Modeling study of tsunami wave propagation

A tsunami is one of nature's most hazardous and unpredictable natural disasters. Modeling is a useful technique for anticipating how complicated systems will behave. It is used to predict the characteristics of devastating waves when a tsunami strikes. The need for modeling study is to determine the tsunami's travel time to the coast, as well as its amplitude and inundation distance, to safeguard society from catastrophic destruction with minimal computing time and this paper provides the mathematical formulation involved in the modeling of tsunami wave propagation to attain the above-mentioned parameters. The modeling of a dynamic system of tsunami wave propagation is investigated and presented in detail for various generation phenomena which are explained with case studies, parameters, and distinct modeling methodologies. A brief review of the literature about tsunami wave propagation is given to explain the properties of tsunami changes with changes in the depth of the ocean (frequency dispersion) and the environmental impacts due to tsunamis are addressed here.