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Dynamic environmental flows using hydrodynamic-based solutions for sustainable hydropower

Water diversions from rivers and torrents for anthropic uses of the resource alter the natural flow regime. As a measure, environmental flows have been prescribed and often are enforced by law to follow policies (e.g., minimal flow, proportional redistribu ...

CRC Press/Balkema2023

Linear and nonlinear excitation of TAE modes by external electromagnetic perturbations using ORB5

Laurent Villard, Emmanuel Lanti, Alberto Bottino, Mohsen Sadr

The excitation of toroidicity-induced Alfven eigenmodes (TAEs) using prescribed external electromagnetic perturbations (hereafter 'antenna') acting on a confined toroidal plasma, as well as its nonlinear couplings to other modes in the system, is studied. ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Frontiers of (Pareto) Optimal and Sustainable Water Management for Hydropower and Ecology

David Andrew Barry, Paolo Perona, Amin Niayifar, Pierre Razurel

River regulation alters the natural flow regime of streams with consequent impacts on terrestrial and aquatic habitats of the riparian zone. The severity of such impacts can be modulated by changing the redistribution rules at water intakes and reservoirs. ...

2021

A Shared Representation for Photorealistic Driving Simulators

Alexandre Massoud Alahi, Saeed Saadatnejad, Taylor Ferdinand Mordan, Siyuan Li

A powerful simulator highly decreases the need for real-world tests when training and evaluating autonomous vehicles. Data-driven simulators flourished with the recent advancement of conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs), providing high-fidel ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2021

Hierarchical Control of Islanded Microgrids with Flexible Structures

Pulkit Nahata

The primary objective of this doctoral thesis is the design and development of hierarchical control schemes for the overall operation and control of Islanded mGs (ImGs) with flexible structuresâ or, with no reference topologies. The control methodologies ...

EPFL2021

Device for measuring a force exerted on an object

Simon Nessim Henein, Charles Baur, Mohammad Hussein Kahrobaiyan, Mohamed Gamal Abdelrahman Ahmed Zanaty

The present invention relates to a device for measuring a contact force exerted by an object on a probe comprising a lever and said probe for contacting the object. The lever is pivotably coupled to a body by coupling means. The device comprising a fixed f ...

2020

Welfare effects of technology-based climate policies in liberalized electricity markets: seeing beyond total system cost

Philippe Thalmann, Frank Vöhringer, Sophie Maire

This paper is a contribution to assessing the Swiss energy transition, with an emphasis on the consequences of decommissioning the nuclear power plants for the electricity market and the whole economy. We expect that increased renewable generation and dema ...

2019

Nonlinear PD control of a Parallel Delta robot: Expermentals Results

Mohamed Bouri

In this paper, a nonlinear proportional derivative control (NPD) is proposed to solve the trajectory tracking problem of a parallel Delta robot. In order to handle the strong coupling effect and external disturbances as well as to realise high-precision tr ...

IEEE2018

Boltzmann Transport in Nanostructures as a Friction Effect

Nicola Marzari, Andrea Cepellotti

Surface scattering is the key limiting factor to thermal transport in dielectric crystals as the length scales are reduced or when temperature is lowered. To explain this phenomenon, it is commonly assumed that the mean free paths of heat carriers are boun ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

Non-proportional Repartition Rules Optimize Environmental Flows and Energy Production

Paolo Perona, Benoît Crouzy, Lorenzo Gorla, Pierre Razurel

In order to meet the growing demand for energy, the development of hydropower leads to an increase of the river exploitation by human activities. Thereby, water management has become a major issue in the energy transition. A better definition of the flow r ...

Springer2016

Randomized Extended Kaczmarz For Solving Least Squares

Nikolaos Freris

We present a randomized iterative algorithm that exponentially converges in the mean square to the minimum l(2)-norm least squares solution of a given linear system of equations. The expected number of arithmetic operations required to obtain an estimate o ...

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics2013

Evaluation of Proportional and Discrete Shared Control Paradigms for Low Resolution User Inputs

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Robert Leeb, Tom Edward Carlson, Guillaume Monnard

For people with severe physical disabilities, low resolution input devices, such as buttons, sip and puff switches and brain–computer interfaces provide an opportunity to interact with the world. However, it can be difficult to control assistive technology ...

IEEE2011

Reprint of: Weak epsilon-nets have basis of size O(1/epsilonlog(1/epsilon)) in any dimension

Given a set P of n points in R-d and epsilon > 0, we consider the problem of constructing weak E-nets for P. We show the following: pick a random sample Q of size O(1/epsilon log(1/epsilon)) from P. Then, with constant probability, a weak epsilon-net of P ...

2010

The Effects of Fluid Elasticity on Grid Turbulence

Richard Vonlanthen

Experiments on grid turbulence are reported for pure water and dilute Polyox WSR 301 solutions. A novel passive grid, which consists of a square mesh grid with tethered spheres, has been developed to enhance the turbulence properties. In pure water the new ...

EPFL2010

The microcontainer shape in electropolymerization on bubbles

Giorgio Margaritondo

We investigated the microcontainer shape in electropolymerization of polypyrrole (PPy) on bubbles using real-time microradiography. We revealed the existence of a "deformation force" at the three-phase boundary among gas (bubble), liquid (electrolyte), and ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2009

THE ENVIRONMENTS OF STARBURST AND POST-STARBURST GALAXIES AT z=0.4-0.8

Pascale Jablonka, Anja Von der Linden

Post-starburst (E+A or k+a) spectra, characterized by their exceptionally strong Balmer lines in absorption and the lack of emission lines, belong to galaxies in which the star formation (SF) activity ended abruptly sometime during the past Gyr. We perform ...

2009

Dislocation-void interaction in Fe: a comparison between molecular dynamics and dislocation dynamics

Robin Schäublin, Seyed Masood Hafez Haghighat

Multiscale modeling, including molecular dynamics (MD) and discrete dislocation dynamics (DDD) methods, appears as a signiﬁcant tool for the description of plasticity and mechanical properties of materials. This research concerns the inﬂuence of irradiatio ...

2009

Geometric Video Approximation Using Weighted Matching Pursuit

Michel Bierlaire, Pierre Vandergheynst, Gianluca Monaci, Oscar Divorra Escoda

In recent years, many works on geometric image representation have appeared in the literature. Geometric video representation has not received such an important attention so far, and only some initial works in the area have been presented. Works on geometr ...

2009

Size effects in the fatigue behavior of welded tubular bridge joints

Alain Nussbaumer, Luís Costa Borges

Tubular space trusses for bridge applications use thick-walled tubes. The reduction in fatigue resistance due to geometrical size effects is thus an important issue. In order to carry out a thorough study, both fatigue tests on large-scale specimens and ad ...

Wiley-Blackwell2008

Mapping Personal Trip OD from Probe Data

Edward Chung

The paper analyses the expected value of OD volumes from probe with fixed error, error that is proportional to zone size and inversely proportional to zone size. To add realism to the analysis, real trip ODs in the Tokyo Metropolitan Region are synthesised ...

2007