Order within chaos : towards a deterministic approach to turbulence

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Order within chaos : towards a deterministic approach to turbulence

Pierre Bergé, Yves Pomeau, Christian Vidal ; preface by David Ruelle ; translated from the French by Laurette Tuckerman

Wiley , Hermann, c1984

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L'ordre dans le chaos

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"A Wiley-Interscience publication."

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Presented at a relatively elementary level, this introduction to the study of dissipative dynamical systems is addressed to an audience which is scientifically cultivated but not specialized in this discipline. Encompasses the analysis of all time-dependent phenomena, treating the major types of behavior or of evolution without direct reference to the material aspects. Focuses on physics and chemistry and avoids mathematical treatment. In a panorama which is coherent and accessible, it describes concretely the important dynamical phenomena and the way in which they appear in experimental reality. Covers basic vocabulary and regular periodic behavior, and goes on to apply them in analytical methods.

Table of Contents

  • Free Oscillator - Damped Oscillator
  • Forced Oscillator - Parametric Oscillator
  • The Fourier Transform
  • Poincare Sections
  • Three Examples of Dynamical Systems
  • To Chaos: Temporal Chaos in Dissipative System
  • Strange Attractors
  • Quasiperiodicity
  • The Subharmonic Cascade
  • Intermittency
  • Debate
  • Appendixes
  • Index.

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