Artículo de revista
Experiments on generation of surface waves by an underwater moving bottom
Fecha
2015Registro en:
Proceeding of the Royal Society A-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences Volumen: 471 Número: 2178 (2015)
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2015.0069
Autor
Jamin, Timothée
Gordillo, Leonardo
Ruiz Chavarría, Gerardo
Berhanu, Michael
Falcon, Eric
Institución
Resumen
We report laboratory experiments on surface waves generated in a uniform fluid layer whose bottom undergoes an upward motion. Simultaneous measurements of the free-surface deformation and the fluid velocity field are focused on the role of the bottom kinematics (i.e. its spatio-temporal features) in wave generation. We observe that the fluid layer transfers bottom motion to the free surface as a temporal high-pass filter coupled with a spatial low-pass filter. Both filter effects are often neglected in tsunami warning systems, particularly in real-time forecast. Our results display good agreement with a prevailing linear theory without any parameter fitting. Based on our experimental findings, we provide a simple theoretical approach for modelling the rapid kinematics limit that is applicable even for initially non-flat bottoms: this may be a key step for more realistic varying bathymetry in tsunami scenarios.