Ludovic Räss

GD Geodynamics

The 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Ludovic Räss for the poster/PICO entitled:

M2Di: MATLAB 2-D Stokes solvers using the Finite Difference method. (Räss, L.; Duretz, T.; Podladchikov, Y. Y.; Schmalholz, S. M.)

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Ludovic Räss is a PhD student at the Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Lausanne, in Lausanne Switzerland under the supervision of Prof. Yuri Podladchikov. With coworkers, he developed a set of Matlab routines to efficiently solve linear and power law Stokes flow in 2-D.

The awarded poster reports time to solution of 22 seconds for linear viscous flow on 1000×1000 grid points using a modern personal computers. Application examples spanning from finely resolved crystal-melt dynamics, deformation of heterogenous power law viscous fluids to models of mantle flow in cylindrical coordinates are shown.