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Nonlinear dynamics and chaos
- Title
- Nonlinear dynamics and chaos / J.M.T. Thompson, H.B. Stewart.
- Author
- Thompson, J. M. T.
- Publication
- New York : Wiley, 2002.
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- Additional Authors
- Stewart, H. B. (H. Bruce)
- Description
- xxii, 437 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 402-427) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- Pt. I. Basic Concepts of Nonlinear Dynamics. 2. An overview of nonlinear phenomena. 3. Point attractors in autonomous systems. 4. Limit cycles in autonomous systems. 5. Periodic attractors in driven oscillators. 6. Chaotic attractors in forced oscillators. 7. Stability and bifurcations of equilibria and cycles -- Pt. II. Iterated Maps as Dynamical Systems. 8. Stability and bifurcation of maps. 9. Chaotic behaviour of one- and two-dimensional maps -- Pt. III. Flows, Outstructures, and Chaos. 10. The geometry of recurrence. 11. The Lorenz system. 12. Rossler's band. 13. Geometry of bifurcations -- Pt. IV. Applications in the Physical Sciences. 14. Subharmonic resonances of an offshore structure. 15. Chaotic motions of an impacting system. 16. Escape from a potential well.
- ISBN
- 0471876453 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0471876844 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2001045407
- OCLC
- ocm47282945
- SCSB-4259752
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries