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Effect of driftwood on hydraulic head of Piano Key weirs

Anton Schleiss, Michael Pfister, Blake Tullis

Driftwood is often transported by a river course during flood events and can be problematic where it accumulates at hydraulic structures. Near obstacles, driftwood can block and thus reduces the open flow area for water passage, resulting in a lowered disc ...

Erpicum et al., CRC Press, Boca Raton2013

The Hydro-Morphological Index of Diversity

Walter Gostner

Contemporary river engineering must guarantee effective long-term flood protection while also improving stream ecology. Nowadays, river engineering projects must aim at optimizing hydromorphological heterogeneity, as this is an acknowledged basic condition ...

EPFL2012

Hydrologic Drivers and Controls of Stream Ecological Processes

Serena Ceola

The temporal variability of streamflows is a key feature structuring and controlling ecological communities and ecosystem processes. The magnitude, frequency and predictability of streamflows, and thus of velocity and near-bed shear stress fields, control ...

EPFL2012

Discharge Capacity of Piano Key Weirs

Anton Schleiss, Martin Peter Bieri, Marcelo Leite Ribeiro

In recent years, spillway rehabilitation has increased in importance and become the subject of many projects worldwide. One solution for this problem is the implementation of a new type of labyrinth spillway, called Piano Key Weir (PK-Weir ). This is an ex ...

2012

Influence of Tributary Widening on Confluence Morphodynamics

Marcelo Leite Ribeiro

In alpine regions of Europe, river training works were typically the reason for the transformation of wide and braided rivers into linear river systems with a lack of structural diversity, i.e. gravel banks, islands, woody debris, riffles or pools. These i ...

EPFL2011

Morphodynamic changes in a channel confluence due to local tributary widening

Marcelo Leite Ribeiro

The morphodynamic changes in a confluence zone due to local tributary widening were experimentally investigated in a set-up representative of regulated piedmont confluences. A reference configuration with a constant tributary width of 0.15 m is compared to ...

2011

Density tagging velocimetry

Karen Ann J Mulleners, Andreas Schröder

Density tagging velocimetry, a novel optical technique for point-wise measurement of flow velocity is proposed here. This new method is based on the detection and subsequent tracking of a local density variation deliberately inserted in the flow. The exper ...

2011

Multiscale Computational Methodology Applied to Hydroacoustic Resonance in Cavitating Pipe Flow

Nicolas Ruchonnet

The present work is a contribution to the physical analysis and numerical simulation of the pressure surges in hydraulic machinery and connected conduit systems. Localized hydrodynamic instabilities including cavitation are prone to interact with the entir ...

EPFL2010

Fluid-structure coupling for an oscillating hydrofoil

François Avellan, Mohamed Farhat, Philippe Ausoni, Olivier Braun

Fluid-structure investigations in hydraulic machines using coupled simulations are particularly time-consuming. In this study, an alternative method is presented that linearizes the hydrodynamic load of a rigid, oscillating hydrofoil. The hydrofoil, which ...

Elsevier2010

ACOUSTIC RESONNANCE IN CAVITATION FREE AND CAVITATING FLOWS

François Avellan, Sébastien Alligné, Nicolas Ruchonnet

At part load operation of Francis turbine, the swirl in the draft tube leads to flow instability known as vortex breakdown. This flow instability can interact with the rest of the hydraulic circuit through axially propagating plane-waves. Moreover, at low ...

2009