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Rafael Xavier Meriade Duarte

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Point cloud quality evaluation: Towards a definition for test conditions

Touradj Ebrahimi, Evangelos Alexiou, Rafael Xavier Meriade Duarte

Recently stakeholders in the area of multimedia representation and transmission have been looking at plenoptic technologies to improve immersive experience. Among these technologies, point clouds denote a volumetric information representation format with i ...

2019

Effect of pool confinement on pressures around a block impacted by plunging aerated jets

Anton Schleiss, Rafael Xavier Meriade Duarte

The erosion caused by jets issued from hydraulic structures progressively develops a confined scour-hole on the riverbed. A realistic scour assessment must consider both the influence of the air entrained when the jet plunges into the pool and the flow pat ...

National Research Council Canada2016

An Enhanced Physically Based Scour Model for Considering Jet Air Entrainment

Anton Schleiss, Rafael Xavier Meriade Duarte

Based on systematic experiments on the influence of air entrainment on rock block stability in plunge pools impacted by high-velocity jets, this study presents adaptations of a physically based scour model. The modifications regarding jet aeration are impl ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Uplift of blocks from the rock mass at the bottom of plunge pools is the main process of the scouring phenomenon caused by high-velocity jet impact. Although the influence of water and rock on dynamic block ejection has been investigated, no systematic res ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2016

The influence of the air entrained by water jets on the dynamic pressures applied on the bottom of a plunge pool and inside underlying fissures was analyzed with systematic experiments. The large experimental facility reproduced aerated high-velocity jets ...

Springer Verlag2015

Rock scour occurring near dam foundations due to high-velocity jets of spillways impinging into the plunge pool is a major concern regarding dam safety. Scour in fractured rock resulting from high-velocity jet impact is a complex phenomenon, which involves ...

EPFL - LCH2014

High-velocity plunging water jets, such as those formed by spillways of high-head dams, cause scour on the rock foundations. The scour process is the result of complex physical phenomena concerning the three media involved, namely, water, rock and air. Air ...

TPI2013

Dynamic pressure distribution around a fixed confined block impacted by plunging and aerated water jets

Anton Schleiss, Rafael Xavier Meriade Duarte

The scour process created by the impingement of high-velocity water jets on fissured rock is the result of complex physical phenomena. Of great importance are the jet development during the trajectory through the atmosphere, the diffusion process inside th ...

TUP2013

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The surge tank located at the upstream head of penstocks and shafts of hydropower plants is an effective measure to protect the headrace tunnels against high pressure fluctuations. It reflects the transient pressure waves that are generated by the variatio ...

TPU2013

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Kariba Dam is a 128 m high arch dam located on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. The dam has been constructed in the late 1950s and formed at that time the largest man-made lake worldwide. The dam is equipped with 6 flood gates, each about 9 m high b ...

2012