Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

Upcoming seminars & events:

- Click here to see the next GFD & geophysical seminars.

Open positions:

Click here to view positions open in our group. This page includes information about and links to EU Marie Curie and SNF fellowship programs.

BSc and MSc projects:

Click here to view descriptions of BSc and MSc projects offered in our group.

Online research material & books

- Click here to access pdf and ppt from recent seminar and links to visualisation of various geodynamical modelling.

- Click here to view the textbook recently published by Alik Ismail-Zadeh and Paul Tackley at Cambridge University Press. 

Computational Methods for Geodynamics, Cambridge University Press

- Click here to view the textbook published by Taras Gerya at Cambridge University Press.

Introduction to Numerical Geophysical Modelling

Some recent results:

- Convection in spherical geometry

A spherical version of STAG3D using a yin-yang grid.

More research topics here.

A 3D-numerical simulation of thermo-chemical convection

We study flow and deformation ("geodynamics") of the solid Earth and other planetary bodies using computational modeling. Research covers a wide range of scales, from features that can be observed by a geologist in the field, to global, 3D spherical models, and a correspondingly wide range of topics, from crustal and lithospheric deformation, to the geochemical evolution of entire planets over billions of years.

The group is active in developing numerical approaches for this purpose using finite difference, finite volume or finite element discretizations, Lagrangian markers and multigrid solvers. We own a substantial proportion (1008 cores) of ETH's new parallel cluster, Brutus.

Click here to view a short movie that summarizes our activities.