Publications by Stéphane Christian Olivier Terrier

Performance and Design of a Stepped Spillway Aerator

Anton Schleiss, Stéphane Christian Olivier Terrier, Michael Pfister

Stepped spillways are frequently limited to specific discharges under around 30 m2/s due to concerns about potential cavitation damages. A small air concentration can prevent such damages and the design of bottom aerators is well established for smooth chu ...

2022

Subthreshold Logic for Low-Area and Energy Efficient True Random Number Generator

Maher Kayal, Stéphane Christian Olivier Terrier, Mathieu Yves Hervé Coustans, Thomas Eberhardt, Laurent Fesquet

This paper discusses the advantages of subthreshold logic for True Random Number Generators (TRNG). In this work, the entropy is modeled, and a lower bound of Shannon's entropy per output bit can quickly be estimated. Thanks to this model, sizing TRNGs in ...

IEEE2018

Effect of deflector aerator on stepped spillway flow

Anton Schleiss, Stéphane Christian Olivier Terrier, Michael Pfister

Systematic physical model tests are performed on a stepped spillway equipped with a bottom aerator at the beginning of the stepped part. A deflector is used to issue a jet in order to initiate air entrainment into the flow. A horizontal slot located in the ...

2016

Hydraulic performance of stepped spillway aerators and related downstream flow features

Stéphane Christian Olivier Terrier

To protect spillways against cavitation damage, adding a small air concentration to the flow close to the invert is efficient. Aerator performance on smooth chutes was therefore well studied in terms of air entrainment and downstream air concentration deve ...

EPFL2016

Comparison of chute aerator effect on stepped and smooth spillways

Anton Schleiss, Stéphane Christian Olivier Terrier, Michael Pfister

Bottom chute aerators are installed to prevent cavitation damages and they have been studied in detail on smooth spillways. In parallel, stepped spillways became widespread in the past decades. Research has shown that stepped spillways may be endangered ev ...

2015

Impact du retrait glaciaire et adaptation du potentiel hydroélectrique dans les Alpes suisses

Frédéric Jordan, Anton Schleiss, Martin Peter Bieri, Stéphane Christian Olivier Terrier

Le réchauffement climatique est une réalité alarmante et conduit probablement à une augmentation de la pression sur les systèmes socio‑économiques. Cependant, dans les régions de haute‑montagne, il pourrait induire l’opportunité d’adapter des aménagements ...

Edp Sciences S A2015

Case study – Delta restoration at a steep river mouth

Giovanni De Cesare, Anton Schleiss, Stéphanie Joëlle André, Stéphane Christian Olivier Terrier

The mouth of the Baye de Clarens torrent in Switzerland is currently constrained by lateral training walls, sequent sills and a bridge with a low hydraulic capacity. Due to a bed load trap upstream, few sediments reach the mouth. To improve flood protectio ...

IAHR2015

Optimization of a Shared Tailrace Channel of Two Pumped-Storage Plants by Physical and Numerical Modeling

Giovanni De Cesare, Martin Peter Bieri, Stéphane Christian Olivier Terrier, Sylvain Candolfi

Pump and turbine operations lead to head losses in the tailrace channel. Pumping discharge may be limited due to potential air entrainment into the pump shaft when the downstream reservoir is at its lowest level and the head losses are too high. Regarding ...

2014

Surge Wave Propagation in a Common Tailrace Channel for Two Large Pumped-Storage Plants

Giovanni De Cesare, Anton Schleiss, Martin Peter Bieri, Stéphane Christian Olivier Terrier

Sudden starting and stopping of turbines and pumps lead to highly unsteady flow in tailrace channels of hydropower plants (HPP). Submergence of Pelton turbines and air entrainment in pumps due to surge waves must be avoided by technical measures. The exist ...

Asce-Amer Soc Civil Engineers2014