GeoClaw -- a variant of Clawpack for geophysical flows
GeoClaw is now incorporated in Clawpack (Version 4.5 and above).
Please see the
GeoClaw
documentation
GeoClaw is a subset of
Clawpack
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license
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authors
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Gallery
of applications
Some work related to GeoClaw:
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Tsunami modelling with adaptively refined finite volume methods,
by R. J. LeVeque, D. L. George, and M. J. Berger,
Acta
Numerica, 2011.
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The GeoClaw software for depth-averaged flows
with adaptive refinement ,
by M. J. Berger, D. L. George, R. J. LeVeque and K. M. Mandli,
to appear in a special issue of Advances in Water Resources.
- GeoClaw results for a set of benchmark
tests, prepared for the
National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation
Program
- Modeling and Simulating Tsunamis with an Eye to Hazard
Mitigation,
by J. Behrens and R. J. LeVeque
SIAM News, Volume 44,
May 2011
- Adaptive Finite Volume Methods with Well-Balanced Riemann Solvers for
Modeling Floods in Rugged Terrain: application to the Malpasset dam-break
flood (France, 1959). D. L. George, Int. J. Numer. Methods Fluids,
66(8):1000-1018, July 2011.
- Preliminary results for 11 March 2011
Tsuanami ... wiki
for collecting data
- A few slides illustrating Adaptive Mesh
Refinement with GeoClaw (An example from the Acta Numerica paper above.)
- Finite Volume Methods for the Multilayer Shallow Water Equations with
Applications to Storm Surges, by K. T. Mandli.
PhD Thesis, University of Washington, 2011.
[link]
- Coastal marsh stratigraphy as an indicator of past earthquakes, Puget
Lowland, Washington State, by M. E. Martin.
PhD Thesis, University of Washington, 2011.
[link]
Papers describing the algorithms in more detail
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High-resolution finite volume methods for the shallow water
equations with bathymetry and dry states
,
by Randall J. LeVeque and David L. George.
In Advanced
Numerical
Models for Simulationg Tsunami Waves and Runup, P. L-F. Liu, H. Yeh, C.
Synolakis, eds., Advances in Coastal and Ocean Engineering, Vol 10, pp.
43-73, World Scientific, 2007.
Proceedings of the
Third International Workshop on Long-Wave Runup Models, Catalina, 2004.
Info/Download
- Finite volume methods and adaptive refinement for global tsunami
propagation and local inundation
,
by D. L. George and R. J. LeVeque,
Science of Tsunami Hazards 24(2006), pp. 319-328.
Info/Download
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Augmented Riemann Solvers for the Shallow Water Equations over Variable
Topography with Steady States and Inundation. D. L. George. J. Comp. Phys. ,
227(6):3089-3113, March 2008.
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Finite Volume Methods and Adaptive Refinement for Tsunami Propagation and
Inundation. D. L. George, PhD Thesis, University of Washington, 2006.
[pdf
file]
Papers by other groups using GeoClaw
- Quantifying potential tsunami hazard in the Puysegur subduction zone,
south of New Zealand. Gavin P. Hayes and Kevin P. Furlong,
Geophysical Journal International 183(2010), pp. 1512--1524.
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Use of Many-Core Architectures for High-Resolution Simulation of Tohoku 2011
Tsunami Waves, S. Zhang, D. A. Yuen, A. Zhu, and S. Song,
[pdf file]
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Parallelization of GeoClaw Code for Modeling Geophysical Flows
with Adaptive Mesh Refinement on Many-core Systems, by
S. Zhang, A. Zhu, and S. Song, and D. A. Yuen
[pdf file]
- High resolution tsunami modeling at the Mediterranean coast of Israel
towards an early warning tsunami scenarios data bank, by
B. Galanti, S. D. Rosen, A. Salamon.
ICCE No 32 (2010): Proceedings of 32nd Conference on Coastal Engineering,
Shanghai, China, 2010
[link]
- Numerical simulation of the 2010 Chile tsunami and its impact on Chinese
coasts, by F.-J. Yu, P.-T. Wang, L.-D. Zhao, and Y. Yuan.
Chinese Journal of Geophysics 54(2011), pp. 918-925 (in Chinese).
[link]
- Tsunami hazard and exposure on the global scale, by
F. Lovholt, S. Glimsdal, et. al., accepted in Earth-Science Reviews
[doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2011.10.002]
- Stochastic variation of tsunami run-ups due to heterogeneous slip on
reverse faults, by
F. Lovholt, S. Bazin, et. al.,
Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 12, EGU2010-9851-1, 2010
[pdf]