Dr. Elena Vagnoni
Hydraulic turbomachines
Master lecture on Hydraulic Turbomachines: impulse and reaction turbines,pumps and pump-turbines
Hydropower plants: generating and pumping units
Master Lecture on the general layout of a hydropower plant. Detailing the specification of Pelton, Francis, Kaplan and Bulb turbines, Storage pumps and Reversible pump-turbines
Dr. Mohamed Farhat
Aeroelasticity and fluid-structure interaction
Static and dynamic response of coupled fluid-structure systems as a result of extraneously-induced excitation, motion-induced excitation, and fluid-instability-induced excitation
Cavitation and interface phenomena
Introduction, basic concepts; cavitation bubble collapse; dynamique des cavits; cavitation in vorticalstructures; industrial applications
Dr. Christophe Nicolet
Acoustic Hydrodynamic
Introduction to propagation phenomena in hydraulic systems, water hammer calculation, transient behavior of hydroelectric power plants, numerical simulations of the dynamic behavior of Francis, Pelton and Kaplan turbines, stability study of hydraulic systems