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Department of Earth Science and Engineering

Computer Modelling

The department conducts a highly active research group in fluid flow that benefits from worldclass codes, developed inhouse, and computational facilities. For more information see our computational modelling group's research pages. If you are interested in one of the projects listed below please feel free to contact the associated staff.

Projects

Modelling Fracture Propagation in Shale Caprocks Cooled by Supercritical CO2 Injection. [details]
Robert Zimmerman and Adriana Paluszny 

Geomechanical fracture network modelling and characterisation. [details]
John-Paul Latham and Jiansheng Xiang

Asian Dust Transport: Calibrating the regional scale chemistry/aerosol climate model REMOTE. [details]
Dominik Weiss, Jefferson Gomez

Digital 3D vision from very narrow baseline stereo imaging for terrestrial and planetary exploration. [details
Jianguo Liu

Terrain recognition for autonomous navigation based on multi-spectral image 3D comparison. [details
Jianguo Liu

Simulating tidal stream based marine renewable power generation in the Pentland Firth. [details]
Matthew Piggott and Colin Cotter

Lochs and lakes: physical laboratories for large scale ocean dynamics. [details]
Matthew Piggott

Tracking melt beneath deep crustal intrusions and active volcanoes. [details]
Matthew Jackson and Joanna Morgan

Using high resolution seismic imaging to better understand the Earth. [details]
Joanna Morgan and Michael Warner 

Modelling the Chicxulub impact: is crater asymmetry produced by impact angle or asymmetry in target rocks? [details]
Gareth Collins and Joanna Morgan

Numerical Simulations of Crater Formation with Dilatancy for Analysis of GRAIL data [details]
Gareth Collins and Mark Wieczorek

Assessing the landslide tsunami hazard: Modelling waves generated by Landslides [details]
Gareth Collins and Matthew Piggott

Modelling rock fracture and fragmentation. [details]
Robert Zimmerman 

Mush dynamics within magma chambers [details]
Matthew Jackson, Steve Sparks (University of Bristol) and Jon Blundy (University of Bristol)

From tomography to tectonics.[details]
Rhodri Davies and Saskia Goes

Nanoparticles: The contribution of surfaces to the magnetic Curie temperature.[details]
Adrian Muxworthy  and Valera Shcherbakov (Russian Academy of Sciences)

Zn and Fe uptake in rice - a combined isotopic, bioinorganic and modelling study to understand the mechanism of Zn efficiency. [details]
Dominik Weiss, Ramon Vilar, Jeremy Harvey (Bristol University), Guy Kirk (Cranfield University) and Tiina Roose (University of Southampton)

Modelling the global dust cycle during the Holocene. [details]
Dominik Weiss, Barbara Langmann (University of Hamburg) and Kerry Gallagher (University Rennes)

The role of tidal currents on reservoir distribution and quality in the Lower Jurassic Tilje Formation, Offshore Mid-Norway. [details]
Peter Allison, Christopher Jackson, Howard Johnson, Matthew Piggott

High-resolution stratigraphic and paleogeographic controls on palaeo-oceanographic circulation and mudrock sedimento logy. [details]
Gary Hampson, Peter Allison, Matthew Piggott, Christopher Pain

Very coarse granular systems (fully funded EPSRC - Project 1). [details]
John-Paul Latham, Jiansheng Xiang, Chris Pain, Ger ard Gorman and Bassam Izzuddin

Computational mechanics for coast protection (fully funded EPSRC - Project 2). [details]
John-Paul Latham, Jiansheng Xiang, Chris Pain, Gerard Gorman and Bassam Izzuddin

Stress and deformation modeling of the Africa-Arabia collision with Eurasia.[details]
Saskia Goes,Chris Hieronymus (Uppsala University, Sweden)

Sediment-laden density currents.[details]
Peter Allison and Matthew Piggott

Monitoring saltwater influx into freshwater aquifers using measurements of spontaneous potential. [details]
Matthew Jackson