Publications by Pierre Bourqui

Underground flow section modification below the new m3 Flon metro station in Lausanne

Azin Amini, Samuel Luke Vorlet, Pierre Bourqui, Mona Seyfeddine

Rapid urbanization is increasing the demand for public transport in Switzerland’s major cities. The new m3 metro line in Lausanne is planned to circulate by 2030. Its construction will require a modification of the underground flow section of the Flon Rive ...

Springer2022

Third correction of the Rhône River in Switzerland: physical and numerical modelling of the “Martigny bend” priority measure

Giovanni De Cesare, Azin Amini, Stéphanie Joëlle André, Irene Almeida Samora, Pierre Bourqui, Jean-Noël Saugy

The Rhône River, second largest in Switzerland, has already been corrected twice (1863-1893; 1930-1960) to ensure safety and economic development in the Rhône valley. However, in October 2000, the highest flood of the century occurred showing the limitatio ...

International Research Society INTERPRAEVENT2021

Flow measurement for the design optimization of fish pass entries in a run of river hydropower plant

Giovanni De Cesare, Cédric Bron, Pierre Bourqui

The International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine (ICPR) has set the objective of guarantying the upstream migration of the salmons up to Basel, Switzerland, at horizon 2020. One of the last dams to be equipped is the one of Rhinau, in France. T ...

2018

Physical and 3D Numerical Simulations of the Flow in the Tailrace of a Hydroelectric Power Plant to Design Fishway Entries

Giovanni De Cesare, Pierre Bourqui

This work is part of a project aiming at dimensioning a fishway for a hydroelectric power plant on the Rhine River. Here we only focus on the design of the fishway entrances, for which a physical model of the draft tubes and tailrace of the powerplant was ...

Springer2018

Physical and 3D numerical simulation of the flow in the tailrace of a hydroelectric power plant to design fishway entrances

Giovanni De Cesare, Pierre Bourqui

This study is within the frame of the construction of the rail link between Geneva Cornavin station, Eaux-Vives station and Annemasse (CEVA). The project area is located at a cut-and-cover tunnel built by slurry walls located in the alluvium of the Foron R ...

2017

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF THE HYDROMORPHOLOGICAL INDEX OF DIVERSITY USING NUMERICAL GENERATED DATA

Anton Schleiss, Severin Stähly, Pierre Bourqui, Christopher Robinson

River restoration has become a priority goal in many countries. The interest in rivers as valuable habitats for floral and faunal diversity and as an ecosystem with important functions has increased. For evaluating the structural changes from a river resto ...

2017

Numerische Modellierungen zur Bestimmung der Habitatvielfalt an einem mäandrierenden wasserkraftbeeinträchtigten Fliessgewässer

Anton Schleiss, Severin Stähly, Pierre Bourqui, Christopher Robinson

Die Sanierung von Schwall/Sunk- als auch Restwasserstrecken in Fließgewässern in den vergangenen Jahren eine erhöhte Priorität in der Schweiz nicht zuletzt im Rahmen der Revision des Gewässerschutzgesetzes. Dabei wird unter anderem auf die Reaktivierung de ...

2016