Member

SAKURABA, Ataru

Assistant Professor
Solid Earth Science Group

Office: Sci.Bldg.No.1-718
TEL: +81-3-5841-4318
FAX: +81-3-5841-8791
E-mail:
HP: http://www-solid.eps.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~ataru/

Research Field

Geodynamics,Planetary dynamos,Geomagnetism

Current Research

My current effort is devoted to reproducing the Earth's magnetic field in a computer. The geomagnetic field is generated by a dynamo process inside the Earth's core where flow of liquid iron causes electromagnetic induction. My current research is to analyze the flow and the electromagnetic field inside the core by means of massively parallel computing. To predict the behavior of the geomagnetic field is an important key to understand the Earth's evolution in the past and the surficial environment in the future.

Representative Publications

1. Ataru Sakuraba and Paul Roberts, Generation of a strong magnetic field using uniform heat flux at the surface of the core, Nature Geoscience 2, 802-805, 2009.
2. Ataru Sakuraba and Hatsuki Yamauchi, Linear stability of plane Poiseuille flow in an infinite elastic medium and volcanic tremors, Earth Planets Space 66, 19, 2014.
3. Ataru Sakuraba, Linear magnetoconvection in rotating fluid spheres permeated by a uniform axial magnetic field, Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics 96, 291-318, 2002.