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Main Title Tsunami and Nonlinear Waves [electronic resource] /
Type EBOOK
Author Kundu, Anjan.
Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
Year Published 2007
Call Number GC1-1581
ISBN 9783540712565
Subjects Mathematical geography ; Physical geography ; Oceanography ; Physics ; Fluids ; Engineering ; Ecology
Internet Access
Description Access URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71256-5
Collation XIII, 315 p. 170 illus. online resource.
Notes
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Contents Notes
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. Unimaginable catastrophe struck the coasts of Indian Ocean in the morning of January 26, 2004, wiping out more than 275,000 human life at a stroke from the face of the earth. It was the killer Tsunami, that originated its journey at the epicenter of the earthquake (of intensity 9.2) near Banda Aceh inIndonesiaandtraveledaslongastoPortElizabethinSouthAfrica,covering a distance of more than 8,000 km and bringing unprecedented devastation to the countries like Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India and others. All of us were shocked saddened and felt helpless, wanted to do so- thing in accordance to our own ability. I as a scientist working in India and interested in nonlinear dynamics, soliton and related phenomena, decided to contribute by organizinga dedicatede?ort by worldexpertsto study di?erent aspects of the Tsunami and other oceanic waves with special emphasis on the nonlinear connection of this problem. Our Centre for Appl. Math. & Comp. Sc. (CAMCS) of our Institute, specially my colleague Prof Bikas Chakrabarti enthusiastically supported the idea and came along with the support of a generous fund.