Global optimization for data assimilation in landslide tsunami models

Abstract

The goal of this article is to make automatic data assimilation for a landslide tsunami model, given by the coupling between a non-hydrostatic multi-layer shallow-water and a Savage-Hutter granular landslide model for submarine avalanches. The coupled model is discretized using a positivity preserving second-order path-conservative finite volume scheme. Then, the data assimilation problem is posed in a global optimization framework. Later, multi-path parallel metaheuristic stochastic global optimization algorithms are developed. More precisely, a multi-path Simulated Annealing algorithm is compared with a multi-path hybrid global optimization algorithm based on coupling Simulated Annealing with gradient local searchers.