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Project Overview

Project Code: CIT 13

Project name:

Simulation of submarine earthquakes, landslides and subsequent tsunamis

TUM Department:

CIT - Informatics

TUM Chair / Institute:

Scientific Computing in Computer Science

Research area:

Computational Seismology, High Performance Computing

Student background:

Civil EngineeringComputer EngineeringComputer ScienceComputer Science/ InformaticsEnvironmental EngineeringFurther disciplinesMathematicsPhysics

Further disciplines:

Geophysics, Geoscience, Earth science, Computational Science and Engineering

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Planned project location:

Department of Computer Science
Boltzmannstr. 3
85748 Garching
Germany

Project Supervisor - Contact Details


Title:

Prof. Dr.

Given name:

Michael

Family name:

Bader

E-mail:

bader@cit.tum.de

Phone:

+4989358317810

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Project Description


Project description:

Tsunamis are catastrophic events with potentially world-wide impact. In general, they result from a large-scale, sudden deformation of the sea floor, for example due to submarine earthquakes or landslides. The respective elevation of the sea surface is propagated across the ocean as a destructive tsunami. While this wave propagation can be modeled and simulated with high accuracy, it is much less understood how several sources (earthquakes, landslides, etc.) contribute to the generated tsunami. We address this problem by performing highly detailed simulations of complex earthquake-tsunami events on high performance computers.

Depending on the background of the student, the PREP project will address questions of modeling earthquakes, landslides and/or tsunamis, or alternatively deal with improving the respective software packages (ExaHyPE, SeisSol) for simulations and their usage on high performance computers.

Working hours per week planned:

35 to 40 hrs./week

Prerequisites


Required study level minimum (at time of TUM PREP project start):

2 years of bachelor studies completed

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You should be enthusiastic about using computational methods to solve relevant problems in science and engineering - particularly in the geosciences.

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