Saumava Dey

About

I am currently serving IIT Delhi as Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering. My research and teaching specialize in Computational Hydraulics, Groundwater Hydrology, Surface Water Hydrology, Hydrological Process Modeling and Geostatistical Modeling. I am open to accepting doctoral candidates interested in areas aligned to these.

My doctoral dissertation, produced at IIT Kharagpur, focuses on numerical modeling of hydrological flow processes occurring in a typical watershed. In my research, I developed computer codes utilizing the open-source Finite Volume-based computational fluid dynamics framework of OpenFOAM® for modeling the processes of confined groundwater flow, saturated-unsaturated subsurface flow, and surface overland flow, respectively.

Erstwhile, I hold an MTech in Hydraulic and Water Resources Engineering from IIT Kharagpur and a BE (Honours) in Civil Engineering from BESU Shibpur (currently IIEST Shibpur).

Employment

• Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Assistant Professor
  2023 - Present
• Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Senior Research Fellow
  2022 - 2023
• Techno India University Assistant Professor
  2015 - 2017
• Adamas Institute of Technology Assistant Professor
  2012 - 2015

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur M.Tech.
  2010 - 2012
• Bengal Engineering and Science University Shibpur B.E.
  2006 - 2010

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (15)

• A review of numerical methods for flow and transport modeling in the vadose zone
  Vadose Zone Journal 2026 DOI: 10.1002/vzj2.70137
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• An OpenFOAM®-based coupled surface-subsurface flow model for simulating watershed hydrodynamics
  2026 DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu26-13540
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• A finite volume framework for dual permeability non-equilibrium modeling of solute transport through heterogeneous porous media
  Journal of Hydrology 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2025.134625
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• zeroInertiaFlowFOAM – a OpenFOAM®-based computationally efficient, mass-conservative, implicit zero-inertia flow model for flood inundation problems on collocated grid-systems. 
  2025 DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu25-17402
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• Applicability of Zero-Inertia Approximation for Overland Flow Using a Generalized Mass-Conservative Implicit Finite Volume Framework
  Journal of Hydrologic Engineering 2024 DOI: 10.1061/JHYEFF.HEENG-6021
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• A reduced-order framework for three-dimensional-equivalent confined groundwater modeling with emphasis on well-boundary implementation
  Hydrogeology Journal 2023 DOI: 10.1007/s10040-023-02674-x
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• A Generalized Finite Volume Framework for Unified Multi-Region Hydraulic Modeling
  2022
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• Reduced-Order Modeling of Aquifer Dynamics and Well Hydraulics in a Confined Aquifer Subjected to Extraction through Partially Penetrating Pumping Wells
  39th IAHR World Congress 2022
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• Generalized mass-conservative finite volume framework for unified saturated–unsaturated subsurface flow
  Journal of Hydrology 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.127309
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• On proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) based reduced-order modeling of groundwater flow through heterogeneous porous media with point source singularity
  Advances in Water Resources 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2020.103703
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