Dr. Abhay

Assistant Professor (Research)

Specialization

Water Resources Engineering

Email

abhay@thapar.edu

Specialization

Water Resources Engineering

Email

abhay@thapar.edu

Biography:

Dr. Abhay is working as an Assistant Professor (Research) at the Department of Civil Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala, India. Earlier, he was a Research Associate and Early-Doc Fellow at the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi. He completed a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from IIT Delhi in the year 2024 and a Master of Science (by Research) from IIT Mandi in the year 2018. His research interests include understanding water quality dynamics in water systems using mathematical models, contaminant fate and transport in porous media, human health risk assessment, and quantitative microbial risk assessment.

Education:

  • Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Water Resources Engineering), Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (December, 2018 – July, 2024)
  • Master of Science (by Research) in Civil Engineering from School of Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Himachal Pradesh (July, 2015 – November, 2018)
  • Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering from Jawahar Lal Nehru Government Engineering College Sundernagar, H.P.U. Shimla (July, 2010 – June, 2014)

Experience:

  • Assistant Professor (Research): Department of Civil Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala, Punjab (Since January, 2025)
  • Research Associate: Industrial Research and Development Unit, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi (December, 2024)
  • Early Post-Doc Fellow: Industrial Research and Development Unit, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi (July 2024 – October 2024)
  • Research Associate: Section 4.4: Hydrology, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany (November 2023 - June 2024)

Research Interests:

  • Water Quality Modelling
  • Contaminant Hydrology
  • Contaminant Fate and Transport Modeling
  • Human Health Risk Assessment of Environmental System
  • Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment

Research Publications

International Journals

  1. Guleria, A., Mehdinejadiani, B., and Chakma, S. (2025). Application of Teaching-Learning-based Optimization algorithm for appraising solute transport parameters of mobile-immobile model. Groundwater for Sustainable Development (in press). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsd.2025.101452
  2. Guleria, A., and Chakma, S. (2024). Unraveling the complex dynamics of temporal moments for multispecies contaminant transport in saturated porous media: A global sensitivity analysis approach. Journal of Hydrology, 132128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.132128
  3. Ashraf, M., Guleria, A., Ahammad, S. Z., and Chakma, S. (2024). Implementation of temporal moments to elucidate the reactive transport of metformin and erythromycin in the saturated porous media. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 1-17, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-024-34357-9.
  4. Guleria, A., and Chakma, S. (2023). Mechanistic insights into contaminant transport dynamics in the saturated porous system in the presence of low permeability region using numerical simulations and temporal moment analysis. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-28779-0.
  5. Guleria, A., Gupta, P. K., Chakma, S., and Yadav, B. K. (2023). Temporal moment-based approach to understand the dissolved-phase LNAPL recovery and associated characteristics in the porous system under dynamic groundwater table conditions. AQUA-Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society, 72(4), 479-490, https://doi.org/10.2166/aqua.2023.188.
  6. Guleria, A., Gupta, P. K., Chakma, S., and Yadav, B. K. (2023). Unraveling the Fate and Transport of DNAPLs in the Heterogeneous Aquifer Systems – Critical Review and Bibliometric Analysis. Sustainability, 15(10):8214, https://doi.org/10.3390/su15108214.
  7. Guleria, A., and Chakma, S. (2022). A bibliometric and visual analysis of contaminant transport modeling in the groundwater system: current trends, hotspots, and future directions. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 1-20, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-24370-1.
  8. Guleria, A., Singh, R., Chakma, S., and Birke, V. (2022). Ecological and human health risk assessment of chromite ore processing residue (COPR) dumpsites in Northern India: A multi–pathways based probabilistic risk approach. Process Safety and Environmental Protection, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psep.2022.05.051.
  9. Guleria, A., Gupta, S. K., and Shukla, D. P. (2022). Scenario-Based Analysis of Contaminant Plume Evolution in the Groundwater Using GIS-Based Approach: A Regional Case Study of Panchkula, India. Environmental Modeling & Assessment, 1-12, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10666-022-09864-z.
  10. Guleria, A., and Chakma, S. (2021). Discussion of “Examining Fate and Transport of Heavy Metal in Landfill Site through Numerical Environmental Multimedia Modeling Approach” by Jinxin Dong, Zhi Chen, Ke Wang, Yi Han, and Jianbo Guo. Journal of Environmental Engineering, 147(4), 07021003, https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)EE.1943-7870.0001871.
  11. Guleria, A., and Chakma, S. (2021). Fate and contaminant transport model-driven probabilistic human health risk assessment of DNAPL-contaminated site. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 28(12), 14358-14371, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-11635-w.
  12. Guleria, A., and Chakma, S. (2021). Probabilistic human health risk assessment of groundwater contamination due to metal leaching: A case study of Indian dumping sites. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal, 27(1), 101-133, https://doi.org/10.1080/10807039.2019.1695193.
  13. Sharma, A., Swami, D., Joshi, N., Kartha, S., Chandel, A., and Guleria, A. (2020). Study of dynamic concentration gradient on mass transfer coefficient: New approach to mobile–immobile modeling. Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste, 24(4), 04020036, https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)HZ.2153-5515.0000523.
  14. Guleria, A., Swami, D., Joshi, N., and Sharma, A. (2020). Application of temporal moments to interpret solute transport with time-dependent dispersion. Sādhanā, 45(1), 1-16, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12046-020-01402-5.
  15. Guleria, A., Swami, D., Sharma, A., and Sharma, S. (2019). Non-reactive solute transport modelling with time-dependent dispersion through stratified porous media. Sādhanā, 44(4), 1-11, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12046-019-1056-6.
  16. Guleria, A., Gupta, S. K., Gupta, I., Swami, D., and Shukla, D. P. (2019). Understanding the spatial and temporal dependence of the migration of conservative contaminant plume in urban groundwater environment in Panchkula region, Haryana, India. Groundwater for Sustainable Development, 8, 93-103, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsd.2018.10.003.
  17. Swami, D., Sharma, P. K., Ojha, C. S. P., Guleria, A., and Sharma, A. (2018). Asymptotic behavior of mass transfer for solute transport through stratified porous medium. Transport in Porous Media, 124(3), 699-721, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-018-1090-6.

Book Chapters

  1. Guleria, A., Chakma, S., and Singh, V.P. (2023). Contaminant Transport Modeling for Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Porous Systems using MODFLOW models-based Scripting Python Package. In Environmental Management and Process - Water Science and Technology Library, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20208-7_3
  2. Swami, D., Thakur, C., Guleria, A., and Joshi, N. (2023). Parameter Estimation for Solute Transport through Coupled Stratified Porous Media Using Time-Dependent Dispersion Coefficient. In Advances in Hydrology and Climate Change (pp. 1-35). Apple Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003282365
  3. Guleria, A., and Chakma, S. (2022). Mathematical modeling of contaminant transport in the subsurface environment. In Advances in Remediation Techniques for Polluted Soils and Groundwater (pp. 141-169), https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-823830-1.00007-9
  4. Guleria, A., and Chakma, S. (2021, October). Effects of Soil Type on Contaminant Transport in the Aquifer System: A Numerical Investigation Using 2D Mobile-Immobile Model. In F-EIR Conference on Environment Concerns and its Remediation (pp. 143-153). Springer, Cham, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96202-9_12

International Conferences

  1. Guleria, A. and Chakma, S., (2023). Global sensitivity analysis of physical non-equilibrium contaminant transport model for reactive transport in a saturated porous system. EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-1804, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-1804, [On-site Poster]
  2. Guleria, A., Singh, R., Chakma, S., & Birke, V. (2022). Ecological and Human Health Risk Assessment of Soil in and around Chromite Ore Processing Residue (COPR) dumpsites in Kanpur, India. In AGU Fall Meeting 2022, December, https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022AGUFM.B24E..01G/abstract [e-Poster Presenter].
  3. Guleria, A., Gupta, S.K., and Chakma, S., (2021). Unsaturated Zone Leaching Model-driven Probabilistic Human Health Risk Assessment of Groundwater System in the vicinity of Chandigarh Dumping Site. AGU Fall Meeting 2021, 13 - 17 December 2021, New Orleans and Online Everywhere, https://doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10508936.1, [e-Poster Presenter].
  4. Guleria, A. and Chakma, S., (2021). Effects of Dispersion Parameters and Low Permeability Porous Media on the Contaminant Transport Behavior in the Aquifer System: A Numerical Study. AGU Fall Meeting 2021, 13 - 17 December 2021, New Orleans and Online Everywhere, https://doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10508939.1, [e-Poster Presenter]
  5. Guleria, A. and Chakma, S., (2021). Effects of Soil Type on Contaminant Transport in the Aquifer System: A Numerical Investigation using 2D Mobile-Immobile Model. Environment Concerns and its Remediation, F-EIR Conference 2021, 18-22 October 2021, Chandigarh, [Online Oral Presentation - Best Presentation award]
  6. Guleria, A. and Chakma, S., (2021). A Simplistic Unsaturated Zone Leaching Model-based Probabilistic Human Health Risk Assessment of Groundwater around the Ariyamangalam Dumping Site. 33rd Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology/ISEE 2021, 23-26 August 2021, https://doi.org/10.1289/isee.2021.P-029, [e-Poster Presenter]
  7. Guleria, A. and Chakma, S., (2020). Risk and Uncertainty Assessment of DNAPL Contaminated Groundwater System. Second ASCE Conference - Challenges of Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure Development in Emerging Economies, 02-04 March 2020, Kolkata (CRSIDE2020), [Oral Presentation]
  8. Guleria, A. and Chakma, S., (2019). Influence of Transport Parameters on Contaminant Plume Evolution in Saturated Porous Media: A Numerical Study. 8th International Groundwater Conference, 21-24 October 2019, IIT Roorkee, [Oral Presentation].
  9. Sharma, A., Swami, D., and Guleria, A., (2018). Study of Scale and Time-Dependent Parameters for Reactive Solute Transport through Stratified Porous Media. Groundwater Week, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 3-6 December 2018, (Oral session- Groundwater Modeling,14515).
  10. Guleria, A. and Swami, D. (2017). Solute Transport through Saturated Soil Column with Time-dependent Dispersion. 7th International Groundwater Conference (IGWC-2017), 11-13 December 2017, [Oral Presentation].
  11. Sharma, A., Guleria, A. and Swami, D. (2016). Numerical modelling of multispecies solute transport in porous media. 21st International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources, and Coastal Engineering, 08-10 December 2016, [Oral Presentation].
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