A unique large scale, multi-directional basin for tsunami research
Abstract
Under the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) program, the US National Science Foundation is funding the expansion of Oregon State University's multidirectional wave basin to create a next-generation experimental testing facility for research and practicing engineers. The new facility addresses the unique requirements posed by tsunami research, with basin dimensions and wave generation capabilities closely matching the community's vision of the "ideal basin". When completed in 2004, the basin will support high resolution, unprecedented-scale experiments with very dense instrumentation. Researchers will be able to test and validate advanced analytical and numerical models of tsunami phenomena induced by sub-sea earthquakes, spanning a full range of ocean, coastal, and harbor studies. An integral part of the project is the exploitation of advanced network technologies to allow researchers located at distant sites to play active roles in experiments at the facility, viewing data and images in real time and participating in decision-making. The broader research community will benefit from this large long-wave experiment facility, a comprehensive experiment databank, with specialized interfaces for experiment re-play, searching and browsing archives of past experiments, extraction of experimental data for use in validating numerical models, and a community repository for numerical simulation codes.
- Publication:
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EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly
- Pub Date:
- April 2003
- Bibcode:
- 2003EAEJA.....7688Y