Potential technique for improving the survival of victims of tsunamis

We investigated a method for surviving tsunamis that involved the use of personal flotation devices (PFDs). In our work, we succeeded in numerically demonstrating that the heads of all the dummies wearing PFDs remained on the surface and were not dragged underwater after the artificial tsunami wave...

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Autores principales: Kurisu, Akane, Suga, Hisami, Prochazka, Zdenek, Suzuki, Kojiro, Oguri, Kazumasa, Inoue, Tetsunori
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5965854/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29791490
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0197498
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author Kurisu, Akane
Suga, Hisami
Prochazka, Zdenek
Suzuki, Kojiro
Oguri, Kazumasa
Inoue, Tetsunori
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description We investigated a method for surviving tsunamis that involved the use of personal flotation devices (PFDs). In our work, we succeeded in numerically demonstrating that the heads of all the dummies wearing PFDs remained on the surface and were not dragged underwater after the artificial tsunami wave hit them. In contrast, the heads of all the dummies not wearing PFDs were drawn underwater immediately; these dummies were subsequently entrapped in a vortex. The results of our series of experiments are important as a first step to preventing the tragedies caused by tsunamis.
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spelling pubmed-59658542018-06-02 Potential technique for improving the survival of victims of tsunamis Kurisu, Akane Suga, Hisami Prochazka, Zdenek Suzuki, Kojiro Oguri, Kazumasa Inoue, Tetsunori PLoS One Research Article We investigated a method for surviving tsunamis that involved the use of personal flotation devices (PFDs). In our work, we succeeded in numerically demonstrating that the heads of all the dummies wearing PFDs remained on the surface and were not dragged underwater after the artificial tsunami wave hit them. In contrast, the heads of all the dummies not wearing PFDs were drawn underwater immediately; these dummies were subsequently entrapped in a vortex. The results of our series of experiments are important as a first step to preventing the tragedies caused by tsunamis. Public Library of Science 2018-05-23 /pmc/articles/PMC5965854/ /pubmed/29791490 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0197498 Text en © 2018 Kurisu et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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