Martin Thebault

Chargé de recherche CNRS

Modélisation, analyse et intégration de l’énergie solaire dans les territoires. Co-animateur du thème SITE et de l’équipe ERMES.

Publications

Detailed spatiotemporal analysis of shortwave radiation variability in an urban context using higher-order orthogonal decomposition

Guillaume Le Gall, Martin Thebault, Valeria Simoncini, Julien Ramousse

International Journal of Thermal Sciences · 229, 111050 · 2026

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Modeling, analysis, and integration of solar energy in territories

Martin Thebault

2026

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A comprehensive building-wise rooftop photovoltaic system detection in heterogeneous urban and rural areas: application to French territories

Martin Thebault, Boris Nerot, Benjamin Govehovitch, Christophe Ménézo

Applied Energy · 388, 125630 · 2025

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Approche modale multilinéaire pour la décomposition spatio-temporelle du champ de rayonnement en milieu urbain

Guillaume Le Gall, Martin Thebault, Valeria Simoncini, Julien Ramousse

33ème Congrès Français de Thermique · Actes du Congrès Annuel de la Société Française de Thermique, SFT 2025, 463-470, Chambéry, FR · 2025

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Higher-order decomposition of the urban solar resource variability in space and time

Guillaume Le Gall, Martin Thebault, Julien Ramousse

Journal of Physics: Conference Series · 3140, 032004 · 2025

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Influence of the thermal environmental conditions on the performance of floating photovoltaic panels.

Davide Romagnoli, Martin Thebault, Marco Fossa, Christophe Ménézo

Société Française de Thermique · Chambéry, FR · 2025

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Interactive platforms for solar energy planning in smart cities: A state-of-the-art review of solar cadasters

M. Giorio, M. Manni, N.I. Köker, C. Bertolin, Martin Thebault, G. Lobaccaro

Solar Energy · 287, 113227 · 2025

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Modal decomposition for the analysis of solar radiation variability in urban areas

Guillaume Le Gall, Martin Thebault, Cyril Caliot, Julien Ramousse

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer · 251, 127316 · 2025

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Optimal tilt angles for bifacial photovoltaic plants across Europe based on cumulative sky and Typical Meteorological Year data

Apolline Ferry, Mattia Parenti, Martin Thebault, Christophe Ménézo, Marco Fossa

Solar Energy · 2025

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Optimization of Photovoltaic (PV) Integration in Residential Buildings

Farzaneh Changizi, Martin Thebault, Christophe Ménézo

Société Française de Thermique · Chambéry, FR · 2025

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Optimization of photovoltaic (PV) integration on building envelope: a case study in France

Farzaneh Changizi, Martin Thebault, Christophe Ménézo

Journal of Physics: Conference Series · 3140, (3), 032009 · 2025

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An Integrated Framework for Stakeholder and Citizen Engagement in Solar Neighborhoods. This is a report from SHC Task 63: Solar neighborhood planning and work performed in Subtask B: Economic Strategies and Stakeholder Engagement

Jessica Balest, Nicolas Caballero, Grazia Giacovelli, Tahmineh Akbarinejad, Gilles Desthieux, Matteo Formolli, Tobias Kristiansen, Gabriele Lobaccaro, Mark Snow, Martin Thebault, Maria Wall

2024

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Editorial: Solar neighborhood planning: optimize solar energy use in cities through the digitalization of the built environment

Gilles Desthieux, Mattia Manni, Gabriele Lobaccaro, Caroline Hachem-Vermette, Silvia Croce, Martin Thebault, Jouri Kanters

Frontiers in Built Environment · 10, 1487696 · 2024

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Impact Of Climate Change On Photovoltaic Performance: Case study in French Cities

Alexandre Mathieu, Martin Thebault, Samy Kraiem, Gilles Fraisse, Simon Thebault, Simon Boddaert, Leon Gaillard

Solar RRL · 8, (2) · 2024

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Modeling and analysis of rooftop solar potential in highland and lowland territories: Impact of mountainous topography

Apolline Ferry, Martin Thebault, Boris Nérot, Lamia Berrah, Christophe Ménézo

Solar Energy · 275, 112632 · 2024

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Opportunities for Improved Workflows and Development Needs of Solar Planning Tools. This is a report from SHC Task 63: Solar Neighborhood Planning and work performed in Subtask C: Solar planning tools

Jouri Kanters, Martin Thebault, Tahmineh Akbarinejad, Caroline Cederström, Agnieszka Czachura, Martina Giorio, Wolfgang Kampel, Tobias Kristiansen, Gabriele Lobaccaro, Marja Lundgren, Mattia Manni, Viktor Sjöberg, Mark Snow

2024

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Solar governance for the transborder agglomeration of the Greater Geneva based on the solar cadaster development

Gilles Desthieux, Martin Thebault

Frontiers in Built Environment · 10 · 2024

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Uncertainty Estimation in HourlyPhotovoltaic AC Power with a Focus on Solar Plane-Of-Array Irradiance

Alexandre Mathieu, Martin Thebault, Gilles Fraisse, Simon Thebault, Simon Boddaert, Leon Gaillard

2024 European PVPMC Workshop · 2024

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Assessing the combined effects of local climate and mounting configuration on the electrical and thermal performance of photovoltaic systems. Application to the greater Sydney area

Alessia Boccalatte, Martin Thebault, Riccardo Paolini, Marco Fossa, Julien Ramousse, Christophe Ménézo, Mattheos Santamouris

Renewable Energy · 219, 119478 · 2023

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Le solaire photovoltaïque en France. réalité, potentiel et défis 2eme édition

Stephane Collin, Jean-Francois Guillemoles, Amaury Delamarre, Thomas Vezin, Guillaume Vidon, Capucine Tong, Berengere Frouin, Marie Legrand, Mohamed Amara, Tiphaine Mathieu, Lucas Gavotto, Daniel Suchet, Maxime Levillayer, Martin Thebault, Nao Harada, Antoine Perelman

2023

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Mapping the Urban Heat Island at the territory scale: an unsupervised learning approach for urban planning applied to the Canton of Geneva

Alessia Boccalatte, Marco Fossa, Martin Thebault, Julien Ramousse, Christophe Ménézo

Sustainable Cities and Society · 96, 104677 · 2023

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Principal Component Analysis for the characterisation of spatiotemporal variations of the solar resource in urban environments

Guillaume F. J. Le Gall, Martin Thebault, Cyril Caliot, Julien Ramousse

International Heat Transfer Conference 17 · 11, Cape Town / Le Cap, ZA · 2023

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Temperature Derating and Photovoltaic Efficiency in Urban Climates: A Case Study of Sydney Metropolitan Region

Alessia Boccalatte, Christophe Ménézo, Martin Thebault, Julien Ramousse, Marco Fossa

6th International Conference on Countermeasures to Urban Heat Islands · Melbourne, AU · 2023

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Ten questions concerning planning and design strategies for solar neighborhoods

Mattia Manni, Matteo Formolli, Alessia Boccalatte, Silvia Croce, Gilles Desthieux, Caroline Hachem-Vermette, Jouri Kanters, Christophe Ménézo, Mark Snow, Martin Thebault, Maria Wall, Gabriele Lobaccaro

Building and Environment · 110946 · 2023

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Urban Climate and Radiation Conditions for BIPV and Nearly Zero Energy District Design

Alessia Boccalatte, Christophe Ménézo, Martin Thebault, Julien Ramousse, Marco Fossa

6th International Conference on Countermeasures to Urban Heat Islands 4 - 7 December 2023 Melbourne, Australia · Melbourne, AU · 2023

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A new framework to evaluate the adequation between the solar potential and energy demand of an urban-rural territory in a mountainous area

Apolline Ferry, Martin Thebault, Lamia Berrah, Antonio Gómez, Norberto Fueyo, Christophe Menezo

13th International Conference on Solar Energy for Buildings and Industry (EuroSun 2022) · Kassel, DE · 2022

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Analyse bio-inspirée de la ville pour l’amélioration de son trouble du métabolisme

Christophe Ménézo, Claire Lesieur, Julien Ramousse, Martin Thebault

Rencontres Internationales Recherche Industrie en Thermique TR2I, 3ème éd. · Saint Malo (FR), FR · 2022

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Evaluating the impact of urban morphology on rooftop solar radiation: A new city-scale approach based on Geneva GIS data

Alessia Boccalatte, Martin Thebault, Christophe Ménézo, Julien Ramousse, Marco Fossa

Energy and Buildings · 260 · 2022

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Failure Risk Analysis of Photovoltaic Systems Based on Literature Review

Alexandre Mathieu, Gilles Fraisse, Martin Thebault, Simon Thebault, Simon Boddaert, Leon Gaillard

Eurosun 2022 · 2022

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Failure Risk Analysis of Photovoltaic Systems Based on Literature Review

Alexandre Mathieu, Gilles Fraisse, Martin Thebault, Simon Thebault, Simon Boddaert, Leon Gaillard

EuroSun 2022 - ISES and IEA SHC International Conference on Solar Energy for Buildings and Industry · 1-12, Kassel, DE · 2022

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Identification of existing tools and workflows for solar neighborhood planning

Nicholas Baker, Rafaella Belmonte Monteiro, Alessia Boccalatte, Karine Bouty, Johannes Brozovsky, Cyril Caliot, Rafael Campamà Pizarro, Raphaël Compagnon, Agnieszka Czachura, Gilles Desthieux, Matteo Formolli, Stéphanie Giroux-Julien, Victor Guillot, Benjamin Govehovitch, Caroline Hachem-Vermette, Ellis Herman, Olivia Alarcon Herrera, Jérôme H Kämpf, Gabriele Lobaccaro, Christophe Ménézo, Giuseppe Peronato, Arnkell Jonas Petersen, Auline Rodler, Kuljeet Singh, Viktor Sjöberg, Mark Snow, Joar Tjetland, Yupeng Wang, Martin Thebault

2022

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Large-scale evaluation of the suitability of buildings for photovoltaic integration: Case study in Greater Geneva

Martin Thebault, Gilles Desthieux, Roberto Castello, Lamia Berrah

Applied Energy · 316, 119127 · 2022

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A Comparative Study Of Simulation Tools To Model The Solar Irradiation On Building Façades

Martin Thebault, Benjamin Govehovitch, Karine Bouty, Cyril Caliot, Raphaël Compagnon, Gilles Desthieux, Matteo Formolli, Stéphanie Giroux-Julien, Victor Guillot, Ellis Herman, Jérôme Kämpf, Jouri Kanters, Gabriele Lobaccaro, Christophe Ménézo, Giuseppe Peronato, Arnkell Jonas Petersen

ISES Solar World Congress 2021 · Virtual, FR · 2021

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Large-scale multicriteria sorting for the integration of photovoltaic systems in the urban environment

Martin Thebault, Gilles Desthieux, Christophe Ménézo

2021 Building Simulation Conference · Bruges, FR · 2021

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Numerical study of the coherent structures in a transitional vertical channel natural convection flow

Martin Thebault, Stéphanie Giroux-Julien, V. Timchenko, J. Reizes, Christophe Ménézo

Physics of Fluids · 33, (3), 034106 · 2021

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Numerical Validation of the Radiative Model for the Solar Cadaster Developed for Greater Geneva

Benjamin Govehovitch, Martin Thebault, Karine Bouty, Stéphanie Giroux-Julien, Éric Peyrol, Victor Guillot, Christophe Ménézo, Gilles Desthieux

Applied Sciences · 11, (17), 8086 · 2021

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Optimization of the integration of photovoltaic systems on buildings for self-consumption – Case study in France

Martin Thebault, Leon Gaillard

City and Environment Interactions · 10, 100057 · 2021

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Multi-criteria decision aiding for the integration of photovoltaic systems in the urban environment: the case of the Greater Geneva agglomeration

Martin Thebault, Vincent Clivillé, Lamia Berrah, Leon Gaillard, Gilles Desthieux, Christophe Ménézo

Territorio · 1, 9-30 · 2020

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Multicriteria roof sorting for the integration of photovoltaic systems in urban environments

Martin Thebault, Vincent Clivillé, Lamia Berrah, Gilles Desthieux

Sustainable Cities and Society · 60, 102259 · 2020

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Transitional natural convection flow in a vertical channel: Impact of the external thermal stratification

Martin Thebault, Stéphanie Giroux-Julien, Victoria Timchenko, Christophe Menezo, John Reizes

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer · 151, 119476 · 2020

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BIPV suitability analysis in the Genève agglomeration using GIS-based multi-criteria evaluation

Martin Thebault, Lamia Berrah, Léon Gaillard, Vincent Cliville, Gilles Desthieux, Christophe Menezo

89th meeting of the EURO Working Group in Multi Criteria Decision Aiding (EWG-MCDA) · Trento, IT · 2019

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Detailed flow development and indicators of transition in a natural convection flow in a vertical channel

Martin Thebault, Stéphanie Giroux-Julien, Victoria Timchenko, Christophe Ménézo, John Reizes

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer · 143, 118502 · 2019

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Restitution de l’atelier collaboratif : nos quartiers demain, favorables à la santé ?

Elsa Favreau, Adamantia Batistatou, Karine Bouty, Olga Braoudakis, Virginie Chasles, Anne-Sophie Coeudevez, Laurent Combes, Fanny Coulombie, Constance de Alexandris, Clément Deloly, Capucine Diancourt, Marine Gouezel, Benjamin Guinot, Aura Hernandez, Carole Horlaville, Léonore Joerg, Marie Joyeux-Fabre, Christophe Martinsons, Sandra Pahin-Mourot, Thierry Pernet, Anne-Sophie Saffre, Gaëlle Six, Marion Tharrey, Martin Thebault

2019

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Towards a Solar Cadaster for the Monitoring of Solar Energy Urban Deployment: the Case of the Greater Geneva

Martin Thebault, Lamia Berrah, Gilles Desthieux, Christophe Menezo

ISES Solar World Congress 2019/IEA SHC International Conference on Solar Heating and Cooling for Buildings and Industry 2019 · 1-9, Santiago, FR · 2019

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Assessment of decomposition methods for the analysis of transitional natural convection flow in a vertical channel

Martin Thebault, Stéphanie Giroux-Julien, Victoria Timchenko, Christophe Menezo, John Reizes

12th European Fluid Mechanics Conference EFMC12 · Vienna, AT · 2018

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Canal vertical uniformément chauffé soumis à différentes stratifications thermiques extérieures – Etude expérimentale et numérique

Martin Thebault, Stéphanie Giroux-Julien, Christophe Menezo

26ème congrès français de thermique, Thermique et Sciences de l’information · Pau, FR · 2018

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Coherent structures and impact of the external thermal stratification in a transitional natural convection vertical channel

Martin Thebault

2018

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Coherent structures of the K-type transition in natural convection boundary layers: measurements and POD analysis

Yongling Zhao, Martin Thebault, Chengwang Lei, John Patterson, Stéphanie Giroux-Julien, Victoria Timchenko, Christophe Menezo

AHMTC11 · Melbourne, AU · 2018

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Impact of external temperature distribution on the convective mass flow rate in a vertical channel – A theoretical and experimental study

Martin Thebault, John Reizes, Stéphanie Giroux-Julien, Victoria Timchenko, Christophe Menezo

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer · 121, 1264-1272 · 2018

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Impact of external temperature distribution on the turbulent and thermal fields in a vertical uniformly heated channel

Martin Thebault, Stéphanie Giroux-Julien, Victoria Timchenko, Christophe Menezo, John Reizes

IHTC-16 · Beijing, CN · 2018

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Prise en compte de la stratification thermique extérieure dans les modèles de prédiction du débit des parois solaires ventilées par convection naturelle

Martin Thebault, Stéphanie Giroux-Julien, Christophe Menezo, Victoria Timchenko, John Reizes

5ème Journées Nationales sur l’Energie Solaire, JNES · Villeurbanne, FR · 2018

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Natural convective flow analysis in vertical channel

Martin Thebault, Stéphanie Giroux-Julien, Christophe Menezo, Victoria Timchenko

ICHMT · Napoli, IT · 2017

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Chimney effect analysis for wall thermal flux injection

Martin Thebault, Stéphanie Giroux-Julien, Christophe Menezo, Victoria Timchenko

6th Asia-Pacific Forum on Renewable Energy - AFORE 2016 · Guangzhou, CN · 2016

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Modèles d’ordre réduit pour l’analyse et la modélisation de l'effet cheminée et des transferts de chaleur associés - application aux enveloppes ventilées des bâtiments solaires ou producteurs d’énergie

Martin Thebault, Stéphanie Giroux-Julien, Christophe Menezo

Conférence Francophone de l'International Building Performance Simulation Association - IBPSA 2016 · Champ sur Marne, FR · 2016

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Modèles d'ordre réduit pour l'analyse et la modélisation de l'effet cheminée et des transferts de chaleur associés -application aux enveloppes ventilées des bâtiments solaires ou producteurs d'énergie

Martin Thebault, Stéphanie Giroux-Julien, Christophe Menezo

Congrès français de thermique, thermique et multiphysique · 141, Toulouse, FR · 2016

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