Name: Pawan Bhattarai

Position: Asst. Professor

Unit: Department of Civil Engineering, Pulchowk Campus, Institute of Engineering

Other Appointments: Coordinator, MSc Water Resources Engineering ; Member, Civil Engineering Subject Committee, IOE

Email: pawan.bhattarai@pcampus.edu.np

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Research Impact (Google Scholar):

h-index: 9

Total citations: 191

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Research Interest/Expertise: 

Hydraulics; Flood; Climate change ; Hydropower ; Machine Learning 

Teaching:

Fluid Mechanics,  Hydraulics ,Hydropower Engineering, Hydraulic Structures

Key Awards/Honors/Recognitions:

Nepal Bidhya Bhusan Ka

•    Bachelor Degree: BE Civil Engineering, Pulchowk Campus, TU (2002)
•    Master Degree: MSc in Hydropower Development, NTNU, Norway (2008)
•    PhD Degree: Civil Engineering, DPRI, Kyoto University, Japan (2015)

Professional Affiliations:

• Members of International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR)
• International Water Resource Association (IWRA)
• Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE)
• Japanese Society of Natural Disaster Science (JSNDS)

Selected Recent Publications:

1. Hydropower resilience in the Narayani River Basin: Multi-scenario insights on reliability and vulnerability under climate and land use changeEnergy for Sustainable Development 2025-10 | journal-article DOI: 10.1016/j.esd.2025.101786
2. Assessing hydropower production potential with multisite hydrological modeling in the Koshi river Basin, Nepal Energy Conversion and Management: X 2025-09 | journal-article DOI: 10.1016/j.ecmx.2025.101283
3. Navigating Uncertainties in Quantifying Water Availability Amidst the Climate and Land Use Changes Water Resources Management 2025-06-20 | journal-article DOI: 10.1007/s11269-025-04275-7
4. Confronting uncertainty: The future of hydropower in the himalayan region amidst climate ambiguity Energy for Sustainable Development 2025-04 | journal-article DOI: 10.1016/j.esd.2025.101657
5. Unraveling the Causes and Impacts of Increasing Flood Disasters in the Kathmandu Valley: Lessons from the Unprecedented September 2024 Floods Natural Hazards Research 2025-04 | journal-article DOI: 10.1016/j.nhres.2025.04.001
6. Climate change impacts on flood dynamics and seasonal flow variability in central Nepal: the Kaligandaki River Basin case Theoretical and Applied Climatology 2025-03 | journal-article DOI: 10.1007/s00704-025-05378-2
7. Spatial Sediment Erosion and Yield Using RUSLE Coupled with Distributed SDR Model Water 2024-12-10 | journal-article DOI: 10.3390/w16243549
8. Downstream impacts of dam breach using HEC-RAS: a case of Budhigandaki concrete arch dam in central Nepal Environmental Systems Research 2024-09-01 | journal-article DOI: 10.1186/s40068-024-00358-3
9. Characterizing urban flooding in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal: the influence of urbanization and river encroachment Natural Hazards 2024-09 | journal-article DOI: 10.1007/s11069-024-06650-w
10. Soft computing machine learning applications for assessing regional-scale landslide susceptibility in the Nepal Himalaya Engineering Computations 2024-05-13 | journal-article DOI: 10.1108/EC-07-2023-0374