Landslide-generated impulse waves of a mountain-river reservoir will endanger the dam body’s stability and the dam structure’s safety and even pose a significant threat to the property safety of downstream residents. Timely prediction of...
For the prediction of landslide-generated waves, previous studies have developed numerous empirical equations to express the maximums of wave characteristics as functions of slide parameters upon impact. In this study, we built the temporal relations...
In a reservoir area, landslides can generate waves that pose a significant threat to bridge piers, endangering both property and human safety. This study utilized three-dimensional water tank experiments to simulate the generation of landslide-induce...
A key scientific challenge in landslide-generated impulse-wave research is to determine how initial slide conditions are translated into wave responses through the intermediate water-entry process. Existing data-driven studies generally focus on dire...
A high-speed debris flow sliding into a reservoir can cause a huge disaster. Consequently, predicting landslide movement accurately and its potential interaction with water is crucial. This paper developed a computational model based on a two–l...
Landslide-generated impulse waves in dammed reservoirs run up the reservoir banks as well as the upstream dam slope. If large enough, the waves may overtop and even breach the dam and cause flooding of the downstream area with hazardous consequences....
In a reservoir area, impulsive landslide surges induced by slope failure may pose huge damage to the dam and the lives in the shoreline areas, which are greatly affected by river channel characteristics. In this study, water depth, the width of the w...
The aim of this study is to develop an efficient numerical scheme that is capable of simulating landslide-generated waves. The numerical scheme is based on the one-layer non-hydrostatic (NH-1L) model, a phase-solving model that can account for weakly...
Since the impoundment of the Baihetan Reservoir, water-involved landslides have become widespread. Existing studies on landslide-generated waves have rarely examined the impact of varying water levels on wave characteristics. This paper focuses on th...
Reservoir-bank landslides may become unstable after reservoir impoundment and generate impulse waves, posing serious threats to hydropower hub structures, reservoir navigation, and downstream safety. The H1 landslide, with a volume of approximately 5...
Landslide impacts into water generate impulse waves that, in confined basins and along steep coasts, escalate swiftly into hazardous near-shore surges. In this study, we present a scenario-aware workflow using gradient boosting and k-means clustering...
Landslide-generated waves are hazards that, commonly, exist in the natural world. The motion and deformation of a submerged landslide significantly affect the efficiency of the momentum transfer, between the slide material and the water body, and, th...
Landslide-generated impulse waves in deeply incised gorge regions pose significant risks to hydropower infrastructure, particularly under fluctuating reservoir water levels. This study investigates the potential global instability sliding of the Seji...
Landslide-generated waves occur as a result of the intrusion of landslides such as mud flows and debris flows into bodies of water such as lakes and reservoirs. The objective of this study was to determine how the momentum is transferred from the sli...
Understanding the propagation of landslide-generated water waves is of great help against tsunami hazards. In order to investigate the effects of landslide shapes on the far-field leading wave generated by a submerged landslide at a constant depth, t...
Surge waves generated by rapid landslide entry into canyon reservoirs can threaten near-dam hydraulic structures. This study examines a representative post-failure hydrodynamic scenario for the localized unstable Zone B of the No. 1 deformation body...
Tsunamis induced by the landslide will divide into a traveling wave component propagating along the coastline and an offshore wave component propagating perpendicular to the coastline. The offshore tsunami wave has the non-negligible energy and destr...
High-speed and accurate simulations of landslide-generated tsunamis are of great importance for the understanding of generation and propagation of water waves and for prediction of these natural disasters. A three-dimensional numerical model, based o...
Impulse waves generated by landslides falling into reservoirs may lead to overtopping of a dam and, in turn, to flooding of the downstream area. In the case of an embankment dam, the overtopping may lead to erosion of the downstream slope, ultimately...
When colossal gravity-driven mass flows enter a body of water, they may generate waves which can have destructive consequences on coastal areas. A number of empirical equations in the form of power functions of several dimensionless groups have been...
Simulations of landslide generated waves (LGWs) are prone to high levels of uncertainty. Here we present a probabilistic sensitivity analysis of an LGW model. The LGW model was realised through a smooth particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulator, which i...
Earthquake-tsunamis, including the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, with approximately 227,898 casualties, and the 2011 Tōhoku Tsunami in Japan, with 18,550 people missing or dead [...]
Large-scale instability of a landslide body, sliding down a bank slope and entering water at a high speed, arouses landslide surges. Taking the water entry point as a source point, they spread rapidly to surrounding areas, increasing the danger risk...
Landslide-generated surge waves are significant natural hazards, posing severe risks to engineering safety. Despite extensive research on the dynamics of landslide-generated waves, studies analyzing controlling factors and their mechanisms remain lim...
Tsunamis are generated when landslides transfer momentum to water, and these waves are major hazards in the mountainous coastal areas of lakes, reservoir, and fjords. In this study, the influence of slide mobility on wave generation is investigated u...
Submarine landslides pose severe marine geological hazards. Their movement and deposition behaviors can seriously threaten marine engineering stability and coastal safety. The propagation characteristics of landslide-generated tsunamis are therefore...
Landslide-generated seismic waves (landslide-quakes), exhibiting distinctive waveforms and frequency characteristics, can be recorded by nearby seismometers. Implementing an automatic classifier for landslide-quakes could help provide objective and a...
Numerical simulations were conducted to investigate the wave features of subaerial granular landslide-generated impulse waves and their impact on slopes. A numerical solution was obtained by coupling smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) and the disc...
Landslide-induced waves are primarily controlled by granular dynamics during landslide–water impact. While particle size, velocity, and volume are recognized influences, the role of internal grain arrangement and segregation remains less clear....
In this work, a simple methodology for preliminarily assessing the magnitude of potential landslide-induced impulse waves’ attenuation in mountain lakes is presented. A set of metrics is used to define the geometries of theoretical mountain lak...
Using the existing two-dimensional experimental data and Open-source Fields Operation and Manipulation (OpenFOAM) software, this study performs a comprehensive comparative analysis of three types of landslide-generated tsunamis (subaerial, partially...
The significance of the impulse product parameter P is reviewed, which is believed to be the most universal parameter for subaerial landslide tsunami (impulse wave) prediction. This semi-empirical parameter is based on the streamwise slide momentum f...
In 1783, an event that has gone down in history as the great seismic crisis in Calabria began, during which two major earthquakes occurred, affecting the Calabrian ridge from the Strait to the north. Between 6 and 7 February in Scilla a tsunami occur...
Submarine landslides are a global geohazard that can displace huge volumes of loose submarine sediment, thereby triggering enormous tsunami waves and causing a serious threat to coastal cities. To investigate the generation of submarine landslide tsu...
The impact generated by landslide-induced surge waves in large reservoirs poses significant threats to the safety of coastal residents and their property. It is essential to further elucidate the characteristics of these surge waves and enhance the c...
The results of an extensive series of numerical experiments of the GNOM-LS model for modelling the physical and energy characteristics of tsunami waves generated by landslides are presented. Based on the published data on the tsunami on 28 September...
In this work, the problem of tsunamis generated by underwater landslides is addressed. Two new solutions are derived in the framework of the linear shallow water equations and linear potential wave theory, respectively. Those solutions are analytical...
When a landslide mass enters a water body, it generates waves that propagate along the river channel, climb up upon reaching the riverbank, and impact nearby residential areas. To investigate the characteristics of wave run-up on a three-dimensional...
Seismic characterization of landslides offers the potential for developing high-resolution models on subsurface shear-wave velocity profile. However, seismic methods based on reflection processing are challenging to apply in such scenarios as a conse...
Tsunami generation and propagation mechanisms need to be clearly understood in order to inform predictive models and improve coastal community preparedness. Physical experiments, supported by mathematical models, can potentially provide valuable inpu...
This study presents numerical simulations of the Aysén tsunami, which occurred on 21 April 2007. The tsunami was triggered by hundreds of landslides caused by a magnitude 6.2 earthquake. With an estimated wave height of 50 m at the northern ti...
The Baihetan Hydropower Station reservoir area began impoundment in 2021, triggering the reactivation of ancient landslides and the formation of new ones. This not only caused direct landslide disasters but also significantly increased the likelihood...
Landslide-induced impulse waves (LIIWs) are significant natural hazards, frequently occurring in mountain reservoirs, which threaten the safety of waterways and dam project. To predict the impact of impulse waves induced by Rongsong (RS) potential la...
Landslides occurring on reservoir banks in steep, high-gradient canyon areas pose a significant risk of surge disasters when they slide into the water. This can endanger the lives and property of downstream residents and damage coastal infrastructure...
This study presents a numerical landslide-tsunami hazard assessment technique for applications in reservoirs, lakes, fjords, and the sea. This technique is illustrated with hypothetical scenarios at Es Vedrà, offshore Ibiza, although currently...
Tsunami hazards in the Bay of Naples are primarily driven by submarine landslides, intense seismic activity, and volcanic phenomena from nearby systems like Vesuvius and the Campi Flegrei caldera. While localized historical tsunamis have occurred, th...
Geomorphic indices (e.g., the normalized channel steepness index (Ksn) and the stream length-gradient index (SL)) highlight changes in fluvial shapes and gradients. However, the application of these indices was seldom used to identify potential lands...
The Jacotines landslide is representative of the large mass movements that affect the Champagne vineyards. Understanding the subsurface structure of these slopes and the mechanisms leading to sliding events is of a great interest, particularly for wi...
This work illustrated an application of the FOSS code SPHERA v.8.0 (RSE SpA, Milano, Italy) to the simulation of landslide hazard at the slope of a water basin. SPHERA is based on the weakly compressible SPH method (WCSPH) and holds a mixture model,...
The displacement of a large amount of water in a moderate-sized estuary by a fast-moving mega-ship can generate tsunami-like waves. Such waves, generated by cruise ships, were observed in Tampa Bay, Florida, USA. Two distinct, long tsunami-like waves...
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