Gioele Ruffini
Numerical characterisation and efficient prediction of landslide-tsunami propagation over a wide range of idealised bathymetries
Ruffini, Gioele; Heller, Valentin; Briganti, Riccardo
Authors
VALENTIN HELLER VALENTIN.HELLER@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Associate Professor
RICCARDO BRIGANTI RICCARDO.BRIGANTI@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Associate Professor
Abstract
Landslide-tsunamis are generated by masses, such as landslides or icebergs, impacting into water bodies. Such tsunamis resulted in major catastrophes in the recent past. Generic research into landslide-tsunamis has widely been conducted in idealised water body geometries at uniform water depths. However, varying bathymetries can significantly alter landslide-tsunamis. This article investigates this effect in a 2D flume using selected idealised bathymetries to provide methods to predict the transformed wave characteristics downwave of each feature. The selected bathymetries are: (a) linear beach bathymetries, (b) submerged positive and negative Gaussian bathymetric features and (c) submerged positive and negative step bathymetries. The hydrodynamic model SWASH, based on the non-hydrostatic non-linear shallow water equations, was used to simulate 9 idealised landslide-tsunamis (1 approximate linear, 2 Stokes, 2 cnoidal and 4 solitary waves), for a total of 184 tests. The analysed parameters include the free water surface, wave height and amplitude. Shoaling in (a) is represented by either Green's law or the Boussinesq's adiabatic approximation up to wave breaking with an accuracy of ?7% to +10% for cnoidal and solitary waves, respectively. The results are then analysed with an (i) Artificial Neural Network and (ii) a regression analysis. (i) shows a smaller Mean Square Error (MSE) of 0.0027 than (ii) (MSE =0.024) and good generalisation in predicting the transformed wave characteristics and, after defining the best dimensionless parameters, (ii) provides empirical equations to predict transformed waves. In addition, simulations were conducted in a 3D basin to investigate the combined effect of the bathymetry and geometry. The efficient use of the developed prediction methods is demonstrated with the 2014 Lake Askja landslide-tsunami where a good accuracy is achieved compared to available numerical simulations.
Citation
Ruffini, G., Heller, V., & Briganti, R. (2021). Numerical characterisation and efficient prediction of landslide-tsunami propagation over a wide range of idealised bathymetries. Coastal Engineering, 167, Article 103854. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2021.103854
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jan 23, 2021 |
Online Publication Date | Feb 9, 2021 |
Publication Date | Aug 1, 2021 |
Deposit Date | Feb 11, 2021 |
Publicly Available Date | Feb 10, 2022 |
Journal | Coastal Engineering |
Print ISSN | 0378-3839 |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 167 |
Article Number | 103854 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2021.103854 |
Keywords | Environmental Engineering; Ocean Engineering |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/5316230 |
Publisher URL | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378383921000156 |
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