Research Interests:
Continuum mechanics, Large deformation of earth materials, Methods for moving interfaces, Modeling growth processes such biofilm evolution, micro-structure evolution in metal alloys, Numerical solutions to partial differential equations.

Currently my research at UTIG in collaboration with Dr. Luc Lavier focuses on developing an efficient numerical scheme to model localization of deformation in accretionary wedges. The formulation is general enough to consider to any material model including a visco-plastic or Mohr-Coulomb type material behavior. The scheme is implemented on massively parallel computing platforms ( Lonestar and Ranger ) available to us at Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC).

UTIG Supervisor: Luc Lavier