A semi-spectral modelling of landslide tsunamis

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-16

  Postacioglu, Nazmi ^a   Özeren, M Sinan ^a,b  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Tsunamis; Wave scattering and diffraction

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITION; LANDSLIDE; SHALLOW WATER; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; TSUNAMI; WAVE DIFFRACTION; WAVE FIELD; WAVE GENERATION; WAVE SCATTERING;

EURASIA; SEA OF MARMARA; TURKEY;

EID: 53549122212     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03848.x     Document Type: Article

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