IITKGP
Swapnadip De Chowdhury, IIT Kharagpur

Swapnadip De Chowdhury

Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Assistant Professor Grade-I

Ocean Engg and Naval Architecture

sdip@naval.iitkgp.ac.in

Research Areas

> Development of meshfree particle based models for violent wave structure interactions.

> Breaking wave impact, slamming.

> water wave energy.
  • Local overshoot and wind effects on wave overtopping at vertical coastal structures by Chowdhury S. D., Zhou J. G., Khait A. , Causon D. , Qian L. , Mingham C. , Pullen T. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Maritime Engineering 176 3-13 (2023)
  • Experimental Study on Hydrodynamic Forces for Semi-Submersible Floaters With Long Pontoons Considering Scale Effects by Dutta S. S., Hirabayashi S. , Matsushima K. , Chowdhury S. D. 45th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE) - (2026)
  • Numerical investigation of bottom slamming using one and two way coupled methods of S175 hull by Acharya A., Chowdhury S. D., Paloth F. P., Datta R. Applied Ocean Research 139 1-23 (2023)
  • Wind Effects on Wave Overtopping at a Vertical Sea Defense by Chowdhury S. D., Zhou J. G., Khait A. , Pullen T. , Causon D. , Qian L. , Mingham C. Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering 149 04023010-1-04023010-1 (2023)
  • Computation of complex resonances in non-symmetric arrays of floating cylinders using a homotopy method by Chowdhury S. D., Bennetts L. , Manasseh R. KOZWaves 2022 - (2022)
  • Some aspects of violent sloshing in shallow depth with air entrapment by Chowdhury S. D., Vanlalrelkima D. , Kumar M. The JASNAOE Annual Spring Meeting - (2026)
  • A coupled damped harmonic oscillator model for arbitrary arrays of floating cylinders using homotopy methods by Chowdhury S. D., Bennetts L. G., Manasseh R. Physics of Fluids 35 - (2023)
  • An Elastically Moored Flexible Multibody Wave Energy Converter by Nag Chowdhury D., Ghoshal R. , Chowdhury S. D. Offshore mechanics and artic engineering - (2024)
  • AN ELASTICALLY MOORED FLEXIBLE MULTIBODY WAVE ENERGY CONVERTER by Chowdhury D.N., De Chowdhury S., Ghoshal R. Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE 7 - (2024)
  • THE VORTEX ENERGY DRIVE: A NOVEL TECHNOLOGY IN HARNESSING HYDRO-KINETIC ENERGY by Chen H., Yalla O.V., Sunny M.R., Ghoshal R., Bhattacharyya A., De CHOWDHURY S., Lin Z., Chin C.S. Proceedings of the IAHR World Congress 1726-1728 (2025)

Principal Investigator

  • Mathematical modelling of bubble dyanamics Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC), Apex Committee of SPARC, Ministry of Education
  • Prototype development of a point absorber wave energy converter for field testing INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE

Co-Principal Investigator

  • Renewable Energy Harvesting from Coastal and Inland Waters Ministry of Shipping

Ph. D. Students

Arijit Biswas

Area of Research: Ship Hydrodynamics, Carbon reinforced hybrid composites

Debneil Nag Chowdhury

Area of Research: water wave structure interaction, multibody dynamics