Runup of Tsunami Waves in U-Shaped Bays
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- 作者：Ira Didenkulova (12) ira@cs.ioc.ee
Efim Pelinovsky (2) pelinovsky@hydro.appl.sci-nnov.ru - 关键词：Tsunami wave runup – ; narrow bays – ; abnormal amplification – ; shallow water theory
- 刊名：Pure and Applied Geophysics
- 出版时间：June 2011
- 出版年：2011
- 期刊代码：123_0033-4553
- 类别：ear
- 卷：168
- 期：6-7
- 页码：1239-1249
- 数据来源：sp
摘要
The problem of tsunami wave shoaling and runup in U-shaped bays (such as fjords) and underwater canyons is studied in the framework of 1D shallow water theory with the use of an assumption of the uniform current on the cross-section. The wave shoaling in bays, when the depth varies smoothly along the channel axis, is studied with the use of asymptotic approach. In this case a weak reflection provides significant shoaling effects. The existence of traveling (progressive) waves, propagating in bays, when the water depth changes significantly along the channel axis, is studied within rigorous solutions of the shallow water theory. It is shown that traveling waves do exist for certain bay bathymetry configurations and may propagate over large distances without reflection. The tsunami runup in such bays is significantly larger than for a plane beach.