Publications by Rafael Xavier Meriade Duarte

Point cloud quality evaluation: Towards a definition for test conditions

Touradj Ebrahimi, Rafael Xavier Meriade Duarte, Evangelos Alexiou

Recently stakeholders in the area of multimedia representation and transmission have been looking at plenoptic technologies to improve immersive experience. Among these technologies, point clouds denote a volumetric information representation format with i ...

2019

Dynamic response of an embedded block impacted by aerated high-velocity jets

Anton Schleiss, Rafael Xavier Meriade Duarte

Uplift of blocks from the rock mass at the bottom of plunge pools is the main process of the scouring phenomenon caused by high-velocity jet impact. Although the influence of water and rock on dynamic block ejection has been investigated, no systematic res ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2016

Effect of pool confinement on pressures around a block impacted by plunging aerated jets

Anton Schleiss, Rafael Xavier Meriade Duarte

The erosion caused by jets issued from hydraulic structures progressively develops a confined scour-hole on the riverbed. A realistic scour assessment must consider both the influence of the air entrained when the jet plunges into the pool and the flow pat ...

National Research Council Canada2016

Influence of jet aeration on pressures around a block embedded in a plunge pool bottom

Anton Schleiss, Rafael Xavier Meriade Duarte

The influence of the air entrained by water jets on the dynamic pressures applied on the bottom of a plunge pool and inside underlying fissures was analyzed with systematic experiments. The large experimental facility reproduced aerated high-velocity jets ...

Springer Verlag2015

Discussion on "CFD analysis of the effect of nozzle stand-off distance on turbulent impinging jets"

Anton Schleiss, Rafael Xavier Meriade Duarte

National Research Council Canada2014

Influence of Air Entrainment on Rock Scour Development and Block Stability in Plunge Pools

Rafael Xavier Meriade Duarte

EPFL2014

Dynamic pressure distribution around a fixed confined block impacted by plunging and aerated water jets

Anton Schleiss, Rafael Xavier Meriade Duarte

The scour process created by the impingement of high-velocity water jets on fissured rock is the result of complex physical phenomena. Of great importance are the jet development during the trajectory through the atmosphere, the diffusion process inside th ...

TUP2013

Hydraulic design of the diaphragm’s orifice at the entrance of the surge shaft of FMHL pumped-storage power plant

Giovanni De Cesare, Christophe Nicolet, Rafael Xavier Meriade Duarte, Fadi Hachem

The surge tank located at the upstream head of penstocks and shafts of hydropower plants is an effective measure to protect the headrace tunnels against high pressure fluctuations. It reflects the transient pressure waves that are generated by the variatio ...

TPU2013

Front wave propagation in case of dam break comparison of water filled and silted-up reservoir

Rafael Xavier Meriade Duarte

IAHR2009

Dam break in case of silted-up reservoirs

Rafael Xavier Meriade Duarte

2008 Kubaba Congress Department and Travel Services2008