Chaos, Bifurcations And Fractals Around Us: A Brief Introduction, Series A, Vol. 47

By Wanda Szempliñska-Stupnicka

Chaos, Bifurcations And Fractals Around Us: A Brief Introduction, Series A, Vol. 47

Accessible to general readers, this concise book makes it possible to get a good deal of knowledge about complex chaotic phenomena in nonlinear oscillators without deep mathematical study.

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Table of Contents

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Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Ueda s Strange Attractors

Chapter 3: Pendulum

Chapter 4: Vibrating System with Two Minima of Potential Energy

4.1. Physical and Mathematical Model of the System

4.2. The Single Potential Well Motion

4.3. Melnikov Criterion

4.4. Fractal Boundaries of Basins of Attraction and Transient Chaos in the Region of Principal Resonance

4.5. Oscillating Chaos and Unpredictability of the Final State after Destruction of the Resonant Attractor

4.6. Boundary Crisis of the Oscillating Chaotic Attractor

4.7. Persistent Cross-well Chaos

4.8. Lyapunov Exponents

4.9. Intermittent Transition to Chaos

4.10. Large Orbit and the Boundary Crisis of the Cross-well Chaotic Attractor

Chapter 5: Closing Remarks

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