• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.295-304
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• 2012

This study proposed a two-dimensional horizontal numerical model based on the nonlinear shallow water wave equations to simulate tsunami propagation and coastal inundation. We numerically investigated the possible impacts of tsunami caused by the triple interlocked Tokai, Tonankai and Nankai Earthquakes on the Jeju coastal areas, using the proposed model. The simultaneous Tokai, Tonankai and Nankai Earthquakes were created a virtual tsunami model of an M9.0 earthquake. In numerical analysis, a grid nesting method for the local grid refinement in shallow coastal regions was employed to sufficiently reproduce the shoaling effects. The numerical model was carefully validated through comparisons with the data collected during the tsunami events by 2011 East Japan Earthquake and 1983 central East Sea Earthquake (Nihonkai Chubu Earthquake). Tsunami propagation triggered by the combined Tokai, Tonanakai and Nankai, Earthquakes was simulated for 10 hours to sufficiently consider the effects of tsunami in the coastal areas of Jeju Island. The numerical results revealed that water level fluctuation in tsunami propagation is greatly influenced by water-depth change, refraction, diffraction and reflection. In addition, the maximum tsunami height numerically estimated in the coastal areas of Jeju Island was about 1.6 m at Sagye port.

• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.31-38
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• 2008

The numerical simulation of tsunami against the south coast of the Korean Peninsula has been performed by adopting the standard appropriate grid size and the numerical model has been constructed to include the characteristics of the tsunami propagation applied for the care of the East China Sea. The artificial tsunami has been modelled first and then, it has been used as the boundary condition for the detailed model which showed the south coast of the Korean Peninsula.

• Journal of the Korean Professional Engineers Association
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• v.45 no.1
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• pp.45-48
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• 2012

The 2011 Japan Tsunami caused tremendous damage to coastal areas. Because of their drastic propagation speed and large run-up height, nearshore tsunami can cause catastrophic damages on coastal communities within a short time. It is necessary to establish the tsunami hazard mitigation to reduce human injury housing damage. The construction of Tsunami warning system and production of hazard map are needed for minimizing damage by tsunami.

• 한국방재학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.02a
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• pp.395-398
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• 2007

In this study, new dispersion-correction terms are added to leap-frog finite difference scheme for the linear shallow-water equations with the purpose of considering the dispersion effects of the linear Boussinesq equations for the propagation of tsunamis. The new model is applied to near Gadeok island in Pusan about The Central East Sea Tsunami in 1983 and The Hokkaldo Nansei Oki Earthquake Tsunami in 1993 one simulated in the study.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.51 no.11
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• pp.941-950
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• 2018

Tsunamis that have occurred around the Pacific Ocean rim over the past decades have taken a heavy toll on lives of human beings and property. The Eastern Coast of the Korean Peninsula is not safe from sudden tsunami attacks and has sustained tsunami damage in the past. In this review, the past, present, and future of some aspects of tsunami research in Korea have been introduced extensively. Tsunamis in Korea, numerical model simulating tsunami behaviors and laboratory experiments will be discussed. In the compainion review, field surveys for domestics and overseas tsunami events, countermeasures against tsunami attacks, furture research topics and concluding remarks will be described.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.45 no.10
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• pp.997-1008
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• 2012

To construct the practical forecast and warning system for distant tsunamis suitable for Korea the state-of-art of the forecast and warning systems of United States and Korea is investigated, and the action conducted by Korea for the case of 2011 East Japan Tsunami is also analysed. The tsunami sources and propagation characteristics of distant tsunamis that affect the Korean coastal area are considered along with the capability of earthquake monitering and numerical simulation and the available experts to propose the effective forecast and warning system for distant tsunamis.

• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.57-63
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• 2004

Wave lengths of tsunamis are shorter than those of tides, and the dispersion effect of tsunamis is relatively strong. Thus, it should be properly considered in the numerical simulation of distant tsunami propagation for better accuracy. In the present study an active dispersion-correction scheme using explicit scheme is developed to take into account the dispersion effect in the simulation of tsunami propagation using one-dimensional finite element method based on wave equation. The validity of the dispersion-correction scheme proposed in this study is confirmed through the comparision of numerical solutions calculated using the present scheme with analytical ones considering dispersion effect of waves.

• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.140-154
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• 1997

On November 15, 1994 at 03:17 local time, an earthquake of surface magnitude (M$_{s}$) 7.0 occurred on the northern coast of the Mindoro in Philippine. A major tsunami was generated by this earthquake, extremely large tsunami waves engulfed the Mindoro and the Verde islands. This tsunami caused tremendous casualities and damage. The tsunami propagated to the Luzon island and felt at the Batangas after 10 minutes. The present paper intends to understand the propagation and inundation this tsunami with the aid of numerical computation model and computer graphic aided video animation.n.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.265-271
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• 2015

The tsunami hazard analysis is performed for testing the application of probabilistic tsunami hazard analysis to nuclear power plant sites in the Korean Peninsula. Tsunami hazard analysis is based on the seismic hazard analysis. Probabilistic method is adopted for considering the uncertainties caused by insufficient information of tsunamigenic fault sources. Logic tree approach is used. Uljin nuclear power plant (NPP) site is selected for this study. The tsunamigenic fault sources in the western part of Japan (East Sea) are used for this study because those are well known fault sources in the East Sea and had several records of tsunami hazards. We have performed numerical simulations of tsunami propagation for those fault sources in the previous study. Therefore we use the wave parameters obtained from the previous study. We follow the method of probabilistic tsunami hazard analysis (PTHA) suggested by the atomic energy society of Japan (AESJ). Annual exceedance probabilities for wave height level are calculated for the site by using the information about the recurrence interval, the magnitude range, the wave parameters, the truncation of lognormal distribution of wave height, and the deviation based on the difference between simulation and record. Effects of each parameters on tsunami hazard are tested by the sensitivity analysis, which shows that the recurrence interval and the deviation dominantly affects the annual exceedance probability and the wave heigh level, respectively.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.710-720
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• 2020

Tsunami occurred by a rapid change in the ocean floor is a natural disaster that causes serious damage worldwide. South Korea seems to be out of the range of this damage, but it is quite possible that South Korea will fall within the range due to the long-distance propagation features of tsunami and many earthquakes occurred in Japan. However, the analysis and preparation for tsunami have been still insufficient. In this paper, we propose a tsunami simulation model based on cellular automata for analyzing coastal inundation. The proposed model calculates the range of inundation in coastal areas by propagating the energy of tsunami using the interaction between neighboring cells. We define interaction rules and algorithms for the energy transfer and propose a software tool to effectively utilize the model. In addition, to verify and tune the simulation model, we used the actual tsunami data in 2010 at Dichato, Chile. As a case study, the proposed model was applied to analyze the coastal inundation according to tsunami height in Gwangali Beach, a famous site in Busan. It is expected that the simulation model can be a help to prepare an effective countermeasure against tsunami and be used for a virtual evacuating training.