1st Edition

Working with Dynamical Systems A Toolbox for Scientists and Engineers

By Len Pismen Copyright 2021
250 Pages 43 Color & 53 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

250 Pages 43 Color & 53 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

250 Pages 43 Color & 53 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

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... Read more

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

Biography

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).