Prof. Prem Lal Patel

SV National Institute of Technology (SVNIT) - Surat

Head of Civil Engineering Department

My Profile

About

Dr. P L Patel is Professor of Civil Engineering in Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology Surat and has more than 24 years of Professional and teaching/research experiences. His research areas include River Mechanics and Flood Control; Hydrological Modelling and optimization of water systems; and Impact of climate change on water resources system. He guided 11 Doctoral Theses, 41 Master Theses and executed four high values sponsored research projects and 15 Consultancy Projects. He is having around 200 Research publications in reputed Journals and Conference proceedings. He was earlier climate changing working group of IAHR dealing with Fluvial Mechanism. He is also Fellow member of Indian Society for Hydraulics, Indian Water Resources Society, and Institution of Civil Engineers, India.

Career Type:

Scientist/Researcher/Academic

Organization Type:

Research Institutes and Centers

Expertise Fields/Interests:

His research areas include River Mechanics and Flood Control; Hydrological Modelling and optimization of water systems; and Impact of climate change on water resources system.

Major Achievements:

Technical Committees

Committee Name
Committee on Fluvial Hydraulics
Working Group on Reservoir Sedimentation
Committee on Climate Change Adaptation
Committee on Experimental Methods and Instrumentation
Committee on Hydraulic Structures
Committee on Flood Risk Management
Committee on Groundwater Hydraulics and Management
IAHR/IWA Joint Committee on Urban Drainage
Committee on Water Resources Management

IAHR Position

Committee Name	Position	Start Date	End Date
Climate Change Working Group	Member	2018-09-10	Now
Committee on Climate Change Adaptation	Member	2018-09-07	2020-03-19

My Papers and Presentations

Title	Year
Rainfall Trends over the Past Century for Tropical Climatic Region in Western India	2018
Aggradation in Mobile Boundary Channel Due to Overloading of Sediments	2016
Physics Based Distributed Overland Flow Modelling for Yerli Sub-Catchment, Maharashtra, India	2016
Seasonal Stochastic Model for Long Term Reservoir Inflow Forecasting for Ukai Reservoir, India	2016
Experimental Investigation of Turbulent Bursting Events on Weakly Mobile Channel Bed	2015
Analysis of Trends and Variability in Time Series of Extreme Daily Rainfall in Tapi Basin, India	2013
Experimental Study on Initiation of Motion and Bed Load Transport of Unimodal and Bimodal Sediments	2013
Effect of Seepage on Velocity Profile, Bed Shear Stress and Scour at Hydraulic Structures, in Uniform Flows: A Review	2010

My Videos

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IAHR Awards

IAHR Awards	Date