Tsunami generation in a large scale experimental facility

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Autoren

  • Stefan Schimmels
  • V. Sriram
  • Ira Didenkulova

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Externe Organisationen

  • Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM)
  • R.Y. Alekseev Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University
  • Tallinn University of Technology
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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)32-41
Seitenumfang10
FachzeitschriftCoastal engineering
Jahrgang110
Frühes Online-Datum4 Feb. 2016
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - Apr. 2016

Abstract

Experimental studies on tsunami are carried out since many years, most of them by generating solitary waves with a piston type wave maker. However, today it is more and more appreciated that these kinds of waves actually do not represent a real tsunami very well, as particularly for the shallow waters at the coast the wave length becomes comparably far too short. Recently new generation methods for scaled down real tsunami experiments were suggested, as it was doubted that sufficiently long waves could be generated with a classical wave maker. The present paper shall disprove these arguments by providing results of a study carried out in the Large Wave Flume (Großer Wellenkanal, GWK), where waves of periods between 30s and more than 100s at 1m water depth were successfully generated with a piston type wave maker. Results for elongated solitary waves, trough led N-waves and real tsunami records as a combination of a different number of general solitons (sech2 waves) are presented. Finally, the requirements and limitations to bring a "real" tsunami into the laboratory are discussed.

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Tsunami generation in a large scale experimental facility. / Schimmels, Stefan; Sriram, V.; Didenkulova, Ira.
in: Coastal engineering, Jahrgang 110, 04.2016, S. 32-41.

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Schimmels S, Sriram V, Didenkulova I. Tsunami generation in a large scale experimental facility. Coastal engineering. 2016 Apr;110:32-41. Epub 2016 Feb 4. doi: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2015.12.005
Schimmels, Stefan ; Sriram, V. ; Didenkulova, Ira. / Tsunami generation in a large scale experimental facility. in: Coastal engineering. 2016 ; Jahrgang 110. S. 32-41.
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