Anton Schleiss

Fields of Expertise

• Hydraulic and hydro-mechanical analysis of hydraulic structures
• (steady or unsteady flows and transient phenomena, vibration
• and stability problems)
• Planning and design of hydroelectric and irrigation schemes
• Design of dams
• Planning and design of high head pressure conduits (penstocks, steel liners, shafts and tunnels, caverns)
• Supervision and interpretation of hydraulic model tests; numerical simulations of flow interaction with hydraulic structures
• Computer analysis and simulation of coupled mechanical-hydraulic problems, especially in the field of high head pressure conduits under consideration of seepage phenomena through concrete lining and rock.
• Planning and design of river flood protection measures; river hydraulics; flood forecast
• Reservoir sedimentation, physical processes including turbidity currents, technical measures for sediment removal and preventing turbidity currents
• Rock scour due to high velocity falling plunging jets downstream of spillways and bottom outlets
• River training and restauration works