Robin Meurice PhD student Ir. at UCL in 2019 Contact
Main project: Morphological impact of dam-flushing Funding: FNRS Supervisor(s): Sandra Soares Frazao
An important number of dams worldwide face sedimentation issues, leading to a decrease in their reservoir capacity and hence, many difficulties to properly satisfy to their different functions (e.g. water distribution, flood management, hydroelectricity production). To overcome these problems, we can proceed to dam flushing operations, transporting huge amounts of sediment downstream of the dam. Nevertheless, these operations can be harmful to the environment, the living organisms and the human infrastructures if not properly handled. For that reason, this thesis aims at developing a numerical model capable of accurately predicting the sediment deposition downstream of a dam after flushing operations. In order to do so, several mathematical models shall be implemented, among which a two-phase two-layer model, and laboratory experiments shall be run. The numerical model will then be confronted with the data collected from the experiments. Finally, the model will be tested with real-case data collected in situ near Lyon, France.
IMMC main research direction(s): Civil and environmental engineering Fluid mechanics
Keywords: finite volumes fluvial hydraulics numerical simulation, experimental models
Research group(s): GCE Collaborations: Sergio Martinez-Arranda from the University of Zaragoza
Recent publicationsSee complete list of publications
Journal Articles
1. Meurice, Robin; Martínez-Aranda, Sergio; Ebrahimi, Masoumeh; García-Navarro, Pilar; Soares Frazao, Sandra. Laser Profilometry to measure the bed evolution in a dam-break flow. In: Journal of Hydraulic Research, (2022). doi:10.1080/00221686.2022.2059584 (Accepté/Sous presse). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/258961
2. Meurice, Robin; Soares Frazao, Sandra. A 2D HLL-based weakly coupled model for transient flows on mobile beds. In: Journal of Hydroinformatics, Vol. 22, no.5, p. 1351-1369 (2020). doi:10.2166/hydro.2020.033. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/231667
Conference Papers
1. Meurice, Robin; Soares Frazao, Sandra. A Two-Phase/Two-Layer Model for Fast and Heavily Loaded Transient Flows. 2022 xxx. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/262440
2. Meurice, Robin; Soares Frazao, Sandra. Comparison of coupled and weakly coupled HLLC based finite-volume schemes for dam-break flows on mobile bed. 2021 xxx. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/243667
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