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Dr. Rhodri Davies
Contact Details
Office: 3.55 Royal School of Mines Building
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
Cardiff University, Wales, UK
Imperial College London, UK
Munich University, Germany
Swansea University, Wales, UK
University College London, UK