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Landslide tsunamis in lakes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2015

Louis-Alexandre Couston ,
Chiang C. Mei  and
Mohammad-Reza Alam
Louis-Alexandre Couston
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Chiang C. Mei
Affiliation:
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Mohammad-Reza Alam*
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
*
†Email address for correspondence: reza.alam@berkeley.edu
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Abstract

Landslides plunging into lakes and reservoirs can result in extreme wave runup at the shores. This phenomenon has claimed lives and caused damage to near-shore properties. Landslide tsunamis in lakes are different from typical earthquake tsunamis in the open ocean in that (i) the affected areas are usually within the near field of the source, (ii) the highest runup occurs within the time period of the geophysical event, and (iii) the enclosed geometry of a lake does not let the tsunami energy escape. To address the problem of transient landslide tsunami runup and to predict the resulting inundation, we utilize a nonlinear model equation in the Lagrangian frame of reference. The motivation for using such a scheme lies in the fact that the runup on an inclined boundary is directly and readily computed in the Lagrangian framework without the need to resort to approximations. In this work, we investigate the inundation patterns due to landslide tsunamis in a lake. We show by numerical computations that Airy’s approximation of an irrotational theory using Lagrangian coordinates can legitimately predict runup of large amplitude. We also demonstrate that in a lake of finite size the highest runup may be magnified by constructive interference between edge waves that are trapped along the shore and multiple reflections of outgoing waves from opposite shores, and may occur somewhat after the first inundation.

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Geophysical and Geological Flows: Coastal engineering Geophysical and Geological Flows: Shallow water flows Waves/Free-surface Flows: Surface gravity waves
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 772 , 10 June 2015 , pp. 784 - 804
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