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Single-wave run-up on sloping beaches

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

Lester Q. Spielvogel
Lester Q. Spielvogel
Affiliation:
Joint Tsunami Research Effort, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, N.O.A.A., Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
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Abstract

Possibilities of high shoreline amplification and run-up are investigated. A shoreline amplification of magnitude 5·38 and a tsunamigenic (deep water) amplification of magnitude 5·71 are obtained from single waves without analytic or computational difficulties. It is not claimed that these are a maximum, but rather it is conjectured that arbitrarily high run-up and amplification can be obtained provided that the correct initial wave trains are chosen.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 74 , Issue 4 , 22 April 1976 , pp. 685 - 694
Copyright
© 1976 Cambridge University Press

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References

Butler, J. P. 1967 Hawaii Inst. Geophys., University of Hawaii, Rep. HIG-67-16.
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