The Pl-LCH is devoted to the advancement of practice and applied research in hydraulic engineering. We offer our know-how to engineering firms or public entities in order to develop ground-breaking engineering concepts or to deliver innovative solutions to complex problems. The PL-LCH’s modern hydraulic laboratory enables a vast range of scaled model studies. The PL-LCH is home of state-of-the-art laboratory and field equipment used to understand numerous complex flows to study pressing problems in hydraulic, environmental and applied fluid dynamics.
We are specialized in physical and numerical modeling in hydraulics, more specifically in the following fields:
- hydraulic structures such as water intakes, spillways, bottom outlets, stilling basins, surge tanks, pressure tunnels and shafts,
- Fluvial hydraulics, sediment transport, debris flow, reservoir sedimentation, flood events,
- drinking and waste water systems, reservoirs, vortex shafts, junctions, storm water weirs, culverts,
- wave and littoral currents in lakes, lakeshore protection against waves, breakwaters, harbour siltation and water quality studies
- optimization of the design and operation of complex hydro power plants and flood protection systems.
Head: Azin Amini
This project aims at evaluating the performance of the sediment retention system with two sediment deposits and a wooden grid and their potential optimization.
This project aims at optimizing the Trient gorges to reduce the problems related to the 100-year flood and at the limitation of the damage related to the management of the residual risk.
The project aims at assessing the flow patterns and the morphodynamics in the widening to optimize the project using numerical modeling.
This project aims at optimizing the hydraulic capacity under the old Bramois bridge and the sediment management upstream of Bramois.