A shallow water model for the propagation of tsunami via Lattice Boltzmann method

An efficient implementation of the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) for the numerical simulation of the propagation of long ocean waves (e.g. tsunami), based on the nonlinear shallow water (NSW) wave equation is presented. The LBM is an alternative numerical procedure for the description of incompress...

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Main Authors: Zergani, Sara, Aziz, Z. A., Viswanathan, K. K.
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2015
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Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/59120/1/SaraZergani2015_AShallowWaterModelforthePropagation.pdf
http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/59120/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/23/1/012007
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Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Language: English
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Summary:An efficient implementation of the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) for the numerical simulation of the propagation of long ocean waves (e.g. tsunami), based on the nonlinear shallow water (NSW) wave equation is presented. The LBM is an alternative numerical procedure for the description of incompressible hydrodynamics and has the potential to serve as an efficient solver for incompressible flows in complex geometries. This work proposes the NSW equations for the irrotational surface waves in the case of complex bottom elevation. In recent time, equation involving shallow water is the current norm in modelling tsunami operations which include the propagation zone estimation. Several test-cases are presented to verify our model. Some implications to tsunami wave modelling are also discussed. Numerical results are found to be in excellent agreement with theory.