Assistant Professor
| Brief Bio |
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| Dr. Suresh Kumar Thappeta joined the Department of Civil Engineering in June 2022. He has 2 years and 3 months of postdoctoral research experience at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, and 6 months at IISc Bengaluru. He received his Ph.D. in hydraulics of mountain streams from civil engineering, IIT Madras and M.Tech from IIT Guwahati. His research interests include experimental hydraulics, open channel flow, river engineering, flash flood flows, mountain streams, sediment transport, and urban flooding etc. He also has expertise in computational fluid dynamics and field studies. |
| Research Interest |
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| Hydraulics and Water Resource Engineering |
Education:-
| Degree | Year | Specialization | University |
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| PhD | 2019 | Hydraulics and Water Resources Engg | IIT Madras |
| M.Tech | 2012 | Hydraulics and Water Resources Engg | IIT Guwahati |
| B.Tech | 2009 | Civil Engg | Sri Venkateswara University College of Engineering, Tirupati |
Contact No. :
| Phone: | 0712-280-2317 |
| Email: | sureshthappeta@civ.vnit.ac.in |
| Address: | # 605, New Academic Block |
| Title | Funding Agency | Role | Year | Amount (in Lakhs INR) |
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| Urban Flood Resilience Index for Urban Areas | Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) through CPHEEO | Principal Investigator | 2025 | 46.04 |
| Title | Funding Agency | Year | Amount (in Lakhs INR) |
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| Description | Author(s) | Publisher | ISBN | Year |
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| Flow Analysis in Compound Channel Considering Momentum Transfer Mechanism | Suresh Kumar. T., Sarma A.K. | Springer | 978-3-319-40195-9 | 2016 |
| Flow Depths, Velocities Around Non-uniform Size Roughness Elements in Supercritical Flows: A Comparison of Numerical and Experimental Results. In: Chembolu, V., Dutta, S. (eds) Advances in River Corridor Research and Applications. RCRM 2023. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 470. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-1227-4_21 | Thappeta, S.K., Chandra, V., Bhallamudi, S.M., Fiener, P. (2024). | Springer | 978-981-97-1227-4 | 2024 |
| Patent Title | Application No. | Date | Present Staus |
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| Title | Funding Agency | Host Institute | Dates | No. of Participants |
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| Hands On Training On Statistical Methods in WaterResources Engineering | SERB | VNIT Nagpur | 10th -15th July 2024 | 60 |
| Sustainable Infrastructure Solutions for ClimateChange Resilie | BRICS | VNIT Nagpur | 24th-25th Jan 2025 | 30 |
| Sr. No. | Responsibility | Year |
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| Year | Award Description |
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| 2019-2021 | Kreitman Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel |
| 2012-2017 | Government of India Fellowship for PhD |
| 2010-2012 | Government of India Fellowship for Post Graduate Studies |
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