Dhrubajyoti Sen


Ph.D.(IIT Delhi)

Professor, Civil Engineering
Chairman,  Nehru Museum of Science & Technology

Dhrubajyoti Sen joined the Institute in 1999


Contact Addresses
Residence B-245, IIT Campus, Kharagpur 721302
Phone (office) +91 - 3222 - 283452
Phone (residence) +91 - 3222 - 283453 (IIT Phone)
+91 - 3222 - 278721 (Private Phone)
email djsen @ civil.iitkgp.ernet.in
Personal web page


Research Areas
  • Water resources engineering
  • Numerical techniques in civil engineering hydraulics


Member of Professional Bodies
  • Regular : International Association of Hydraulic Research
  • Regular : Indian Society of Hydraulics


Current Sponsored Projects
  • Project Title : Sensor network and web-enablement for geospatial technology based tools development and disaster management: a pilot study
    Principal Investigator : Dr. Dhrubajyoti Sen
    Co-Principal-Investigators : Dr. Saswat Chakraborty
    Sponsor : Department of Science and Technology
  • Project Title : Efficiency study of Damodar left bank irrigation system
    Principal Investigator : Dr. Anirban Dhar
    Co-Principal-Investigators : Dr. Dhrubajyoti Sen
    Sponsor : Ministry of Water Resources, Government of India


On-going Consultancy Projects
  • Project Name : Mathematical model study for Lower Damodar
    Client : Jacobs - CES
    Consultant : Dr. Dhrubajyoti Sen
  • Project Name : Mathematical model study for Ghatal Master Plan
    Client : WAPCOS
    Consultant : Dr. Dhrubajyoti Sen
  • Project Name : Mathematical model study for Kandi project
    Client : WAPCOS
    Consultant : Dr. Dhrubajyoti Sen


Publications: 2014 - 2015
  • Sediment Flushout from Pond of River Diversion Barrages by Gate Operation by Malay Kanti Ghosh, Som Dutta and Dhrubajyoti Sen Water Resources Management, Volume 28, 5335-535 (2014)


Publications: 2013 - 2014
  • Real-time rainfall monitoring and flood inundation forecasting for the city of Kolkata by Dhrubajyoti Sen ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering,, Vol. 19 (2) 137–14 (2013)


Publications: 2012 - 2013
  • Flood inundation simulation in Ajoy River using MIKE-FLOOD by Prashant Kadam and Dhrubajyoti Sen ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Volume 18, p.129-141 (2012)
  • A high-resolution shallow water model using unstructured quadrilateral grids by Soumendra N. Kuiry, Dhrubajyoti Sen, Yan Ding Computers & Fluids, Vol. 68, pp 16-28 (2012)


Publications: 2011 - 2012
  • Application of the 1D-Quasi 2D Model TINFLOOD for Floodplain Inundation Prediction of the River Thames by Kuiry, S. N., Sen, D., Bates, P. and Yang, D. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering (ISH), 17 (1), pp. 99-110 (2011)


Publications: 2010 - 2011
  • Coupled 1D–Quasi-2D Flood Inundation Model with Unstructured Grids by Kuiry, S. N., Sen, D., and Bates, P. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Vol. 136, pp 493-506 (2010)


Publications: 2009 - 2010
  • Local scour characteristics downstream of diversion barrages by Ghosh, M. K., Kumar, G. and Sen, D. Journal of Water Management, Institution of Civil Engineers (U.K.), Vol. 162, pp.309-319 (2009)
  • One Dimensional Hydrodynamic Modeling of River Flow Using DEM Extracted River Cross-sections by Pramanik, N., Panda, R. K., and Sen, D. of Water Resources Management, Vol. 24, pp. 835-852 (2010)
  • Development of design flood hydrographs using probability density functions by Pramanik, N., Panda, R. K., and Sen, D. Hydrological Processes, Vol. 24, pp. 415-428 (2010)


Publications: 2007 - 2008
  • Finite Volume Model for Shallow Water Equations with Improved Treatment of Source Terms by Soumendra Nath Kuiry, Kiran Pramanik and Dhrubajyoti Sen Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Vol.134, pp. 231-242 (2008)


Publications: 2005 - 2006
  • Comparison of Gradually Varied Flow Computation Algorithms for Open-Channel Network by Islam, A,, Raghuwanshi, N. S., Singh, R., Sen, D. J. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, Vol. 131, #5,457-465 (2005)


Some Earlier Publications
  • Efficient Algorithm for Gradually Varied Flows in Channel Networks by Sen, D.J. and Garg, N.K. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage, ASCE, PP 351-357 ()