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Numerical Simulation of Long Tailrace Tunnels in Hydropower Pumped Storage Plants

This thesis aims to improve the current situation in the Duge pumped-storage hydropower plant in Norway. In the Duge power plant, which has an installed capacity of 200 MW, the rotor of one of the two Francis reversible pump-turbines (Unit 1) experiences e ...

2020

Hybrid modeling and design review of throttled surge tanks

Giovanni De Cesare, Samuel Luke Vorlet, Nicolas Jean François Pascal Ghislain Adam, Mona Seyfeddine, Bernard Valluy

The 2050 Swiss Energy Strategy aims to increase the annual production of hydroelectricity by 4% while 90% of the technically feasible potential is already used. The flexibility of high-head storage power plants (HPP), the main pillar of Swiss peak electric ...

2020

Additive micro-manufacturing of crack-free PDCs by two-photon polymerization of a single, low-shrinkage preceramic resin

Jürgen Brugger, Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Helena Van Swygenhoven, Eirini Kakkava, Lorenz Hagelüken, Georgia Konstantinou, Nikolaos Nianias, Jieping Wang

Additive manufacturing (AM) methods are being integrated in ceramics fabrication either as the main manufacturing tool or for auxiliary purposes. By using polymers, powders and preceramic formulated materials, AM techniques are pushing towards higher resol ...

2020

A Structural Design Methodology for Freeform Timber Plate Structures Using Wood-Wood Connections

Anh Chi Nguyen

Over the past decades, timber has gained popularity as a sustainable building material because of the rising environmental awareness. Furthermore, the resurgence of timber has also been encouraged by the advent of the digital age during the 21st century. T ...

EPFL2020

High-resolution tomographic volumetric additive manufacturing

Christophe Moser, Paul Delrot, Damien Claude-Marie Loterie

Tomographic additive manufacturing produces complex parts with a wide range of printable materials but remains limited in terms of resolution. Here, the authors tune the etendue of the light source and accurately control the photopolymerization kinetics us ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

Hydrodynamic mechanisms of aggressive collapse events in leading edge cavitation

Mohamed Farhat, Ali Amini

Transient cavities generated from unsteady leading-edge cavitation may undergo aggressive collapses which are responsible for cavitation erosion. In this paper, we studied the hydrodynamic mechanisms of these events in the leading edge cavitation formed ov ...

SPRINGER2020

A New Lighting on Analytical Discrete Sensitivities in the Context of IsoGeometric Shape Optimization

Thibaut Hirschler

Isogeometric shape optimization has been now studied for over a decade. This contribution aims at compiling the key ingredients within this promising framework, with a particular attention to sensitivity analysis. Based on all the researches related to iso ...

2020

Use of virtual actuators in ASDEX Upgrade control

Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Bernhard Sieglin

Actuator management is an essential part of a modern tokamak plasma control system. It has to deal with a large number of control task simultaneously, needs to be able to operate close to stability limits and to avoid disruptions. In the ASDEX Upgrade toka ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2020

Development of a CNC Surface Vibration Scanning System

The EPFL – LAI is investigating novel haptic technologies for rendering rich vibrotactile feedback in digital musical interfaces. The main objective is to develop an interactive surface that is able to render a multi-touch vibrotactile stimulus using piezo ...

2019

Segmented Spiral Using Inter-Connected Timber Elements

Yves Weinand, Aryan Rezaei Rad, Petras Vestartas, Martin Thomas Nakad, Loïc Henri Pelletier

This paper describes the construction process of a scenographic structure - five meters high spiral. It consists of following parts: CAD modeling work-flow, prototyping and FEM structural calculation, assembly and on-site loading test. The structure was co ...

INT CENTER NUMERICAL METHODS ENGINEERING2019

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