James Reid

Dr. James Reid

Postdoctoral Fellow
Science B Rm 504

Department of Physics and Astronomy,
SB 605, University of Calgary
2500 University Drive NW
Calgary, AB
T2N 1N4

Phone: 1 (403) 210-7908
e-mail: jreid(at)phas.ucalgary.ca

 

I am currently studying pattern formation in 3D using the Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation (CGLE). The CGLE is a non-linear partial differential equation that describes the dynamics of a reaction-diffusion system near the Hopf bifurcation. In practice it is a system whose behaviour can be controlled through two parameters: one that links the rate of change in the field to its current value, and one that links the rate of change to the field value of its neighbours.