Room: B008, Edificio Biblioteca, Campus de
Fuenlabrada (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos) Camino del Molino, s/n,
28943 Fuenlabrada - Madrid, España.
Tel: +34 914888460
Fax: +34 914667500
Email: manuel.arrayas@urjc.es
On this page you can find information about:
My research.
The courses and lectures I am involved.
Scientific publications.
I did my PhD with Peter McClintock at Lancaster University in England on nonlinear dynamics and stochastic processes. I became interested in path integrals, solid state, low temperature physics, computers, and electronics. There I worked on:
Thermal ratches with quasimonocromatic noise.
Prehistory problem for large fluctuations in noise-driven systems.
The Kramers problem for a multi-well potential.
Phase transition in a system driven by coloured noise.
Analogue simulations.
Then I got a postdoc position at Universiteit Leiden in The Netherlands, and the office at CWI with Ute Ebert. I did research on low temperature plasma physics, and a bit on Brownian ratchet experiment on the surface of HeII, quantum dissipative systems and quantum computing. The papers I wrote there were about:
Patterns formation in electric discharges: streamers branching.
Analytical derivation of the critical turbulence for phytoplankton bloom development.
I have a position since 1-9-2001 at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Spain. I am working on and/or contemplating:
Plasma physics and electric discharges.
Turbulence in HeII.
Nanofluids and cone-jets.
Reaction diffusion equations.
Electromagnetic knots.
For current information you can visit the web of the EMFF research group.
Tomorrow...who knows?
Presently I teach first year Physics and Optics and Acoustic. All the information and notes about these undergraduate courses can be found here.
I am also giving a Physics conceptual course at the Universidad de Mayores.
For a list of papers follow this link.
A copy of the book Electromagnetismo, Circuitos y Semiconductores edited in Spanish by the Editorial Dykinson can be obtained here. This is an introductory book for a first course on Electromagnetism, Circuits and Semiconductors, written in collaboration with J.L. Trueba.
Also a draft copy of the book Cómo es nuestro mundo: del átomo al cosmos. edited in Spanish by the Editorial del Orto, Ediciones Clásicas, can be downloaded here. This is about the set of lectures I deliver for a general public since 2002 at the Universidad de Mayores, URJC.
Last modified: 1 January, 2009