Niklas Manz

Pattern Formation and Dynamics in Nonequilibrium Systems

• First Year Seminar
• Physics Revolutions
• Environmental Physics
• Algebra Physics I and II
• Algebra Physics Laboratory I and II
• Calculus Physics I and II
• Calculus Physics Laboratory II
• Mechanics
• Modern Physics Laboratory
• Thermal Physics
• Junior Independent Study

• William Hilbert, Designing an Apparatus for Creating 1D Standing Waves Using Reaction-Diffusion-Advection Systems, 2022
• Melita Wiles, Angular Frequency of Rotating Spiral Waves in a Chemical Reaction-Diffusion System, 2022
• Megan Fisher, Creating an Event Horizon Analogue with the Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction, 2021
• Craig Klumpp, A Case of Heartburn: Replicating the Heart’s Electrical Signals with Fire, 2021
• Handeul Son, Investigation of Fire Propagation using Discrete Tree Simulations, 2021
• Margaret McGuire, What a Mouthful! Geographic Tongue as a Reaction Diffusion System
  (Pre-dental math major, officially advised by Drew Pasteur). See her 2020 Virtual Senior Research Symposium contribution. (Dental school at UNC Chapel Hill), 2020 REU
• Daniel Blaikie,  Propagation of Light-Sensitive Reaction-Diffusion Waves in Inhomogeneously Illuminated Systems (Masters student in Applied Physics at the University of Oregon), 2019
• Samuel (Sam) Nash,  Using Belousov-Zhabotinsky waves as an Analogue to the Event Horizon of a Black Hole, 2019
• Joseph (Joe) Theiss, Slope’s Effect On Discrete Tree Fire Simulations (Security Operations Engineer for Accenture Federal Services), 2019
• Jack Mershon, Modified Propagation of Anomalous Belousov-Zhabotinsky Waves in a Quasi-1D System, 2018
• Nathaniel Smith, A Computational Simulation of Belousov-Zhabotinsky Wave Behavior Around Obstacles, 2018
• Marc Manheim, On the Creation of a Lab-sized Hydrodynamic Event Horizon Analogue, 2017
• Robin Morillo (Physics and Math), The Effects of Slope upon Propagation Speed and Pattern Formation in Forest Fires, 2017
• Mitch Gavin, An Injector to Investigate Reaction-Diffusion-Advection Systems, 2016
• Spencer Kirn, Excitation Waves in Planar, Inhomogeneously Illuminated Systems
• Diego Miramontes Delgado, Creating Quasi Two-Dimensional, Curved Molds with 3-D Printing Technology

• R. J. Field, R. M. Mazo, and N. Manz
  Science, serendipity, coincidence, and the Oregonator at the University of Oregon, 1969-1974
  Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science 32 (2022), 052101.
• M. K. McGuire, C. A. Fuller, J. F. Lindner, and N. Manz
  Geographic tongue as a reaction-diffusion system
  Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science 3 (2021), 033118.
• Y. F. Yu, C. A. Fuller, M. K. McGuire, R. Glaser, N. J. Smith, N. Manz, and J. F. Lindner
  Disruption and recovery of reaction-diffusion wavefronts interacting with concave, fractal, and soft obstacles
  Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 565 (2021), 125536.
• N. Manz
  The Twists and Turns of a Dynamic, Nonlinear Career Path
  ‘Career Path Story’ article for the ACS Graduate & Postdoctoral Chemist Magazine (2019).
• N. Manz, H. Phillips, C. Herndon, A. E. Ambrose, and F. H. Fenton
  Dynamics of Table-top Fire Fronts, Article in SIAM News Online based on presentation at 2019 SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems in Snowbird, Utah (2019).
• N. Manz and F. H. Fenton, Patterns and Humans in Kinko Tsuji and Stefan C. Müller (Eds.), ‘Spirals and Vortices‘, Springer International Publishing (2019), 217-224.
• N. J. Smith, R. Glaser, V. H. W. Hui, J. F. Lindner, and N. Manz
  Disruption and Recovery of Reaction-Diffusion Wavefronts Colliding with Obstacles
  Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 517 (2019), 307-320.
• G. Bordyugov, N. Fischer, H. Engel, N. Manz, and O. Steinbock: Anomalous dispersion in the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction: Experiments and modeling, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 239 (2010), 766-775.

• American Physical Society
• American Chemical Society
• American Association of Physics Teachers
• Ohio Academy of Sciences