Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering PDF

ISBN: 9780429961113

This textbook is aimed at newcomers to nonlinear dynamics and chaos, especially students taking a first course in the subject. The presentation stresses analytical methods, concrete examples, and geometric intuition. The theory is developed systematically, starting with first-order differential equations and their bifurcations, followed by phase plane analysis, limit cycles and their bifurcations, and culminating with the Lorenz equations, chaos, iterated maps, period doubling, renormalization, fractals, and strange attractors.

Edition :	2
Number of Pages :	532
Published :	01/01/2015
isbn :	9780429961113