Resume

Education

2019- 2025

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

M.Tech & Ph.D

● M.Tech thesis: Diffusion Wave Approximation of Depth-Averaged Flow Interaction with Porous Media

Defended 14/01/2022

● Ph.D. thesis: Granular Deformation Coupled with Fluid Flow: Multilayered Depth-Averaging

Defended 04/04/2025

2014 - 2018

National Institute of Technology Srinagar, India 

B.Tech., Civil Engineering

Journal Publications

• Shukla, R., Bhat, N.U.H., Kumar, A., Pahar, G., "An efficient and coupled 1D-2D hydrodynamic framework to model catchment scale surface flow dynamics" Journal of Hydrologic Engineering (accepted).

• Bhat, N.U.H., Ieja, R., Pahar, G., 2026,  Wave generation due to partially and completely submerged column collapse. ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, accepted. 

• Bhat, N.U.H., Pahar, G., 2025, Coupled ISPH-MFVM modeling of incompressible fluid-immiscible granular flow interaction. Computational Particle Mechanics, 12, 4533-4565. 

• Bhat, N.U.H., Pahar, G., 2025, A novel two component multilayered model for coupling fluidgranular systems. International Journal for Multiphase Flow, 191, 105321.

• Bhat, N.U.H., Pahar, G., 2025, Multilayered depth-averaged formulation for immiscible gravity currents. Ocean Engineering, 322, 120452. 

• Bhat, N.U.H., Pahar, G., 2024 , Coupled-ISPH Framework for Modeling Tsunamis Induced by Landslides: Subaerial to Submerged. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 150(3), 04024009.

• Bhat, N.U.H., Pahar, G., 2024, Layered Shallow water Equations: Spatiotemporally varying layer ratios with specific adaptation to wet/dry interfaces. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 96(4), 397-434.

• Bhat, N.U.H., Pahar, G., 2023, Granular media deformation and fluid flow as overlapping, concurrent, coupled multilayered depth-averaged framework. Ocean Engineering, 283, 114957.

• Bhat, N.U.H., Pahar, G., 2022, Depth-averaged coupling of submerged granular deformation with fluid flow: An augmented HLL scheme. Journal of Hydrology, 606, 127364. 

• Bhat, N.U.H., Pahar, G., 2021, Euler–Lagrange framework for deformation of granular media coupled with the ambient fluid flow. Applied Ocean Research, 116, 102857. 

• Bhat, N.U.H., Pahar, G., 2021, Diffusion wave approximation of depth-averaged flow interaction with porous media. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 26(2), 04020064.

Book Chapters

1. Bhat, N.U.H., Pahar, G. Depth-Averaged Modeling of the Free Surface Flows Subjected to Sharp Obstructions. In: Riverine, Estuarine and Marine Hydraulics. IAHRAPD 2022. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore, 2024.

2. Bhat, N.U.H., Pahar, G. , Dhar, A. A Mesh-Free Non-Newtonian Approach for Modelling of Embankment Failure. In: Riverine, Estuarine and Marine Hydraulics. IAHRAPD 2022. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore, 2024

Conference Proceedings

1. Bhat, N.U.H., Pahar, G. Numerical modeling of flow over piano key weirs. In: 27th International Conference on Hydraulics,Water Resources and Coastal Engineering, HYDRO, Punjab, India, 2022. 

2. Bhat, N.U.H., Pahar, G. Coupled FVM-SPH model for sub-aerial and submerged granular flows. In: 17th SPH rEsearch and engineeRing International Community (SPHERIC) International Workshop, Rhodes, Greece, 2023.

3. Bhat, N.U.H., Pahar, G. Modeling Landslide induced Tsunamis through Coupled ISPH. In: 17th SPH rEsearch and engineeRing International Community (SPHERIC) International Workshop, Rhodes, Greece, 2023.

4. Bhat, N.U.H., Pahar, G. Submarine deformation of granular media through coupled fluid and Multilayered depth-averaged granular models. In: 9th International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulations, ICCMS,IIT Gandhinagar, India, 2024.

5. Bhat, N.U.H., Pahar, G. Experimental and Numerical Study of Partially Submerged Granular Column Collapse . In: 16th International Conference on Hydroinformatics (IAHR), HIC, University of Zaragoza, Spain, 2026.