Arunkumar, R., and S. P. Simonovic (2017). ‘General Methodology for Developing a CFD Model for Studying Spillway Hydraulics using ANSYS Fluent’.  Water Resources Research Report no. 098, Facility for Intelligent Decision Support, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, London, Ontario, Canada, 34 pages. ISBN: (print) 978-0-7714-3148-7; (online) 978-0-7714-3149-4.

Adarsh, S., Fathima, S., and Arunkumar, R. (2024). “Multiscale teleconnection analysis of rainfall patterns over Calicut, India using wavelet coherence.” Journal of Earth System Science, 133(1), 20.

Jayasimha Reddy, N. V., and Arunkumar, R. (2023). 'Development of flood inundation maps for the Chaliyar Basin, Kerala under climate change scenarios.' Water Practice & Technology, 18(10), 2372–2383.

Reshma, C., and Arunkumar, R. (2023). 'Assessment of impact of climate change on the streamflow of Idamalayar River Basin, Kerala', Journal of Water and Climate Change. 14(7), 2133–2149.

Abraham, M., Venugopal, K., Arunkumar, R., and Pramada, S. K. (2022). 'Simulation of chain of tanks to augment water supply: a case study from Tamil Nadu', Journal of Water Supply: Research and Technology-Aqua, 71(9), 975–991.

Mandal, S., Arunkumar, R., Breach, P. A., and Simonovic, S. P. (2019). ‘Reservoir Operations under Changing Climate Conditions: Hydropower-Production Perspective’, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, ASCE, 145(5), 04019016.

Arunkumar, R., and Jothiprakash, V. (2018). ‘Evaluating a multi-reservoir system for sustainable integrated operation using a simulation model’, Sustainable Water Resources Management, 4, 981-990.

Arunkumar, R., Jothiprakash, V., and Sharma, K. (2017). ‘Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Predicting and Mapping Daily Pan Evaporation’, Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series A, 98(3), 219–231.

Arunkumar, R., and Jothiprakash, V. (2017). 'Optimal crop plans for a multi-reservoir system having intra-basin water transfer using multi-objective evolutionary algorithms coupled with chaos.’ Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 140, 34–47.

Simonovic, S. P., and Arunkumar, R. (2016). ‘Comparison of static and dynamic resilience for a multipurpose reservoir operation’, Water Resources Research, 52(11), 8630–8649.

Arunkumar, R., and Jothiprakash, V. (2016). ‘A multiobjective fuzzy linear programming model for sustainable integrated operation of a multireservoir system’,  Lakes & Reservoirs: Research & Management, 21(3), 171–187.

Jothiprakash, V. and Arunkumar, R. (2014). ‘Multi-Reservoir Optimization for hydropower generation using NLP Technique’, KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, 18(1), 344–354.

Arunkumar, R. and Jothiprakash, V. (2014). ‘Evaluation of multi-reservoir hydropower system using a simulation model’, ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 20(2), 177 – 187.

Arunkumar, R. and Jothiprakash, V. (2013). ‘Chaotic evolutionary algorithms for multi-reservoir optimization’, Water Resources Management, 27(15), 5207-5222.

Arunkumar, R. and Jothiprakash, V. (2013). ‘Reservoir Evaporation Prediction Using Data Driven Techniques’, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, ASCE, 18(1), 40 – 49.

Jothiprakash, V. and Arunkumar, R. (2013). ‘Optimizing Hydropower Reservoir using Evolutionary Algorithms coupled with Chaos’, Water Resources Management, 27(7), 1963-1979.

Arunkumar, R. and Jothiprakash, V. (2012). ‘Optimal Reservoir Operation for Hydropower Generation Using Non-Linear Programming Model’, Journal of Institution of Engineers (India) Series A, 93(2), 111 – 120. (Awarded Union Ministry of Water Resources: Department of Irrigation Prize)

Jothiprakash, V., Nirmala, J. and Arunkumar, R. (2012). ‘Performance assessment of storage policies of the Vaigai Reservoir using a simulation model’, Water International, 37(3), 319 - 333.

Jothiprakash, V., Arunkumar, R. and A. Asokarajan. (2011). ‘Optimal Crop Planning using Chance Constraint Linear Programming Model’, Water Policy, 13(5), 734–749.

Jothiprakash, V., Shanthi, G., and Arunkumar, R. (2011). ‘Development of Operational Policy for a Multi-reservoir System in India using Genetic Algorithm’, Water Resources Management, 25(10), 2405-2423.

Arunkumar, R. and N. K. Ambujam (2010). 'Performance Assessment of Canal Irrigation System', ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 16(SP1), 146-155.

Arunkumar, R. and Jothiprakash, V., (2014). Optimizing Reservoir Operation Using Hybrid Chaotic Genetic Algorithm.  Research Scholar and Alumni Symposium (RSAS-2014), during 7 - 8 March 2014 held at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra. Pp. 59.

Arunkumar, R. and Jothiprakash, V., (2013). Sustainable Crop Planning for A Multi-Reservoir System Using Fuzzy Multi-Objective Approach. National Conference on Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management (SWARDAM-2013), during 30 Sept. - 01 Oct. 2013 at Government College of Engineering, Aurangabad, pp. 236-242.

Jothiprakash, V., and Arunkumar, R. (2013). Soft Computing Techniques in Reservoir Optimization. National Conference on Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management (SWARDAM-2013), during 30 Sept. - 01 Oct. 2013 at Government College of Engineering, Aurangabad, pp. 273-282.

Arunkumar, R. and Jothiprakash, V., (2012). Optimal Reservoir Operation for Hydropower Generation using Genetic Algorithm.  National Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources, Costal and Environmental Engineering (HYDRO-2012), during Dec 7 & 8, 2012 at IIT Bombay, India, pp. 1419 - 1426.

Arunkumar, R., and Jothiprakash, V. (2012). Optimal Reservoir Operation for Hydropower Generation. National Symposium on Water Resources Management in Changing Environment (WARMICE – 2012) held during 8-9 Feb 2012 at NIH, Roorkee, pp. 311 – 317.

Arunkumar, R., and Jothiprakash, V. (2011). Simulation Studies on a Large Scale Hydropower Reservoir. National Conference on Hydraulics and Water Resources – HYDRO 2011, held during 29-30 Dec 2011 at SVNIT, Surat, pp. 828 – 836.

Arunkumar, R., and Jothiprakash, V., (2011). Reservoir evaporation prediction using Artificial Neural Network.  In the abstract volume of the ‘Annual convention on the Geo-spatial Technologies and Applications, Geo Summit 2011’, July 27 – 29, 2011, Sathyabama University, Chennai, pp. 35.

Jothiprakash, V., Arunkumar, R., and J. Nirmala (2010). Evaluation of Vaigai Reservoir Operating Rules Using a Simulation Model.  In the 14th National symposium on Hydrology with focal theme of ‘Management of Water Resources under Drought Situation’, Dec 21 – 22, 2010, MNIT, Jaipur.

Arunkumar, R and V. Jothiprakash (2010).  A Review on Reservoir Optimization Models using Genetic Algorithm Technique. Proceeding of ‘National conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources, Coastal and Environmental Engineering – HYDRO 2010’, pp. 719 - 725.

Arunkumar, R and Ambujam, N.K. (2009).  Performance assessment of canal irrigation system.  Proceeding of ‘National conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources, Coastal and Environmental Engineering – HYDRO 2009’, pp.  278 – 285.

Arunkumar, R and Ambujam, N.K. (2009).  Estimation of Transmission Loss in Canal Irrigation System.  In National Conference on Research in Engineering NACORE ‘09 held at Amal Jyothi College of Engineering, Kanjirapally, Kottayam, Kerala.

Nimisha, K., and R. Arunkumar (2023) Meteorological drought analysis under Climate change scenario using SPI Index. In Proc. of “International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering: YUKTHI 2023, International Conference on Sustainable solutions for Infrastructure development” organized by Department of Civil Engineering, Government Engineering College Kozhikode during April 10-12, 2023.

Bincy Chandran P. and Arunkumar R. (2023) Analysis of Trends and Teleconnections between Streamflow and  Climatic Drivers in Chalakudy River Basin.  In Proc. of “International Conference on Sustainable Solutions for Infrastructure Development” organized by Department of Civil Engineering, Government Engineering College Kozhikode under the aegis of the International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering, Yukthi 2023 during 10th - 12th, April 2023.

Vishnuprasadha, S., Shyam Krishna, S., Faris Sayed and Arunkumar R (2022)  Rainfall Trend Analysis Using Multimethod Approach for Chaliyar River Basin, Kerala. In Proc. of “International Conference on Integrated Water Resources Management: Prospects and Challenges” (ICIWRM 2022), organized by Water Institute, Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences during 08-10 December 2022.

Mathan Ram Velavan K, Santosh G Thampi and R. Arunkumar    (2022) Estimation of Groundwater Recharge – A Study of the Noyyal River Basin. In Proc. of “9th International Groundwater Conference (IGWC2022)”, organized by Department of Hydrology, IIT Roorkee, during 2-4 November 2022.

Krishna P, Sharanya V L, Ayana Susmera Murali, Keerthana K P, and R. Arunkumar (2022) Study on High Flow Impacts on Bridges Using Hydraulic Modelling. In Proc. of "International Virtual Conference on Developments and Applications of Geomatics (DEVA-2022)" organized by the Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Warangal during August 29-31, 2022.

Niranjana M.S. and R. Arunkumar (2022) Morphometric Analysis of Chalakkudy River Basin, Kerala. In Proc. of "International Virtual Conference on Developments and Applications of Geomatics (DEVA-2022)" organized by the Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Warangal during August 29-31, 2022.

Reshma, C. and R. Arunkumar (2022) Modelling daily inflow to Idamalayar reservoir using SWAT. In Proc. of "International Virtual Conference on Developments and Applications of Geomatics (DEVA-2022)" organized by the Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Warangal during August 29-31, 2022.

Reddy, N.V.J. and Arunkumar, R. (2022) Comparison of streamflow simulations for different DEMs.  In Proc. of "International Virtual Conference on Developments and Applications of Geomatics (DEVA-2022)" organized by the Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Warangal during August 29-31, 2022.

Reshma, C. and Arunkumar, R. (2022) Comparison of SWAT and HEC-HMS Models for Simulation of Daily Inflow to Idamalayar Reservoir, Kerala. In Proc. of 'International Conference on Water and Environmental Management (WEM-2022)' organized by Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM), Kozhikode during 22-24 June, 2022.

Reddy, N.V.J. and Arunkumar, R. (2022) Assessment of streamflows in the Chaliyar basin under climate change scenarios. In Proc. of 'International Conference on Water and Environmental Management (WEM-2022)' organized by Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM), Kozhikode during 22-24 June, 2022.

Fathima, S., Adarsh, S., and Arunkumar, R. (2021). Multiscale Coherence Analysis of Meteorological Drought of Calicut, Kerala Using Wavelet Transform. In International Symposium on Tropical Meteorology “Changing Climate: Consequences and Challenges (INTROMET-C4).” Jointly organized by Indian Meteorological Society - Cochin Chapter & Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), Cochin, Kerala, India during November 23-26, 2021.

Anishka, P. S., Thomas, C., Adarsh, S., and Arunkumar, R. (2021). Innovative Polygonal Trend Analysis of Hydrometeorological Data of Calicut, Kerala. In International Symposium on Tropical Meteorology “Changing Climate: Consequences and Challenges (INTROMET-C4).” Jointly organized by Indian Meteorological Society - Cochin Chapter & Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), Cochin, Kerala, India during November 23-26, 2021.

Jayachandra, M. V. R. A., Ranga Raju, M. V. S. S., Asish, K., Vikram, K., Ch. Rajavardhan and R. Arunkumar, (2021) “Prediction of reference evapotranspiration using Random Forest Model”, Proceedings of Online International Conference on “Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management” (SWARDAM-2021) held during 8-9 March, 2021 at Department of Civil Engineering, Government College of Engineering, Aurangabad - 431005, Maharashtra, India, pp. 66-70.

Manaswi, M., Sri Lakshmi, M., Vedula, S. M., Konakalla, T. and R. Arunkumar (2021) Flood inundation mapping of a river basin using HEC-RAS. Proceedings of Online International Conference on “Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management”, SWARDAM-2021 held during 8-9 March, 2021 organized by Department of Civil Engineering, Government College of Engineering Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India, pp. 451-455.

Reshma, C., and Arunkumar, R.  (2021) Comparison of spatial interpolation methods for filling missing observations in daily rainfall data. Proceedings of “International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources, and Coastal Engineering” (HYDRO 2020), Vol. 1, held at Dept. of Civil Engineering, NIT Rourkela during 26-28 March 2021, pp. 974-982.

Simonovic, S.P. and Arunkumar, R. (2016). Quantification of resilience to water scarcity, a dynamic measure in time and space. Proceedings of International Association of Hydrological Sciences, 373(2003), 13–17.

Arunkumar, R. and Jothiprakash, V., (2013). Deriving Optimal Crop Planning for the Command Area of Dimbhe Reservoir, Maharashtra. Proceedings of ‘XVIII Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources, Coastal and Environmental Engineering (HYDRO 2013 INTERNATIONAL)’ December 04-06, 2013, IIT Madras, India, pp. 1285 – 1293.

Arunkumar, R. and Jothiprakash, V., (2013). Deriving Optimal Crop Plan for Dimbhe Reservoir – A Fuzzy Multi-Objective Approach. International Conference on ‘Advances in Water Resources Development and Management (AWRDM-2013)’ at Panjab University, Chandigarh, October 23-27, 2013. Pp. 38.

Arunkumar, R. and Jothiprakash, V., (2014). Improving the performance of the optimization technique using chaotic algorithm.  Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving (SocPros 2012), held at The Institute of Engineering and Technology, JK Lakshmipat University, Jaipur (India) during December 28-30, 2012, Vol. 236, pp. 243–250.

Arunkumar, R. and Jothiprakash, V., (2012). Optimal Reservoir Operation for Hydropower Generation using Differential Evolution Algorithm. 2nd International Conference on Water Resources (ICWR-2012), 5-9 November 2012, Langkawi, Malaysia.

Outstanding Reviewer, 2021, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, ASCE.

Outstanding Reviewer, 2020, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, ASCE.

Received Award for Excellence in Thesis Work during the 53rd Convocation of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay held on 8th August 2015.

Received Prof. U. C. Kothyari Best PhD Thesis Award from The Indian Society for Hydraulics (ISH), Pune, India during the inaugural function of HYDRO 2014 International Conference held on 18th Dec 2014, at MANIT, Bhopal, India.

Received Union Ministry of Water Resources: Department of Irrigation Prize for the paper published in Journal of Institution of Engineers (India) Series A, 93(2) during 28th Indian Engineering Congress, Chennai on 20th Dec. 2013.

Received Dr. Jayasekar Endowment Award for the best outgoing student in M.E. (Irrigation Water Management) for the year 2009 – 10.

Received Memento for securing First place in M.E. (Irrigation Water Management) during the Graduation Day Function.

Life Member, The Indian Society for Hydraulics (ISH) (LM851)

Life Member, Indian Association of Hydrologist (IAH) (LM-1648)

Member, Institution of Engineers India (IEI) (M164128-4)

Life Member, Indian Water Resources Society (IWRS) (LM-13-7430)

Life Member, Indian Society of Agricultural Engineers (ISAE) (LM-10903)

Life Member, Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS) (L-5894)

Life Member, Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) (LM-138239)

Member, European Water Resources Association (EWRA) (14112101)

Member, International Association of Engineers (IAE) (121446)

Faculty Advisor (2017 - 2021 Batch)

Warden, International Hostel (From July 2018 to July 2021)

Member, Examinations, CED (From August 2018 to December 2019)

Lab In-charge, CAD Lab (Nov 2019 to Feb 2022)

Institute SWAYAM Co-ordinator (From Dec 2022 to till date)