DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

OCEAN ENGINEERING
About us
The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT B) was established in 1958. IIT Bombay has 17 departments, 13 multidisciplinary centres, and 3 schools of excellence. Civil Engineering department has been a part of IIT Bombay since the
beginning. Civil Engineering department included offshore engineering course at a diploma level, but recently it is
upgraded to ocean engineering as an M. Tech course with a research thesis.
This program consists of developing basic as well as advanced level knowledge in the area of ocean engineering through
course work and a dissertation. The course work involves exposure to fundamentals of fluid and water wave mechanics
with relevance to ocean environment followed by hydrodynamics and structural application to a variety of ocean
infrastructural developments including offshore structures, coastal and harbour structures. There are a large number of
organizations in government bodies and public sector, research labs, private consultancy firms, and educational institutes
that need candidates with such background.

Course content
Offshore Engineering

Mechanics of Water Waves

Types of offshore structures.

Wave Theories

Calculation of Environmental loads on fixed and floating structure.

Wave processes.
Wave spectrum and statistical
analysis of waves

Member and joint design of fixed offshore platform.

Load out, Transportation, Launch/Lift, Upending and placing.

Motion analysis of floating structure (Ship, TLP, SPAR etc.)

Commissioning and de-commissioning of fixed and floating structure.

Offshore management guidelines (OHSAS-18001)

Coastal and ocean

environment

Coastal, Port and Harbour engineering

Coastal protecting and Beach nourishment.
Planning, design and construction aspects

Shore protection measures

and environmental impact

of port and harbour structures.

Model studies: physical and numerical
study of breakwaters, wharf, mooring and

on coastal region.

Coastal hazards prediction

and adaptation measure.

dolphins, dry docks.

CRZ Guidelines.

Pile design.

Electives

Offshore Construction
Hydrodynamic loading.

Finite Element Method.

Vortex Induced Vibration.

Numerical Technique.

Laying, stress analysis, repair,

Applied Statistics.

maintenance,

rehabilitation

and

retrofitting of subsea pipelines

NDT and welding techniques for

inspection and maintenance.
Different types of dredging methods
and construction equipments.

Offshore Foundation.
Remote sensing.
Policy

Response

Change.
Structure Stability.

to

Climate

LAB FACILITIES
Wave Flume

Dimension 50m X 1m X 1m

Wave flume experiments to study propagation,

refraction, reflection, diffraction and Shoaling.

Model study of Fluid structure interaction.

Wave Probe

Computational Lab

SACS
ANSYS
MIKE
REEF 3D
STAD PRO
MATLAB
ERDAS
MOSES
QGIS
Delft3D
Telemac
ArcGIS 10
SMS

Spar Platform model

OUR FACULTY
M.C Deo
Professor, Ocean Engineering.
Research Area:
Ocean engineering (wave hydrodynamics, ocean structures, statistical and
stochastic analysis, neural networks and soft computing); Hydrology (neural
networks and soft computing)
Phone: +91 22 2576 7330
Email: mcdeo@civil.iitb.ac.in

Balaji Ramakrishnan
Associate Professor, Ocean Engineering.
Research Area:
Coastal engineering, numerical and physical modelling of coastal processes
(tidal hydrodynamics & wave transformation), wave-structure interaction.

Ph.: (+91)22 2576 7321 (off), Fax. (+91)22 2576 7302

Email: rbalaji@iitb.ac.in, rbalaji@civil.iitb.ac.in

Manasa Ranjan Behera

Assistant Professor, Ocean Engineering.
Research Area:
Ocean and Coastal Engineering; Computational Ocean and Coastal
Hydrodynamics; Modelling of Tide, Storm and Tsunami; Impact of
Changing Climate; Wave and Tidal Energy; Wave-Current Interaction;
Multi-phase Flow

Phone: +91 22 2576 7313

Email: manasarb@civil.iitb.ac.in

Projects and R&D

Numerical Modelling of Storm surge.
Risk Assessment due to Cyclone and
Flooding on coastal infrastructure.
Numerical Modelling of Tsunami
Effect of Climate change on
Design wave
Shore lines
Local wind
Wind power
Extreme waves
Real time wave prediction
using high frequency
radar data and ANN.

M.Tech Projects

Fluid Structure Interaction

Investigate of wave slamming on floating offshore wind
turbine with a coaxial point absorber
Vertical wave in deck loading due to irregular and extreme
waves on decks with girder

Hydrodynamic and Coastal study

Ocean Renewable Energy

Hydrodynamic characteristics of multiple perforated barriers.

Hydrodynamic characteristics of porous barriers under the
action of nonlinear shallow water waves.
Estimation of Near-shore bathymetry using Optical and
Microwave Remote sensing.
Prediction of sea surface temperature with soft computing.
Application of THMC Coupled Multiphysics model in CO2
Geo-sequestration.
Three-dimensional oil spill trajectory modelling.

Utilisation of wave power potential along

India coastline.
Wind Turbine clubbed with Point Absorber
Impact of Tidal Kinetic Extraction on the
hydrodynamics of Gulf of Khambhat and Gulf
of Kachchh.

Placement Office, IIT Bombay

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IIT Powai, Mumbai-400076, India

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Mobile No.: +91 8828494842
Placementcell@iitb.ac.in
Phone No.: +91-22-2576-7097/7097
Fax No.: +91-22-2576-7092