Numerical investigation of transient harbor oscillations induced by N-waves

This study reveals that, for the given harbor, for the range of the incident wave amplitude and the incident wave types studied in this paper, the larger tsunamis lead to a more uniform relative wave energy distribution inside the harbor. The relative wave energy distributions induced by the LDN waves are always more uniform than those induced by the LEN waves, while the relative wave energy distributions induced by the solitary waves are more concentrated than those induced by the various N-waves. When the incident wave amplitude is relatively large, the maximum runups of the LDN waves are considerably larger than those of the solitary waves, while those of the LEN waves are much less than those of the solitary waves.