1. Tsunami Modeling
with SLIM
Paul-Emile Bernard, Sébastien Blaise,
Sylvain Bouillon, Richard Comblen, Anouk de Brauwere,
Benjamin de Brye, Thomas De Maet, Eric Deleersnijder,
Thierry Fichefet, Olivier Gourgue, Emmanuel Hanert,
Tuomas Kärnä, Jonathan Lambrechts, Vincent Legat,
Sébastien Legrand, Olivier Lietaer, Samuel Melchior, Alice
Pestiaux, Jean-François Remacle, Karim Slaoui, Sébastien
Schellen, Bruno Seny, Christopher Thomas,
Laurent White
http://www.climate.be/slim

2. We use a fully unstructured
grid with variable resolution…

3. Mass balance
Momentum balance

4. Linear
Shallow Water
Equations
Wave Equation Gravity 9,81 m/s
Average depth of Pacific 4000 m
Waves are (very) fast !

5. The earthquake motion
displaces a column water

7. Waves compression
forces waves to gain height !

8. Simulating
tsunamis is easy !

9. We can zoom
on Japan !

10. + 15 minutes

11. + 1 hour

12. Hawaï
Indonesia
+ 4 hours

13. + 6 hours

14. Hawaï
+ 7 hours

15. + 10 hours

16. Radioelement dispersion

17. From the North Sea to the Scheldt..

18.  As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain,
and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein
 Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize
till you have tried to make it precise.
Bertrand Russell
 In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
Pliny the Elder
 However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
Sir Winston Churchill
Quotes by (other)
famous simulators