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Dr Mike Jeffrey
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Dr Mike Jeffrey
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Dr Mike Jeffrey
MSc, PhD(Bristol)
Senior Lecturer
Visiting Fellow
Area of research
Dynamics, singularities and asymptotics
Office 2.5 QB
Queen's Building,
University Walk,
Clifton
BS8 1TR
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Research summary
- Geometrical Asymptotics. Although the bulk of the world satisfies nice simple rules laid down from Descartes, to Newton, Hamilton, through to Dirac, the really interesting structures are born from the outer fringes of these theories - sonic booms, rainbows, ripples on ponds, wave-particle or wave-ray dualities. On these fringes the theories break down, but in their wake, beautiful geometry reveals intricate physical phenomena, such as swirling Mach cones in helicopter noise, the speed-of-light caustic in a high energy synchrotron, cusps, whiskers and complex rays in conical diffraction; ...
- Grazing Catastrophes. The theory of dynamical systems with discontinuities, such as friction, switching, or ...
Recent publications
- Jeffrey, MR 2012, ‘Three discontinuity-induced bifurcations to destroy self-sustained oscillations in a superconducting resonator’. PHYSICA D, vol 241., pp. 2077-2082
- Jeffrey, MR & Desroches, MF 2012, ‘Pinching of canards and folded nodes: nonsmooth approximation of slow-fast dynamics’. Nonlinearity.
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