Author	Parker, Thomas S. author
Title	Practical Numerical Algorithms for Chaotic Systems [electronic resource] / by Thomas S. Parker, Leon O. Chua
Imprint	New York, NY : Springer New York, 1989
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3486-9
Descript	XIV, 348 p. online resource

One of the basic tenets of science is that deterministic systems are completely predictable-given the initial condition and the equations describing a system, the behavior of the system can be predicted 1 for all time. The discovery of chaotic systems has eliminated this viewpoint. Simply put, a chaotic system is a deterministic system that exhibits random behavior. Though identified as a robust phenomenon only twenty years ago, chaos has almost certainly been encountered by scientists and engiยญ neers many times during the last century only to be dismissed as physical noise. Chaos is such a wide-spread phenomenon that it has now been reported in virtually every scientific discipline: astronomy, biology, biophysics, chemistry, engineering, geology, mathematics, medicine, meteorology, plasmas, physics, and even the social sciยญ ences. It is no coincidence that during the same two decades in which chaos has grown into an independent field of research, computers have permeated society. It is, in fact, the wide availability of inexยญ pensive computing power that has spurred much of the research in chaotic dynamics. The reason is simple: the computer can calculate a solution of a nonlinear system. This is no small feat. Unlike linยญ ear systems, where closed-form solutions can be written in terms of the system's eigenvalues and eigenvectors, few nonlinear systems and virtually no chaotic systems possess closed-form solutions

1 Steady-State Solutions -- 1.1 Systems -- 1.2 Limit sets -- 1.3 Summary -- 2 Poincarรฉ Maps -- 2.1 Definitions -- 2.2 Limit Sets -- 2.3 Higher-order Poincarรฉ maps -- 2.4 Algorithms -- 2.5 Summary -- 3 Stability -- 3.1 Eigenvalues -- 3.2 Characteristic multipliers -- 3.3 Lyapunov exponents -- 3.4 Algorithms -- 3.5 Summary -- 4 Integration -- 4.1 Types -- 4.2 Integration error -- 4.3 Stiff equations -- 4.4 Practical considerations -- 4.5 Summary -- 5 Locating Limit Sets -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Equilibrium points -- 5.3 Fixed points -- 5.4 Closed orbits -- 5.5 Periodic solutions -- 5.6 Two-periodic solutions -- 5.7 Chaotic solutions -- 5.8 Summary -- 6 Manifolds -- 6.1 Definitions and theory -- 6.2 Algorithms -- 6.3 Summary -- 7 Dimension -- 7.1 Dimension -- 7.2 Reconstruction -- 7.3 Summary -- 8 Bifurcation Diagrams -- 8.1 Definitions -- 8.2 Algorithms -- 8.3 Summary -- 9 Programming -- 9.1 The user interface -- 9.2 Languages -- 9.3 Library definitions -- 10 Phase Portraits -- 10.1 Trajectories -- 10.2 Limit sets -- 10.3 Basins -- 10.4 Programming tips -- 10.5 Summary -- A The Newton-Raphson Algorithm -- B The Variational Equation -- C Differential Topology -- C.1 Differential topology -- C.2 Structural stability -- D The Poincarรฉ Map -- E One Lyapunov Exponent Vanishes -- F Cantor Sets -- G List of Symbols

1. Mathematics
2. Chemometrics
3. System theory
4. Calculus of variations
5. Computational intelligence
6. Mathematics
7. Systems Theory
8. Control
9. Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization
10. Math. Applications in Chemistry
11. Computational Intelligence