Visiting Researchers
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Institute |
Australian National University |
Title |
Post Doctrol Fellow | |
Country |
Australia | |
Period of Stay |
2014/07/22 - 2014/08/30 | |
Research Theme |
Improved modeling of tsunami waveforms and its application | |
Host Researcher |
Shingo WATADA |
I am Postdoctoral research Fellow at the Australian National University since October 2012. I graduated with my PhD in Paris, France in 2012. My PhD research focused on the study of the tsunami excitation of free oscillations of harbors and bays, the tsunami hazard along the French Metropolitan Coast and numerical simulation development. Since 2012 at the ANU, I have used tsunami simulation to help to constraint large recent earthquakes. This involves solving source inversion problems, and numerical simulation development to have a better simulation of the tsunami waveform traveling across the ocean. I developed there a tsunami numerical model working on HPC resources that includes new physics like the interaction of the tsunami loading mass with the sea floor, and implementing a linear stratification in the density along the water-column. Meanwhile, at ERI, Watada-sensei worked on the same aspect using a more theoretical approach.
During my stay at ERI, I planned to work with Watada-sensei (and maybe with other researchers) on the comparison of both model and on the direct or indirect effect of this new physics on the tsunami research. As it is my first stay in Japan, I would like to use most of my free time to explore Japanese landscape (above and under water), culture, and language (this last one will be quite limited).