Natural gas migration in aquatic sediments,

Submarine landslides,

Plate tectonics,

Localized volume reduction patterns in rocks (cracks, stylolites, compaction bands)

M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Building Sciences from the Technion, Israel, faculty of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, two post-docs at National Research Council of Canada, Institute for Research in Construction and at Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, Environmental Sciences and Energy Research

Articles in Refereed Journals since 2000

Katsman, R. and Becker, R. (2000), Model for moisture content evolution in porous building elements with hygro-thermal bridges and air voids. Journal of Thermal Envelope & Building Science. 24:10-32.

Katsman, R. and Baskaran, A. (2000), Canadian research may provide answers to dimensional stability questions. Roofing Siding Insulation. 78(1): 4-5.

Baskaran, A., Katsman, R., Sexton, M., and Lei, W. (2003), Investigation of thermally-induced loads in modified bituminous roofing membranes. Construction and Building Materials. 17: 153-164.

Katsman, R., Aharonov, E., and Scher, H. (2005), Numerical simulation of compaction bands in high-porosity sedimentary rock. Mechanics of Materials. 37(1): 143-20.

Katsman, R., Aharonov, E., and Scher, H. (2006a), A numerical study on localized volume reduction in elastic media: some insights on the mechanics of anticracks. Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth. 111(B3): B03204-13.

Katsman, R., and Aharonov, E. (2006), A study of compaction bands originating from cracks, notches and compacted defects. Journal of Structural Geology. 28(3): 508-11.

Katsman, R., Aharonov, E., and Scher, H. (2006b), Localized compaction in rocks: Eshelby’s inclusions and the spring network model. Geophysical Research Letters. 33(10): L10311-5.

Katsman, R., Aharonov, E., and Haimson, B. (2009), Compaction bands induced by borehole drilling. Acta Geotechnica. 4:151-162.

Aharonov, E. and Katsman, R. (2009), Numerical modeling of stylolite propagation. American Journal of Science. 309: 607–632.

R.Katsman (2010), Extensional veins induced by self-similar dissolution at stylolites: analytical modeling. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 299: 33-41.

R.Katsman, and B.Haimson (2011), Modeling partially-emptied compaction bands induced by borehole drilling. Journal of Structural Geology. 33(4): 690–697.

Numerical methods in continuum physics

Flow in porous media

Introduction to MATLAB