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Richard Foa Katz

Richard Katz
Professor
Department of Earth Sciences
richard.katz@earth.ox.ac.uk
Richard Katz is Professor of Geodynamics in Earth Sciences at Oxford. He construes geodynamics broadly, to include natural processes associated with flow and phase change, thermal and chemical transport, on Earth and other planetary bodies. Katz leads the FoaLab, a research group that develops mathematical analysis and numerical models of such systems. Current projects include studies of eruption of mud volcanoes, lake drainage through ice shelves, ore-body formation, tides in Jupiter's moons, magmatism at continental rifts and mid-ocean ridges, and pattern formation in granular-media flows. Collaboration with observationalists/experimentalists is typically how projects are initiated.

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Richard Katz

Richard Foa Katz

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Luke Kearney

Luke Kearney

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Department Earth Sciences
Group Laboratory for Geodynamics
Research Areas Complex Fluids Convection and Mass Transport Geophysical, Geological, and Environmental Flows Granular Media Instability Low-Reynolds-Number Flows Mathematical Foundations and Numerical Methods Phase Changes Porous Media Flows Reacting Flows