Publications de Giovanni De Cesare

Review on the Bed Scouring in the Constriction Zone of Local River Widenings

Giovanni De Cesare, Romain Nathan Hippolyte Merlin Van Mol

Local river widenings serve as a technique for restoring channelized rivers and mitigating river incision. The zone downstream where the widened reach transitions into the channelized river is referred to as the constriction zone. While numerous authors ha ...

CRC Press2025

Assessing the Weighted Usable Area for the Habitat Suitability of brown trout (Salmo trutta L.) in rivers

Giovanni De Cesare, Paolo Perona, Giulio Calvani, Francesca Padoan

To address the global loss of biodiversity in freshwater environments, understanding river habitat requirements for key species, such as brown trout (Salmo trutta L.), is crucial. The Habitat Suitability Index (HSI) aids ecologists in identifying preferred ...

CRC Press2025

Bedload transport continuity through a series of local widenings on the Rhone River

Giovanni De Cesare, Romain Nathan Hippolyte Merlin Van Mol

The Third Correction of the Rhone River in Switzerland will implement approximately 120 km of restoration measures to reduce flood risks and improve ecological conditions including a combination of river channel widening and river bed lowering. The river c ...

CRC Press2025

UHFB für die Instandsetzung und den Schutz von Betonoberflächen vor Hydroabrasion

Giovanni De Cesare

UHPFRC for the rehabilitation and protection of concrete surfaces against hydroabrasion. Hydraulic structures made of reinforced concrete show damage as a result of hydroabrasion and alkali-silica reaction. This damage can be repaired efficiently using the ...

2025

Design improvements for combined sediment-wood detention at mountain streams

Giovanni De Cesare, Azin Amini, Romain Nathan Hippolyte Merlin Van Mol

Bedload transport and driftwood in steep mountain streams can cause serious damage to local communities in the vicinity of watercourses. To prevent such damage, check dams are typically built to hold back sediment and driftwood. However, by completely inte ...

Informa UK Limited2025

Hydraulic drive framework on habitat suitability enhances movement bias of brown trout in stream networks

Giovanni De Cesare, Paolo Perona, Giulio Calvani, Francesca Padoan

Freshwater ecosystems face increasing threats from human activities and climate change, thus requiring efforts to reduce impacts and prevent further deterioration. Restoration projects for riverine environments often rely on hydraulic, habitat, and metapop ...

2025

HASPIDE: a project for the development of hydrogenated amorphous silicon radiation sensors on a flexible substrate

Giovanni De Cesare, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Sylvain Dunand, Mikaël Martino, Jonathan Emanuel Thomet, Matthew James Large

Hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) is a material with a very good radiation hardness and with the possibility of deposition on flexible substrates like Polyimide (PI). Exploiting these properties, the HASPIDE (Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon PIxels DEt ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Performance and accuracy of cross‐section tracking methods for hydromorphological habitat assessment in wadable rivers with sparse canopy conditions

Giovanni De Cesare, Paolo Perona, Robin Schroff

This article investigates the performance and accuracy of continuous Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) position tracking for hydromorphological surveys, based on a comprehensive river restoration monitoring campaign. The a ...

2024

A comprehensive review on geomembrane systems application in hydropower

Giovanni De Cesare, Samuel Luke Vorlet

Geomembrane systems have been used at hydropower plants as rehabilitation and mitigation technology for several decades and are now used worldwide. In the context of planning an energy transition that promotes the sustainable use of water resources for ene ...

2024

Effects of flow guide walls on sediment flushing in peaking hydropower reservoirs

Giovanni De Cesare, Pedro Filipe De Almeida Manso, Romain Nathan Hippolyte Merlin Van Mol

Reservoir sedimentation is known to be a key issue worldwide. One operational measure to deal with sediment accumulations is flushing; however, efficiency is often lacking. The goal of this study is thus to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of flush ...

LNEC2024