Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: Advances and Perspectives

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Thiel, Marco (Editor), Kurths, Jürgen (Editor), Romano, M. Carmen (Editor), Károlyi, György (Editor), Moura, Alessandro (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Series: Understanding Complex Systems,
• Subjects: Physics.; Dynamics.; Ergodic theory.; System theory.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Vibration.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory.; Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control.; Systems Theory, Control.

This book is a collection of contributions on various aspects of active frontier research in the field of dynamical systems and chaos. Each chapter examines a specific research topic and, in addition to reviewing recent results, also discusses future perspectives. The result is an invaluable snapsho...

Table of Contents:

• How Did You Get into Chaos?
• Singular Perturbations of Complex Analytic Dynamical Systems
• Heteroclinic Switching in Coupled Oscillator Networks: Dynamics on Odd Graphs
• Dynamics of Finite-Size Particles in Chaotic Fluid Flows
• Langevin Equation for Slow Degrees of Freedom of Hamiltonian Systems
• Stable Chaos
• Superpersistent Chaotic Transients
• Synchronization in Climate Dynamics and Other Extended Systems
• Stochastic Synchronization
• Experimental Huygens Synchronization of Oscillators
• Controlling Chaos: The OGY Method, Its Use in Mechanics, and an Alternative Unified Framework for Control of Non-regular Dynamics
• Detection of Patterns Within Randomness.