Teuku Muhammad Rasyif, Shigeru Kato, Syamsidik, Takumi Okabe
The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami caused massive morphological changes around the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. This research investigates the coastal morphological changes in the Banda Aceh area via coupling a hydrodynamic model with a sediment transport module. The Cornell Multigrid Coupled Tsunami Model (COMCOT) was coupled with the XBeach Model to simultaneously simulate sediment transport and the hydrodynamic process during the tsunami. The coupled model is known as COMCOT-SED. Field bathymetric data measured in 2006 were used to validate the coupled model. This study reveals that the tsunami’s impact was more severe on the eastern part of the coast, where it hit directly. Meanwhile, the western part of the coast suffered a lower impact because of the sheltering effects from a series of small islands and a headland to the north. This study has shown that the model results from COMCOT-SED are consistent with field data and show where the tsunami waves caused offshore erosion. © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology, 1-1 Tempaku Cho, Toyohashi, 441-8580, Aichi, Japan; Tsunami and Disaster Mitigation Research Center (TDMRC), Universitas Syiah Kuala, Jl. Prof. Dr. Ibrahim Hasan, Gp. Pie, Banda Aceh, 23233, Indonesia; Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Jl. Syeh Abdurrauf No. 7, Banda Aceh, 23111, Indonesia
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