Publications by Sabine Chamoun

Un outil pour évaluer l’adaptation des villes au changement climatique: la Matrice Bleue-Verte

Giovanni De Cesare, Sabine Chamoun, Loé Maire

La majorité des zones urbaines à travers le monde sont fréquemment touchées par le changement climatique, notamment à travers les effets d'îlots de chaleur ou l'augmentation de la fréquence des inondations. Les villes éponges, concept développé en Chine en ...

2023

Experimental and Numerical Study on Scour-Protection Methods in a Stilling Basin: Case Study of Chancy-Pougny Dam

Anton Schleiss, Giovanni De Cesare, Erik Bollaert, Sabine Chamoun, Davide Wüthrich

Chancy-Pougny is a run-of-river dam on the Swiss–French border constructed in the early 1920s. Since its commissioning, the operation of the four spillway gates has been responsible for a progressive erosion of the stilling basin. The future scour potentia ...

2021

Innovative methods to release fine sediments from reservoirs developed at EPFL, Switzerland

Anton Schleiss, Giovanni De Cesare, Pedro Filipe De Almeida Manso, Azin Amini, Sabine Chamoun

Electricity generation, water supply, flood protection, flow regulation and navigation are amongst the main services provided by reservoirs. Sedimentation affects the sustainability of reservoirs, by reducing their storage capacity, and increases the negat ...

2019

Improving hydropower flexibility by synergizing independently managed utilities

Giovanni De Cesare, Pedro Filipe De Almeida Manso, Sabine Chamoun, Vincent Gaertner, Steve Crettenand

Increasing the flexibility of hydropower allows operators to produce at optimal time ranges, not only dependent on the demand flow but also on the price trends. However, the possibility to improve hydropower flexibility can be hindered when assets are mana ...

Hydropower&Dams, Aqua Media International2019

Hydropeaking mitigation measures in the Swiss Upper-Rhône basin

Pedro Filipe De Almeida Manso, Sabine Chamoun, Mathieu Pierre Guy Barnoud, Steve Crettenand

Hydropower operations can cause hydropeaking particularly in the case of pumped storage systems located in mountainous regions. Due to the rapidly varying discharge conditions, hydropeaking leads to several problems such as stranding of fishes and inverteb ...

2019

Hybrid Modelling Approach to Study Scour Potential at Chancy-Pougny Dam Stilling Basin

Anton Schleiss, Giovanni De Cesare, Erik Bollaert, Sabine Chamoun, Davide Wüthrich

Chancy-Pougny is a run-of-river dam on the Swiss-French border constructed in the early 1920s. Since its inauguration, the operation of the four spillway gates was responsible for a progressive erosion of the stilling basin. Thus, a hybrid modelling was pe ...

Springer2018

Le transit des courants de turbidité, une technique pour réduire l’alluvionnement des réservoirs de barrages

Anton Schleiss, Giovanni De Cesare, Sabine Chamoun

La sédimentation des réservoirs est une problématique globale réduisant le volume d’eau disponible dans les réservoirs de barrages et induisant des pertes aux niveaux énergétique, économique et environnemental. Le transport de sédiments du bassin versant p ...

2018

Innovative methods to release fine sediments from seasonal reservoirs

Anton Schleiss, Giovanni De Cesare, Pedro Filipe De Almeida Manso, Azin Amini, Sabine Chamoun, Sebastián Guillén Ludeña

The papers present three innovative solutions for fine sediment manage- ments in seasonal reservoirs, which are at different stages of maturity. Operational reservoir stirring using jet-like inflows may facilitate sediment routing, at no addi- tional cost ...

CRC Press/Balkema2018

Numerical Modeling of turbidity currents with Ansys CFX and Telemac 3D

Anton Schleiss, Giovanni De Cesare, Sabine Chamoun

Turbidity currents may be a relevant lever to manage the accumu-lation of fine sediments in reservoirs. In this paper, we propose to show how two different numerical codes simulate the propagation of turbidity currents. Telemac 3D and Ansys CFX 17.1 solver ...

2018

Venting of turbidity currents approaching a rectangular opening on a horizontal bed

Anton Schleiss, Giovanni De Cesare, Sabine Chamoun

Taylor & Francis Ltd2018