Physics – Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
Scientific paper
2010-08-16
Physics
Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
31 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables. Other author's papers can be downloaded at http://www.lama.univ-savoie.fr/~dutykh/
Scientific paper
The present study is devoted to the problem of tsunami wave generation. The main goal of this work is two-fold. First of all, we propose a simple and computationally inexpensive model for the description of the sea bed displacement during an underwater earthquake, based on the finite fault solution for the slip distribution under some assumptions on the dynamics of the rupturing process. Once the bottom motion is reconstructed, we study waves induced on the free surface of the ocean. For this purpose we consider three different models approximating the Euler equations of the water wave theory. Namely, we use the linearized Euler equations (we are in fact solving the Cauchy-Poisson problem), a Boussinesq system and a novel weakly nonlinear model. An intercomparison of these approaches is performed. The developments of the present study are illustrated on the 17 July 2006 Java event, where an underwater earthquake of magnitude 7.7 generated a tsunami that inundated the southern coast of Java.
Dias Fre'de'ric
Dutykh Denys
Gardeil Xavier
Mitsotakis Dimitrios
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