Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

Upcoming seminars & events:

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

- PEPI has published a special issue on Computational Geodynamics (vol 171, December 2008). Boris Kaus & Taras Gerya (from GFD), and Daniel Schmid are guest editors of this issue.

Cover of the PEPI specisl issue on Computational Geodynamics

BSc & 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 modeling.

- Click here to view the textbook recently published by Taras Gerya at (see image cover below) Cambridge University Press.

Introduction to Numerical Geophysical Modeling

Some recent resuts:

- 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 the entire planet over billions of years.
The group is active in developing numerical approaches for this purpose, including discretisations using finite difference, finite volume, finite element and boundary element, and multigrid solvers. We own a substantial proportion (192 CPUs) of ETH's new parallel cluster, Brutus.