Dimitri Komatitsch
Post-doctoral Fellow in Geophysics and Numerical Modeling
Dimitri Komatitsch joined the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
at Harvard University
as a post-doctoral fellow in geophysics and numerical modeling
in January 1998. His main research interest is the study of site effects
(steep topography, strong lateral heterogeneities...).
He uses a variational formulation of the elastodynamics equations,
and solves it both in 2D and 3D using the so-called "spectral element method", a high-order form of the finite element method, which can be shown to be very accurate at a low cost,
and particularly well suited to a parallel architecture from a computational point of view.
He is currently working
at the
Department of Geological and Planetary Sciences of the
California Institute of Technology (Caltech) for a few months.
