Kumar Mahinthakumar
Professor
- gmkumar@ncsu.edu
- Fitts-Woolard Hall 3207
Dr. Mahinthakumar’s (referred to as Dr. Kumar by his students) long term goal is to develop efficient algorithms and tools to solve large scale civil and environmental engineering problems.
Dr. Kumar is currently focused on 1) real time optimization and inverse modeling for water distribution systems analysis, 2) large scale modeling and characterization of groundwater flow and transport systems, 3) parallel and distributed computing algorithms and tools for environmental applications.
In CCEE, Dr. Kumar collaborates with Dr. Arumugam, Dr. Brill, Dr. Berglund, Dr. DeCarolis and Dr. Ranjithan.
At the graduate level, Dr. Kumar teaches Introduction to Numerical Methods for Civil Engineers (CE 536), Hydraulics of Groundwater (CE 584), High Performance Computing for Civil Engineers (CE 791A), and Inverse Modeling for Civil Engineers (CE 791B). In Numerical Methods, he teaches application of common numerical methods to civil engineering problem solving. The high performance computing course is a project-based course focused on parallel and distributed computing algorithms for large scale civil engineering applications. The inverse modeling course focuses on heuristic and gradient based search techniques as well as Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods for the solution of civil engineering parameter estimation and system identification problems. The graduate students who work with Dr. Kumar enjoy computer programming and are interested in developing innovative methods and tools for large scale civil engineering problem solving.
Education
Civil Engineering
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Applied Mathematics
Claremont Graduate School
Environmental Engineering
Asian Institute of Technology
Civil Engineering
University of Peradeniya
Research Description
Dr. Mahinthakumar is interested in large scale modeling of subsurface flow and transport, parallel and distributed computing, optimization and inverse problems, water distribution system analysis
Honors and Awards
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2003
- NCSU Faculty Research and Professional Development Award, 2001
- US Fulbright Scholar to South Africa, 2017
Publications
- Supervised Machine Learning Approaches for Leak Localization in Water Distribution Systems: Impact of Complexities of Leak Characteristics
- Basnet, L., Brill, D., Ranjithan, R., & Mahinthakumar, K. (2023), JOURNAL OF WATER RESOURCES PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT, 149(8). https://doi.org/10.1061/JWRMD5.WRENG-6047
- A Sequential Pressure-Based Algorithm for Data-Driven Leakage Identification and Model-Based Localization in Water Distribution Networks
- Daniel, I., Pesantez, J., Letzgus, S., Fasaee, M. A. K., Alghamdi, F., Berglund, E., … Cominola, A. (2022), JOURNAL OF WATER RESOURCES PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT, 148(6). https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001535
- Correcting Power Leakage Equation for Improved Leakage Modeling and Detection
- Kabaasha, A. M., Zyl, J. E., & Mahinthakumar, G. ''K. (2020), JOURNAL OF WATER RESOURCES PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT, 146(3). https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001172
- GRAPS: Generalized Multi-Reservoir Analyses using probabilistic streamflow forecasts
- Xuan, Y., Ford, L., Mahinthakumar, K., De Souza Filho, A., Lall, U., & Sankarasubramanian, A. (2020), Environmental Modelling & Software, 133, 104802. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104802
- Reducing error in water distribution network simulations with field measurements
- Ricca, H., Patskoski, J., & Mahinthakumar, G. (2020), JOURNAL OF APPLIED WATER ENGINEERING AND RESEARCH, 8(1), 15–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/23249676.2020.1719218
- Modeling chloramine decay in full-scale drinking water supply systems
- Ricca, H., Aravinthan, V., & Mahinthakumar, G. (2019), WATER ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH, 91(5), 441–454. https://doi.org/10.1002/wer.1046
- Multiphase Procedure to Design District Metered Areas for Water Distribution Networks
- Pesantez, J. E., Berglund, E. Z., & Mahinthakumar, G. (2019), JOURNAL OF WATER RESOURCES PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT, 145(8). https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001095
- Repurposing an energy system optimization model for seasonal power generation planning
- de Queiroz, A. R., Mulcahy, D., Sankarasubramanian, A., Deane, J. P., Mahinthakumar, G., Lu, N., & DeCarolis, J. F. (2019), Energy, 181, 1321–1330. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2019.05.126
- The role of cross-correlation between precipitation and temperature in basin-scale simulations of hydrologic variables
- Seo, S. B., Das Bhowmik, R., Sankarasubramanian, A., Mahinthakumar, G., & Kumar, M. (2019), Journal of Hydrology, 570, 304–314. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.12.076
- Assessing the effects of water restrictions on socio-hydrologic resilience for shared groundwater systems
- Al-Amin, S., Berglund, E. Z., Mahinthakumar, G., & Larson, K. L. (2018), Journal of Hydrology, 566, 872–885. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.08.045