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
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PUBLICATIONS1
SPONSORED PROJECTS8
CONSULTANCY PROJECTS5
DOCTORAL STUDENTS7
CONTINUING EDUCATIONPERSONAL 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 ObservationsIIT Kharagpur
2009
M.Tech
Hydraulic & Water Resources EngineeringIIT Kharagpur
2007
B.Tech
Civil EngineeringIGIT 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
Studies on condition Assessment & Management Plan for Mahanadi river basin National River Conservation Directorate (NRCD), Ministry of Jal Shakti, Government of India
- Principal Investigator
- 36
- Running Sponsored
Comprehensive Hydrogeological, Rainwater harvesting and Environmental Assessment of Koderma Thermal Power station (KTPS), Jharkhand Koderma Thermal Power station, DVC, Jharkhand
- Principal Investigator
- 28 May 2025 - 27 May 2026
- Running Consultancy
Study for Rain water harvesting potential assessment and design of rainwater harvesting structures/facilities/systems at NSPCL- Bhilai NTPC-SAIL Power Company Limited (NSPCL) Bhilai
- Principal Investigator
- 04 Jun 2025 - 03 Dec 2025
- Running Consultancy
Development of Stormwater drainage system and Rainwater Harvesting scheme for Plant at JSWEUL, Jharsuguda, Odisha JSW ENERGY (UTKAL) LIMITED, Jharsuguda,Odisha
- Principal Investigator
- 28 Apr 2025 - 28 Aug 2025
- Running Consultancy
Scientific Study of failure of soft OB benches Adasa UG to OC mine Western Coalfields Limited (WCL) Nagpur
- Co-Principal Investigator
- 28 Apr 2025 - 27 May 2025
- Completed Consultancy
Vetting of hydrological and hydro-geological report NATIONAL HIGHWAYS AUTHORITY OF INDIA
- Principal Investigator
- 29 Jan 2025 - 05 Feb 2025
- Completed Consultancy
Pollution load carrying capacity and carrying capacity of road transport at Ind Barath Ind Barath Utkal Ltd, Jharsuguda (Pvt)
- Co-Principal Investigator
- 15 Jul 2024 - 15 Jan 2025
- Completed Consultancy
Stormwater Channelization Survey M/S Ambuja Cements Ltd (Pvt)
- Principal Investigator
- 24 Jun 2024 - 31 Dec 2024
- Completed Consultancy
Vetting of design and estimate submitted by Municipal Council, Sikar, Rajasthan of UCIL water supply pipelines for the proposed Rohil Project, Rajasthan. Uranium Corporation of India (Govt)
- Principal Investigator
- 08 Apr 2023 - 30 Jun 2023
- Completed Consultancy
Total Publications: 40
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
HYDRO-2025 INTERNATIONAL (30th International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources, River and Coastal Engineering) Civil Engineering (Conference)
- Coordinator
- 18 Dec 2025 - 20 Dec 2025
- Brochure
Computer Applications in Water Resources Engineering (CAWRE-2025) Civil Engineering (Workshop)
- Co-Coordinator
- 01 Jul 2025 - 05 Jul 2025
- Brochure
Hydrological Modelling using Climate Change Data (HMCCD-2025) Civil Engineering (Workshop)
- Coordinator
- 18 Feb 2025 - 22 Feb 2025
- Brochure
A Five Day Workshop on Mahanadi River Basin Management Civil Engineering (Workshop)
- Co-Coordinator
- 05 Nov 2024 - 09 Nov 2024
- Brochure
Computer Applications in Water Resources Engineering (CAWRE-2024) Civil Engineering (Workshop)
- Coordinator
- 31 May 2024 - 04 Jun 2024
- Brochure
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}
- CE6475 : Applied Modeling Skills in Water Resources Engineering {Practical}
Ph.D. Students [5]
Surface flow and solute transport modelling
Chitrabhanu SahooEnrolled: Jul 2024ContinuingSupervisor
WATER RESOURCES
Prachi Pragyan MahantaEnrolled: Aug 2024ContinuingSupervisor
Environmental Engineering
Jayashree OjhaEnrolled: Aug 2024ContinuingCo-Supervisor
Water Resources Engineering
Debabrata MishraEnrolled: Jul 2022ContinuingSupervisor
Development of a physically-based coupled flow and solute transport modelling
Manoj Kumar PujariEnrolled: Aug 2021ContinuingSupervisor
M.Tech by Research Students [1]
Parametric Analysis of Tailings Dam Breach
Ayashkant SahooContinuingCo-Supervisor
Awards And Honours
- Best Poster presentation award in “National Symposium on Remote Sensing for Sustainable Future: A Roadmap Towards Viksit Bharat and Annual Convention of ISRS, 2024., 2025
- 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
- Indian Water Resources Society (IWRS) (ID: LM-24-8051) (Life Member), 2024
- 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