Speaker: 

Professor John Grue

Institution: 

University of Oslo, Norway

Time: 

Tuesday, November 27, 2007 - 2:00pm

Location: 

MSTB 254

A fully nonlinear time-stepping model for water wave motion over strongly varying topography
in three dimensions is presented. The modl is fully dispersive, fully nonlinear and, and also very rapid. The kinematic and dynamic boundary
condition at the free surface are used to derive the prognostic equations. Conservation of mass yields two integral equations for the normal velocity at the free surface and the wave potential at the sea floor. These are inverted analytically be means of Fourier transform. Various levels of nonlinearity of the equations are derived. A highly efficient computational scheme is obtained by the FFT-part of the formulation. Computations exemplify how a very long tsunami with leading depression running into very shallow water develop very short waves, that in the beginning are linear, developing then into a train of solitary waves of
large amplitude. Numerical examples on the formation of very strong ocean surface waves - rogue waves - are given.