Chaotic Behaviour of Deterministic Dissipative Systems

This graduate text surveys both the theoretical and experimental aspects of deterministic chaotic behaviour.

Milos Marek (Author), Igor Schreiber (Author)

9780521438308, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 20 July 1995

380 pages
24 x 17.1 x 2.6 cm, 0.818 kg

"The book Chaotic Behaviour of Deterministic Dissipative Systems, is an excellent compendium of numerous contributions to the field of chaos science, mostly from the 1980's." Charles L. Webber, Jr., Biophysical Journal

This is a graduate text surveying both the theoretical and experimental aspects of chaotic behaviour. Over the course of the past two decades it has been discovered that relatively simple, deterministic, nonlinear mathematical models that describe dynamic phenomena in various physical, chemical, biological and other systems yield solutions which are aperiodic and depend very sensitively on the initial conditions. This phenomenon is known as deterministic chaos. The authors present chaos as a model of many seemingly random processes in nature. Basic notions from the theory of dynamical systems and bifurcation theory, together with the properties of chaotic solutions, are then described and are illustrated by examples. A review of the numerical methods used both in studies of mathematical models and in the interpretation of experimental data is also provided.

Introduction
1. Differential equations, maps and asymptotic behaviour
2. Transition from order to chaos
3. Numerical methods for studies of parametric dependences, bifurcations and chaos
4. Chaotic dynamics in experiments
5. Forced and coupled chemical oscillators: a case study of chaos
6. Chaos in distributed systems
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Biology, life sciences [PS], Chemistry [PN], Physics [PH], Chaos theory [PBWS]