2026 Dimitri Komatitsch: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	59	1980	1786	127	116	264	17774

Overview

Dimitri Komatitsch is affiliated with Aix-Marseille University in France, specializing in research that spans Earth and Planetary Sciences and Engineering. Their work includes a significant focus on geophysics, oceanography, mechanics of materials, civil and structural engineering, and biomedical engineering.

The scientist's research topics encompass a range of areas:

Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
Seismic Waves and Analysis
High-pressure Geophysics and Materials
Underwater Acoustics Research
Advanced X-ray and CT Imaging
Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis
Geophysics and Gravity Measurements

Recent publications by Dimitri Komatitsch include:

"Global adjoint tomography-model GLAD-M25" (2020), published in Geophysical Journal International
"Adjoint tomography of the Italian lithosphere" (2022), published in Communications Earth & Environment
"On the Influence of Slopes, Source, Seabed and Water Column Properties on T Waves: Generation at Shore" (2020), published in Pure and Applied Geophysics
"Numerical and Experimental Study of Wave Propagation in Water-Saturated Granular Media Using Effective Method Theories and a Full-Wave Numerical Simulation" (2020), published in IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering
"Seismic surveying and imaging at the laboratory scale: A framework to cross-validate experiments and simulations for a salt-body environment" (2020), published in Geophysics

The venues where this scientist frequently publishes include:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Geophysical Journal International
Communications Earth & Environment
Pure and Applied Geophysics
IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Collaborations play a notable role in this scientist's work. Frequent co-authors include:

Jeroen Tromp
Federica Magnoni
Emanuele Casarotti
Raffaele Di Stefano
Maria Grazia Ciaccio

Dimitri Komatitsch's contributions cover both theoretical and applied aspects of seismic imaging, inversion algorithms, and wave propagation. Their interdisciplinary approach links geophysical methods with engineering principles, extending into various subfields relevant to earth sciences and material mechanics.

Best Publications

Introduction to the spectral element method for three-dimensional seismic wave propagation

Dimitri Komatitsch;Jeroen Tromp

1792
Citations
The spectral element method: An efficient tool to simulate the seismic response of 2D and 3D geological structures

Dimitri Komatitsch;Jean-Pierre Vilotte

1753
Citations
Spectral-element simulations of global seismic wave propagation—I. Validation

Dimitri Komatitsch;Jeroen Tromp

1092
Citations
An unsplit convolutional perfectly matched layer improved at grazing incidence for the seismic wave equation

Dimitri Komatitsch;Roland Martin

1016
Citations
Spectral-element simulations of global seismic wave propagation: II. Three-dimensional models, oceans, rotation and self-gravitation

Dimitri Komatitsch;Jeroen Tromp

667
Citations
A perfectly matched layer absorbing boundary condition for the second-order seismic wave equation

Dimitri Komatitsch;Jeroen Tromp

574
Citations
Simulations of Ground Motion in the Los Angeles Basin Based upon the Spectral-Element Method

Dimitri Komatitsch;Qinya Liu;Jeroen Tromp;Peter Süss

564
Citations
Spectral-element and adjoint methods in seismology

Jeroen Tromp;Dimitri Komatitsch;Qinya Liu

557
Citations
FTI: high performance fault tolerance interface for hybrid systems

Leonardo Bautista-Gomez;Seiji Tsuboi;Dimitri Komatitsch;Franck Cappello

435
Citations
High-order finite-element seismic wave propagation modeling with MPI on a large GPU cluster

Dimitri Komatitsch;Gordon Erlebacher;Dominik Göddeke;David Michéa

428
Citations
Forward and adjoint simulations of seismic wave propagation on fully unstructured hexahedral meshes

Daniel Peter;Dimitri Komatitsch;Dimitri Komatitsch;Yang Luo;Roland Martin

390
Citations
The Spectral-Element Method, Beowulf Computing, and Global Seismology

Dimitri Komatitsch;Jeroen Ritsema;Jeroen Tromp

356
Citations
The spectral element method for elastic wave equations—application to 2-D and 3-D seismic problems

Dimitri Komatitsch;Jean-Pierre Vilotte;Rossana Vai;José M. Castillo-Covarrubias

336
Citations
Wave propagation near a fluid-solid interface : A spectral-element approach

Dimitri Komatitsch;Christophe Barnes;Jeroen Tromp

335
Citations
Simulation of anisotropic wave propagation based upon a spectral element method

Dimitri Komatitsch;Christophe Barnes;Jeroen Tromp

302
Citations
Spectral Element Analysis in Seismology

Emmanuel Chaljub;Dimitri Komatitsch;Jean-Pierre Vilotte;Yann Capdeville

292
Citations
Global adjoint tomography: first-generation model

Ebru Bozdağ;Daniel Peter;Matthieu Lefebvre;Dimitri Komatitsch

288
Citations
Accelerating a three-dimensional finite-difference wave propagation code using GPU graphics cards

David Michéa;Dimitri Komatitsch;Dimitri Komatitsch

266
Citations
Effects of Topography on Seismic-Wave Propagation: An Example from Northern Taiwan

Shiann-Jong Lee;Dimitri Komatitsch;Bor-Shouh Huang;Jeroen Tromp

244
Citations
The spectral-element method in seismology

Dimitri Komatitsch;Seiji Tsuboi;Jeroen Tromp

240
Citations
Porting a high-order finite-element earthquake modeling application to NVIDIA graphics cards using CUDA

Dimitri Komatitsch;David Michéa;Gordon Erlebacher

226
Citations
Glacial isostatic adjustment on 3‐D Earth models: a finite‐volume formulation

Konstantin Latychev;Jerry X. Mitrovica;Jeroen Tromp;Mark E. Tamisiea

215
Citations
An unsplit convolutional perfectly matched layer technique improved at grazing incidence for the viscoelastic wave equation

Roland Martin;Dimitri Komatitsch;Dimitri Komatitsch

208
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeroen Tromp Princeton University

Sébastien Chevrot Paul Sabatier University

Chen Ji University of California, Santa Barbara

Raphaël F. Garcia National Higher French Institute of Aeronautics and Space

Alberto Michelini National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology

Philippe Lognonné Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris

Bor-Shouh Huang Academia Sinica

Jesús Labarta Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Mark Jessell University of Western Australia

Xun Wang Tsinghua University

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