Numerical assessment of boulder transport by the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami in Lhok Nga, West Banda Aceh (Sumatra, Indonesia)

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1391-1399

  Nandasena, N A K ^a   Paris, Raphaël ^b,c   Tanaka, Norio ^a  

^a SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Calcareous boulders; Current velocity; Field observation; Finite difference method; Numerical simulation

Indexed keywords

BANDA ACEH; CALCAREOUS BOULDERS; CURRENT VELOCITY; DIFFERENT SIZES; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI; NUMERICAL MODELS; ONE DIMENSION; SIMULATED RESULTS; SUMATRA , INDONESIA; TRANSPORT DISTANCES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; NUMERICAL METHODS; RETAINING WALLS; TSUNAMIS;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

BOULDER; CLAST; CURRENT VELOCITY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI 2004; MICROTOPOGRAPHY; NUMERICAL MODEL;

ACEH; BANDA ACEH; INDIAN OCEAN; INDONESIA; LHOK NGA BAY;

EID: 80051557910     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2011.02.001     Document Type: Article

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