Working With Dynamical Systems - A Toolbox for Scientists and Engineers

"This book provides working tools for the study and design of dynamical systems, emphasizing qualitative analysis over complex mathematics. The author includes executable Mathematica notebooks and extensive examples for discussion of mechanical models, models of chemical reactions, dynamics of patterns, and dynamical systems in space"--

List of contents

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

About the author

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).

Summary

This book provides working tools for the study and design of dynamical systems, emphasizing qualitative analysis over complex mathematics. The author includes executable Mathematica notebooks and extensive examples for discussion of mechanical models, models of chemical reactions, dynamics of patterns, and dynamical systems in space.

Product details

• Authors: Len Pismen, Leonid M. Pismen, LM Pismen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781138591714
• ISBN: 978-1-138-59171-4
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Series in Computational Biophysics
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Miscellaneous; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Mechanical, SCIENCE / Physics / General, MATHEMATICS / Applied, SCIENCE / Mechanics / Fluids, SCIENCE / Physics / Mathematical & Computational, Physics, Fluid mechanics, Mechanics of fluids, Mathematical physics, Applied mathematics, Plasma Physics, Physics: Fluid mechanics, Engineering: Mechanics of fluids, Mathematical / Computational / Theoretical physics