A Tsunami Ball Approach to Storm Surge and Inundation: Application to Hurricane Katrina, 2005

Most analyses of storm surge and inundation solve equations of continuity and momentum on fixed finite-difference/finite-element meshes. I develop a completely new approach that uses a momentum equation to accelerate bits or balls of water over variable depth topography. The thickness of the water c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Steven N. Ward
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2009-01-01
Series:International Journal of Geophysics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/324707