Costas Synolakis - Publications#

Costas Synolakis's publications have received over 11,500 citations in Google Scholar. His h-index is 57 and his i-10 index is 122. The following are the most significant.

Synolakis, C.E. and Kânoğlu, U., 2015, The Fukushima accident was preventable, PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS R. SOC. A 373 (2053), 1–23, DOI:10.1098/rsta.2014.0374. (Paper has been cited 19 times in ISI - was covered in the front page of the Washington Post.)

England, P., Howell, A., Jackson J., and Synolakis, C.E., 2015, Palaeotsunamis and tsunami hazards in the Eastern Mediterranean, PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS R. SOC. A 373 (2053), DOI:10.1098/rsta.2014.0379. (Paper cited 10 times in ISI.)

Kazolea, M., Delis, A., & Synolakis C.E., 2014, Numerical treatment of wave breaking on unstructured finite volume approximations for extended Boussinesq–type equations, JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS 271, 281–305, DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2014.01.030. )(Paper has been cited 32 times in ISI.)

Kânoğlu U., Titov, V.V., Aydin, B., Moore, C., Stefanakis, T.S., Zhou, H., Spillane, M., & Synolakis, C.E., 2013, Focusing of long waves with finite crest over constant depth, PROC. R. SOC. A. 469 doi:10.1098/rspa.2013.0015. (Paper cited 16 times in ISI.)-

Okal, E.A & Synolakis, C.E., 2008, Far-field tsunami hazard from mega-thrust earthquakes in the Indian Ocean, GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL, 172, 995–1015. (Paper cited 97 times in ISI.)

Borrero, J.C., Sieh, K., Shlieh, M., Synolakis, C.E., 2006, Tsunami inundation modeling for western Sumatra, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 103 (52), 19673–19677. (Paper has been cited 67 times in ISI.) - Analysis of the risks in Western Sumatra, published quickly after the 2004 tsunami so as to help residents prepare for the next one.

Kânoğlu, U. and Synolakis, C.E., 2006, Initial Value Problem Solution of the Nonlinear Shallow Water–Wave Equations, PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 97, 148501–148504. (Paper has been cited 56 times in ISI.)

Synolakis, C.E., and Bernard, E.N., 2006, Tsunami Science Before and Beyond Boxing Day 2004, PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY , A 364, 2231–2265. (Paper has been cited 169 times in ISI.)

Synolakis, C.E, Bardet, J.P, Borrero, J., Davies, H., Okal, E., Silver, E., Sweet, J., Tappin, D., 2002, The slump origin of the 1998 Papua New Guinea tsunami, PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON A 458, 763–769. (Paper has been cited 175 times in ISI.)

Tadepalli, S. and Synolakis, C.E., 1994, The Runup of N–waves on Sloping Beaches. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY, LONDON, SERIES A, 445, pp. 99–112. (Paper has been cited 188 times in ISI.)

Synolakis, C.E., 1987, The runup of solitary waves. JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS, 185, 523–545. (Paper has been cited 494 times in ISI.) Key paper widely referenced and used for benchmarking numerical codes.