Chaos: Concepts, Control and Constructive Use. Second Edition

Abstract

The study of physics has changed in character, mainly due to the trend from analysis of linear systems to analysis of nonlinear systems. Needless to say, this trend began a long time ago, but a qualitative change took place and began to evolve in a more pronounced way only after physicists began to understand the nature of chaos in nonlinear systems. The importance of these systems comes from the fact that most of physical reality is in fact nonlinear. Linearity appears as a result of the simplification of real systems and is often difficult to achieve in experimental studies. In this book, we focus our attention on some general phenomena, naturally linked with nonlinearity, in which chaos plays a constructive role.