Field survey assessment of flood loads and related building damage from the July 2021 event in the Ahr Valley (Germany)

D Wüthrich, PA Korswagen, H Selvam… - Journal of Flood Risk …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The July 2021 flood heavily affected many inhabitants, buildings and critical infrastructure
throughout Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. Specifically, the Ahr Valley (Germany) …

Review of prediction models for tsunami-induced lateral fluid force for revision of engineering design code for nuclear power plant structures

N Kihara, T Tomita, S Yoshimura, H Kaida… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This paper presents a review of prediction models for tsunami-induced lateral fluid forces or
tsunami-wave forces for the next revision of the engineering design code for nuclear power …

Effect of the buffer blocks in attenuating a tsunami-like flow

VPG Percy, V Sriram, V Sundar, H Schüttrumpf - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
The construction of protective structures along the coast constitutes a crucial component of
tsunami mitigation measures. Most commonly adopted tsunami mitigation measures are …

[HTML][HTML] Development of a single-phase free-surface flow model with the improved lattice kinetic scheme

K Sato, S Koshimura - Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, we develop a single-phase free-surface flow model with the improved lattice
kinetic scheme (LKS) and the volume of fluid (VOF) method. We implement the piecewise …

Experimental study on the dam-break-induced surge impact on an inclined wall

X Li, H Liu - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The front faces of coastal structures are not always perpendicular to its foundation. To
investigate the surge impact characteristics on an inclined wall, laboratory experiments …

[HTML][HTML] Buffer Blocks as Wave Energy Dissipators: Flow Depth Reduction

P Nageswaran, J Oetjen, S Harish, V Sriram… - Journal of Marine …, 2024 - mdpi.com
High-energy events such as tsunamis pose significant threats to coastal infrastructure and
buildings, necessitating effective mitigation strategies to minimize damage. Compared to …

Three-dimensional numerical simulations for mitigation of tsunami wave impact using intermittent sea dikes

P Prabu, A Chaudhuri, SM Bhallamudi… - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Sea dikes are nowadays adopted for the protection of onshore infrastructures against
devastating tsunami wave. For intermittent/discontinuous sea dikes, the flow fields are 3D in …

Flow-structure interference effects with the surrounding structure in the choked quasi-steady condition of tsunami: Comparison with traditional obstruction approach

S Harish, V Sriram, H Schüttrumpf… - Applied Ocean …, 2022 - Elsevier
To understand tsunami flow interaction with the structure occupying a certain percentage of
flow channel width in the field, several authors modelled experiments or numerical …

Review on tsunami–bridge interaction

S Leng, G Xu, Q Wu, Z Jiang - Intelligent Transportation …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Tsunamis have caused substantial damage to coastal bridges, which has seriously affected
transportation and rescue work in coastal communities and led to serious threats to human …

Experimental study of dam-break-like tsunami loads on vertical structures with overhanging horizontal slabs: Slab with air chamber

C Peng, C Chen, NAK Nandasena, X Deng, F Cai… - Ocean …, 2024 - Elsevier
Tsunamis pose a significant threat to coastal engineering. A comprehensive physical
experiment was conducted to examine the effect of air chambers on vertical structures with …