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Cécile Münch-Alligné was born in Strasbourg in 1979. She graduated in hydraulic and mechanical engineering from the INPG Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Hydraulique et Mécanique de Grenoble in 2002 and obtained her PhD in Fluid Mechanics and Transfers from the INPG in 2005. She wrote her PhD thesis on Large Eddy Simulation. She then worked as a scientific assistant in the EPFL Laboratory for Hydraulic Machines for four years, during which she worked on numerical flow simulation in turbomachines. She has been teaching hydropower at the HES-SO Valais-Wallis since September 2010. The hydropower research team she has built has been carrying out many local, national and international projects. She is heading the Hydroelectricity team, which is a member of the Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research – Supply of Electricity (SCCER-SoE) and of the Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research – Future Swiss Electrical Infrastructure (SCCER-FURIES). She is a board member of the SCCER-SoE and of the Federal Energy Research Commission (CORE).

Secteurs d’activité

• Machines hydrauliques
• Grande et petite hydraulique

Compétences

• Modélisation et simulation numérique des fluides
• Design et optimisation des turbines hydrauliques
• Estimation de potentiels
• Turbulence
• Interaction fluide-structure

Projets principaux réalisés et en cours

SCCER-SoE
"Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research – Supply of Electricity" is a national competence center to develop fundamental research and innovative solutions in the domains of GeoEnergies and HydroPower granted by the Swiss Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI). HES-SO Valais-Wallis is in charge of the development of new turbines for harvesting energy from existing hydraulic infrastructure fresh water supply network.
> Leader of WP3.2 : Innovative technologies for Hydropower, member of the board

SCCER-FURIES
"Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research – Future Swiss Electrical Infrastructures" joins the competences of the top Swiss academic and industrial actors in the area of power / energy systems granted by CTI. HES-SO Valais-Wallis will contribute to the task “Control of massive DG and distributed storage” of WP1 "Regional multi energy grids". In particular, this contribution will be focused on the development of concurrent hydraulic, mechanical and electrical engineering of small units featuring fast dynamics and low CAPEX.

DUO TURBO
"Providing Industrial and Competitive Family of Low-CAPEX Integrated Plug-and-Play Energy Recovery Stations” is a 3 years project funded by KTI involving HES-SO Valais-Wallis, EPFL and three industrial partners. The project focuses on turning a counter rotating micro-turbine proof of concept into a range of standard energy recovery stations able to harvest energy on drinking water networks. (1 Million for 3 years)
> Project manager

HYPERBOLE
"HYdropower plants PERformance and flexiBle Operation towards Lean integration of new renewable Energies", is a 42 months European FP7 project involving EPFL as leader, ALSTOM, ANDRITZ, VOITH, Power Vision Engineering, UPC, Uni Stuttgart, INESC Porto and HES-SO Valais-Wallis. In this project, the HES-SO Valais-Wallis is involved in numerical simulation of the vortex rope at full load in a Francis turbine. 

HydroNET 2
"Modern methodologies for design, manufacturing and operation of hydropower plants", is a 3 years project supported by CCEM and SER involving EPFL, EAWAG, EMPA, HSLU and HES-SO Valais-Wallis with the financial support of Swisselectric Research. In this project, the HES-SO Valais-Wallis is in charge of Large Eddy Simulation of the Tip Vortex.
> Sub-task leader

Hydro VS
"Valorisation de la production d'énergie des infrastructures hydrauliques existantes” is a 5 years project supported by The Ark Energy initiative funded by the Ark Foundation (VS)  evolving EPFL and HES-SO Valais-Wallis. In this project, HES-SO Valais-Wallis is in charge of the development of an iso-kinetic turbine for river and involved in the development of a micro-counter-rotating turbine in a close collaboration with EPFL.
> Leader of the HES-SO Valais-Wallis WP’s

Arbaz
"Station de transfert d'énergie par pompage et turbinage à Arbaz : étude de l’installation, de l'intégration et de la gestion optimale du réseau" is a 1 year project supported by The Ark Foundation involving EPFL, CREM, Cimark and HES-SO Valais-Wallis. In this project, the HES-SO Valais-Wallis is studying the feasibility of a micro pumped storage power plant.
> Leader of the project

Clean City
This 2-years project is supported by the HES-SO and involved HES-SO Genève, HES-SO Fribourg and HES-SO Valais-Wallis. The HES-SO Valais-Wallis is in charge of flow numerical simulations of pollutant dispersion around a cubic building using a opensource code OpenFOAM.

Principales publications

ARTICLES

2021

• Turbine mode start-up simulation of a FSFC variable speed pump-turbine prototype – Part I: 1D simulation - Link to the publication
  Alligné S., Béguin A., Biner D., Münch-Alligné C., Hasmatuchi V., Hugo N., Avellan F., Dujic D., Nicolet C.
  IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, IOP Publishing, 2021, 774, 012052
• Turbine mode start-up simulation of a FSFC variable speed pump-turbine prototype – Part II: 3-D unsteady CFD and FEM - Link to the publication
  Biner D., Alligné S., Hasmatuchi V., Hugo N., Avellan F., Dujic D., Münch-Alligné C.
  IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, IOP Publishing, 2021, 774, 012070
• Numerical simulations of Pelton turbine flow to predict large head variation influence - Link to the publication
  Alimirzazadeh S., Decaix J., Avellan F., Crettenand S., Münch-Alligné C.
  IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, IOP Publishing, 2021, 774, 012033
• Production flexibility of small run-of-river power plants: KWGO smart-storage case study - Link to the publication
  Münch-Alligné C., Decaix J., Gaspoz A., Hasmatuchi V., Dreyer M., Nicolet C., Alimirzazadeh S., Zordan J., Manso P., Crettenand S.
  IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, IOP Publishing, 2021, 774, 012037
• CFD simulations of a Y-junction for the implementation of hydraulic short-circuit operating mode - Link to the publication
  Decaix J., Biner D., Drommi J-L., Avellan F., Münch-Alligné C.
  IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, IOP Publishing, 2021, 774, 012013
• Augmenter la flexibilité de l’hydroélectricité - Link to the publication
  Hasmatuchi V., Decaix J., Titzschkau M., Münch-Alligné C.
  Bulletin Electro-Suisse, Février 2021
• Investigation of the Time Resolution Set Up Used to Compute the Full Load Vortex Rope in a Francis Turbine - Link to the publication
  Decaix J., Müller A., Favrel A., Avellan F., Münch-Alligné C.
  Appl. Sci. 2021, 11, 1168

2019

• On-board measurements at a 100 MW high-head Francis turbine - Link to the publication
  Titzschkau M., Hasmatuchi V., Decaix J., Münch-Alligné C.
  Wasserwirtschaft, Special Issue 1/2019
• Experimental and numerical investigations of a high-head pumped-storage power plant at speed no-load - Link to the publication
  Decaix J., Hasmatuchi V., Titzschkau M., Rapillard L., Manso P., Avellan F., Münch-Alligné C.
  IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, Volume 240 (082014), March 2019

> All articles before 2019

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

2020

• Two-dimensional numerical investigation of the cavitation sheet over a NACA 16-012 - Link to the publication
  Decaix J., Münch-Alligné C.
  Proceedings of International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics ICNAAM, 2019, AIP Publishing, 2293, 030025
• Towards the non-intrusive detection and monitoring of cavitation in hydraulic machines 
  Hasmatuchi V., Pedroni F., Biner D., Decaix J., Blommaert G., Münch-Alligné C.
  Proceedings of the Hydro2020, Strasbourg, France

2019

• Hydropower in urban drinking water distribution networks
  Samora I. A., Essyad K., D. Biner D., Münch-Alligné C.
  Proceedings of the Hydro2019, Porto, Portugal
• Introducing flexibility in alpine small hydropower plants using smart storage
  Zordan J., Manso P. A., Gaspoz A., Münch-Alligné C., Crettenand S.
  Proceedings of the Hydro2019, Porto, Portugal
• Pushing the envelope: Switzerland’s approach to unlocking hidden hydropower potential
  Müller A., Münch-Alligné C., Nicolet C., Denis V., Avellan F.
  Proceedings of the Hydro2019, Porto, Portugal
• Detection of harsh operating conditions on a Francis prototype based on in-situ non-intrusive measurements
  Hasmatuchi V., Pacot O., Decaix J., Titzschkau M., Rapillard L., Münch-Alligné C.
  Proceedings of the Hydro2019, Porto, Portugal
• Hydro-structural stability investigation of a 100 MW Francis turbine based on experimental tests and numerical simulations - Link to the publication
  Decaix J., Hasmatuchi V., Titzschkau M., Rapillard L., Münch-Alligné C.
  IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2019
• Numerical investigation of solutions to suppress the inlet vortex of an existing booster pump - Link to the publication
  Decaix J., A. Gaspoz A., D. Fischer D., C. Münch-Alligné C.
  IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2019
• DuoTurbo: A New Counter-Rotating Microturbine for Drinking Water Facilities
  Biner D., Andolfatto L., Hasmatuchi V., Rapillard L., Chevailler S., Avellan F., Münch-Alligné C.
  International Conference on Innovative Applied Energy (IAPE'19), Oxford City, United Kingdom, March 14-15, 2019
  

> All conference proceedings before 2019