Sashikant Nayak

Research Overview

Sashikant Nayak has over four years of experience in teaching Engineering Mathematics and about eleven years of research experience in Ocean Wave Modelling, Oceanography. He has earn his PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. He has a B.Sc. in Mathematics from Ravenshaw College, Cuttack and an M.Sc. in Mathematics National Institute of Technology Rourkela. He has worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Texas A&M University at Qatar and University of Malaya before joining the current position.  He has authored and co-authored several articles in various peer reviewed journals.

Recent Publications

1. Sandeepan, B.S., Sashikant Nayak and V.G. Panchang [2022]. Performance Assessment of a Persian Gulf Wind and Wave Forecasting System. Journal of Operational Oceanography. DOI: 10.1080/1755876X.2021.2024949
2. Sandeepan, B.S., V.G. Panchang, Sashikant Nayak, K.K. Kumar, and J.M. Kaihatu, [2018]. Performance of the WRF Model for Surface Wind Prediction around Qatar. J.Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 35, 575–592, https://chemical.kiit.ac.in//doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-17-0125.1
3. Sashikant Nayak and Vijay Panchang, [2015]. “Coastal Wave Height Statisticsduring Hurricane Ike,” Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Eng., ASCEDOI: 10.1061/ (ASCE) WW.1943-5460.0000327, pp 040150261-0401502611.
4. Sashikant Nayak and Prasad K. Bhaskaran, [2014]. “Coastal Vulnerability due to extreme waves at Kalpakkam based on historical tropical cyclones in the Bay of Bengal,” International Journal of Climatology, Royal Meteorological Society, Vol.34(5), pp 1460-1471.
5. Sashikant Nayak, Prasad K. Bhaskaran, R. Venkatasan and Sikha Gupta, [2013].“Modulation of local wind-waves at Kalpakkam from remote forcing effects ofSouthern Ocean swells,” Ocean Engineering, Elsevier, Vol. 64, pp 23-35
6. Sashikant Nayak, Prasad K. Bhaskaran and R. Venkatasan, [2012]. “Near-shoreWave Induced Setup along coast during an Extreme Cyclone Event in the Bay ofBengal,” Ocean Engineering, Elsevier, Vol. 55, pp 52-61.
7. Prasad K. Bhaskaran, Sashikant Nayak, Subba Reddy, P L N Murty and Debabrata Sen [2013]. “Performance and Validation of a Coupled Parallel ADCIRC-SWAN model for THANE cyclone in the Bay of Bengal,” Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Springer, Vol. 13(6), pp 601-623.

Research Group

The group is involved in understanding and use of extreme value analysis in predicting extreme events such as in ocean wave heights, coastal flooding. The group is also engaged in coastal wave modeling in particular in the Bay of Bengal, India.