Debabrata Karmakar

Designation:

Associate Professor

Date of Joining at NITK:

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Professional Experience:

Assistant Professor, School of Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering, Indian Maritime University, Visakhapatnam, Ministry of Shipping, GoI, India.
Research Collaborator, Centre for Marine Technology & Ocean Engineering (CENTEC), Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.

Contact Details

E-mail:

dkarmakar@nitk.edu.in

Telephone:

+91-824-2473669

Mobile:

+91-9632831839, +91-9449063749

Academic Background

Ph.D, Department of Ocean Engineering & Naval Architecture, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India.
Post-Doctoral Research, Centre for Marine Technology & Ocean Engineering (CENTEC), Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal.

Conference Proceedings:

115

Areas of Interest

Coastal Engineering, Offshore Wind Energy, Wave Energy, Fluid Structure Interaction, Hydroelasticity

Journals:

Significant Projects

Mathematical techniques in the gravity wave interaction with floating offshore structures, Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, India.
Coupled dynamic analysis associated with the response and design loads of offshore floating wind turbines, Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, India.
Performance of combined wave and wind energy platform, India-Portugal Bilateral Technological Cooperation, Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi, India & Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Portugal.
Design, analysis and development of combined wave and wind energy multi-use platform, Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, India.
Desalination of sea-water using wave and wind power, Vision Group on Science and Technology (VGST), Government of Karnataka, India.
Design, analysis of development of hybrid offshore floating breakwater, Dr. D. Karmakar (PI) and Dr. Manu (Co-PI), Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, New Delhi, India.
Laboratory scale demonstration of a Kite based wind power system, Dr. A Karthikeyan (PI-EEE), Dr. Yashwant Kashyap (Co-PI-EEE), Dr. Manjunatha Sharma (Co-PI-EEE) and Dr. D. Karmakar (Co-PI-WROE), Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), DST New Delhi, India.

International Projects

Dynamic and hydrodynamic analysis of offshore floating platforms for wind turbines, Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Portugal, Ref No: SFRH/BPD/81010/2011, € 58,720.00 EUR, 2012 – 2015.
Generic Hydraulic Power Take-Off System for Wave Energy Converters, José Gaspar (PI), Carlos Guedes Soares (Co-PI); Debabrata Karmakar (Co-PI); Sergey Sutulo (Co-PI), Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Portugal, Ref No: PTDC/EMS-SIS/1145/2014, €199,471.00 EUR, 2016 – 2019.
OPWEC | Optimizing Wave Energy Converters, Francisco de Almeida Taveira Pinto (PI), Debabrata Karmakar (Co-PI); Guilherme Moura Paredes (Co-PI); Kourosh Rezanejad (Co-PI); Mario López Gallego (Co-PI); Paulo Jorge Rosa-Santos (Co-PI), Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Portugal, Ref No: PTDC/MAR-TEC/6984/2014, €199,512.00 EUR, 2016 – 2020.

Workshops & GIAN Courses Organised

Offshore Renewable Energy (Wave, Wind and Tidal Energy), Instructor: Prof. Tomoki Ikoma, Nihon University, Japan, GIAN, MHRD, New Delhi, 7th – 11th November, 2016, Dr. Debabrata Karmakar & Prof. Arkal Vittal Hegde.
Computational Marine Hydrodynamics, Workshop, TEQIP-II, 19th – 20th January, 2017, Dr. Debabrata Karmakar & Prof. Arkal Vittal Hegde.
Present, Past and Future Scenarios of Marine Structures, Workshop, TEQIP-II, 20th February, 2017, Dr. Debabrata Karmakar & Dr. T. Nasar.
Design and Analysis of offshore Floating Wind Turbine, Instructor: Prof. Motohiko Murai, Japan, GIAN, MHRD, New Delhi, 7th – 11th September, 2019, Dr. Debabrata Karmakar & Prof. Arkal Vittal Hegde.
Ocean Wave Energy Conversion Technology and Modelling Techniques, Instructor: Prof. Matt Foley, UK, GIAN, MoE, 27th November – 1st December, 2023, Dr. Debabrata Karmakar.

Journal Editorial Board Member

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Marine Science and Application (Springer).
Editorial Board Member, Scientific Reports (Nature).

Book Chapters:

Supervision of Ph.D

Dr. Praveen K.M. (2020). Scientist B, Coastal Hydraulic Structures Division, Central Water and Power Research Station (CWPRS), Pune, Ministry of Jal Shakti, GoI, India.
Dr. V. Venkateswarlu (2020). Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Srinagar, India.
Dr. Athul Krishna K.R. (2023). Assistant Professor, Department of Ocean Engineering, Kerala University of Fisheries & Ocean Studies (KUFOS), Government of Kerala, India.
Dr. Shivakumar B. Patil (2023). Assistant Chief Engineer, Fichtner Consulting Engineers (India) Pvt. Ltd., Banglaore, Karnataka, India.
Dr. Rony J.S. (2024). Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay, India.

Patents:

Significant Publications

D. Karmakar & T. Sahoo, (2005). Scattering of surface waves by an articulated floating elastic plate in water of infinite depth, Marine Structures, 18 (5-6), 451-471.
D. Karmakar, J. Bhattacharjee & T. Sahoo, (2007). Expansion formulae for wave structure interaction problems with applications in hydroelasticity, International Journal of Engineering Science, 45(10), 807-828.
D. Karmakar, J. Bhattacharjee & T. Sahoo, (2009). Wave interaction with multiple articulated floating elastic plates, Journal of Fluids and Structures, 25(6), 1065-78.
D. Karmakar & C. Guedes Soares, (2012). Wave scattering by moored floating elastic plate, Applied Ocean Research, Vol. 34(1), pp. 135-149.
D. Karmakar & C. Guedes Soares, (2012). Oblique wave scattering by moored floating membrane due to heterogeneous bottom topography, Ocean Engineering, Vol. 54, pp. 87-100.
D. Karmakar, J. Bhattacharjee & C. Guedes Soares, (2013). Scattering of gravity waves by multiple surface-piercing floating membrane, Applied Ocean Research, Vol. 39(1), pp. 40-52.
Shan Wang, D. Karmakar & C. Guedes Soares, (2016). Hydroelastic impact of a horizontal floating plate with forward speed, Journal of Fluids and Structures, Vol 60, pp 97 -113.
Ashank Sinha, D. Karmakar & C. Guedes Soares, (2016). Performance of optimally tuned arrays of heaving point absorbers, Renewable Energy, 92, 517-531.
V. Venkateswarlu, Praveen, K.M. & D. Karmakar, (2020), Surface gravity wave scattering by multiple energy absorbing structures of variable horizontal porosity, Coastal Engineering Journal, 62(4), 504-526.
Shivakumar B. Patil & D. Karmakar (2021), Performance evaluation of submerged breakwater using Multi-domain Boundary Element Method, Applied Ocean Research, 114, 102760.
K.R. Athul Krishna, Khansa Abdullah & D. Karmakar (2022), Dissipation of gravity waves due to submerged porous plate coupled with porous structures, Journal of Offshore Mechanics & Arctic Engineering, 145(1), 011201.
Shivakumar B. Patil & D. Karmakar (2022), Hydrodynamic analysis of floating tunnel with submerged rubble mound breakwater, Ocean Engineering, 264, 112460.
Shivakumar B. Patil & D. Karmakar (2023), Hydrodynamic performance of fixed floating structure coupled with submerged breakwaters using Multi-domain Boundary Element Method, Journal of Waterway, Port, Ocean and Coastal Engineering, 149(4), 04023009.
Rony, J.S. & D. Karmakar, (2023), Performance of hybrid TLP floating wind turbine combined with arrays of heaving point absorber, Ocean Engineering, 282, 114939.
Shivakumar B. Patil & D. Karmakar (2023), Hydrodynamic performance of wave energy converter integrated with pile restrained floating structure near a partially seawall, Ocean Engineering, 285(1), 115254.
R. Muduli, Shivakumar B. Patil & D. Karmakar (2024), Hydrodynamic performance of pile restrained U-shaped OWC device using Boundary Element Method, Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, 158, 139-159.
Aparna Panda, Manu & D. Karmakar (2024), Hydrodynamic performance of H-shaped pile-restrained floating breakwater integrated with horizontal plates.Ocean Engineering, 298, 117152.
Rony, J.S. & D. Karmakar, (2024), Hydrodynamic response analysis of a hybrid TLP and heaving-buoy wave energy converter with PTO damping, Renewable Energy, 120380.
Binoy Sebastian, D. Karmakar & Manu (2024). Coupled dynamic analysis of semi-submersible floating wind turbine integrated with Oscillating Water Column WEC, Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy, 10, 287-312.
S. Hemanth & D. Karmakar (2025), Hydroelastic analysis of floating VLFS integrated with porous floating box breakwater using Multi-domain Boundary Element Method, Marine Structures, 101, 103747.
Karim Raed, D. Karmakar & C. Guedes Soares (2025). Effect of the wind turbine floater geometry on the uncertainty associated with the hydrodynamic loading, Ocean Engineering, 330, 121134.

Funded Projects (Completed):

Achievements

N.C.E.R.T-MCM Scholarship, RIE, Bhubaneswar, India, 1999 – 2001.
CSIR-Senior Research Fellowship (SRF), India, April 2008-Nov 2009.
NBHM, Department of Atomic Energy, Post-Doctoral Fellowship, August 2009.
Lady-Davis Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Technion, Israel, Nov 2009.
Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Jan 2012.
Excellent contribution award at ISSC 2015, Cascais, Portugal for the Committee Report V.4 on Offshore Renewable Energy.
DST Young Scientist Research Grant, 2015.
Indo-Portugal Bilateral Research Grant, 2017
SERB, DST-Foreign Travel Grant Award, April 2024.
JMSA Outstanding Editorial Board Member Award, 2024.

ISSC Congress Collaboration

International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress (ISSC), Technical Committee Member for “V.4 Offshore Renewable Energy”, 2012-2015.
International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress (ISSC), Technical Committee Member for “V.4 Offshore Renewable Energy”, 2015-2018.
International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress (ISSC), Specialist Committee Member for “V.6 Ocean Space Utilization”, 2018-2022.
International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress (ISSC), Specialist Committee Member for “V.6 Ocean Space Utilization”, 2022-2025.

Best Paper/Poster Award

Best Paper and poster award at NFiCE, 30th November-1st December, 2018, IIT Bombay (Mr. K.R. Athul Krishna & Mr Injeti Balaji).
Best Paper award by Springer at TMSF-2019, Goa (Mr. Ajay H. Patil).
Best Paper award at HYDRO-2019, Osmania University, Hyderabad (Mr. Rony J.S.).
Best Paper Award at iCRAFT-2020, Birla Institute of Technology, Dubai (Mr. Rony J.S.).
Best Paper Award at HYDRO-2020, NIT Rourkela, Odisha (Mr. Rony J.S.).
Best Paper Award at WOSC-2024, IIT Madras. (Mrs. Aparna Panda)
Best Paper Presentation Award at ICGCE-2024, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (Mr. Hemanth S.)

Research