Miguel D Bustamante, PhD

I am an applied mathematician with a PhD in Physics. The bulk of my work is theoretical and numerical, but I always look for experimental applications of my results.

 

My research interests can be put in 2 categories:

• Turbulence, extreme events and finite-time singularities in fluids and general nonlinear systems

• Nonlinear energy-transfer mechanisms in wave systems such as precession resonance and dynamical systems approach

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I have applied my work successfully to many real-life systems, including:

• Free-surface water waves driven by gravity

• Drift waves in plasmas and planetary Rossby waves in the atmosphere and oceans

• Ideal inviscid fluids, classical fluids and magneto-hydrodynamics

• Quantum superfluids

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