Joakim Blanch

Ph.D. Candidate - Computational Science and Engineering
Department of Geology and Geophysics, Rice Univeristy

Uppsala University M. Sc. Physics Engineering (1992)
Rice University M. A. Geophysics (1995)


Research Interests

Joakim Blanch's research interests are modeling of seismic waves and inversion of seismic data, especially in visco-elastic media. At Rice University he is working in the TRIP group ( The Rice Inversion Project ). The group has, for instance, developed an inversion algorithm (estimation of Earth parameters, such as velocity and density, from seismic data) for visco-acoustic media. He is conducting his research as a Ph.D. candidate in the interdisciplinary Computational Science and Engineering program at Rice (GEOL/CAAM). Main research topics include parallel implementation of 3D visco-elastic wave-propagation simulator and investigation of resolution ability in visco-elastic media. He will in August 1995 start as a Research Associate to Prof. William W. Symes , Dept. Computational and Applied Mathematics , Rice University . As a Research Associate he will work on modeling and inversion of GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar) data.

Publications

Joakim Blanch
Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Rice University
Houston, TX 77005
Phone: 713-527-8750 ext 2243
Fax: 713-285-5318

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