Subsurface water investigation and modelling (SWIM) Lab

Research Interests & Focus

• General Interests: Hydrogeology; Flow and transport in porous media; Water Resources; Geothermal Energy; Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage (ATES) systems; Renewable Energy systems.

• Recent focus: Aquifer storage and recovery; Interaction of surface water and groundwater; Machine learning applications to groundwater problems; Modeling transport and fate of heavy metals in subsurface porous media; Seawater intrusion due to global sea-level rise; Mountain front recharge of groundwater.

• Ph.D. students

• Current Students

1. Ms. Shreya Ganguly (Aug 2019-present)

Research Project: Transport and fate of Chromium (VI) in porous media and its remediation. 

2. Mr. Dolon Banerjee (Sep 2020-present).

Research Project: Investigation of  Ground-Water and Surface-Water Interaction. 

3. Mr. Thallam Prashanth (Dec 2020-present)

Research Project: River perenniality and groundwater draught in Godavari Basin, India.

4. Mr. Abhishek Sonkar (Aug 2022-present) 

Research Project: Feasibility of aquifer thermal energy storage systems in India.

5. Mr. Randhir Kumar (Aug 2023-present)

Research Project: Yet to be decided.  

• Past Students

• 1. Dr. Rohtash Goswami (jointly with Dr. Ranjan Das, Assoc. Prof., Mechanical Engineering, IIT Ropar)

Thesis title: Optimization of gasification process and waste heat recovery for power and distilled water production. 

• M.Tech. students

• Current students

     1.  Ms. Anisha Das  (Enrol. no. 2022cem1005)

Project: Application of machine learning to predict groundwater quality in Punjab, India  

     2. Mr. Chetan Kumar Pandit (Enrol. no. 2022cem1008)

              Project: Transient changes groundwater-surface water interaction for Krishna River Basin, India

• Past Students 

1. Mr. Akash Bajpai (jointly with Dr. I Sonkar)  

Year of passing: 2021 

Project: 2D Unsteady flow analysis of flood inundation downstream of Ropar Headworks. 

Presently: Pursuing Ph.D. at IIT Roorkee. 

2. Mr. Dharmendra Nath Shukla 

Year of passing: 2022

Project: Seawater intrusion and prevention in coastal aquifers. 

3. Mr. Sakshi Agarwal 

Year of passing: 2022

Project: Performance evaluation of aquifer storage and recovery systems in freshwater aquifers using MODFLOW 

4. Mr. Gaurav Singh (jointly with Dr. I Sonkar)

Year of passing: 2023

     Project: Forecasting groundwater availability in the Bist-Doab region of Punjab, India. 

5. Mr. Vikas Singh (jointly with Dr. R Sarmah)

Year of passing: 2023

     Project: Transient solution to saltwater intrusion problem in coastal aquifers due to sea-level rise.

Presently: Pursuing Ph.D. at IIT Bombay.