Numerical Simulation of the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami Based on a New Transient FEM Co-seismic Source: Comparison to Far- and Near-Field Observations

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 170, Issue 6-8, 2013, Pages 1333-1359

  Grilli, Stephan T ^a   Harris, Jeffrey C ^a   Tajalli Bakhsh, Tayebeh S ^a   Masterlark, Timothy L ^b   Kyriakopoulos, Christodoulos ^c   Kirby, James T ^d   Shi, Fengyan ^d  

^a University of Rhode Island   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

comparison of model results with surface elevation, runup, and inundation observations; sensitivity analyses to boundary conditions, model physics, and grid parameters; The Tohoku 2011 tsunami; tsunami propagation modeling (near and far field) in a Boussinesq model; tsunami source modeling by FEM with geodetic data assimilation; wave dispersion effects

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BUOYS; COASTAL ENGINEERING; DISPERSION (WAVES); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOODS; GEODESY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; NUMERICAL MODELS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; SEISMOLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TIDE GAGES;

MODEL PHYSICS; PROPAGATION MODELING; SOURCE MODELING; SURFACE ELEVATIONS; WAVE DISPERSION;

TSUNAMIS;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA INVERSION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TSUNAMI EVENT; WAVE PROPAGATION;

JAPAN;

EID: 84883008915     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-012-0528-y     Document Type: Article

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