Collaborateurs-trices

Cécile Münch-Alligné

Fonction	Professeur·e HES Responsable du groupe de recherche "Hydroélectricité"
Formation	Ing. Mec. & Hydr., Dr ès sc. INPG
Téléphone	+41 27 606 88 39
Fax	+41 27 606 85 75
Email	cecile.muench@hevs.ch
Bureau	B105b

D'origine française, Cécile Münch-Alligné est née en 1979 à Strasbourg. Elle est ingénieur en hydraulique et mécanique, diplômée de l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Hydraulique et Mécanique de Grenoble de l'INPG, promotion 2002. Elle a obtenu son doctorat en mécanique des fluides et transfert de l'INPG en 2005 après avoir réalisé une thèse sur la simulation numérique des grandes échelles de la turbulence. Elle a ensuite passé quatre années à l'EPFL au Laboratoire de Machines Hydrauliques en tant que collaboratrice scientifique pour développer les activités du laboratoire dans le domaine de la simulation numérique des écoulements dans les turbomachines. Depuis septembre 2010, elle est professeure à la HES-SO Valais-Wallis en énergie hydraulique. Elle a mis en place un groupe de recherche dans ce domaine qui est actif dans de nombreux projets cantonaux, nationaux et internationaux. Elle coordonne le groupe Hydroélectricité membre actif des centres de compétence pour la recherche énergétique en Suisse (SCCER) pour l’approvisionnement en électricité (SoE) ainsi  que pour les réseaux et leurs composants (FURIES). Elle est membre du board du SCCER SoE et de la commission fédérale pour la recherche énergétique (CORE). Elle coordonne aussi depuis 2015 l'axe Energie de la HES-SO Valais-Wallis. 

Secteur 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

2016

• Experimental characterization of a five blade tubular propeller turbine for pipe inline installation - Link to publication
  Samoraa I., Hasmatuchi V., Münch-Alligné C., Franca M. J., Schleiss A. J., Ramosa H. M.
  Renewable Energy, Volume 95, September 2016, pp. 356-366
• RANS Computations of a Cavitating Tip Vortex - Link to publication
  Decaix J., Balarac G., Münch C.
  Advances in Hydroinformatics - SimHydro 2014, Springer Water, pp. 519-529

2015

• Design and control of a new hydraulic test rig for small hydro turbines - Link to publication
  Hasmatuchi V., Botero F., Gabathuler S., Münch C.
  The International Journal on Hydropower & Dams, Volume 22, Issue 4, pp. 51-60
• Le pompage-turbinage à petite échelle pour le stockage local d'énergie  
  Gabathuler S., Pavanello D., Münch C.
  Bulletin VSE/AES, 2/2015, pp. 49-54
• RANS and LES simulations of the tip leakage vortex for different gap widths - Link to publication
  Decaix J., Balarac G., Dreyer M., Farhat M., Münch C.
  Journal of Turbulence, Volume 16, Issue 4, pp. 309-341
   

2014

• Psamathe- Alternatives Konzept der Entsanderspülung  
  De Cesare G., Münch-Alligné C., Daneshvari M., Schwindt S., Biaggi F.
  WasserWirtschaft, 4/2014, pp. 44-49
• Numerical simulations of a counter rotating micro turbine - Link to publication
  Münch-Alligné C., Richard S., Meier B., Hasmatuchi V., Avellan F.
  Advances in Hydroinformatics, P. Gourbesville et al. (Eds.), Springer Hydrogeology, 2014, pp. 363-373
• Une experte en parle...
  Petite hydraulique en Suisse : une filière industrielle de pointe - Link to the publication
  Münch-Alligné C.
  Etude thématique sur la petite hydraulique en Suisse, CleantechAlps, 6/2014, pp. 8-11
• Mind the gap: a new insight into the tip leakage vortex using stereo-PIV - Link to publication
  Dreyer M., Decaix J., Münch-Alligné C., Farhat M
  Experiments in Fluids, Volume 55, Issue 11, 2014
• A comparative study of cavitation models in a Venturi flow  
  Charrière B., Decaix J., Goncalvès E.
  European Journal of Mechanics - B/Fluids, vol. 49, 12/2014, pp. 287-297
   

Avant 2014

• Exploitation du potentiel de la petite hydraulique : Situation actuelle et exemple de développement  
  Münch-Alligné C., Avellan F.
  Bulletin ElectroSuisse, 2/2013, pp. 41-45
• Design optimization of a 2D blade by means of milling tool path  
  Vessaz C. Tournier C., Münch C., Avellan F.
  CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology 6, 2013, pp. 157-166
• Petite hydraulique : état de l'art  
  Münch C.
  Bulletin de l'ARPEA n°253, juillet 2012, pp. 7-11
• Fluid-structure coupling for oscillating hydrofoil
  C. Münch, P. Ausoni, O. Braun, M. Farhad, F. Avellan
  Journal of Fluids and Structure 26(6), 2010
• Large Eddy Simulation of a compressible flow in a locally heated square duct
  S. El. Alimia, C. Münch, A. Azzi, S. Ben Nasrallah
  International Review on Modeling and Simulations, February 2009
• Large Eddy Simulations in curved square ducts: variation of the curvature radius
  C. Münch, O. Métais
  Journal of Turbulence, vol. 8, 2007
• Turbulence in cooling channel of rocket engines : Large Eddy Simulations
  C. Münch, O. Métais
  Compte Rendus Mécanique, vol. 333, 2005, pp. 574-579
• Simulation des Grandes Echelles d'écoulements turbulents compressibles dans des conduits courbes : étude des transferts thermiques
  C. Münch, O. Métais
  Mécanique & Industries, vol 6, 2005, pp. 275-278
• Large Eddy Simulation of turbulent flow in curved ducts: influence of the curvature radius
  C. Münch, O. Métais
  Direct and large Eddy Simulation VI, Springer, 2005
• Large Eddy Simulation of turbulent flow in curved and S-shape ducts
  C. Münch, J. Hébrard, O. Métais
  Direct and large Eddy Simulation V, Springer, 2003

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

2016

• On the Dynamic Measurements of Hydraulic Characteristics  
  Hasmatuchi V., Bosioc A., Münch-Alligné C.
  28th IAHR Symposium on Hydraulic Machinery and Systems, Grenoble, France, July 4-8, 2016
• Head loss coefficient through sharp-edged orifices  
  Adam N.J., De Cesare G., Schleiss A.J., Richard S., Münch-Alligné C.
  28th IAHR Symposium on Hydraulic Machinery and Systems, Grenoble, France, July 4-8, 2016
• RANS computations for identification of 1-D cavitation model parameters: application to full load cavitation vortex rope  
  Alligné S., Decaix J., Müller A., Nicolet C., Avellan F., Münch C.
  28th IAHR Symposium on Hydraulic Machinery and Systems, Grenoble, France, July 4-8, 2016
• Energy production with a tubular propeller turbine  
  Samora I., Hasmatuchi V., Münch-Alligné C., Franca M.J., Schleiss A.J., Ramos H.M.
  28th IAHR Symposium on Hydraulic Machinery and Systems, Grenoble, France, July 4-8, 2016
• Simulation of energy recovery on water utility networks by a micro-turbine with counter-rotating runners  
  Andolfatto L., Vagnoni E., Hasmatuchi V., Münch-Alligné C., Avellan F.
  28th IAHR Symposium on Hydraulic Machinery and Systems, Grenoble, France, July 4-8, 2016
• Engineering & Performance of DuoTurbo: Microturbine with Counter-Rotating Runners  
  Biner D., Hasmatuchi V., Violante D., Richard S., Chevailler S., Andolfatto L., Avellan F., Münch C.
  28th IAHR Symposium on Hydraulic Machinery and Systems, Grenoble, France, July 4-8, 2016

2015

• Analytical hill chart towards the maximisation of energy recovery in water utility networks with counter-rotating runners micro-turbine  
  Andolfatto L. Delgado J., Vagnoni E., Münch-Alligné C., Avellan F.
  E-proceedings of the 36th IAHR World Congress, The Hague, The Netherlands, June 28 - July 3, 2015
• Application of laser doppler velocimetry to the development of a counter rotating micro-turbine  
  Vagnoni E., Andolfatto L., Delgado J., Münch-Alligné C., Avellan F.
  E-proceedings of the 36th IAHR World Congress, The Hague, The Netherlands, June 28 - July 3, 2015
• Hydraulic performance of a new isokinetic turbine for rivers and artificial channels  
  Hasmatuchi V., Alligné S., Kueny J.-L., Münch C.
  E-proceedings of the 36th IAHR World Congress, The Hague, The Netherlands, June 28 - July 3, 2015
• New hydraulic test rig for small power turbomachines  
  Hasmatuchi V., Botero F., Gabathuler S., Münch C.
  E-proceedings of the 36th IAHR World Congress, The Hague, The Netherlands, June 28 - July 3, 2015
• Design & performance of a hydraulic micro-turbine with counter-rotating runners  
  Biner D., Hasmatuchi V., F. Avellan, Münch-Alligné C.
  5th International Youth Conference on Energy 2015, Pisa, Italia, May 27-30, 2015
   

2014

• Mind the gap - tip leakage vortex in axial turbines  
  Dreyer M., Decaix J., Münch-Alligné C., Farhat M
  27th IAHR Symposium, Montréal, Canada, September 22-26, 2014
• RANS Computations of a Cavitating Tip Vortex  
  Decaix J., Balarac G., Münch C.
  SimHydro 2014, Modelling of rapid transitory flows, Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France, June 11-13, 2014
• Development of a PM-Generator for a Counter-Rotating Micro-Hydro Turbine  
  Melly D., Horta R., Münch C., Biner H., Chevailler S.
  Proc. of  XXI International Conference on Electrical Machines, Berlin, Germany, September 2-5, 2014, pp. 124-129
• Design and Control of a New Hydraulic Test Rig for Small-Power Turbomachines  
  Hasmatuchi V., Botero F., Gabathuler S., Münch C.
  Hydro 2014, Cernobbio, Italy, October 13-15, 2014
• Numerical Modelling of a Run-off-River Tailrace Channel  
  Hasmatuchi V., Avellan F., Münch C.
  Hydro 2014, Cernobbio, Italy, October 13-15, 2014
   

Avant 2014

• Hybrid RANS/LES simulations of cavitating flow in Venturi  
  Decaix J., Goncalves Da Silva E.
  8th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, Poitiers, France, August 28-30, 2013, pp. 1-6
• Numerical computations of a tip vortex including gap with RANS and LES turbulence models  
  Decaix J., Münch-Alligné C., Balarac G.
  5th International Workshop on Cavitation and Dynamic Problems in Hydraulic Machinery, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 8-11, 2013
• Numerical Simulations of a Counter Rotating Micro Turbine  
  Münch-Alligné C., Richard S., Meier B., Hasmatuchi V., Avellan F.
  SimHydro 2012, Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France, September 12-14, 2012
• Numerical simulation of a new sand trap flushing system  
  Daneshvari M., Münch-Alligné C., De Cesare G.
  Proc. of 4th IAHR International Symposium on Hydraulic Structures, Porto, Portugal, February 9-11, 2012
• Development of a Tidal Current Turbine
  C. Münch, M. Vonlanthen, J. Gomes, P. Guinard, F. Avellan
  SHF, Lausanne, 2011
• Design and Performance Assessment of a Tidal Ducted Turbine
  C. Münch, M. Vonlanthen, J. Gomes, R. Luquet, P. Guinard, F. Avellan
  3rd IAHR Workgroup, Czech Republic, 2009
• Hydro elastic behaviour of vibrating blades
  C. Münch, O. Braun, P. Ausoni, M. Fahrat, F. Avellan
  24th IAHR Symposium, Brazil, 2008
• Simulation of unsteady hydrodynamic loadings and structural analysis of vertical axis water turbine
  J. Zanette, C. Münch, A. Tourabi
  XXII ICTAM, Australia, 2008
• Numerical investigations of Fluid Structure coupling: oscillating hydrofoil
  C. Münch, O. Braun, J-L. Kueny, F. Avellan
  12th Symposium on transport Phenomena and Dynamics of Rotating Machinery, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2008
• 2D oscillating hydrofoil
  C. Münch, P. Ausoni, M. Fahrat, F. Avellan
  2nd IAHR International Meeting of the Workgroup on Cavitation and Dynamic Problems in Hydraulic Machinery and System, Timisoara, Roumania, 2007
• Large Eddy Simulation of turbulent flow in heated curved ducts: influence of the Reynolds number
  C. Münch, O. Métais
  Turbulent and Shear Flow Phenomena IV Willamsburg, VA, USA, 2005
• Simulation des Grandes Echelles d’écoulements turbulents compressibles dans des conduits courbes: étude des transferts thermiques
  C. Münch & O. Métais
  Congrès Francais de Mécanique, Troyes, France, 2005
• Large Eddy Simulation of turbulent flow in curved ducts: influence of the curvature radius
  C. Münch, O. Métais
  Direct and large Eddy Simulation VI, Poitiers, France, 2005
• Simulation d’écoulements turbulents et transferts de chaleur : le cas du circuit régénératif
  C. Münch & O. Métais
  Association Aéronautique et Astronautique de France AAAF Grenoble, France, 2005
• Turbulence dans les canaux de refroidissement des moteurs de fusée : Simulation des grandes Echelles
  C. Münch & O. Métais
  Journées Jeunes Chercheurs Centre National Etudes Spatiales Toulouse, France, 2004
• Large Eddy Simulation of turbulent flow in curved and S-shape ducts
  C. Münch, J. Hébrard, O. Métais
  Direct and large Eddy Simulation V, Münich, Allemagne, 2003
• Simulation des Grandes Echelles d’un écoulement en conduite carrée courbe
  C. Münch, O. Métais
  Congrès Francais de Mécanique Nice, France, 2003