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INSTRUMENTS AND METHODS OF INVESTIGATION

Tsunami wave suppression using submarine barriers

A. M. Fridman^abc, L. S. Alperovich^c, L. Shemer^d, L. A. Pustil'nik^c, D. Shtivelman^c, An. G. Marchuk^e, D. Liberzon<sup>d

a</sup> Russian Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute", Moscow, Russian Federation
^b Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
^c Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel
^d School of Mechanical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Israel
^e Institute of computational mathematics and mathematical geophysics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

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.

PACS: 89.60.Gg, 91.30.Nw, 92.05.Bc, 92.05.Hj, 92.10.hl, 92.10.Hm

Received: December 29, 2009
Revised: April 2, 2010

DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0180.201008d.0843

 English version: Physics–Uspekhi, 2010, 53:8, 809–816

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