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Tsunami wave suppression using submarine barriers

L. Alperovich, Lev Shemer, Lev A Pustil'nik, D Shtivelman, An. G. Marchuk, Dan Liberzon

Physics-Uspekhi · 2010 · 11 citations · 5 references

Concepts

EngineeringOcean EngineeringOceanographyCoastal EngineeringDisaster Risk ReductionOcean WavesMarine ProtectionSubsea HydrodynamicsTsunami WavesFlume ExperimentsTsunami MitigationTsunami PropagationTsunami Wave Breaking

Abstract

Submerged barriers, single or double, can be used to greatly reduce the devastating effect of a tsunami wave according to a research flume study conducted at Tel Aviv University.

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