Research Areas & Interests

  • Groundwater Flow and Pollution Investigations

    Two-dimensional and three-dimensional modeling, surface water-groundwater interactions, well hydraulics, seepage analysis in hydraulic structures. Contaminant transport analysis; Groundwater pollution control and remediation technologies.

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)

    Navier-Stokes equation solutions, Incompressible viscous flow analysis, various applications, and Numerical modeling.

  • Coastal Hydrodynamics

    Flow and transport analysis in rivers, lakes, estuaries, and coastal seas.

  • Watershed Management

    Watershed modeling, GIS and remote sensing applications in water resources. Rainfall-runoff modeling, rainwater harvesting; Urban Drainage & flood Modeling.

  • Environmental Engineering

    Environmental impact assessment of water resources and environmental-related projects, Pollution problems in the aquatic environment.

  • Applications of Numerical Methods

    In Water Resources and Environmental Engineering Areas: Method of characteristics, Finite difference method, Finite element method, and Boundary element method.

  • Hydroinformatics

    Application of artificial intelligence (such as GA, PSO, CSO, Fuzzy logic, etc.) and advanced techniques in water resources and environmental problems.

  • Climate Change Impact Assessment

    River basin scale climate change impact assessment on hydrological processes; Impacts of sea level rise on coastal regions.

  • Fluid Mechanics & Turbulence Studies

    Physical and laboratory-scale fluid mechanics studies & hydraulics modeling; scouring and sedimentation analysis - using ADV & PIV.