Modeling and Simulation of Tsunami Impact: A Short Review of Recent Advances and Future Challenges
Tsunami modeling and simulation has changed in the past few years more than it has in decades, especially with respect to coastal inundation. Among other things, this change is supported by the approaching era of exa-scale computing, whether via GPU or more likely forms of hybrid computing whose pre...
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| description | Tsunami modeling and simulation has changed in the past few years more than it has in decades, especially with respect to coastal inundation. Among other things, this change is supported by the approaching era of exa-scale computing, whether via GPU or more likely forms of hybrid computing whose presence is growing across the geosciences. For reasons identified in this review, exa-scale computing efforts will impact the on-shore, highly turbulent régime to a higher degree than the 2D shallow water equations used to model tsunami propagation in the open ocean. This short review describes the different approaches to tsunami modeling from generation to impact and underlines the limits of each model based on the flow régime. Moreover, from the perspective of a future comprehensive multi-scale modeling infrastructure to simulate a full tsunami, we underline the current challenges associated with this approach and review the few efforts that are currently underway to achieve this goal. A table of existing tsunami software packages is provided along with an open Github repository to allow developers and model users to update the table with additional models as they are published and help with model discoverability. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c3ee2685a0f24ed382267956b73b53c52023-11-21T02:28:21ZengMDPI AGGeosciences2076-32632020-12-01111510.3390/geosciences11010005Modeling and Simulation of Tsunami Impact: A Short Review of Recent Advances and Future ChallengesSimone Marras0Kyle T. Mandli1Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USADepartment of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USATsunami modeling and simulation has changed in the past few years more than it has in decades, especially with respect to coastal inundation. Among other things, this change is supported by the approaching era of exa-scale computing, whether via GPU or more likely forms of hybrid computing whose presence is growing across the geosciences. For reasons identified in this review, exa-scale computing efforts will impact the on-shore, highly turbulent régime to a higher degree than the 2D shallow water equations used to model tsunami propagation in the open ocean. This short review describes the different approaches to tsunami modeling from generation to impact and underlines the limits of each model based on the flow régime. Moreover, from the perspective of a future comprehensive multi-scale modeling infrastructure to simulate a full tsunami, we underline the current challenges associated with this approach and review the few efforts that are currently underway to achieve this goal. A table of existing tsunami software packages is provided along with an open Github repository to allow developers and model users to update the table with additional models as they are published and help with model discoverability.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/11/1/5tsunami modelingtsunami simulationsnumerical methods |
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| title | Modeling and Simulation of Tsunami Impact: A Short Review of Recent Advances and Future Challenges |
| title_full | Modeling and Simulation of Tsunami Impact: A Short Review of Recent Advances and Future Challenges |
| title_fullStr | Modeling and Simulation of Tsunami Impact: A Short Review of Recent Advances and Future Challenges |
| title_full_unstemmed | Modeling and Simulation of Tsunami Impact: A Short Review of Recent Advances and Future Challenges |
| title_short | Modeling and Simulation of Tsunami Impact: A Short Review of Recent Advances and Future Challenges |
| title_sort | modeling and simulation of tsunami impact a short review of recent advances and future challenges |
| topic | tsunami modeling tsunami simulations numerical methods |
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