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International Workshop on Fundamentals of Coastal Effects of Tsunamis

Hilo, Hawaii

December 26-28, 2006


Day 1 (Tuesday, December 26)
8:15 - 8:50Registration and breakfast
8:50 - 9:00Welcome and workshop objectives (Yeh and Curtis)
9:00 - 9:15Input from Prof. Wiegel (presented by Yeh)
9:15 - 9:45The 1960 Chilean tsunami (Horikawa)
9:45 - 10:00Coffee/tea
10:00 - 11:30Tsunami, disasters and countermeasures (Shuto); discussion
11:30 - 12:20Lunch, with commentary (Murty)
12:20 - 12:45Transit to Tsunami Museum
12:45 - 2:00Museum visit and presentation (Curtis)
2:00 - 4:00Tsunami Trail excursion, ending with coffee/tea at hotel
4:00 - 5:45Group discussion 1: General Topics - rational evacuation plans (Walsh); tsunami warning & lessons learned (Crawford); real time observation (Imamura); tsunami protection by sand dunes (Sato); and others -- chaired by Teng
5:45 - 6:30Free time
6:30 - 8:00Dinner at Queen's Court
8:00 - 9:00Wild seed: Uncertainty methods for buoy and bathymetry data (Shoemaker)
 
Day 2 (Wednesday, December 27)
8:15 - 8:50Breakfast
8:50 - 9:00Announcements (Yeh)
9:00 - 10:30Review on sediment scour, transport, and deposit in coastal environments, including under tsunami forcing (Fredsoe)
10:30 - 10:45Coffee/tea
10:45 - 11:10Sediment gravity flows undergoing progressive solidification (Sekiguchi; presented by Yeh)
11:10 - 11:35Temporal and spatial variations of bed stresses (Liu)
11:35 - 12:00Observed characteristics of tsunami deposits - report from the 2005 Seattle Workshop (Bourgeois)
12:00 - 1:00Lunch
1:00 - 3:00Free time and preparation for afternoon discussions
3:00 - 3:15Coffee/tea
3:15 - 4:30Group discussion 2: Sediment Transport and Deposit -- swash morphodynamics and its relation to tsunamis (Dodd); suspended vs. bedload (Jaffe); and others -- chaired by Peterson
4:30 - 5:30Group discussion 3: Tsunami Scour - influence of pore pressure on sand movement due to waves (Sato); discussion of scour (Tonkin); and others -- chaired by Liu
5:30 - 5:45Break
5:45 - 6:30Building a Better World (Mish)
6:30Dinner on own
 
Day 3 (Thursday, December 28)
8:15 - 8:50Breakfast
8:50 - 9:00Announcements (Yeh)
9:00 - 9:45Wave loads on breakwaters, seawalls, and other marine structures (Oumeraci)
9:45 - 10:00Tsunami impact experiments video (Horikawa)
Videos (courtesy of Port and Airport Research Institute)1  2  3  4  
10:00 - 10:15Coffee/tea
10:15 - 10:45Current status of the FEMA design guideline for tsunami force evaluations (Yeh)
10:45 - 12:00Group discussion 4: Fluid and Debris-Impact Forces -- damage due to drifting ships and its modeling using EDEM (Imamura); use of adaptive mesh refinement (LeVeque); generation of "cavitation" bubbles at the air-water interface (Young & Yim); structure impact in free surface flow (Cao & Yim); and others -- chaired by Sato
12:00 - 1:00Lunch
1:00 - 3:00Free time and preparation for afternoon discussions
3:00 - 3:15Coffee/tea
3:15 - 4:00Group discussion 5: Tsunami Forces -- tsunami forces on buildings (Fujima); hydraulic performance and stability (Oumeraci); tsunami loading on structures (Yeh); and others -- chaired by Yeh
4:00 - 5:30Group discussion 6: Revisit Sediments -- very-fine grained-, very-coarse grained-, and internally stratified-tsunami deposits -- geologic constraints on flow conditions (Peterson); inverse modeling of tsunami deposits to determine tsunami flow speed (Jaffe); simulation of tsunami sedimentation (Imamura); and others -- chaired by Dodd
5:30 - 6:30Free time
6:30 - 8:00Dinner at Queen's Court
8:00 - 9:00Stationary vortices in wall flows - how to laminarize a turbulent boundary layer by adding stationary vortices (Breidenthal)