	Name:	Honda, Satoru
	Position:	Professor
	Division/Center:	Division of Global Dynamics
	Research Area:	Physics of the Earth\'s Interior

Last Update 07/04 2009

Research:

To study the geodynamical phenomena in the interior of the Earth based on numerical simulations. Current topics are global mantle flow and the subduction zone dynamics.

Publications:

S. Honda and T. Yoshida, Application of the model of small-scale convection under the island arc to the NE Honshu subduction zone, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 6, Q01002, doi:10.102, , 2005.

Honda, S., M. Morishige and Y. Orihashi, Sinking hot anomaly trapped at the 410 km discontinuity near the Honshu subduction zone, Japan, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 261, 565--577, 2007.

S. Honda, A simple semi-dynamical model of the subduction zone: effects of a moving plate boundary on the small-scale convection under the island arc, Geophys. J. Int., 173, 1095--1105, 2008.

S. Honda, Numerical simulations of mantle flow around slab edges, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 277, 112--122, 2009.