ABSTRACT
The devastating tsunami of 26 December 2004 in the Indian Ocean prompted many numerical modeling groups around the world to either develop or adapt their existing models to simulate this event. Following the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 26 December 2004, several numerical models for this tsunami, either were posted on the world wide web and or appeared in the literature. This is an attempt to summarize briefly the parameters and important results of these models. The order in which we arranged the review, has no particular significance, except to suggest that, that was the order in which we found them. Our cut-off date for this review is 1 November 2005, in the sense that any models that appeared after this date were not included this review. It is also quite probable that, there were some other models that appeared in the literature, but some how escaped our attention. Finally it should be pointed out that all these models mainly dealt with the tsunami generation and propagation aspects, and whatever results were included on the inundation aspects, are mostly from simple runup algorithms, rather than from exhaustive and detailed coastal inundation models. This is not a critical review of the models; it is a brief presentation of relevant information about the models for this tsunami event.
