New computational methods in tsunami science

J Behrens, F Dias - … Transactions of the Royal Society A …, 2015‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Tsunamis are rare events with severe consequences. This generates a high demand on
accurate simulation results for planning and risk assessment purposes because of the low …

Dynamic viability of the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake cascade on weak crustal faults

T Ulrich, AA Gabriel, JP Ampuero, W Xu - Nature communications, 2019‏ - nature.com
We present a dynamic rupture model of the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake to unravel the
event's riddles in a physics-based manner and provide insight on the mechanical viability of …

Coupled, physics-based modeling reveals earthquake displacements are critical to the 2018 Palu, Sulawesi tsunami

T Ulrich, S Vater, EH Madden, J Behrens… - Pure and Applied …, 2019‏ - Springer
Abstract The September 2018, M_w M w 7.5 Sulawesi earthquake occurring on the Palu-
Koro strike-slip fault system was followed by an unexpected localized tsunami. We show that …

Dynamics, interactions and delays of the 2019 Ridgecrest rupture sequence

T Taufiqurrahman, AA Gabriel, D Li, T Ulrich, B Li… - Nature, 2023‏ - nature.com
The observational difficulties and the complexity of earthquake physics have rendered
seismic hazard assessment largely empirical. Despite increasingly high-quality geodetic …

Petascale high order dynamic rupture earthquake simulations on heterogeneous supercomputers

A Heinecke, A Breuer, S Rettenberger… - SC'14: Proceedings …, 2014‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present an end-to-end optimization of the innovative Arbitrary high-order DERivative
Discontinuous Galerkin (ADER-DG) software SeisSol targeting Intel® Xeon Phi coprocessor …

Extreme scale multi-physics simulations of the tsunamigenic 2004 sumatra megathrust earthquake

C Uphoff, S Rettenberger, M Bader… - Proceedings of the …, 2017‏ - dl.acm.org
We present a high-resolution simulation of the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake,
including non-linear frictional failure on a megathrustsplay fault system. Our method exploits …

Landers 1992 “reloaded”: Integrative dynamic earthquake rupture modeling

S Wollherr, AA Gabriel, PM Mai - Journal of Geophysical …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The 1992 M w 7.3 Landers earthquake is perhaps one of the best studied seismic
events. However, many aspects of the dynamics of the rupture process are still puzzling, for …

Stress, rigidity and sediment strength control megathrust earthquake and tsunami dynamics

T Ulrich, AA Gabriel, EH Madden - Nature Geoscience, 2022‏ - nature.com
Megathrust faults host the largest earthquakes on Earth, which can trigger cascading
hazards such as devastating tsunamis. Determining characteristics that control subduction …

Off-fault plasticity in three-dimensional dynamic rupture simulations using a modal Discontinuous Galerkin method on unstructured meshes: implementation …

S Wollherr, AA Gabriel, C Uphoff - Geophysical Journal …, 2018‏ - academic.oup.com
The dynamics and potential size of earthquakes depend crucially on rupture transfers
between adjacent fault segments. To accurately describe earthquake source dynamics …

Efficient implementation of ADER discontinuous Galerkin schemes for a scalable hyperbolic PDE engine

M Dumbser, F Fambri, M Tavelli, M Bader, T Weinzierl - Axioms, 2018‏ - mdpi.com
In this paper we discuss a new and very efficient implementation of high order accurate
arbitrary high order schemes using derivatives discontinuous Galerkin (ADER-DG) finite …