AuthorSkorokhod, Anatoli V. author
TitleRandom Perturbation Methods with Applications in Science and Engineering [electronic resource] / by Anatoli V. Skorokhod, Frank C. Hoppensteadt, Habib Salehi
ImprintNew York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2002
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b98905
Descript XII, 490 p. online resource

SUMMARY

As systems evolve, they are subjected to random operating environments. In addition, random errors occur in measurements of their outputs and in their design and fabrication where tolerances are not precisely met. This book develops methods for describing random dynamical systems, and it illustrates how the methods can be used in a variety of applications. The first half of the book concentrates on finding approximations to random processes using the methodologies of probability theory. The second half of the book derives approximations to solutions of various problems in mechanics, electronic circuits, population biology, and genetics. In each example, the underlying physical or biological phenomenon is described in terms of nonrandom models taken from the literature, and the impact of random noise on the solutions is investigated. The mathematical problems in these applicitons involve random pertubations of gradient systems, Hamiltonian systems, toroidal flows, Markov chains, difference equations, filters, and nonlinear renewal equations. The models are analyzed using the approximation methods described here and are visualized using MATLAB-based computer simulations. This book will appeal to those researchers and graduate students in science and engineering who require tools to investigate stochastic systems


CONTENT

Ergodic Theorems -- Convergence Properties of Stochastic Processes -- Averaging -- Normal Deviations -- Diffusion Approximation -- Stability -- Markov Chains with Random Transition Probabilities -- Randomly Perturbed Mechanical Systems -- Dynamical Systems on a Torus -- PhaseโLocked Loops -- Models in Population Biology -- Genetics


SUBJECT

  1. Mathematics
  2. Mathematical analysis
  3. Analysis (Mathematics)
  4. Applied mathematics
  5. Engineering mathematics
  6. Probabilities
  7. Physics
  8. Mechanics
  9. Mechanics
  10. Applied
  11. Mathematics
  12. Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes
  13. Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering
  14. Analysis
  15. Applications of Mathematics
  16. Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
  17. Theoretical
  18. Mathematical and Computational Physics