Updated Aug 2024
Dr. V. SUNDAR superannuated as Professor in the Department of Ocean Engineering, IIT Madras in Jun2 2018, completed his term as Professor Emeritus in June 2023 and since then has been working as Advisory Consultant. He has contributed 33 Ph.D and 14 M.S theses. He has ten distinguished awards amongst the scientific community to his credit, of which, Honorary doctorate from University of Wuppertal, Germany is one of them. He has served as chairman of the Asia Pacific division of International Association of Hydro environment Research, (IAHR) during 2007-11. He was elected as Fellow of IAHR in 2023.
Dr. V. SUNDAR superannuated as Professor in the Department of Ocean Engineering, IIT Madras in Jun2 2018, completed his term as Professor Emeritus in June 2023 and since then has been working as Advisory Consultant. He has contributed 33 Ph. D and 14 M.S theses.
On the research front, he has worked on topics related to breakwaters like (semi-circular, skirt type as well as rubble mound type), wave loads on structures, sediment transport under waves and currents, scour around structures. The instrumentation developed to measure scour has been cited by several researchers.
He has completed close to 300 projects in the general area of Coastal Engineering and has delivered lectures to the media, educational institutions and several other agencies all over the globe. He was instrumental in planning for tsunami mitigation measures and prepared the master plan for the tsunami affected maritime states of Tamilnadu and Kerala, India which remain as the basic document for implement by the respective governments.
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For my lectures on Wave dynamics & Coastal Engineering visit :https://sites.google.com/d/1vUEB8j_D_kFQsApHOg0ekZ_B8dbhvyDu/p/1kvSFSshQ0Bs5N7uqkQVxMhEchFYC-CTV/edit