Civil Engineering

• INC-IAH Young Scientist Award
• IEI Young Engineers Award
• Endeavour Research Fellowship

Journal
• Impact of beach face slope variation on saltwater intrusion dynamics in unconfined aquifer under tidal boundary condition Dalai C., Dhar A. By Flow Measurement and Instrumentation 89 - (2023)
• Analytic Element-Finite Volume Based Coupled Groundwater-Surface Water Interaction model for Canal Command Systems Kumari K., Dhar A. By Water Resources Management - (2023)
• Generalized mass-conservative finite volume framework for unified saturated unsaturated subsurface flow Dey S., Dhar A. By Journal of Hydrology 605 - (2022)
• Generalized non-equilibrium suspended sediment transport model with hindered settling effect for open channel flows Hossain S., Singh G., Dhar A., Ghoshal K. By Journal of Hydrology 612 - (2022)
• Spatiotemporal Analysis of land use land cover and futures simulation for agricultural sustainability in a sub-tropical region of India Pradhan S., Dhar A. , Tiwari K. N. By Environment, development and sustainability - (2022)
• On Quantification of Groundwater Dynamics Under Long-term Land Use Land Cover Transition Pradhan S., Dhar A., Tiwari K.N. By Water Resources Management 36 4039-4055 (2022)
• Sustainability of Boro rice cultivation in the canal irrigated command area of India Pradhan S., Dhar A., Tiwari K.N. By Journal of Water and Climate Change 13 3083-3099 (2022)
• Enhancement of sustainable agricultural production system by integrated natural resources management framework under climatic and operational uncertainty Mandal U., Dhar A. , Panda S. N. By Agricultural Water Management 252 1-18 (2021)
• Assessment of climate change and its impact on hydrological regimes and biomass yield of a tropical river basin Mandal U., Sena D. R., Dhar A. , Panda S. N., Adhikary P. P. By Ecological Indicators 126 1-16 (2021)
• Experimental and numerical investigation of saltwater intrusion dynamics on sloping sandy beach under static seaside boundary condition Dalai C., Munusamy S.B., Dhar A. By Flow Measurement and Instrumentation 75 - (2020)
• Identification of water-stressed area based on the interrelationship of soil moisture and seasonal rice cultivation Sahoo S., Dhar A. , Debsarkar A. , Kar A. , Kayet N. By Paddy and Water Environment 18 193-209 (2020)
• On proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) based reduced-order modeling of groundwater flow through heterogeneous porous media with point source singularity Dey S., Dhar A. By Advances in Water Resources 144 - (2020)
• Future Water Use Planning by Water Evaluation and Planning System Model Sahoo S., Dhar A., Debsarkar A., Pradhan B., Alamri A.M. By Water Resources Management 34 4649-4664 (2020)
• Can Groundwater Scenarios Be Predicted from Future Regional Climatic Input Variables? Sahoo S., Dhar A., Debsarkar A., Kar A. By Water Resources Management 34 4815-4830 (2020)
• On information coupling in hybrid ISPH framework for fluidized granular systems Pahar G., Dhar A. By Advances in Water Resources 131 - (2019)
• On information coupling in hybrid ISPH framework for fluidized granular systems Pahar G., Dhar A. By Advances in Water Resources 131 - (2019)
• On projected hydrological scenarios under the influence of bias-corrected climatic variables and LULC Sahoo S., Dey S. , Dhar A. , Debsarkar A. , Pradhan B. By Ecological Indicators 106 1-17 (2019)
• Future Scenarios of Environmental Vulnerability Mapping using Grey Analytic Hierarchy Process Sahoo S., Dhar A. , Debsarkar A. , Kar A. By Natural Resources Research 28 1461-1483 (2019)
• Future Scenarios of Environmental Vulnerability Mapping Using Grey Analytic Hierarchy Process Sahoo S., Dhar A., Debsarkar A., Kar A. By Natural Resources Research 28 1461-1483 (2019)
• On Use of Expanding Parameters and Auxiliary Term in Homotopy Perturbation Method for Boussinesq Equation with Tidal Condition Munusamy S. B., Dhar A. By Environmental Modeling and Assessment 24 109-120 (2019)
• On Use of Expanding Parameters and Auxiliary Term in Homotopy Perturbation Method for Boussinesq Equation with Tidal Condition Munusamy S.B., Dhar A. By Environmental Modeling and Assessment 24 109-120 (2019)
• Computationally efficient approach for identification of fuzzy dynamic groundwater sampling network Kumari K., Jain S. , Dhar A. By Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 191 - (2019)
• Space-Time Cokriging Approach for Groundwater-Level Prediction with Multiattribute Multiresolution Satellite Data Sahoo M., Kasot A. , Dhar A. , Kar A. By Journal of Hydrologic Engineering 23 - (2018)
• On force consideration in coupled ISPH framework for sediment transport in presence of free-surface flow Pahar G., Dhar A. By Environmental Fluid Mechanics 18 555-579 (2018)
• On force consideration in coupled ISPH framework for sediment transport in presence of free-surface flow Pahar G., Dhar A. By Environmental Fluid Mechanics 18 555-579 (2018)
• Impact of Water Demand on Hydrological Regime under Climate and LULC Change Scenarios Sahoo S., Dhar A. , Debsarkar A. , Kar A. By Environmental Earth Sciences 77 - (2018)
• On modeling of MPS based multiphase fluid flow with low density ratios Pahar G., Dhar A. By International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 87 - (2018)
• On Predictability of Groundwater Level in Shallow Wells Using Satellite Observations Sahoo M., Kasot A. , Dhar A. , Kar A. By Water Resources Management 32 1225-1244 (2018)
• Future scenarios of land-use suitability modeling for agricultural sustainability in a river basin Sahoo S., Sil I. , Dhar A. , Debsarkar A. , Das P. , Kar A. By Journal of Cleaner Production 205 313-328 (2018)
• Future scenarios of land-use suitability modeling for agricultural sustainability in a river basin Sahoo S., Sil I., Dhar A., Debsarkar A., Das P., Kar A. By Journal of Cleaner Production 205 313-328 (2018)
• A forensic look into the lineament, vegetation, groundwater linkage: Study of Ranchi District, Jharkhand (India) Sahoo S., Das P., Kar A., Dhar A. By Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment 10 138-152 (2018)
• Numerical Modelling of Free-surface Flow-Porous Media interaction using Divergence-free Moving Particle Semi-Implicit Method Pahar G., Dhar A. By Transport in Porous Media 118 157-175 (2017)
• A Numerical Simulation Model for Conjunctive Water Use in Basin Irrigated Canal Command Areas Biswas P., Dhar A. , Sen D. By Water Resources Management 31 3993-4005 (2017)
• Appraising the Accuracy of Multi-Class Frequency Ratio and Weights of Evidence Method for Delineation of Regional Groundwater Potential Zones in Canal Command System Sahoo S., Munusamy S. B., Dhar A. , Kar A. , Ram P. By Water Resources Management 31 4399-4413 (2017)
• On Modification of Pressure Gradient Operator in Integrated ISPH for Multifluid and Porous Media Flow with Free-surface Pahar G., Dhar A. By Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements 80 38-48 (2017)
• Coupled incompressible Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics model for continuum-based modelling sediment transport Pahar G., Dhar A. By Advances in Water Resources 102 84-98 (2017)
• Grey Analytic Hierarchy Process Applied to Effectiveness Evaluation for Groundwater Potential Zone Delineation Sahoo S., Dhar A. , Kar A. , Ram P. By Geocarto International 32 1188-1205 (2017)
• Robust boundary treatment for open-channel flows in divergence-free incompressible SPH Pahar G., Dhar A. By Journal of Hydrology 546 464-475 (2017)
• Extending Incompressible SPH framework for simulation of axisymmetric free-surface flows Pahar G., Dhar A. , Islam M. I. By Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements 84 35-41 (2017)
• Analytical Solution of Groundwater Waves in Unconfined Aquifers with Sloping Boundary Munusamy S. B., Dhar A. By Sadhana 42 1571-1578 (2017)
• Space-Time Forecasting of Groundwater Level using Hybrid Soft Computing Model Sahoo M., Das T. , Kumari K. , Dhar A. By Hydrological Sciences Journal 62 561-574 (2017)
• Modeling free-surface flow in porous media with modified incompressible SPH Pahar G., Dhar A. By Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements 68 75-85 (2016)
• A Robust Volume Conservative Divergence-free ISPH Framework for Free-surface Flow Problems Pahar G., Dhar A. By Advances in Water Resources 96 423-437 (2016)
• Environmental vulnerability assessment using Grey Analytic Hierarchy Process based model Sahoo S., Dhar A. , Kar A. By Environmental Impact Assessment Review 56 145-154 (2016)
• Delineation of Groundwater Potential Zones of Coastal Groundwater Basin Using Multi-Criteria Decision Making Technique Mandal U., Sahoo S. , Munusamy S. B., Dhar A. , Panda S. N., Kar A. , Mishra P. K. By Water Resources Management 30 4293-4310 (2016)
• Index-based groundwater vulnerability mapping using quantitative parameters Sahoo S., Dhar A. , Kar A. , Chakraborty D. By Environmental Earth Sciences 75 522- (2016)
• Effectiveness Evaluation of Objective and Subjective Weighting Methods for Aquifer Vulnerability Assessment in Urban Context Sahoo M., Sahoo S. , Dhar A. , Pradhan B. By Journal of Hydrology 541 1303-1315 (2016)
• Homotopy Perturbation Method-Based Analytical Solution for Tide-Induced Groundwater Fluctuations Munusamy S. B., Dhar A. By Groundwater 54 440-447 (2016)
• Mixed Miscible-Immiscible Fluid Flow Modelling with Incompressible SPH Framework Pahar G., Dhar A. By Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements 73 50-60 (2016)
• Hydro-environmental assessment of a regional ground water aquifer: Hirakud command area (India) Dhar A., Sahoo S. , Mandal U. , Dey S. , Bishi N. , Kar A. By Environmental Earth Sciences 73 4165-4178 (2015)
• Identification of groundwater potential zones considering water quality aspect A. Dhar, S. Sahoo, and M. Sahoo By Environ Earth Sci 74 5663-5675 (2015)
• A Dry Zone-Wet Zone Based Modeling of Surface Water and Groundwater Interaction for Generalized Ground Profile G. Pahar and A. Dhar By Journal of Hydrology 519(Part B) 2215-2223 (2014)
• Integrated Land and Water Resources Management Framework for Hirakud Canal Subcommand (India) Using Gray Systems Analysis U. Mandal, A. Dhar, and S. N. Panda By Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, ASCE 139(6) 733-740 (2013)
• Multiobjective design of groundwater monitoring network under epistemic uncertainty A. Dhar and R.S. Patil By Water Resources Management 26(7) 1809-1825 (2012)
• Identification of unknown groundwater pollution sources using classical optimization with linked simulation B. Datta, D. Chakrabarty, and A. Dhar By ournal of Hydro-environment Research 5(1) 25-36 (2011)
• Logic based design of groundwater monitoring network for redundancy reduction A. Dhar and B. Datta By ournal of Water Resources Planning and Management, ASCE 136(1) 88-94 (2010)
• Global optimal design of ground water monitoring network using embedded kriging A. Dhar and B. Datta By Ground Water 47(6) 806-815 (2009)
• Optimal operation of reservoirs for downstream water quality control using linked simulation optimization A. Dhar and B. Datta By Hydrological Processes 22(6) 842-853 (2008)
Book Chapter/Section
• Evaluation of Sentinel 2 Red Edge Channel for Enhancing Land Use Classification Pradhan S., Tiwari K. N., Dhar A. By Water Management and Water Governance 79-89 (2021)
• Modeling and Optimization in Science and Technologies Kumari K., Dhar A. By Groundwater Management Using Coupled Analytic Element Based Transient Groundwater Flow and Optimization Model 16 119-134 (2020)
• Modeling and Optimization in Science and Technologies Munusamy S.B., Dhar A. By Optimal Control of Saltwater Intrusion in Coastal Aquifers Using Analytical Approximation Based on Density Dependent Flow Correction 16 403-420 (2020)
Conferences
• Sustainable water management through promotion of voluntary afforestation Desai V. R., Dhar A. , Ray S. K. By HYDRO 2020 - International Conference (Hydraulics, Water Resources, and Coastal Engineering) - (2020)
• Digital Image Processing for Analysis of Laboratory Scale Sand-Box Experiments Dalai C., Kundu D. , Munusamy S. B., Dhar A. By HYDRO 2019- International Conference (Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering) - (2019)
• Evaluation of Sentinel 2 red edge channel for enhancing land use classification Pradhan S., Tiwari K. N., Dhar A. By Sustainable Technologies for Intelligent Water Management - (2018)
Educational Package
• Pedagogy Development for the course Water Resources Engineering Maity R., Dhar A. By - (2011)

Principal Investigator

• GANGA RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT PLAN (GMP-I)
• Mathematical and physical modeling of arsenic transport through porous media
• Innovation challenge grant under green policy initiative for IIT Kharagpur Campus
• Efficiency study of Damodar left bank irrigation system and strategies for integrated command area water management
• Physical and mathematical modeling of tidal influence on seawater transport through porous media laboratory scale with implications to field scale
• Assessment of Evaporation and Infiltration Losses for Pre-Settling Ponds at WTP Site New Town, Kolkata
• Technical Assistance for Management of Sludge Handling System of Garden Reach Water Works of Kolkata Municipal Corporation
• Technical Assistance for Design of Drainage System for Greenfield City
• Survey, Design and Preparation of DPR for Renovation of Main Drain and Construction of STP near Shankarpur under DMC
• Design and Development of Oscillatory Aquifer Pumping Tests System at Laboratory Scale with Implication to Field Scale
• Preparation for Feasibility Report and Concept Plan for Intake Arrangement on Teesta River for Water Supply Project in Kalimpong
• Vetting of Rising Main for Kadan Irrigation Project

Co-Principal Investigator

• Evaluation of flood management scheme for Keliaghai - Kapaleswari - Baghai River basin
• Investigating Meshless Particle based Approaches in Fluid Structure Interaction (FSI) Applications
• Morphological Studies of Rivers Mahanadi, Mahananda and Hooghly
• Performance evaluation study in respect of work - Keliaghat-Kapaleswari-Baghai Drainage basin scheme - (Phase-II, 2012-2013) under flood management programme, GOI
• PERFORMANCE EVALUATION STUDY IN RESPECT OF WORK KAPALESWARI-KELIAGHAI-BAGHAI DRAINAGE BASIN SCHEME (PHASE-I, 2010-2011) UNDER FLOOD MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
• Preparation of State-Specific Action Plan for Water Sector in West Bengal
• Storm water out flow drainage plan and subsurface drainage plan
• Study of Water Seepages from CRM Bara
• The source sustainability study of water (Subarnarekha River) at intake point
• Tokisud flood control dike vetting