The foundations of chaos revisited : from Poincaré to recent advancements /: from Poincaré to recent advancements. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Christos Skiadas, editor.
• Editors: Skiadas, Christos H
• Contents: Preface -- Henri Poincaré's inventions in dynamical systems and topology -- From nonlinear oscillations to chaos theory -- Hydrodynamic turbulence as a nonstandard transport phenomenon -- Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics of turbulence: comments on Ruelle's intermittency theory -- The Kolmogorov law of turbulence -- what can rigorously be proved? -- History of chaos from a French perspective -- Measuring quasiperiodicity -- Heat transfer in a complex medium -- Plasma hysteresis and instability: a memory perspective -- Stochastic anti-resonance in polarization phenomena -- A simple plankton model with complex behavior -- Fractal Radar: Towards 1980 -- 2015 -- Simulation of multidimensional nonlinear dynamics by one-dimensional maps with many parameters -- Sudden cardiac death and turbulence -- Absolute negative mobility in a ratchet flow.
• Publisher Details: Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 261 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 003/.857; Physics; Chaotic behavior in systems; Poincaré conjecture; Nonlinear mechanics; Chaotic behavior in systems; Nonlinear mechanics; Poincaré conjecture; Technology & Engineering -- Mechanical; Mathematics -- Applied; Science -- Physics; Dynamics & vibration; Applied mathematics; History of science; Vibration; Science -- Chaotic Behavior in Systems; Nonlinear science; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319297019; 3319297015
• Related ISBNs: 9783319296999; 331929699X
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 3, 2016).
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