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Dr. Rhodri Davies

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Contact Details

Office: 3.55 Royal School of Mines Building

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Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 9319

Email: Rhodri.Davies@imperial.ac.uk


Research Interests

Solid Earth geophysics, mantle dynamics, 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

2008 - Present: 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

2009

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, 2009. Download

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


2008

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


2007

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


2006

Davies, D. R., Davies, J. H., Hassan, O., Morgan, K. & Nithiarasu, P. Adaptive finite element methods for geodynamics. Proceedings of a joint conference of the Association for Computational Mechanics in Engineering (UK) and the Irish Society for Scientific and Engineering Computation, Queens University Belfast, 107-110, 2006.


Media

May 2009: Magma pulses may reveal Earth's 'heartbeat'.

August 2008: Yellowstone Supervolcano is only luke-warm.


Collaborations

California Institute of Technology, CA, USA

Michael Gurnis


Cardiff University, Wales, UK

J. Huw Davies

David Oldham

Peter Webb

Martin Wolstencroft


Imperial College London, UK

Gareth Collins

Saskia Goes

Gerard Gorman

Matthew Piggott

Mark Rehkamper


Munich University, Germany

Hans-Peter Bunge


Swansea University, Wales, UK

Oubay Hassan

Ken Morgan

Perumal Nithiarasu


University College London, UK

Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni


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