RESEARCH INTERESTS
Subduction processes
Dynamics of the Earth's Mantle
Plate tectonics on the early Earth
The structure of the deep Earth's interior
The internal structure and geodynamics of Mars
Integration of machine learning and physical modelling
COURSES TAUGHT
Introduction to Continuum Mechanics (连续介质力学)
Introduction to Geodynamics (地球动力学)
Geological Field Mapping (地质综合实习)
Geophysics and Geodynamics (地球物理与动力学)
Deep Structure and Geodynamics (深部构造)
PUBLICATIONS (* Corresponding author)
X. Wang, H. Wu, H. Wang, Benjun Wu*, Z. Huang*. 2022. Rayleigh wave tomography of central and southern Mongolia. Tectonophysics, 836, 229426. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2022.229426
Z. Zhang, Benjun Wu,T. Wang, H. Hui*. 2020. Settling of Immiscible Droplets: A Theoretical Model for the Missing Link Between Microscopic and Outcrop Observations[J]. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125(6).
T. Lyu, Z. Zhu, Benjun Wu*. 2019. Subducting slab morphology and mantle transition zone upwelling in double-slab subduction models with inward-dipping directions. Geophysical Journal International, 218(3), 2089–2105. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggz268
Benjun Wu, H. H. Xia, T. Wang*, and X. Shi. 2018. Simulation of core phases from coda interferometry.Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JB015405
Benjun Wu*, P. Driscoll, and P. Olson. 2011. A Statistical Boundary Layer Model for the Mantle D Region. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 116, B12112.
C. P. Conrad*,Benjun Wu, E. I. Smith, T. A. Bianco, and A. Tibbetts. 2010. Shear-driven upwelling induced by lateral viscosity variations and asthenospheric shear: A mechanism for intraplate volcanism. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 178, 162-175. [highlighted in Nature Geoscience, 3, 78, 2010].
Benjun Wu, C. P. Conrad*, A. Heuret, C. Lithgow-Bertelloni, and S. Lallemand. 2008. Reconciling strong slab pull and weak plate bending: The plate motion constraint on the strength of mantle slabs. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 272,412–421.