• Decline in surface urban heat island intensity in India during heatwaves 

  Kumar, Rahul; Mishra, Vimal (OPI Science, 2019-04)

  Heatwaves cause human mortality around the world and are projected to rise in the future. Despite the influence of urban heat island (UHI) on heatwaves, the role of UHI on heatwave intensification in urban areas in India ...
• Studying the peak discharge through a planar dam breach 

  Kaurav, Rajkumari; Mohapatra, Pranab K. (merican Society of Civil Engineers, 2019-06)

  Studying the flow through a dam breach is important because it is characterized by a great deal of uncertainty and can be associated with loss of lives and properties. In the present study, planar dam breach erosion due ...
• Prediction of reservoir storage anomalies in India 

  Tiwari, Amar Deep; Mishra, Vimal (Wiley, 2019-02)

  Reservoirs provide water for irrigation and hydropower and protect downstream regions from flooding. Reservoir storage is affected by drought, which hampers the ability to provide water for irrigation and hydropower. Despite ...
• Multilayer arsenic mobilization and multimetal co-enrichment in the alluvium (Brahmaputra) plains of India: a tale of redox domination along the depth 

  Patel, Arbind Kumar; Das, Nilotpal; Kumar, Manish (Elsevier, 2019-01)

  The study attempts to understand arsenic (As) mobilization in a shallow aquifer with depth variation while focusing on the potential co-occurrence of As with priority metals (zinc and lead), using a pilot scale multilevel ...
• Distributed plasticity model for analysis of steel structures subjected to fire using the direct stiffness method 

  Ravi Prakash, P.; Srivastava, Gaurav (Elsevier, 2019-04)

  This article develops a temperature-dependent distributed plasticity model in a direct stiffness method (DSM) based formulation for coupled nonlinear thermo-mechanical analysis of steel space frames. The developed framework ...
• Aggregation behavior of inorganic 2D nanomaterials beyond graphene: insights from molecular simulations and modified DLVO theory 

  Mohona, Tashfia M.; Gupta, Anusha; Masud, Arvid; Chien, Szu-Chia; Lin, Li-Chiang; Nalam, Prathima C.; Aich, Nirupam (American Chemical Society, 2019-03)

  We report the comparative aggregation behavior of three emerging inorganic 2D nanomaterials (NMs): MoS2, WS2, and h-BN in aquatic media. Their aqueous dispersions were subjected to aggregation under varying concentrations ...
• Dynamic behaviour of micaceous sand with varying mica content and its association with compactability, compressibility and monotonic shear response 

  Seethalakshmi, P.; Sachan, Ajanta (Taylor & Francis, 2019-03)

  The recently proposed, KAZE image feature detection and description algorithm (Alcantarilla et al. in Proceedings of the British machine vision conference. LNCS, vol 7577, no 6, pp 13.1–13.11, 2013) offers significantly ...
• Efficacy of vermitechnology integration with Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) and activated sludge for metal stabilization: a compliance study on fractionation and biosorption 

  Taki, Kaling; Gogoi, Anindita; Mazumder, Payal; Bhattacharya, Satya Sunder; Kumar, Manish (Elsevier, 2019-04)

  Efficacy of vermi-transformation for metal partitioning and transformation from Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) and Activated Sludge (AS) was investigated. Sludge samples were mixed with cow dung (CD) in two ...
• On Conditional Simulation of Spatially Varying Rotational Ground Motion 

  Rodda, Gopala Krishna; Basu, Dhiman (Taylor & Francis, 2019-02)

  Authors elsewhere reported two frameworks for conditional simulation of spatially varying translational ground motion, namely, (i) cross-spectral density (CSD) based framework and (ii) auto-spectral density (ASD) based ...
• Reply of authors to: Discussion on Double wedge model for computing seismic sliding displacements of cantilever retaining walls by R. Conti and N.Cusano 

  Jadhav, Prajakta R.; Prashant, Amit (Elsevier, 2019-02)
• Sustainable removal of pernicious arsenic and cadmium by a novel composite of MnO2 impregnated alginate beads: A cost-effective approach for wastewater treatment 

  Shima, Jaehong; Kumar, Manish; Mukherjee, Santanu; Goswami, Ritusmita (ScienceDirect, 2019-03)

  There is a dire necessity of developing low cost waste water treatment systems, for the efficient removal of noxious heavy metals (and metalloids) such as Arsenic (As) and Cadmium (Cd). Magnetic biopolymer (CABs-MO) was ...
• Simulation of free surface flows with non-hydrostatic pressure distribution 

  Chandran, Krishna; Saha, Arun K.; Mohapatra, Pranab K. (Springer Verlag, 2019-01)

  In this work, a free surface flow simulator is developed in which Navier–Stokes equations using Marker and Cell (MAC) method in the framework of finite difference methodology have been solved. The free surface is tracked ...
• Parameterisation of auto-spectral density of earthquake induced strong ground motions 

  Rodda, Gopala Krishna; Basu, Dhiman (Elsevier, 2019-03)

  This paper explores the possibility of a new parametric representation of auto-spectral density (ASD) that enables extraction of several meaningful insights. Recorded translational ground motions are considered first and ...
• Fully coupled multi-physics nonlinear analysis of structural space frames subjected to fire using the direct stiffness method 

  Ravi Prakash, P.; Srivastava, Gaurav (SAGE, 2018-11)

  This article develops a fully coupled hydro-thermo-mechanical formulation based on the direct stiffness method for analysis of steel and reinforced concrete structural space frames. The superiority of the developed formulation ...
• A sixfold rise in concurrent day and night-time heatwaves in India under 2 °C warming 

  Mukherjee, Sourav; Mishra, Vimal (Nature Publishing Group, 2018-11)

  Heatwaves with severe impacts have increased and projected to become more frequent under warming climate in India. Concurrent day and nighttime heatwaves can exacerbate human discomfort causing high morbidity and mortality; ...
• Double wedge model for computing seismic sliding displacements of cantilever retaining walls 

  Jadhav, Prajakta R.; Prashant, Amit (Elsevier, 2019-01)

  A double wedge model has been proposed to compute seismic sliding displacements of cantilever retaining walls. Experimental observations indicate formation of rupture planes in the form of an inverted triangular wedge in ...
• Global observational evidence of strong linkage between dew point temperature and precipitation extremes 

  Ali, Haider; Fowler, Hayley J.; Mishra, Vimal (Wiley, 2018-11)

  Using global station?based observations of precipitation, near?surface air temperature (SAT), and dew point temperature (DPT), we show that the negative scaling relationship found between extreme daily precipitation and ...
• Removal of p-cresol and tylosin from water using a novel composite of alginate, recycled MnO2 and activated carbon 

  Shim, Jaehong; Kumar, Manish; Goswami, Ritusmita; Mazumder, Payal; Oh, Byung-Taek; Shea, Patrick J. (Elsevier, 2019-02)

  For sustainable production, there is an urgent need to minimize the adverse environmental impacts of swine farming, which is a major contributor of the pollutants p-cresol and tylosin. Novel reactive composite alginate ...
• Effect of mica content on pore pressure and stress-strain response of micaceous sand using energy dissipation and different failure mechanisms 

  Seethalakshmi, P.; Sachan, Ajanta (Taylor and Fancis, 2018-10)

  Mica particles are platy, flexible and resilient in nature having numerous intact mica flakes foliated over each other with low stiffness. Presence of mica among sand particles creates complex geometric arrangements due ...
• Collaborative efforts to investigate emissions from residential and municipal trash burning in India 

  Vreeland, H.; Norris, C.; Shum, L.; Pokuri, J.; Shannon, E.; Raina, Anmol; Tripathi, Ayushman; Borse, Dinesh; Patel, A.; Dixit, P.; Bergin, Mike H.; Stoner, B. R. (RTI Press, 2018-09)

  Emissions from trash burning represent an important component of regional air quality, especially in countries such as India where the practice of roadside, residential, and municipal trash burning is highly prevalent. ...

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