Vishagan Ratnaswamy
Grad Student in Geophysics
BS Mechanical Engineering, 2009, New Jersey Institute of Technology
BS Applied Mathematics, 2009, New Jersey Institute of Technology
MS Mechanical Engineering, 2010, New Jersey Institute of Technology
MS Aerospace Engineering, 2011, California Institute of Technology
California Institute of Technology
Seismological Laboratory
1200 E. California Blvd., MS 252-21
So. Mudd Building, Rm 370
Pasadena, CA 91125
Phone:
(626) 395-8906
Fax: (626) 564-0715
Email: vratnasw@gps.caltech.edu
Research
My research interests are in mantle convection and computational mathematics. I am working with Michael Gurnis and collaborators at Univ. of Texas at Austin on developing and applying inverse methods to mantle convection in hopes of inverting for the viscosity at plate boundaries. These computational inversion methods will be implemented in the new generation mantle convection code Rhea to create a more realistic description of the earth.
