Publications by Christian Vessaz

GPU-accelerated numerical analysis of jet interference in a six-jet Pelton turbine using Finite Volume Particle Method

François Avellan, Christian Vessaz, Ebrahim Jahanbakhsh, Sebastián Camilo Leguizamón Sarmiento, Siamak Alimirzazadeh, Audrey Paulette Solange Maertens, Takashi Kumashiro

The Pelton turbine is an impulse turbine typically installed for high head hydroelectric power plants. For a site with a rated head H and discharge Q, a higher specific speed turbine results in a more compact generating unit with reduced manufacturing cost ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2020

Exact finite volume particle method with spherical-support kernels

François Avellan, Christian Vessaz, Ebrahim Jahanbakhsh, Audrey Paulette Solange Maertens

The Finite Volume Particle Method (FVPM) is a meshless method for simulating fluid flows which includes many of the desirable features of mesh-based finite volume methods. In this paper, we develop a new 3-D FVPM formulation that features spherical kernel ...

Elsevier2017

Toward design optimization of a Pelton turbine runner

François Avellan, Christian Vessaz, Christophe Tournier, Loïc Andolfatto

The objective of the present paper is to propose a strategy to optimize the performance of a Pelton runner based on a parametric model of the bucket geometry, massive particle based numerical simulations and advanced optimization strategies to reduce the d ...

Springer Verlag2017

Development of a finite volume particle method for 3-D fluid flow simulations

François Avellan, Christian Vessaz, Ebrahim Jahanbakhsh, Audrey Paulette Solange Maertens

The Finite Volume Particle Method (FVPM) is a meshless method for simulating fluid flows which includes many of the desirable features of mesh-based finite volume methods. FVPM benefits from particle interaction vectors to weight conservative fluxes exchan ...

Elsevier2016

Impact erosion prediction using the finite volume particle method with improved constitutive models

François Avellan, Christian Vessaz, Ebrahim Jahanbakhsh, Sebastián Camilo Leguizamón Sarmiento, Siamak Alimirzazadeh, Audrey Paulette Solange Maertens

Erosion damage in hydraulic turbines is a common problem caused by the high- velocity impact of small particles entrained in the fluid. In this investigation, the Finite Volume Particle Method is used to simulate the three-dimensional impact of rigid spher ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2016

Flow Simulation of Jet Deviation by Rotating Pelton Buckets Using Finite Volume Particle Method

François Avellan, Christian Vessaz, Ebrahim Jahanbakhsh

The objective of the present paper is to perform numerical simulations of a high-speed water jet impinging on rotating Pelton buckets using the finite volume particle method (FVPM), which combines attractive features of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH ...

2015

Finite Volume Particle Method for Fluid-Structure Interaction

François Avellan, Christian Vessaz, Ebrahim Jahanbakhsh, Audrey Paulette Solange Maertens

We have recently developed a conservative ﬁnite volume particle method (FVPM) that can efﬁciently model 2-D and 3-D ﬂuid ﬂow with free-surfaces and complex geometries. Tn this paper we present an extension of the method to ﬂuid-structure interaction. A new ...

2015

Finite Particle Flow Simulation of Free Jet Deviation by Rotating Pelton Buckets

Christian Vessaz

The prediction of hydraulic machines performances is of high interest to manufacturers in today's highly competitive market for new development or refurbishment of hydraulic power plant. An accurate prediction of the machines performances by numerical simu ...

EPFL2015

Silt motion simulation using finite volume particle method

François Avellan, Christian Vessaz, Ebrahim Jahanbakhsh

In this paper, we present a 3-D FVPM which features rectangular top-hat kernels. With this method, interaction vectors are computed exactly and efficiently. We introduce a new method to enforce the no-slip boundary condition. With this boundary enforcement ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2014

Flow simulation of a Pelton bucket using finite volume particle method

François Avellan, Christian Vessaz, Ebrahim Jahanbakhsh

The objective of the present paper is to perform an accurate numerical simulation of the high-speed water jet impinging on a Pelton bucket. To reach this goal, the Finite Volume Particle Method (FVPM) is used to discretize the governing equations. FVPM is ...

International Association For Hydraulic Research2014

Design optimization of a 2D blade by means of milling tool path

François Avellan, Christian Vessaz, Cécile Münch-Alligné, Christophe Tournier

In a conventional design and manufacturing process, turbine blades are modeled based on reverse engineering or on parametric modeling with Computer Fluids Dynamics (CFD) optimization. Then, only raises the question of the manufacturing of the blades. As th ...

2013