Tsunami and Nonlinear Waves

2007
ISBN: 978-3-540-71255-8
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Buch, Englisch, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 664 g

The need for tsunami research and analysis has grown dramatically following the devastating tsunami of December 2004, which affected Southern Asia. This book pursues a detailed theoretical and mathematical analysis of the fundamentals of tsunamis, especially the evolution and dynamics of tsunamis and other great waves. Of course, it includes specific measurement results from the 2004 tsunami, but the emphasis is on the nature of the waves themselves and their links to nonlinear phenomena.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kundu, Anjan

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Statistische Physik, Dynamische Systeme
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Umweltgeologie, Geoökologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geodäsie, Kartographie, GIS, Fernerkundung
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Strömungslehre
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Naturgewalten & Katastrophen
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geodäsie, Kartographie, Fernerkundung
• Geowissenschaften Geologie GIS, Geoinformatik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Numerik und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Numerische Mathematik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Geophysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Mechanik Kontinuumsmechanik, Strömungslehre
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Marine Geologie, Ozeanographie (Meereskunde)
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geophysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Propagation.- Waves in shallow water, with emphasis on the tsunami of 2004.- Integrable Nonlinear Wave Equations and Possible Connections to Tsunami Dynamics.- Solitary waves propagating over variable topography.- Water waves generated by a moving bottom.- Tsunami surge in a river: a hydraulic jump in an inhomogeneous channel.- On the modelling of huge water waves called rogue waves.- Numerical Verification of the Hasselmann equation.- Source & Run up.- Runup of nonlinear asymmetric waves on a plane beach.- Tsunami Runup in Lagrangian Description.- Analytical and numerical models for tsunami run-up.- Large waves caused by oceanic impacts of meteorites.- Retracing the tsunami rays.- Modeling and visualization of tsunamis: Mediterranean examples.- Characterization of Potential Tsunamigenic Earthquake Source Zones in the Indian Ocean.- Erratum.

Über Autor(innen)

Anjan Kundu is a Senior Professor in the Theory Group of the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta. After obtaining his PhD degree from the PFU Moscow in 1981 he joined JINR Dubna (Moscow) for postdoctoral research. He has been a Humboldt Foundation (Germany) Scholar since 1993 and a Senior Associate of ICTP (Trieste, Italy) from 2006. His major research interests are focused on mathematical physics related to nonlinear systems and in particular in Quantum and classical integrable systems, quantum group, nonlinear dynamics, soliton physics and field models with topological charges etc. He has published more than 100 research papers in international journals and conference proceedings and he edited a book on quantum and classical nonlinear integrable systems, from IOP (UK), in 2003.