SIAMUW Seminars

 

Speaker: David George, Applied Mathematics

Title:

Modeling Tsunamis: A Wave-Propagation Algorithm for the Shallow Water Equations with Bottom Topography and Moving Shorelines.

Time: 3:30 PM, Thursday, 10/14/04

Place: Guggenheim Room 408d

Abstract:

Global scale tsunamis are the most destructive natural disaster in the South Pacific and Japan. Although they are virtually undetectable in the deep ocean, specific coastal bathymetry can focus their energy into destructive inundation in often unpredictable ways.

The shallow water equations are a system of nonlinear PDEs often used to model various geophysical flows, such as tsunamis. I will describe a numerical method for the shallow water equations with this application in mind.

For more information: http://www.amath.washington.edu/~siamuw

The level of talks is aimed at graduate students
in the applied math department.

Everyone welcome!