Tsunami Science and Engineering II
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2019) | Viewed by 53427
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Interests: coastal engineering; computational fluid dynamics; experimental fluid dynamics; fuid-structure interaction; granular slides; hydraulic structures; landslide-tsunamis; scale effects; similarity
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Dear Colleagues,
Earthquake-tsunamis, including the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, with over 230,000 casualties, and the 2011 Tōhoku Tsunami in Japan, with over 18,400 people missing or dead, serve as tragic reminders that such waves pose a major natural hazard to human beings. Landslide-tsunamis, including the 1958 Lituya Bay case, may exceed 150 m in height and, if similar waves are generated in lakes or reservoirs (so-called impulse waves), then they may overtop dams and cause significant devastation downstream, such as in the 1963 Vaiont case with around 2000 casualties.
The after-effects caused by such catastrophes are not limited to the region immediately impacted by the wave; for example, the 1963 Vaiont case affected hydropower plant planning and management globally, and the 2011 Tōhoku Tsunami initiated changes to nuclear power plant policies worldwide. Active prevention of the wave generation is extremely unlikely and limited to rare cases where creeping slides were stabilized. Scientists and engineers thus work mainly on passive methods to deal with tsunamis. Such methods include early warning systems, sea walls, reinforced infrastructure and the provision of adequate freeboards of dam reservoirs. The latter methods require detailed knowledge of: (i) wave features as a function of the generation mechanism; (ii) wave propagation; (iii) the shoreline run-up; and (iv) wave–structure interaction. Despite a significant increase in research activities after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, there is certainly scope for—and the necessity of—more research with the aim to reduce the destruction caused by tsunamis to us and our environment.
This Special Issue aims to repeat the success of “Tsunami Science and Engineering” where 12 articles of the 21 full length submissions were published between 2014 and early 2016, after a rigorous peer-review process. Within a relatively short period, these articles were cited four times on average, up to 4.4 thousand times accessed, and released as a Printed Edition. This relaunch “Tsunami Science and Engineering II” aims to reflect our current understanding of tsunamis and tsunami mitigation, irrespective of the mechanism by which they are generated: earthquakes, landslides, underwater slumps, asteroids, etc. We welcome research papers, reviews (state of the art) and case studies addressing tsunamis and/or impulse waves theoretically, experimentally, numerically and/or based on field studies. I sincerely look forward to receiving your original and exciting contributions.
Dr. Valentin HellerGuest Editor
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Keywords
- Earthquake-tsunamis
- Landslide-generated impulse waves
- Landslide-tsunamis
- Long wave run-up
- Seismic tsunamis
- Tsunami early warning system
- Tsunami forecasting
- Tsunami hazard assessment and mitigation
- Tsunami-induced overland flow
- Tsunami loading on structures
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