Specialization

Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering

Email

tkarmaker@thapar.edu

Biography

Tapas Karmaker is working as an Associate Professor at Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala. He was appointed to be a part of Civil Engineering faculty in the year 2011. Before joining Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, he was working with Tezpur University, a central university (Assam) in the capacity of Assistant Professor for one year. He earned his Doctorate degree from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India in the year 2011, and his graduate degree is in Civil Engineering. His Ph.D work involved intensive fieldwork, laboratory scale and numerical modeling of river bank erosion. Other than teaching to undergraduate and postgraduate students, he holds Institute/ departmental level responsibilities. As a faculty in charge of survey laboratory, he is handling the issues related to purchase of the state of the art survey instruments. He was president of the student society "Yatharth" for two years. This society was responsible for organizing the inter-branch activities, workshops, seminars etc. Presently he is the member of the Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology Student Satellite Programme (THAPSAT).

Research Tags

River Bank erosion, River hydraulic and morphodynamics, Water quality modeling, Watershed management

Research Projects:

One research projects has been submitted to national level funding agency within India, and is presently under review.

Memberships of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Invited Lectures

1. "MATLAB and Simulink Applications" at Chandigarh College of Engineering and Technology in collaboration with NITTTR Chandigarh, 27th to 3rd March, 2017.

Publications and other Research Outputs

A. Publications (Journals)

1. D Shekhar, BS Das, K Devi, JR Khuntia, T Karmaker (2023). Discharge estimation in a compound channel with converging and diverging floodplains using ANN-PSO and MARS, Journal of Hydroinformatics, 25(6), 2479-2499.
2. O Al Balasmeh, T Karmaker, R Babbar (2023). Experimental investigation and modelling of rainfall-induced erosion of semi-arid region soil under various vegetative land covers, Journal of Hydroinformatics, 25(3), 1029-1053.
3. Odai Al Balasmeh, RichaBabbar, TapasKarmaker (2020). “A hybrid drought index for drought assessment in WadiShueib catchment area in Jordan”. Journal of Hydroinformatics, 22(4), 937-956.
4. Odai Al Balasmeh, T Karmaker (2020). “Effect of Temperature and Precipitation on the Vegetation Dynamics of High and Moderate Altitude Natural Forests in India”. Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing 48 (1), 121-144.
5. Odai Al Balasmeh, RichaBabbar, Tapas Karmaker (2019). “Trend analysis and ARIMA modeling for forecasting precipitation pattern in WadiShueib catchment area in Jordan”. Arabian Journal of Geosciences 12 (2), 27.
6. Tapas Karamker and Ranjan Das (2017). “Estimation of riverbank soil erodibility parameters using genetic algorithm”. Shadhana,Academy Proceedings. 42(11), 1953-1963.
7. Tapas Karamker, HemantaMedhi, and SubashisaDutta (2017). “Study of Channel instability in the Braided Brahmaputra River Using Satellite Imagery”. Current Science112 (7), 1533-1543
8. Tapas Karmaker and SubashisaDutta (2016). “Prediction of short term morphological changes in a large braided river using 2-D numerical model”. J. Hydraulic Engrg ASCE, 142(10), Citation: 2.
9. Tapas Karmaker and SubashisaDutta (2015). “Stochastic erosion of composite banks in alluvial river bends”. Hydrological Processes. 29, 1324-1339.DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10266, Citation: 5
10. Tapas Karmaker and SubashisaDutta (2013). “Modeling seepage erosion and bank retreat in the composite riverbank”. J. Hydrology. 476, 178-187.  DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.10.032, Citation: 10.
11. Tapas Karmaker and SubashisaDutta (2011). “Erodibility of fine soils from the composite bank of Bharmaputrariver in India”. Hydrological Processes. 25, 104-111.DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7826, Citation: 27
12. Tapas Karmakerand SubashisaDutta (2010). “Generation of synthetic flood hydrograph in a large river basin”.  J. Hydrology.381(3-4), 287-296.DOI:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.12.001, Citation: 14
13. Tapas Karmaker, Y. Ramaprasad and SubashisaDutta (2010). “Sediment transport in an active erodible bend of Brahmaputrariver”.Shadhana, Academy Proceedings. 35(6), 693-706.DOI:10.1007/s12046-010-0052-7., Citation: 7.
14. SubashisaDutta, HemantaMedhi,Tapas Karmaker,Yogesh Singh, Upasana, I.Prabu (2010). “Probabilistic flood hazards mapping for embankment breaching”. ISH J. of Hydraulic Engrg. 1(SP1), 15-25.DOI: 10.1080/09715010.2010.10515012. Ciation: 1

B. Publications (Conferences)

1. T Karmaker, DN Ratha, H Singh, J Singh, J Mangla, J Gupta, K Singh, K Saswan, K Chauhan (2020). Effect of alternate expansion and contraction of width on the river morphology, River Flow, 2020, 574-581.
2. Odai Al Balasmeh, Tapas Karmaker,  RichaBabbar (2020) Estimation of Reservoir Capacity and Sediment Deposition Using Remote Sensing Data. World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2020: Water Resources Planning and Management and Irrigation and Drainage, pp154-161.
3. OIM Al Balasmeh, T Karmaker (2019). “Accuracy Assessment of the Digital Elevation Model, Digital Terrain Model (DTM) from Aerial Stereo Pairs”. International Conference on Geomatics in Civil Engineering:, IIT Roorkee, April 5-6, 2018.
4. Tapas Karmaker and SubashisaDutta (2013). “Characterization of seepage erosion from alluvial river banks”. International Symposium on River Sedimentation 2013,2-5 September, Kyoto, Japan.
5. Tapas Karmaker and SubashisaDutta (2010). “Composite bank erosion modeling in a alluvial river bend”. Proc. of River Flow 2010, IAHR International Conference, 8-10 September, Germany, pp 1315-1322.
6. Tapas Karmaker and SubashisaDutta(2009). “Predicting vulnerable bank erosion zones in a large river meander”.Proc. of Water, Environment, Energy and Society (WEES)-2009, 12-16 January, New Delhi.,pp 1670-1676.
7. SubashisaDutta, HemantaMedhi,Tapas Karmaker,Yogesh Singh, Upasana, I. Prabu (2009). “Probabilistic flood hazards mapping for embankment breaching”. Proc. of national conference HYDRO-2009. 17-18 Dec., pp 246-253.
8. Chandrashekarayya G. Hiremath, Tapas Karmaker, SubashisaDutta(2009). “Risk analysis of river bank protection structures in a large alluvial river bend”. Proc. of national conference on Computer Aided Modelling and Simulation in Computational Mechanics (CAMSCM-2009). March 13-14, 2009, pp 231-238.
9. Tapas Karmaker, SubashisaDutta(2008). “Designing a submerged groyne field for Brahmaputra river reach using 2-D river model”. Proc. Of national conference on Advances in Hydraulic Engineering with special emphasis on Model –Prototype Conformity (INCAHE-2008). Nov 6-7, 2008, pp 277-288.

Awards and Honours

Review activities:

Tapas Karmaker is serving as a reviewer of the following international journals:

• Water
• Soil Tillage and Research (Elsevier publication)
• Hydrological Processes (Wiley)
• Hydrological Sciences Journal (Taylor and Francis)
• Water Resources Management (Springer)
• Arabian journal of geosciences (Springer)
• International Journal of Civil Engineering
• Inverse Problem in Science and Engineering

Description of Research Interests

Tapas Karmaker's research interests include Hydraulic and morphological modeling for predicting the dynamics of rivers, watershed management for simulating runoff. It is found that the rive dynamics can be described as a scale function. River responses globally with decadal changes in the parameters whereas the local problems are short term. The local morphological changes can be modeled with reasonable accuracy by using 2-d depth averaged hydraulic and sediment transport model with sufficient data. Tapas Karmaker is presently working on the effect of the secondary currents and multi-thread flow on formation of river bars.