Nonlinear dynamics and chaos : proceedings of the Fourth Physics Summer School, the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 7-25 January 1991 /
Nonlinear dynamics and chaos : proceedings of the Fourth Physics Summer School, the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 7-25 January 1991 /
editors, R.L. Dewar & B.I. Henry.
- xv, 347 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Overview of nonlinear dynamics and chaos, R.H.G. Helleman; Hamiltonian dynamics; area preserving maps; integrability and tori. stability; KAM theory and chaos, J.D. Meiss; fractal structures in thermal turbulence, I. Procaccia; bifurcation theory; averaging Melnikov's method; fractals and strange attractors, K.J. Palmer; dynamical systems; hyperbolicity; KAM theory; maps of a circle and of an annulus, W.A. Coppel; dynamics of plasmas an other many-body systems - statistical equations; wave interactions and turbulence, C. Oberman; application of nonlinear maps to r.f. discharges for plasma processing, and to digital phase locked loops in comunications, A.J. Lichtenberg; nonlinear waves in fluids; integrability, solitons and chaos; triad, quartet and Faraday resonances, R.H.J. Grimshaw; university classes in the transition to chaos; chaos in economics, management and finance, C.J. Thompson; and others.
Articles in this collection discuss basic concepts and modern developments in the field of nonlinear dynamics and chaos. This book is suitable for both theorists and experimentalists.
9810207700
Dynamics--Congresses.
Nonlinear theories--Congresses.
Chaotic behavior in systems--Congresses.
530.15 / D.R.N
Includes bibliographical references.
Overview of nonlinear dynamics and chaos, R.H.G. Helleman; Hamiltonian dynamics; area preserving maps; integrability and tori. stability; KAM theory and chaos, J.D. Meiss; fractal structures in thermal turbulence, I. Procaccia; bifurcation theory; averaging Melnikov's method; fractals and strange attractors, K.J. Palmer; dynamical systems; hyperbolicity; KAM theory; maps of a circle and of an annulus, W.A. Coppel; dynamics of plasmas an other many-body systems - statistical equations; wave interactions and turbulence, C. Oberman; application of nonlinear maps to r.f. discharges for plasma processing, and to digital phase locked loops in comunications, A.J. Lichtenberg; nonlinear waves in fluids; integrability, solitons and chaos; triad, quartet and Faraday resonances, R.H.J. Grimshaw; university classes in the transition to chaos; chaos in economics, management and finance, C.J. Thompson; and others.
Articles in this collection discuss basic concepts and modern developments in the field of nonlinear dynamics and chaos. This book is suitable for both theorists and experimentalists.
9810207700
Dynamics--Congresses.
Nonlinear theories--Congresses.
Chaotic behavior in systems--Congresses.
530.15 / D.R.N