Simulation of nonlinear surface waves generated by submarine landslides

In this work, we study about nonlinear surface wave generated by submarine landslides. The landslide is modeled as a rigid block sliding down along a sloping bottom. We implement a numerical scheme based on the staggered finite volume method to simulate surface wave. We enhance the conservative scheme for nonlinear shallow water equation (SWE) to include this bottom motion. Our numerical result show a good agreement with previous results of the nonlinear boundary integral equation model (BIEM) by Lynett and Liu and central-upwind scheme by Kurganov and Petrova.