The funding will support a two-week research stay at Jadavpur University in Kolkata, India, where Fainaz Inamdeen will continue his work on bridge scour - an increasingly urgent issue as extreme river flows become more common due to climate change.
The visit builds on an earlier research stay in spring 2025, also supported by SASNET, during which Fainaz Inamdeen conducted initial flume experiments on scour development. His upcoming visit in October will allow him to carry out new experiments with researchers at the Fluvial Hydraulics Laboratory, aiming to deepen the understanding of how scour holes form and evolve over time.
The doctoral research project focuses on how riverbed erosion affects bridges and infrastructure, with the goal of developing tools to help assess and prevent bridge failures. The collaboration with Jadavpur University is a key part of his project, combining field data from both Sweden and India to tackle shared infrastructure challenges.
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