gskumar

▌ Dr. Suresh Kumar Govindarajan


 

Professor

DOE 304

gskumar@iitm.ac.in

+91 44 22574814

Research Homepage


Research Areas


Trying to understand the behavior of fluid flow in a fractured reservoir as against the conventional classical porous medium, where we do a have reasonable understanding in describing fluid flow, especially at the macroscopic scale. However, in a fractured/carbonate reservoirs, it is extremely difficult to deduce a reasonable REV, which in turn, poses a great challenge in deducing the mean value of the dependent variable of interest (spatial and temporal distribution of pressure and saturation profiles). In this context, investigations are being carried out in order to capture the anomalies associated with a fractured/carbonate reservoirs with reference to the single continuum hypothesis of a classical porous medium.


PRO Attainments


2004 – Doctor of Philosophy
IISc (Bangalore)

 

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2008

Kumar, G Suresh: Effect of sorption intensities on dispersivity and macro-dispersion coefficient in a single fracture with matrix diffusion. Hydrogeology Journal, 16 (2), pp. 235-249, 2008, ISSN: 14312174. (Type: Journal Article | Links | BibTeX)

2007

Ghassemi, A; Kumar, G Suresh: Changes in fracture aperture and fluid pressure due to thermal stress and silica dissolution/precipitation induced by heat extraction from subsurface rocks. Geothermics, 36 (2), pp. 115-140, 2007, ISSN: 03756505. (Type: Journal Article | Links | BibTeX)

2006

Sekhar, M; Kumar, G S; Misra, D: Numerical modeling and analysis of solute velocity and macrodispersion for linearly and nonlinearly sorbing solutes in a single fracture with matrix diffusion. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 11 (4), pp. 319-328, 2006, ISSN: 10840699. (Type: Journal Article | Links | BibTeX)

Sekhar, M; Kumar, G S: Modelling transport of linearly sorbing solutes in a single fracture: Asymptotic behavior of solute velocity and dispersivity. Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 24 (1), pp. 183-201, 2006, ISSN: 09603182. (Type: Journal Article | Links | BibTeX)

Kumar, G Suresh; Ghassemi, A: Spatial moment analysis for one-dimensional nonisothermal quartz transport and dissolution/precipitation in fracture-matrix system. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 11 (4), pp. 338-346, 2006, ISSN: 10840699. (Type: Journal Article | Links | BibTeX)

2005

Kumar, G S; Ghassemi, A: Numerical modeling of non-isothermal quartz dissolution/precipitation in a coupled fracture-matrix system. Geothermics, 34 (4), pp. 411-439, 2005, ISSN: 03756505. (Type: Journal Article | Links | BibTeX)

Kumar, G Suresh; Sekhar, M: Spatial moment analysis for transport of nonreactive solutes in fracture-matrix system. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 10 (3), pp. 192-199, 2005, ISSN: 10840699. (Type: Journal Article | Links | BibTeX)

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Work Experience

24th July 2015 - Current

Professor
Department of Ocean Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036 INDIA.


1st June 2010 – 24th July 2015

Associate Professor
Department of Ocean Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036 INDIA.


16th May 2007 – 31st May 2010

Assistant Professor
Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036 INDIA.


June 2006 - May 2007

Assistant Professor
IIT – Guwahati


June 2005 - May 2006

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada


Nov 2003 - June 2005

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, USA