Abstract The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the recent 2011 Japan tsunami have
highlighted the need to investigate the interaction between tsunamis and coastal structures …

Tsunami surges are frequently simulated by dam-break flows over dry beds. The purpose of
this study is to quantitatively investigate the flow kinematics and turbulent characteristics of a …

Wave experiments were conducted on a 1: 20 length scale to measure water surface
elevations and extreme pressures on and around idealized structural elements and arrays of …

This paper investigates the resonant sloshing excited by coupled surge and heave
excitations. A rectangular tank with a width-to-length ratio of W/L= 1/2 and an intermediate …

Solitary waves (SWs) are often applied to the investigation of the hydraulic characteristics of
tsunamis. However, SWs not only have a considerably narrower distribution than an actual …

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 …

A series of physical model experiments of tsunami inundation over an idealized industrial
site located in a coastal area were performed in this study. Two types of tsunami-like waves …

The influence of a building array on tsunami-driven run-up loads is studied through
laboratory experiments and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations. Results show …

In this study, the impact process on a vertical wall due to the dam-break-induced surge was
investigated experimentally. The entire surge impact process is classified into three stages …

Both surge and bore impacts could lead to the failure of coastal structures. Nevertheless,
differences between the surge-and bore-induced hydrodynamic impact processes on a …