Christophe Nicolet

Il - He/him

Nationality: Suisse

EPFLSTISTI-SGMSGM-ENS

Selected publications

High-Order Modeling of Hydraulic Power Plant in Islanded Power Network

C. Nicolet, B. Greiveldinger, J.-J. H�rou, B. Kawkabani, P. Allenbach, J.-J. Simond, and F. Avellan.
Published in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER SYSTEMS, 22(4):1870-1880, 2007. in

Overload Surge Event in a Pumped-Storage Power Plant

J. KOUTNIK, C. NICOLET, G. A. SCHOHL, and F. AVELLAN
Published in In 23rd IAHR Symposium on Hydraulic Machinery and Systems, 2006. in

One-Dimensional Modeling of Rotor Stator Interaction in Francis Pump-Turbine

C. NICOLET, N. RUCHONNET, and F. AVELLAN
Published in In ASME: International Symposium on Transport Phenomena and Dynamics of Rotating Machinery, 2006. in

Identification and Modeling of Pressure Fluctuations of a Francis Turbine Scale Model at Part Load Operation

C. Nicolet, J. Arpe, and F. Avellan
Published in In Proceedings of the 22nd IAHR Symposium on Hydraulic Machinery and Systems, 2004. in

New Technology for high Disinfection Level of Flexible Endoscopes

C. Nicolet and F. Avellan
Published in In Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Cavitation (CAV2003), 2003. in

Simulation of Transient Phenomena in Francis Turbine Power Plants : Hydroelectric Interaction

C. Nicolet, F. Avellan, P. Allenbach, A. Sapin, J. J. Simond, S. Kvicinsky, and M. Crahan
Published in In Proceedings of Waterpower XIII, Advancing Technology for Sustainable Energy, Buffalo, N.Y., USA, July 2003, 2003. in

New Tools for the Simulation of Transient Phenomena in Francis Turbine Power Plants

C. Nicolet, A. Sapin, J. E. Prenat, J. J. Simond, and F. Avellan
Published in In Proceedings of the 21st IAHR Symposium on Hydraulic Machinery and Systems, pages 519-528, 2002. in

One-dimensional Analysis of Full Load Draft Tube Surge

C. CHEN, C. NICOLET, K. YONEZAWA, M. FARHAT, F. AVELLAN, and Y. TSUJIMOTO
Published in In 5th Joint ASME/JSME Fluids Engineering Conference, number FEDSM2007-37304. in

Infoscience

Teaching & PhD

Courses

Hydroacoustic for hydropower plants

ME-443

Introduction to pressure wave propagation phenomena in hydraulic circuits, water hammer calculations, transient behaviour of hydroelectric plants, 1D numerical simulation of the dynamic behaviour of Francis, Pelton and Kaplan turbines, and study of the stability of these systems.