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Nick Biggs

Email:
n.r.t.biggs@reading.ac.uk
Phone:
+44 (0) 118 378 8998
Job title:
Associate Professor

Responsibilities:

Environmental Coordinator

Office

Room 305

Building location

Mathematics

Areas of interest

Linear wave theory, particularly the diffraction of waves by structures
Embedding methods for integral equations and wave scattering problems
Polynya modelling

Teaching

Current teaching (2021/22):

Research centres and groups

Pure and Applicable Analysis

Websites/blogs

Publications

Biggs, N. (2016) Embedding formulae for scattering in a waveguide containing polygonal obstacles. The Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics , 69 (4). pp. 409-429. ISSN: 0033-5614 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/qjmam/hbw012
Moran, C. , Biggs, N. , Chamberlain, P. (2016) Embedding formulae for wave diffraction by a circular arc. Wave Motion , 67 pp. 32-46. ISSN: 0165-2125 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wavemoti.2016.07.003

Ayres, K. , Biggs, N. , Glaister, P. (2012) Statistical monitoring of student performance: an early warning system.
Biggs, N. (2012) Wave trapping in a two-dimensional sound-soft or sound-hard acoustic waveguide of slowly-varying width. Wave Motion , 49 (1). pp. 24-33. ISSN: 0165-2125
Gaulter, S. and Biggs, N. (2012) Acoustic trapped modes in a three-dimensional waveguide of slowly varying cross section . Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences , 469 (2149). ISSN: 1471-2946 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2012.0384

Bennetts, L. , Biggs, N. , Porter, D. (2009) Wave scattering by an axisymmetric ice floe of varying thickness. IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics , 74 (2). pp. 273-295. ISSN: 0272-4960 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/imamat/hxn019
Bennetts, L. , Biggs, N. , Porter, D. (2009) The interaction of flexural-gravity waves with periodic geometries. Wave Motion , 46 (1). pp. 57-73. ISSN: 0165-2125 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wavemoti.2008.08.002

Bennetts, L. , Biggs, N. , Porter, D. (2007) A multi-mode approximation to wave scattering by ice sheets of varying thickness. Journal of Fluid Mechanics , 579 pp. 413-443. | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S002211200700537X

Biggs, N. (2006) A new family of embedding formulae for diffraction by wedges and polygons. Wave Motion , 43 pp. 517-528.

Cushman-Roisin, B. , Willmott, A. , Biggs, N. (2005) Influence of stratification on decaying surface seiche modes. Continental Shelf Research , 25 (2). pp. 227-242.
Biggs, N. and Porter, D. (2005) Wave scattering by an array of periodic barriers. IMA Journal Of Applied Mathematics , 70 (6). pp. 908-936.

Maqueda, M. , Willmott, A. , Biggs, N. (2004) Polynya dynamics: A review of observations and modeling. Reviews of Geophysics , 42 (1). | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2002RG000116
Porter, D. and Biggs, N. (2004) Systems of integral equations with weighted difference kernels. Proceedings Of The Edinburgh Mathematical Society , 47 pp. 205-230.