TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dewar,R.L.
AU  - Henry,B.I.
ED  - Physics Summer School
TI  - Nonlinear dynamics and chaos: proceedings of the Fourth Physics Summer School, the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 7-25 January 1991 
SN  - 9810207700
U1  - 530.15 20
PY  - 1992///
CY  - Singapore, New Jersey
PB  - World Scientific
KW  - Dynamics
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Nonlinear theories
KW  - Chaotic behavior in systems
N1  - 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

N2  - 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.


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