Faculty Profile

About

Dr. Reshmi Devi T.V is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, B.M.S. College of Engineering. She has completed M.Tech and Ph.D from IIT Bombay and worked as Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at CISED and as Research Scientist at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore prior to joining BMS College of Engineering. Her research interests include irrigation management, flood modelling and hazard mapping, artificial intelligence and decision support systems in water resources management, climate change impact assessment, remote sensing and GIS. She has published more than 30 papers in peer reviewed journals, national and international conferences. Also she has served as the reviewer for Journal of Hydrologic Engineering (ASCE), Journal of Water and Climate Change (IWA) and other journals. She was a part of the first batch of the IUCEE/IGIP International Engineering Educators Certification Program in 2015. She has also been recognized as the Microsoft Certified Educator.

Education

• Ph.D - Water Resources Engineering
  IIT Bombay
  Passed Year: 2008 | Program Type: FullTime
• M.Tech - Water Resources Engineering
  IIT Bombay
  Passed Year: 2003 | Program Type: FullTime
• B.Tech - Civil Engineering
  Calicut University
  Passed Year: 2001 | Program Type: FullTime

Selected Publications

• Book Chapter or Books | Published On : 11-07-2025
  Soham Gowda N , Suhas A.S , Sudeep M Haveri , Reshmidevi T.V , Suresh Ramaswwamyreddy
  "Hazard Mapping Due to Dam Overtopping Failure" In: Guruprasad, Y.K., Dodagoudar, G.R., Rao, K.S.N., Pandey, P.C., Nagaraj, H.B. (eds) Recent Advances in Infrastructure Development and Management - Volume 2. MTCEIDM 2023. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 566. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-1558-2_22
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• Book Chapter or Books | Published On : 11-07-2025
  Prajwal D M , Darshan B N , Reshmidevi T.V , Geetha Kuntoji , Alok Pandey
  "Adapting Existing Spillways For Higher Flow Rates: Performance Analysis Through CFD Modeling" In: Guruprasad, Y.K., Dodagoudar, G.R., Rao, K.S.N., Pandey, P.C., Nagaraj, H.B. (eds) Recent Advances in Infrastructure Development and Management - Volume 2. MTCEIDM 2023. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 566. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-1558-2_23
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• Conference | Published On : 23-04-2025
  Kareena Raut, Alok Pandey, Reshmidevi T.V
  "Performance evaluation of data preprocessing methods for streamflow forecasting using deep learning technique”. International Conference on Water, Environment, Energy & Society (ICWEES 2025), 23-26 April 2025, Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Puducherry
• Conference | Published On : 23-04-2025
  Meghana Raju, Prashasth P, Pranav R.P, Prajwal M, Reshmidevi T.V, Khushubu K Birawat
  "Tracking and analysis of water quality parameters in lakes of the KC valley”. International Conference on Water, Environment, Energy & Society (ICWEES 2025), 23-26 April 2025, Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Puducherry
• Conference | Published On : 27-02-2025
  Chaandas, Darshan B N, Jigmat Chuzen, K P Rakshit, Reshmidevi T V
  “Study of Sedimentation in Tungabhadra Reservoir and its Impact”. International conference on river resilience: Environmental flows to river health through the lens of ecosystem services (ICRR 2025), 27th February-1st March, 2025, Organized by NIT Calicut and TU Delft, Kozhikode, India.
• Conference | Published On : 27-02-2025
  Rubina Rasheed, Reshmi Devi T V, Lekshmi Devi C A
  “Study of Morphometric Analysis of Hebbal Valley and Flood Hazard Computation”. International conference on river resilience: Environmental flows to river health through the lens of ecosystem services (ICRR 2025), 27th February-1st March, 2025, Organized by NIT Calicut and TU Delft, Kozhikode, India.
• Book Chapter or Books | Published On : 01-12-2024
  H. S. Nanditha, T. V. Reshmidevi , and L. Udaya Simha
  "Groundwater Flow Modelling using MODFLOW in the Bhadra Catchment Area" In: Janardhan, P., Choudhury, P., Kumar, D.N. (eds) Water and Environment, Volume 1. ICWROEE 2024. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 413. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-7699-3_18
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• Book Chapter or Books | Published On : 26-03-2024
  Urvi Sharma, Prajwal D M, Alok Pandey and Reshmidevi T V
  Numerical modeling investigations of hydraulic jump characteristics over a chute spillway" In: Menon, N.V.C., Kolathayar, S., Rodrigues, H., Sreekeshava, K.S. (eds) Recent Advances in Civil Engineering for Sustainable Communities. IACESD 2023. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 459. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0072-1_25
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• Journal | Published On : 16-02-2024
  Anbazhagan M., Nanditha H. S., Reshmidevi T. V
  Effect of climate change on soil erosion rate in a tropical Indian catchment. Journal of Water and Climate Change 2024; jwc2024547.
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• Conference | Published On : 08-10-2023
  Vismaya I.N., Shaswat Manu, and Reshmidevi T.V.
  Flood hazard mapping in the Ganga Basin using Analytical Hierchy Process" 38th National Convention of Civil Engineers-Water Management for Sustainability using Emerging Technologies, The Institution of Engineers (India), Belagavi, Karnataka, 8-9, October, 2023.
• Journal | Published On : 19-04-2023
  Nanditha, H.S., Reshmidevi, T.V., Udaya Simha L., and Parthan Kunhikrishnan
  "Statistical analysis of rainfall and groundwater interaction in Bhadra catchment" Environment, Development and Sustainability ,
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• Conference | Published On : 14-01-2022
  Prasad Nagappa Tirlapur and Reshmidevi T.V.
  "Impact of urbanization on the local climate" In 4th International conference on Innovations in Civil Engineering, SCMS School of Engineering and Management, Ernakulam, Kerala, 14-15, January, 2022. ISBN No: 978-81-955979-0-1
• Book Chapter or Books | Published On : 29-07-2021
  Suresh Ramaswwamyreddy, Prathima Basavaraju, Reshmi Devi T V and Nagesh M A
  “Effect of Water and Soil Quality on Crop Productivity”. In Clean Water and Sanitation, Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals,W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.) 2021
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• Conference | Published On : 11-12-2019
  H.S. Nanditha, T.V. Reshmidevi, L. Udaya Simha
  "Surface water and Groundwater Interactions: An Overview" In 5th International conference on Modelling and Simulation in Civil Engineering ICMSC 2019, T.K.M College of Engineering, Kollam, Kerala, 11-13, Dec 2019.
• Journal | Published On : 01-01-2018
  Reshmidevi, T.V., Nagesh Kumar, D., Mehrotra, R., Sharma, A.
  "Estimation of the climate change impact on a catchment water balance using an ensemble of GCMs" Journal of Hydrology, 556, 1192-1204. DOI:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.02.016
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• Journal | Published On : 22-12-2017
  Reshmi Devi T.V
  "Implementing Project-based Learning in Civil Engineering- A Case Study." Journal of Engineering Education Transformations, 30-3 (119), 272-277
• Journal | Published On : 01-01-2014
  Reshmidevi, T.V., Nagesh Kumar, D.
  “Modelling the impact of extensive irrigation on the groundwater resources.” Hydrological Processes (Springer Pub.), 28(4),628-639. doi:10.1002/hyp.9615
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• Journal | Published On : 01-04-2013
  Mehrotra, R., Sharma, A., Nagesh Kumar, D., Reshmidevi, T. V.
  “Assessing future rainfall projections using multiple GCMs and a multi-site stochastic” Journal of Hydrology (Elsevier Pub.), 488, 84-100. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.02.046
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• Journal | Published On : 01-02-2013
  Nagesh Kumar, D., Reshmidevi, T. V.
  “Remote Sensing Applications in Water Resources” Invited review, J. Indian Institute of Science, 93(2),163-188.
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• Journal | Published On : 01-06-2010
  Reshmidevi, T.V., Eldho, T.I., Jana, R.
  “Knowledge-based Model for Supplementary Irrigation Assessment in Agricultural Watersheds.” Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering (ASCE), 136 (6), 376-382
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• Journal | Published On : 01-06-2009
  Reshmidevi, T.V., Eldho, T.I., Jana, R.
  “A GIS-integrated fuzzy rule-based inference system for land suitability evaluation in agricultural watersheds.” Agricultural Systems (Elsevier Pub.), 101(1-2), 101-109.
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• Journal | Published On : 01-04-2008
  Reshmidevi, T.V., Jana, R., Eldho, T.I.
  “Geo-spatial Estimation of Water Availability in Rain-fed Paddy Fields Using SCS-CN-Based Model” Agricultural Water Management (Elsevier Pub.), 95(4), 447-457.
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• Journal | Published On : 01-06-2007
  Jana, R., Reshmidevi, T.V., Arun, P.S., Eldho, T.I.
  “An Enhanced Technique in Construction of the Drainage Network from Low Resolution Spatial Database” Computers and Geosciences (Elsevier Pub.), 33 (6), 717-727.
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Other Information

Externally funded R&D projects
1. Interactive learning content development of predictive flood simulation and hazard mapping ( Funding agency: Dassault Systems Foundation, Period : 2022-2025)
2. Interactive content development enabling better presentation of fluid mechanics and hydraulic engineering concept in engineering education ( Funding agency: Dassault Systems Foundation, Period : 2021-22)
3. Assessment of the Climate Change Impacts on the Agricultural and Water Sectors in a Deficit Catchment in Karnataka ( Funding agency: DST, Period: 2009-2012)