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Blockage of driftwood and resulting head increase upstream of an ogee spillway with piers

Anton Schleiss, Michael Pfister, José Pedro Gamito de Saldanha Calado Matos, Paloma Furlan

Accumulations of floating debris in reservoirs can have negative impacts on the safe operation of a dam. Thus, adequate spillway design in view of driftwood is of paramount importance. Herein, investigation of driftwood blockage with a reservoir flow appro ...

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In 1902, a contributor to Popular Science affirmed that “The era of the amateur scientist is passing; science must now be advanced by the professional expert.” Throughout the twentieth century, amateurs have been increasingly excluded from the production o ...

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Influence of density of large stems on the blocking probability at spillways

Anton Schleiss, Michael Pfister, José Pedro Gamito de Saldanha Calado Matos, Paloma Furlan

Dam safety is strongly linked to the probability of occurrence of large floods. Floods can transport large wood (LW) into reservoirs and towards water release structures as spillways. Due to blocking and clogging, LW may significantly influence the dischar ...

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Development of a methodology for extreme flood estimations in alpine catchments for the verification of dam safety

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A General Framework for Optimal Data-Driven Optimization

Robust Generalization via $\alpha$-Mutual Information

Gamma Knife radiosurgery for acromegaly: Evaluating the role of the biological effective dose associated with endocrine remission in a series of 42 consecutive cases

Institutions and Incentives in Knowledge Production and Diffusion: From Science to Innovation

Statistical Aspects of Wasserstein Distances

Blockage of driftwood and resulting head increase upstream of an ogee spillway with piers

Optimistic Distributionally Robust Optimization for Nonparametric Likelihood Approximation

Science, Democracy, and the Pursuit of Aliens

Influence of density of large stems on the blocking probability at spillways

Efficient Learning from Comparisons

Gamma Knife radiosurgery for acromegaly: Evaluating the role of the biological effective dose associated with endocrine remission in a series of 42 consecutive cases

A General Framework for Optimal Data-Driven Optimization

Statistical Aspects of Wasserstein Distances

Optimistic Distributionally Robust Optimization for Nonparametric Likelihood Approximation

Influence of density of large stems on the blocking probability at spillways

Efficient Learning from Comparisons

Robust Generalization via $\alpha$-Mutual Information

Institutions and Incentives in Knowledge Production and Diffusion: From Science to Innovation

Blockage of driftwood and resulting head increase upstream of an ogee spillway with piers

Science, Democracy, and the Pursuit of Aliens