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Dr. Rhodri Davies

Contact Details

Office: 4.89, Royal School of Mines Building

Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 5722

Research Interests

Solid Earth geophysics, mantle dynamics, links between the surface and Earth's interior, thermal and thermo-chemical convection, hot spots and mantle plumes, lithospheric processes, subduction-zone magmatism, mid-ocean ridge dynamics, numerical methods, unstructured meshes, adaptive mesh refinement.

Biography

2011 - Present: NERC Research Fellow, Imperial College London

2008 - 2010: 1851 Research Fellow, Imperial College London

2007 - 2008: Research Assistant, Funded by Shell, Based at the School of Earth & Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University.

2004-2007: PhD, Applying Multi-Resolution Numerical Methods to Geodynamics, School of Earth & Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University / School of Civil & Computational Engineering, Swansea University.

2000-2004: MSci, Earth Sciences, 1st Class Honours, School of Earth & Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University.

Publications

10. Davies, D. R., Goes, S., Davies, J. H., Schuberth, B. S. A., Bunge, H.-P. & J. Ritsema. Reconciling dynamic and seismic models of Earth's lower mantle: the dominant role of thermal heterogeneity. Earth Planet Sci. Lett. 353-354, 253-269, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2012.08.016, 2012. Download

** This article was highlighted by Nature Geoscience: Download Here

9. Kramer, S. C., Wilson, C. R. & Davies, D. R. An implicit free-surface algorithm for geodynamical simulations. Phys. Earth Planet Int. 194-195, 25-37, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2012.01.001, 2012. Download

8. Hunt, S. A., Davies, D. R., Walker, A. M., McCormack, R. J., Wills, A. S., Dobson, D. P. & Li, L. On the increase in thermal diffusivity caused by the perovskite to post-perovskite phase transition and its implications for mantle dynamics. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 319-320, 96-103, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.12.009, 2012. Download

7. Davies, D. R., Wilson, C. R. & Kramer, S. C. Fluidity: A fully unstructured anisotropic adaptive mesh computational modeling framework for geodynamics. Geochem. Geophys. Geosys., 12, Q06001, 20 PP., doi:10.1029/2011GC003551, 2011. Download

6. Styles, E., Davies, D. R., Goes, S. Mapping spherical seismic into physical structure: biases from 3-D phase-transition and thermal boundary-layer heterogeneity. Geophys. J. Int., 184, 1371-1378, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04914.x, 2011. Download

** This article received the GJI student paper award for 2011: 2011 Awards

5. Davies, J. H & Davies, D. R. Earth's surface heat flux. Solid Earth, 1, 5 - 24, 2010, doi:10.5194/se-1-5-2010 Download

4. Wolstencroft, M., Davies, J. H. & Davies, D. R. Nusselt-Rayleigh number scaling for spherical shell Earth mantle simulations up to a Rayleigh number of 10⁹. Phys. Earth Planet. Int., 176, 132-141, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2009.05.002, 2009. Download

3. Davies, D. R. & Davies, J. H. Thermally-driven mantle plumes reconcile multiple hot-spot observations. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 278, 50-54, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.11.027, 2009. Download High-Res Fig. 1 Model Plume Animation

2. Davies, D. R., Davies, J. H., Hassan, O., Morgan, K. & Nithiarasu, P. Adaptive finite element methods in geodynamics; Convection dominated mid-ocean ridge and subduction zone simulations. Int. J. Num. Meth. Heat Fluid Flow, 7-8, 1015-1035, doi:10.1108/09615530810899079, 2008. Download

1. Davies, D. R., Davies, J. H., Hassan, O., Morgan, K., & Nithiarasu, P. Investigations into the applicability of adaptive finite element methods for infinite Prandtl number thermal and thermo-chemical convection. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 8, Q05010, doi:10.1029/2006GC001470, 2007. Download