Theory and modeling of coastal hazards
by Dr Philip Liu
School of Civil and Environment Engineering, Cornell UniversitySyllabus
(1) Tsunamis—Generation mechanisms
- Including earthquake and landslide sources,
- Open ocean propagation,
- Interactions with bathymetry and scattering
- Edge waves and shelf-trapped waves,
- Inundation and run-up.
(2) Derivation of wave theory
- Review of linear waves; various derivations and relevant as- sumptions of nonlinear
- Shallow Water and Boussinesq-type models
- Properties of dispersive models
- Applicability ranges of the different equation models
(3) Nearshore wave dynamics
- Wave breaking
- Turbulence modeling
- Free surface tracking schemes
- Wave-structure interaction
- Review of sediment transport modeling approaches