Working with Dynamical Systems A Toolbox for Scientists and Engineers Series in Computational Biophysics Series
Auteur : Pismen Len
This book provides working tools for the study and design of nonlinear dynamical systems applicable in physics and engineering. It offers a broad-based introduction to this challenging area of study, taking an applications-oriented approach that emphasizes qualitative analysis and approximations rather than formal mathematics or simulation. The author, an internationally recognized authority in the field, makes extensive use of examples and includes executable Mathematica notebooks that may be used to generate new examples as hands-on exercises. The coverage includes discussion of mechanical models, chemical and ecological interactions, nonlinear oscillations and chaos, forcing and synchronization, spatial patterns and waves.
Key Features:
- Written for a broad audience, avoiding dependence on mathematical formulations in favor of qualitative, constructive treatment
- Extensive use of physical and engineering applications
- Incorporates Mathematica notebooks for simulations and hands-on self-study
- Provides a gentle but rigorous introduction to real-world nonlinear problems
- Features a final chapter dedicated to applications of dynamical systems to spatial patterns
The book is aimed at student and researchers in applied mathematics and mathematical modelling of physical and engineering problems. It teaches to see common features in systems of different origins, and to apply common methods of study without losing sight of complications and uncertainties related to their physical origin.
Dynamical systems in physics, chemistry, and biology. Attractors and basin boundaries. Bifurcations of stationary states and periodic orbits. Singular bifurcations and normal forms. Deterministic chaos. Synchronization and control. Dynamics of patterns. Dynamical systems in space
Len Pismen is Emeritus Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. His other books include Vortices in Nonlinear Fields (1999), Patterns and Interfaces in Dissipative Dynamics (2006), and general audience books The Swings of Science (2018) and Morphogenesis Deconstructed (2020).
Date de parution : 05-2023
19.1x23.5 cm
Date de parution : 12-2020
19.1x23.5 cm
Thèmes de Working with Dynamical Systems :
Mots-clés :
nonlinear dynamics; complex systems; dynamicals systems; Constructive treatment; Mathematical modelling; Dynamical systems; Local bifurcations; Hopf Bifurcation; Saddle Node Bifurcation; Periodic Orbits; Homoclinic Orbit; Unstable Manifolds; Hopf Bifurcation Locus; Hopf Bifurcation Point; Amplitude Equations; Slow Manifold; Ordinary Differential Equations; Subcritical Hopf Bifurcation; Homoclinic Loop; Stable Stationary State; Unstable Orbit; Transcritical Bifurcation; Attraction Basins; Stable Manifold; Unstable Periodic Orbits; Fold Bifurcation; Chaotic Attractor; Cusp Singularity; Global Bifurcations; Bifurcation Diagram; Mass Action Law; Van Der Pol Oscillator