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Laboratory research: bed load guidance into sediment bypass tunnel inlet

Anton Schleiss, Giovanni De Cesare, Pedro Filipe De Almeida Manso, Milad Daneshvari

Sediment management in reservoirs situated in mountainous regions is a critical operational concern with direct implications in live storage sustainability and therefore in production revenues. The paper presents the main results of a physical model study ...

R.M. Boes ed.2015

Trajectories and air flow features of ski jump-generated jets

Michael Pfister

Ski jumps are frequently applied as spillways of high dams. The resulting jet impact location on the plunge pool surface is often distant from the dam toe so that the latter is protected from scouring. Furthermore, the jet disintegrates and disperses prior ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2014

Influence of dam operation on water resources management under different scenarios in the Zambezi River Basin considering environmental objectives and hydropower

Théodora Cohen Liechti

Worldwide, almost 50,000 dams over 15 m height have been built during the last six decades with an aggregated storage capacity of 6,000 km3. The fact that large dams, by increasing irrigation and hydroelectricity production, can sustain development and red ...

EPFL2013

Has the Three-Gorges Dam made the Poyang Lake wetlands wetter and drier?

David Andrew Barry

The Three-Georges Dam holds many records in the history of engineering. While the dam has produced benefits in terms of flood control, hydropower generation and increased navigation capacity of the Yangtze River, serious questions have been raised concerni ...

American Geophysical Union2012