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Nonlinear dynamics and chaos. Proceedings of the 4th physics summer school, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, January 7–25, 1991. (English) Zbl 0918.58002

Singapore: World Scientific. xvi, 347 p. (1992).
Contents: Robert H. G. Helleman, Chaos toys (1-13); J. D. Meiss, Phenomenology of area-preserving twist maps (15-40); W. A. Coppel, Dynamical systems: an introduction to some mathematical techniques and results (41-90); Kenneth J. Palmer, Bifurcations, chaos and fractals (91-133); G. R. W. Quispel, Chaos and time reversal symmetry: an introduction (135-151); R. Grimshaw, Wave interactions in stratified fluids (153-173); R. Grimshaw, Nonlinear waves in fluids—the KdV paradigm (175-198); Colin J. Thompson, Universality classes in the transition to chaos (199-211); Colin J. Thompson, Chaos in economics and management (213-229); R. Delbourgo, Relations between universal scaling constants in dissipative maps (231-256); Craig M. Savage, Chaos in dissipative quantum systems (257-275); Allan J. Lichtenberg, The application of mappings to physical systems (277-317); Itamar Procaccia, Thermal turbulence and the wrinkling of isotherms (319-347).
The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually.

MSC:

58-06 Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. pertaining to global analysis
00B25 Proceedings of conferences of miscellaneous specific interest
37D45 Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior
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