Evaluation of fluid force acted on a bridge girder during Tsunami by using a particle method and its validation

Abstract

On March 11, 2011, the huge tsunami caused by the great east Japan earthquake devastated the Pacific coast of north-eastern Japan. Many infrastructures including bridges were collapsed by the tsunami. New generation of tsunami disaster prevention and mitigation method should be reconsidered toward the next millennium Tsunami. In this study, a new boundary treatment using a virtual marker and the fixed boundary particle is developed to control the slip and no-slip boundary condition for the velocity field and to satisfy the pressure Neumann condition at the same time. Finally, the accuracy and efficiencies of our proposed method are validated by comparison between a numerical solution and experimental results.