Presentations Overview

Due to climate change extreme events will become more frequent and more intense in the future. Hence, a better understanding of the physical processes associated with highly unsteady flows is essential. Among these, tsunamis, storm surges and flash floods are the most common. Due to their rarity and...

Coastal forests are considered a sustainable and economical solution to mitigate inundations from tsunamis. Owing to the rare occurrence of tsunamis and reported local tsunami heights being small, the coastal forests are a potential solution to protect from tsunamis in the Arabian Sea. The potential...

Landslides that occur in coastal environments drive cascading consequences such as large wave forces, flooding, and infrastructure damage in coastal communities. It can be difficult to classify these slides as subaerial or submarine, and the mechanics of wave generation associated with partially sub...

Prior to the adoption of tsunami-specific design considerations in ASCE 7-16, research extensively examined tsunami debris transport and debris impact forces. Tsunami debris damming remains significantly less explored, with limited transient flow experiments conducted on this topic. Herein, 1:20 sca...

Tsunami events are traditionally represented in the geological record by a sequence of fine-grained sediments, but increasingly coastal boulder deposits are being used as indicators of past tsunami events. The emplacement mechanism of many boulder deposits, however, is heavily debated and determinin...

A series of large-scale experiments are conducted at HR Wallingford. Froude scaled tsunami waveforms are produced with periods (T) in the range of 40 – 230 s and wave amplitudes (a) between 0.03 - 0.14 m in water depths of 0.5 – 1.0 m.The waves propagate over a 1:30 sloping bathymetry that exten...