Department of Ocean Engineering | Indian Institute Of Technology Madras , Chennai
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Dr. Suryachala Praveen doddugollu

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Hydraulics and Geotechnics), KU Leuven, Belgium, 2024

M.Tech in Ocean Engineering and Naval Architecture, IIT Kharagpur, India, 2017

B.E in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, Andhra University, India, 2013

Phone

+91- 44- [22]-57 [48]-04

Email

praveen.doddugollu[at]zmail[.]iitm[.]ac[.]in

Office No

Room no: 112

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  • Ship Design
  • Resistance and Propulsion
  • Ship Hydrodynamics in Confined and Shallow Waters
  • Marine Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Ship–Seabed Interaction
  • Seabed Scour Analysis
  • Fluid Mud Rheology
  • Multiphase Flow

  • Assistant Professor, IIT Madras – December 2025 – Present
  • Senior CFD Researcher, Haedes, Belgium – June 2025 – October 2025
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, KU Leuven – December 2024 – June 2025
  • Team Lead - Concept Design, Vedam Ship Design Pvt. Ltd. – June 2013 – June 2017

  1. Experimental and numerical study of the hydrodynamic forces acting on a surface-piercing hydrofoil in muddy environments

    Author: Sotelo, Marco S and Boucetta, Djahida and Van Hoydonck, Wim and Praveen, DS Ch and Vantorre, Marc and Toorman, Erik and Delefortrie, Guillaume

    Journal: Ocean Engineering

    Volume: 294

    Page: 116816

    Year: 2024

  2. The determination of the true equilibrium flow curve for fluid mud in a wide-gap Couette rheometer

    Author: Praveen, D S Ch and Toorman, Erik A

    Journal: Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

    Page: 105122

    Year: 2023

  3. Hydrodynamic forces acting on a cylinder towed in muddy environments

    Author: Sotelo, Marco S and Boucetta, Djahida and Van Hoydonck, Wim and Doddugollu, Praveen and Vantorre, Marc and Toorman, Erik and Delefortrie, Guillaume

    Journal: Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering

    Volume: 149

    Page: 04023016

    Year: 2023

  4. Design study of stern tunnel wedge shapes for a low draft shallow water vessel

    Author: Praveen, D S Ch and Kumar, Sharat and Bhattacharyya, A and Sha, OP

    Journal: Ships and Offshore Structures

    Volume: 17

    Page: 1114--1131

    Year: 2022

  5. A numerical study of the flow of fluid mud in a cylinder and vane rheometer

    Author: Praveen, Doddugollu and Toorman, Erik

    Page: 17--17

    Year: 2021