Science Buddies: "Ask an Expert"

My son wans to do build a tsunami model. He wants to check which barrier will work best when tsunami hits ?

Any ideas on how to build the model and where the barrier must be placed will be helpful.

Also how can we measure ?

Thanks

Hi,

Sounds like your son will have fun with the tsunami concept. Here are some Sciencece Buddy links that might be helpful:

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... ?f=3&t=477

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... ?f=3&t=382

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... ?f=3&t=483

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... ?f=3&t=547

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... ?f=3&t=325

Here are brief project ideas

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... p033.shtml

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... p011.shtml

Here are some papers on physical models that hopefully will help:

https://www.nees.org/images/pdf_documen ... _paper.pdf

http://criepi.denken.or.jp/en/e_publica ... seika7.pdf

http://www.usc.edu/dept/tsunamis/tsupub ... _pmle.html

http://wave.oregonstate.edu/Education/R ... Report.pdf

http://chl.erdc.usace.army.mil/chl.aspx ... rojects;35

Here is a book on the subject that you might be able to borrow on an interlibrary loan:

http://books.google.com/books?id=a5S5YR ... q=&f=false

I think I have given you links to all the resources Science Buddies has on tsunamis as well as some of the major links to be found by google searching. I am sorry to note that it seems very little of it is very responsive to your stated need. This means your son has a terrific opportunity to do a highly original project project if he can penetrate the fog and solve the challenges of doing a project without much cookbook guidance.In any event it should be a lot of fun to try.

I wish you all every success, and apologise for not being of more help!

Best regards,

Barrett L. Tomlinson