ISEC Community Workshop:
Simulation & Large-Scale Testing of Nearshore Wave Dynamics
CH2MHill Alumni Center, Oregon State University
July 8-10, 2009 - Corvallis, Oregon

Agenda


July 8 (Wednesday)
7:40First van leaves hotel for workshop
8:05Second van leaves hotel for workshop
8:30-10:00Welcome and Introductions
Overview of the NEES Tsunami Research Facility (NEES-TRF)
     Research directions - past, present and future (Solomon Yim; see animation files too)
     Equipment and instrumentation capabilities (Tim Maddux)
     New wavemaker (Dan Cox)
     Argus capability (Rob Holman)
     NEES-TRF cyberinfrastructure (Cherri Pancake)
10:00-10:30Break
10:30-12:00Using NEES-TRF Effectively
     Planning a NEESR project (Melora Park)
    Lessons learned from recent NEESR experiments: Ian Robertson, Pat Lynett,
    Dan Cox
12:00-1:30Lunch and Informal Discussions
1:30-3:00 Overview of ISEC (Cherri Pancake
Models Available Collaboratively
     SPHysics (Tony Dalrymple)
3:00-3:30Break
3:30-5:00Models Available Collaboratively (continued)
     COULWAVE (Pat Lynett)
     ADCIRC (Rick Luettich)
     Experiences using ADCIRC (Jennifer Irish)
     GeoClaw (David George)
5:15First van leaves workshop for hotel
5:45Second van leaves workshop for hotel


Thursday, July 9
7:40First van leaves hotel for workshop
8:05Second van leaves hotel for workshop
8:30-10:00Benchmark - Physical Experiments (Pat Lynett)
    Benchmark Results
     Dimitry Nicolsky, Robert Weiss, Pedro Lomonaco, Solomon Yim, David George
10:00-10:30Break
10:30-12:00Benchmark Results (continued)
     Elena Tolkova, Jim Kirby, Okey Nwogu, Yoshiki Yamazaki (presenting 3 sets of results)
12:00-1:30Lunch and Informal Discussions
1:30-2:15Benchmark Results (continued)
     Joseph Zhang, Alex Apotsos
2:15-3:00Break - and Transition to NEES-TRF
2:30First van leaves workshop for NEES-TRF
2:50Second van leaves workshop for NEES-TRF
3:00-5:00Tour of NEES-TRF
Demos & Discussion with Current Experimenters
    Ian Robertson
    Pat Lynett
    Solomon Yim
4:30First van leaves NEES-TRF for hotel
5:00Second van leaves NEES-TRF for hotel


Friday, July 10
7:40First van leaves hotel for workshop
8:05Second van leaves hotel for workshop
8:30-10:00Modeling Tradeoffs Demonstrated by Benchmark Problems
     Comparison of results & discussion of lessons learned (Patrick Lynett)
    Directions for model improvement
    Discussion of group paper
Brainstorming Session on ISEC Directions
10:00-10:30Break
10:30-11:30 NEES-TRF Research Directions
Closing Remarks
11:30-1:00Box Lunches and Informal Discussions
11:45First van leaves workshop for shuttle stop, then hotel
1:00Second van leaves workshop for shuttle stop, then hotel