NEES Multidirectional Wave Basin for Tsunami Research

Oregon State is upgrading its multidirectional wave basin under the National Science Foundation Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) program to create a next-generation experimental testing facility for research and practicing engineers. The new facility addresses the unique requirements posed by tsunami researchers, with basin dimensions and wave generation capabilities closely matching the community’s vision of the “ideal basin”. When completed in 2004, the basin will support high resolution, unprecedented-scale experiments with very dense instrumentation. Researchers will be able to test and validate advanced analytical and numerical models of general environmental fluid mechanics issues in coastal science and engineering including tsunami phenomena induced by sub-sea earthquakes, spanning a full range of ocean, coastal, and harbor studies. An integral past of the upgraded facility is the exploitation of advanced network technologies to allow researchers located at distant sites to play active roles in experiments at the facility, viewing data and images in real time and participating in decision-making. The broader research community will benefit from this large long-wave experiment facility, a comprehensive experiment databank, with specialized interfaces for experiment replay, searching and browsing archives of past experiments, extraction of experimental data of ruse in validating numerical models, and a community repository for numerical simulation codes. A summary of the progress on basin building, wave generator and network system design, construction, installation and planned research will be presented.

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• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

  1801 Alexander Bell Drive
  Reston, VA  United States  20191-4400
• Authors:
  • Yim, Solomon C
  • Yeh, Harry H
  • Cox, Daniel T
  • Pancake, Cherri M
• Conference:
  • Coastal Structures 2003
  • Location: Portland Oregon, United States
  • Date: 2003-8-26 to 2003-8-30
• Publication Date: 2004

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: pp 911-923
• Monograph Title: Coastal Structures 2003

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Coastal engineering; Decision making; Earthquake engineering; Earthquakes; Engineers; Networks; Numerical analysis; Research; Shore protection; Simulation; Tsunamis; Waves
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Materials; Research; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01004046
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0784407339
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 2 2005 1:47PM