AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Development of Ports and Harbours

• Optimisation of harbour layout including location, length and alignment of breakwaters, jetties, berths, approach channels, turning circles, etc.
• Estimation of siltation in harbours and navigation channels
• Hydraulic design of port structures
• Harbour resonance and response of vessels
• Ship manoeuvering, motions and mooring forces
• Dredging, disposal and sand bypassing
• Stability of tidal inlets

Shoreline Changes, Coastal Erosion and Protection

• Littoral drift and shoreline changes
• Effect of harbour development on beach behaviour
• Design of shore protection works such as seawalls, groynes, revetments, offshore bunds, beach nourishment
• Innovative coastal protection methods
• Training to the state government engineers involved in coastal protection works

Design of Maritime Structures

• Design of breakwaters and coastal protection structures
• Design of intake and outfall structures
• Storm wave hindcasting for determining extreme wave conditions
• Storm surge analysis and determination of safe grade elevation

Cooling Water Systems for Power Plants

• Thermal dispersion for locating intake and outfall structures of thermal/nuclear power projects
• Flow patterns around the Intake structures
• Innovative techniques for enhanced heat dissipation and pre-cooling systems

Water Quality and Environmental Aspects

• Estimation of water quality parameters
• Density currents due to interaction between salt/sediment laden and fresh water
• Effect of reclamation on hydrodynamics and siltation
• Disposal and dispersion of dredged material, industrial and municipal effluents and oil spills

Field Studies

• Collection and analysis of field data for waves, water levels, currents, temperature, salinity, bathymetry, water quality, suspended and bed sediments

FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENTS

Laboratories

• Random sea wave flumes: 120mx4mx2m, 90mx2mx1.5m
• Regular wave flumes
• Shallow basins with random wave generation
• Wave models for ports and fishing harbours with regular wave generators
• Tidal models for major/minor ports with automatic tide generators

Software Packages

• Offshore to nearshore wave transformation
• Wave penetration in harbours
• Ship manoeuvring, ship motions and mooring
• Tidal hydrodynamics and sedimentation in estuarine and coastal areas
• Water quality
• Littoral drift and shoreline evolution
• Remote sensing and GIS

Field Equipments

• Propeller Type Direct Reading, In-situ Self Recording and Electro-magnetic Current Meters, Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler
• Wave Rider Buoys, Pressure Type Wave Gauges
• Automatic In-situ Tide Gauges
• DGPS, Handheld GPS, Total Station, Distomats
• Salinity-Temperature-Depth Unit
• Grab Samplers, Horizontal Samplers

MAJOR STUDIES UNDERTAKEN

Ports and Harbours

• Major Ports: Kandla, Mumbai, Jawaharlal Nehru Port, Mormugao, New Mangalore, Cochin, Tuticorin, Chennai, Ennore, Visakhapatnam, Paradip, Haldia, Kolkata
• Medium / Minor Ports / Fishing Harbours : Porbandar, Mul-Dwarka, Mangrol, Veraval, Jamnagar, Pipavav, Hazira, Revdanda, Varsoli, Ratnagiri, Karwar, Honnavar, Bhatkal, Beypore, Mahe, Munambam, Neendakara, Azhikkal, Pondicherry, Nizampatnam, Krishnapatnam, Kakinada, Port Blair, Rangat Bay, Mus, Campbell Bay, Hut Bay, Kalpeni, Androth, Kavaratti

Storm Wave Hindcasting and Safe Grade Elevation

• Porbandar, Dahej, Tarapur, Mumbai, Goa, Cochin, Kakinada, Visakhapatnam, Paradip, Kalpakkam

Design of Maritime Structures

• Breakwaters at Porbandar, Veraval, Mul-Dwarka, Ratnagiri, Karwar, New Mangalore, Tuticorin, Chennai, Visakhpatnam, Paradip, Pondicherry, Kakinada
• Reclamation bunds at Pipavav, Chennai
• Guide bunds at Varsoli, Old Mangalore, Beypore, Munambam
• Protection to submarine pipelines at Worli-Bandra, Uran, Kakinada
• Rehabilitation of breakwaters at Veraval, Porbandar, Campbell Bay, Hut Bay

Shoreline Changes, Coastal Erosion and Protection

• Shoreline evoluation at Gopalpur, Cochin, Kudankulam, Kalpakkam, Mangalore, Paradip
• Seawalls at Mumbai, Paradip, Pondicherry, Maravanthe, Pavinkurve, Mahabalipuram, Chandipur, Tithal, Moti Danti, Umarsadi, Kosamba, Alibag, Theronda
• Bank protection works at Ankaleshwar
• Groynes at Cochin, Shankarpur
• Offshore bunds at Udwada, Dahanu
• Artificial beach nourishment at Raj Bhavan and INS Hamla in Mumbai
• Sand bypassing at Visakhapatnam

Intake/Outfall Structures for Power Plants

• Atomic Power Projects at Tarapur, Kudankulam, Kalpakkam
• Thermal Power Projects at Dahanu, Ennore, North Madras

Environmental Aspects

• Salinity intrusion at Chilika lake
• Fresh water lake at Port Blair
• Disposal of dredged material at Mumbai, Campbell Bay
• Oil spill at Sikka

Foreign Assignments

• Port development at Singapore
• Thermal power projects at Tripoli (Libiya), Pasir Gudang (Malaysia), Port Klang (Malaysia)