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Ongoing Projects

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Applied Numerics

Alpine Rhine: Numerical Simulations concerning the development of the water mouth
Alpine Rhine: Sustainable flood protection measures between the levees
BASEMENT - basic simulation environment for computation of environmental flow and natural hazard simulation
Breschenbildung an Dämmen kleiner Stauanlagen im Kanton Zürich
Estimation of sediment deposition processes at hydroelectric power plant with composite numerical model
Gravel transhipment station in the Alpine Rhine River
Integrated River Basin Management
Numerical modeling of embankment breach processes (Project: APUNCH)
Numerical Simulation of Sediment Transport with Meshfree Methods
Optimisation of intake flow of hydroelectric power plant based on composite numerical model
Two dimensional depth-averaged modelling of braided gravel-bed rivers

Glaciology

Accelerated release of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) from Alpine glaciers
ACQWA Project (Assessing Climate impacts on the Quantity and quality of WAter)
Future glacier evolution and consequences for the hydrology (FUGE)
Glaciological Investigations at Glacier du Giétro and Glacier de Corbassière
Hazard assessment investigations in connection with the formation of a lake on the tongue of the Unterer Grindelwaldgletscher, Bernese Alps, Switzerland
Klimaänderung und Hydrologie (Projekt CCHydro)
Mass Balance Studies on Griesgletscher and Silvrettagletscher
Monitoring Changes of Allalingletscher in Connection with the Danger of Large Ice Falls from its Tongue
Subglacial Controls on the Short Term Dynamics at the Margins of the Greenland Ice Sheet
Subglacial Controls on the Short Term Dynamics at the Margins of the Greenland Ice Sheet: Seismic experiments
Swiss Glacier Monitoring Network
The impact of proglacial lakes on the retreat of mountain glaciers: Rhonegletscher, Switzerland
Understanding the causes and future direction of the present rapid thinning of Jakobshavn Isbræ, Greenland
Variations of Grosser Aletschgletscher
Wasserkraft Wallis (Projekt WWK)
Zukunft der Wasserkraft für Stauanlagen der ALPIQ

Hydraulics

Hydraulics of Dike Breaching
Impulse waves - run-up with overland flow

Hydraulic Structures

Hongrin-Léman - Hydraulic investigations of the pumped-storage scheme Veytaux 2
PhD research project - Measures to facilitate safe downstream fish migration at large Central-European Rivers
PhD research project - Suspended load monitoring and wear of Pelton turbines
PhD research project - Vortex induced air entrainment rate into pressure systems of HPP
PhD research project - Optimizing hydroabrasive-resistant materials at sediment bypass tunnels and hydraulic structures
PhD research project: Layout and Design of Sediment Bypass Tunnels
Physical model investigation of one of the middle outlet tunnels of the GIBE III HEP
Physical model investigation of the Trängslet Dam Stepped Spillway

River Engineering

Automatic object detection to analyze the geometry of gravel grains – a free stand-alone tool
Combined bed-load and driftwood retention at river Engelberger Aa
Fuse plug spillway at the Hagneck-Channel
Hybrid modelling of a spillway to prevent dam breaks at the Linth Canal
Kleine Emme - Reuss: A physical scale model of a confluence
Linth 2000 - Physical experiments to analyze morphological aspects of a local river expansion
PhD research project - Interaction between river widenings and the overall bed load sediment balance
PhD research project - Unstructured block ramps
Physical experiments to reduce the flood risk caused by drift wood in the Aare River at the Matteschwelle in Berne
Physical experiments on sediment transport in two merging mountain torrents in Meiringen
Physical experiments on drift wood retention and a diversion tunnel at the Sihl River, Zurich
Physical experiments on drift wood retention in combination with a new hydropower plant at the ‘Kleine Emme’ near Malters, Canton Lucerne
River monitoring at the Flaz-river
River monitoring at the Töss-river
Supervision and granulometric analysis of photo-optical underwater-sampling of river beds
 

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