Tsunami and Nonlinear Waves (Hardcover)

Propagation.- Waves in shallow water, with emphasis on the tsunami of 2004.- Integrable Nonlinear Wave Equations and Possible Connections to Tsunami Dynamics.- Solitary waves propagating over variable topography.- Water waves generated by a moving bottom.- Tsunami surge in a river: a hydraulic jump in an inhomogeneous channel.- On the modelling of huge water waves called rogue waves.- Numerical Verification of the Hasselmann equation.- Source & Run up.- Runup of nonlinear asymmetric waves on a plane beach.- Tsunami Runup in Lagrangian Description.- Analytical and numerical models for tsunami run-up.- Large waves caused by oceanic impacts of meteorites.- Retracing the tsunami rays.- Modeling and visualization of tsunamis: Mediterranean examples.- Characterization of Potential Tsunamigenic Earthquake Source Zones in the Indian Ocean.- Erratum.