional bodies and organized numerous conferences, workshops, and short-term training programmes in his academic career. 
Prem Lal Patel is a Professor of Hydraulics and Water Resources in the Department of Civil Engineering, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT), Surat, India. He served as the Deputy Director of SVNIT. He also worked as a Reader in the Civil Engineering Department at Delhi College of Engineering (now DTU) from 1999-2007. He served as an Assistant Executive Engineer in Border Roads Organization (BRO) from 1995-1999. He did his bachelor's in Civil Engineering from GovernmentEngineering College, India