Rafael Abreu

Professur für Geophysik (Prof. Thomas)
Rafael Abreu

Corrensstr. 24
48149 Münster

Academic Profile

  • Research Areas

    • Computational seismology
    • Seismic Wave propagation
    • Theoretical seismology
    • Micro-continuum theories

  • Projects

    • Deep Earth Rotational Seismology ( – )
      Individual Granted Project: DFG - Individual Grants Programme | Project Number: AB 887/1-1
    • MISS - Minderung der Störwirkung von Windenergieanlagen auf seismologischen Stationen ( – )
      EU-Project Hosted outside the University of Münster: EC - European Regional Development Fund | Project Number: EFRE-0801044/KEE-2-002E

  • Research Articles (Journals)

    • Rafael Abreu, Daniel Peter, and Christine Thomas. . ‘Reduction of wind-turbine-generated seismic noise with structural measures.’ Wind Energy Science 2022/7: 1227–1239. doi: 10.5194/wes-7-1227-2022.
    • Durand S., R. Abreu, C. Thomas. . ‘SeisTomoPy: Fast visualization, comparison and calculations in global tomographic models.’ Seismological Reasearch Letters 300. doi: 10.1785/0220170142.
    • Abreu R., C. Thomas, S. Durand. . ‘Effect of observed micropolar motions on wave propagation in deep Earth minerals.’ Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 276: 215–225. doi: 10.1016/j.pepi.2017.04.006.
    • Schumacher L, Thomas C, Abreu R. . ‘Out-of-Plane Seismic Reflections Beneath the Pacific and Their Geophysical Implications.’ Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 123, No. 3: 2286–2302. doi: 10.1002/2017JB014728.
    • Abreu Rafael, Kamm Jochen, Reiß Anne-Sophie. . ‘Micropolar modelling of rotational waves in seismology.’ Geophysical Journal International 210. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggx211.
    • Jesús M. Ibáñez, Alejandro Díaz-Moreno, Janire Prudencio, Domenico Patane, Luciano Zuccarello, Ornella Cocina, Birger-Gottfried Lühr, Francisco Carrión, Mauro Coltelli, Pier Paolo G. Bruno, Francesca Bianco, Margaret Hellweg, Rafael Abreu, Gerardo Alguacil, Isaac Alvarez, Carolina Aranda, Carmen Benítez, Luisa Buontempo, Mercedes Feriche, Luz García, Daniel García-Quiroga, José B. Martín, José Morales, Inmaculada Serrano, Manuel Titos, Lucia Urbano, Gianpiero Aiesi, Raffaele Azzaro, Graziella Barberi, Massimo Cantarero, Pasqualino Cappuccio, Danilo Cavallaro, Danilo Contrafatto, Sergio Di Prima, Susanna Falsaperla, Marco Firetto Carlino, Elisabetta Giampiccolo, Graziano Larocca, Carla Musumeci, Mario Paratore, Daniele Pellegrino, Mario Pulvirenti, Salvatore Rapisarda, Marco Sassano, Luciano Scarfi, Luciano Scuderi, Antonino Sicali, Giuseppina Tusa, Tiziana Tuvè, Edoardo Del Pezzo, Stefano Fiore, Danilo Galluzzo, Mario La Rocca, Mariantonietta Longobardi, Luciano Nocerino, Solange Scognamiglio, Carla Bottari, Fabio Criscuoli, Pasquale De Gori, Lucian Giovani, Alfio Messina, Marcello Silvestri, Simone Salimbeni, Torsten Dahm, Araceli García-Yeguas, Alfonso Ontiveros, Enrique Coello, María Cordero, Cayetano Guillén, M. Carmen Romero, Hannah McCann, Mauricio Bretón, Sierra Boyd, Ivan Koulakov, Sergey Abramenkov. . ‘TOMO-ETNA experiment at Etna volcano: activities on land.’ Annals of Geophysics 2016.
    • Schlaphorst D., Schlaphorst D., Thomas C., Holme R., Abreu R., Abreu R.,. . ‘Investigation of core-mantle boundary topography and lowermost mantle with P4KP waves.’ Geophysical Journal International 204, No. 2: 1071. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggv496.
    • Rafael Abreu, Daniel Stich and Jose Morales. . ‘The Complex-Step-Finite-Difference method.’ Geophysical Journal International 2015.
    • Rafael Abreu, Daniel Stich and Jose Morales. . ‘On the generalization of the complex step method.’ Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 2013.
    • Rafael Abreu and Michael Slawinski. . ‘Review for A student’s Guide to Geophysical Equations.’ The Leading Edge 2011.
    • Carlos Reinoza, Cecilio Morales, Victor Rocabado, Kenny García, Christian Sanchez, Javier Sanchez, Rafael Abreu and Michael Schmitz. . ‘Espesores de sedimentos a partir de la integración de datos geofísicos en Barquisimeto y Cabudare, Venezuela.’ Revista de la Facultad de Ingeniería de la Universidad Central de Venezuela 2011.