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Disaster Prevention for Tsunami, Storm Surge and Storm Waves
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Disaster Prevention for Tsunami, Storm Surge and Storm Waves

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Earth Sciences".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 February 2022) | Viewed by 2400

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Tetsuya Hiraishi

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Guest Editor
Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan
Interests: coastal wave transformation; harbor oscillation; storm surge mitigation; removable breakwater; beach nourishment
Dr. Che-Wei Chang

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Guest Editor
Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan
Interests: coastal engineering; nearshore hydrodynamics; coastal disaster reduction; environmental fluid mechanics

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The risk of inundation in coastal and harbor area is increasing mainly because of global climate change and partially because of concentration of population and social stock to waterfront. The hazard due to tsunamis, storm surge, and stormy waves causes the heavy destruction of urban operations. Disaster prevention in coastal zones should be discussed more severely to establish more practical damage reduction systems, early evacuation support tools, and structures with resiliency.

This Special Issue invites papers discussing the development and improvement of hard-ware-like breakwaters to mitigate hazards due to tsunamis, storm surge, and stormy waves. Application to global climate change is included in this category. The implementation of hardware is also useful to delay the tsunami arrival time. Warning systems to support early evacuation are in the software category, and several new systems should be introduced in the Special Issue.

The aim of the Special Issue is to emphasize on the combination of hard- and software to reduce the risk of inundation and destruction in coastal urban areas by tsunamis, storm surge, and stormy waves, which is extremely topical due to the necessary effort to protect human lives and social properties in waterfronts.

Prof. Dr. Tetsuya Hiraishi
Dr. Che-Wei Chang
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • tsunami
  • storm surge
  • stormy waves
  • hardware disaster prevention
  • software disaster prevention

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Rescue System Design and Traffic Model Planning
by Haoran Zhao, Wenjie Yang and Huibin Zhu
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(21), 10481; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/app112110481 - 08 Nov 2021
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Abstract
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) are widely used in disaster relief and road exploration in recent years. This paper mainly studied the emergency response of UAVs after disasters. The UAV response system is mainly suitable for the distribution of necessities and road exploration after [...] Read more.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) are widely used in disaster relief and road exploration in recent years. This paper mainly studied the emergency response of UAVs after disasters. The UAV response system is mainly suitable for the distribution of necessities and road exploration after geological disasters and tsunamis in coastal areas. By analyzing the problem and making reasonable assumptions, the optimization model was established with the traffic planning theory, and MATLAB software was used to program and solve the problem. An optimal scheduling scheme was presented to solve these problems. The normalization method was used to select a highly capable UAV. Taking the minimum volume of idle space buffer material as the objective function and taking into account the constraints, such as payload of unmanned aerial vehicle, a single objective programming model was established. The results are as follows: Each International Standards Organization (ISO) cargo container has five UAVs B, one UAV C, one UAV F and one UAV H. It provides 188 days of relief requirements with ISO cargo containers’ space utilization of 71.4%. The research shows that the UAV response system has the functions of necessities distribution and road exploration after disasters, and can be used to deal with the emergency response after disasters in coastal areas, and has a wide range of applicability. Full article
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