My research aim is to study the topography across the Himalayan arc and answer the question that why we see so much variety in the topography as we move from the west to the east. Belonging from a Physics background, my objective is to understand the underlying mechanics and the physics behind this variability in topography and to look at the feedbacks between the uplift rate and the precipitation.

I am doing this using mathematical models (solving partial differential equations) which contain the erosion, precipitation, uplift rate, gradient and other natural factors which defines the landforms. My work is primarily theoretical and computational where I use the digital elevation model as my input elevation data and run the simulations for some geological time scale to see how this elevation data changes with time. I am also trying to incorporate the orographic precipitation code into the TTLEM (Topotool box Landscape Evolution Model) package and test the results of it. In a nutshell, I am trying to understand the variability in the topography across the Himalayan arc using precise Landscape Evolution Models (LEM).