Introduction to modeling tsunamis with GeoClaw
Channel: Lorena Barba
Date: 2014-07-03

by David George
Lectures at the Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute "The science of predicting and understanding tsunamis, storm surges and tidal phenomena," January 2013; Valparaiso, Chile.

Preview of the GeoClaw solver for shallow free-surface flows. Depth-averaged models. Tsunamis and the shallow-water equations. Hyperbolic systems. Finite-volume methods and adaptive mesh refinement.
GeoClaw is an open-source, finite-volume software and subset of the Clawpack codes. It contains a framework to accommodate common features of inundating free-surface flows, adaptive mesh refinement, algorithms to capture moving inundation  fronts over topography, and dynamic processing of topography data.

More materials at:
http://www.bu.edu/pasi-tsunami/

This institute was funded by the PASI program of the US National Science Foundation, with additional funding by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Global.