Horizontal displacements contribution to tsunami wave energy balance
Résumé
The main reason for the generation of tsunamis is the deformation of the bottom of the ocean caused by an underwater earthquake. Usually, only the vertical bottom motion is taken into accound while the horizontal displacements are neglected. In the present paper we study both the vertical and the horizontal bottom motion while we propose a novel methodology for reconstructing the bottom coseismic displacements field which is transmitted to the free surface using a new three-dimensional Weakly Nonlinear (WN) approach. We pay a special attention to the evolution of kinetic and potential energies of the resulting wave while the contribution of horizontal displacements into wave energy balance is also quantified. Approaches proposed in this study are illustrated on the July 17, 2006 Java tsunami.
Domaines
Mécanique des fluides [physics.class-ph] Mécanique des fluides [physics.class-ph] Océan, Atmosphère Dynamique des Fluides [physics.flu-dyn] Physique Atmosphérique et Océanique [physics.ao-ph] Physique Numérique [physics.comp-ph] Océanographie Géophysique [physics.geo-ph] Géophysique [physics.geo-ph] Milieux et Changements globauxOrigine | Fichiers produits par l'(les) auteur(s) |
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