"On Long Wave Runup"
Dr. Harry Yeh, P.E. (CA), Professor of Civil and Construction Engineering, OSU
Thursday, March 31, 2022
Lecture/Panel 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Reception 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Location TBD
Abstract
Understanding nonlinear long-wave runup is crucial for effective tsunami-hazard mitigation. I first derive an analytical solution to the shallow-water-wave problem, which helps identify a tsunami’s runup characteristics. This solution is used to predict a tsunami’s fluid forces. I then discuss shortcomings and an analysis on shoaling of long waves from offshore locations where depth is uniform. Future research and perspectives of this work will also be discussed.
Bio
At OSU since 2003, Harry held a faculty position at UW from 1983-2002. He earned his A.B. in Economics at Keio Gijuku University, B.S. and M.S. at WSU, and his PhD at U.S. Berkeley. Harry’s primary research contribution is on coastal effects of tsunamis. Past editor of ASCE Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering, Harry has received the JDR award, Edwards Chair, the Hamaguchi Award, and 2021 ASCE Moffatt-Nichol Harbor and Coastal Engineering Award.
Free and open to the public.
About the series
The Edwards Lecture Series, initiated by Professor Harry Yeh in 2005, is named in honor of Miles Lowell Edwards, an engineering genius, known for his unique and successful inventions. His remarkable achievements included developing prosthetic heart valves, creating timber industry materials to debark trees, and enabling Boeing B-17 aircraft pumps to operate at high altitudes.
Past lectures
- 2019: R. Gary Hicks, "ASCE Monismith Lecture on Pavement Preservation"
- 2019: Hasan Latif, "Building a Pyramid – Quarrying and Building in Ancient Egypt"
- 2019: M. Katherine Banks, "Strategic Approach to Innovation in Engineering Education"
- 2018: Robert J. Connor, "Towards an Integrated Fracture-control Plan for Steel Bridges"
- 2018: Edward Kavazanjian, Jr., "Geo-Alchemy (Turning Sand into Sandstone) and other Biogeotechnologies"
- 2018: Reginald DesRoches, "Challenges and Opportunities for Reducing Earthquake Risks"
- 2017: Jerome F. Hajjar, "Damage and Collapse Assessment in Steel and Composite Structures"
- 2017: C. Michael Walton, "Innovation in Delivery of Transportation Infrastructure"
- 2017: Gregory G. Deierlein, "From Performance-Based Engineering to Earthquake Resilience"
- 2016: Thomas E. Boothby, "Engineering Iron and Stone"
- 2015: Juan Restrepo, “Taking Uncertainties into Account in Geosciences, Physics, and Engineering”
- 2014: Brian Kirby, “Geometrically Enhanced Differential Immunocapture: Using Obstacle Arrays in Microfluidic Devices to Enhance Efficient and Pure Rare Cell Capture from Fluid Suspensions”
- 2013: Greg Lawrence, “Waves and Currents: Hawking Radiation in the Hydraulics Laboratory”
- 2011: Peter Rhines, “Exploring the Subpolar Oceans with Seagliders and Satellite Altimetry”
- 2010: Gary Parker, “Self-Stratification due to Suspended Sediment in Rivers and Turbidity Currents: the Delicate Balance of the Latter”
- 2009: Robert Guza, “Observations of Southern California Waves and Wave-Driven Processes”
- 2008: Jim Duncan Smith, “Flow, Sediment Transport, and Geomorphic Adjustment in Rivers”
- 2007: Chiang C. Mei, “Nonlinear Resonance in a Harbor”
- 2006: Colin Brown, “Modelling of and as Granular Media”
- 2005: Michael Longuet-Higgins, “Mass Transport and Wave Damping over Rippled Sea Beds”