Science of Tsunami Hazards (Feb 2022)
NUMERICAL MODELING OF TSUNAMI WAVES - BOOK REVIEW
Abstract
The book entitled “Numerical Modeling of Tsunami Waves” by Professor Juan Horrillo, (Texas A&M University), William Knight ((National Tsunami Warning Center (retired), USA) and Professor-Emeritus Zygmunt Kowalik (University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA), is a well-written, comprehensive treatise of the evolving science of computer modeling of tsunami waves. Their book presents an all-encompassing treatment of the subject based on research collaboration that began about 20 years ago on numerical methods to the dynamics of long-period waves, and particularly to tsunami waves. With a detailed, analytical, well-organized, orderly, and constructive approach, the authors review the basic techniques, the evolution of numerical schemes, then introduce the application of finite-methods to the study of tsunami waves, and subsequently go into the solving of more elaborate problems arising from investigations of recent tsunamis.
