Lab Session: COMCOT and COULWAVE

Tsunami modeling from generation to inundation

by Dr Patrick Lynett

Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University

Syllabus

Using COMCOT (2007)

  • Including grid generation
  • Specification of initial condition
  • Required inputs and specification of nested grids
  • Post processing of output data
    • Example will focus on a tsunami generated off the coast of Chile.

Using COMCOT (2008)

  • Including extracting a time series from COMCOT to use as an incident wave boundary condition
  • Generation of input topography files and specification of bottom roughness
  • Visualization of output data
    • Example will focus on detailed inundation modeling from a tsunami generated off the coast of Chile, and will use output data from COMCOT.