Böcker i World Scientific Series on Nonlinear Science Series A-serien

Phase-Locked Loops (PLLs) are electronic systems that can be used as a synchronized oscillator, a driver or multiplier of frequency, a modulator or demodulator and as an amplifier of phase modulated signals. This book describes the methods used in the analysis of PLLs.

Presents a theory on the transition to dynamical chaos for two-dimensional nonautonomous, and three-dimensional, many-dimensional and infinitely-dimensional autonomous nonlinear dissipative systems of differential equations including nonlinear partial differential equations and differential equations with delay arguments.

Cosmic evolution leads from symmetry to complexity by symmetry breaking and phase transitions. The emergence of new order and structure in nature and society is explained by physical, chemical, biological, social and economic self-organization, according to the laws of nonlinear dynamics. All these dynamical systems are considered computational systems processing information and entropy. Are symmetry and complexity only useful models of science or are they universals of reality? Symmetry and Complexity discusses the fascinating insights gained from natural, social and computer sciences, philosophy and the arts. With many diagrams and pictures, this book illustrates the spirit and beauty of nonlinear science. In the complex world of globalization, it strongly argues for unity in diversity.

A short monograph that, owing to geometric interpretation complete with computer colour graphics, makes it easy to understand even very complex advanced concepts of chaotic dynamics.

Technical problems often lead to differential equations with piecewise-smooth right-hand sides. This book presents some of the fascinating new phenomena that one can observe in piecewise-smooth dynamical systems.

Bifurcation and chaos has dominated research in nonlinear dynamics for over two decades, and numerous books have been published on this subject. The aim of this volume is to provide a pedagogically appealing yet rigorous mathematical bridge between these two disparate levels of exposition.

Bifurcation and chaos has dominated research in nonlinear dynamics for over two decades. This text provides a mathematical bridge between these two disparate levels of exposition. It focuses on the qualitative study of high-dimensional nonlinear dynamical systems.

This analysis seeks to present macroscopic irreversible thermodynamics in all its splendour by appealing to the notion of internal variables of state. This applies to both fluids and solids with or without microstructures of mechanical or electromagnetic origin.

Robust chaos is defined by the absence of periodic windows and coexisting attractors in some neighborhoods in the parameter space of a dynamical system. This book explores the definition, sources, and roles of robust chaos. It is suitable for both readers and researchers in nonlinear science in general, and chaos theory in particular.

Offers the details of the mathematical mechanics for the modeling of skeletal muscle contraction. This work examines a succession of distinguishable universes of particles, and continuous, thermodynamic, chemical, and molecular bodies, with a focus on proofs by algebraic calculation without set theory.

Reveals a novel quasi-ergodicity phenomenon involving orbits meandering among omega-limit orbits of complex (group 5) and hyper (group 6) Bernoulli rules. This title uses rigorous analyses to identify 67, out off 256 , local rules whose asymptotic behaviors consist of robust period-l orbits.

Differential equations with random perturbations are the mathematical models of real-world processes that cannot be described via deterministic laws, and their evolution depends on the random factors. This work focuses on the approach to stochastic equations from the perspective of ordinary differential equations.

This invaluable volume ends the quest to uncover the secret recipes for predicting the long-term evolution of a ring of identical elementary cells where the binary state of each cell during each generation of an attractor (i.e. after the transients had disappeared) is determined uniquely by the state of its left and right neighbors in the previous generation, as decreed by one of 256 truth tables. As befitting the contents aimed at school children, it was found pedagogically appealing to code each truth table by coloring each of the 8 vertices of a cubical graph in red (for binary state 1), or blue (for binary state 0), forming a toy universe of 256 Boolean cubes, each bearing a different vertex color combination. The corresponding collection of 256 distinct Boolean cubes are then segegrated logically into 6 distinct groups where members from each group share certain common dynamics which allow the long-term evolution of the color configuration of each bit string, of arbitrary length, to be predicted painlessly, via a toy-like gaming procedure, without involving any calculation. In particular, the evolution of any bit string bearing any initial color configuration which resides in any one of the possibly many distinct attractors, can be systematically predicted, by school children who are yet to learn arithmetic, via a simple recipe, for any Boolean cube belonging to group 1, 2, 3, or 4. The simple recipe for predicting the time-asymptotic behaviors of Boolean cubes belonging to groups 1, 2, and 3 has been covered in Vols. I, II, ..., V. > 0, or 0 (resp. As in the five prior volumes, Vol. VI also contains simple recipes which are, in fact, general and original results from the abstract theory of 1-dimensional cellular automata. Indeed, both children and experts from cellular automata will find this volume to be as deep, refreshing, and entertaining, as the previous volumes.

Evolutionary equations are studied in abstract Banach spaces and in spaces of bounded number sequences. For linear and nonlinear difference equations, which are defined on finite-dimensional and infinite-dimensional tori, the problem of reducibility is solved, in particular, in neighborhoods of their invariant sets, and the basics for a theory of invariant tori and bounded semi-invariant manifolds are established. Also considered are the questions on existence and approximate construction of periodic solutions for difference equations in infinite-dimensional spaces and the problem of extendibility of the solutions in degenerate cases. For nonlinear differential equations in spaces of bounded number sequences, new results are obtained in the theory of countable-point boundary-value problems.The book contains new mathematical results that will be useful towards advances in nonlinear mechanics and theoretical physics.

Since the birth of the Chua circuit in 1983, a considerable number of fruitful, fascinating and relevant research topics have arisen. In honor of the 25th anniversary of the invention of Chua's circuit, this book presents the 25 years of research on the implementation of Chua's circuit, and also discusses future directions and emerging applications of recent results. The purpose of the book is to provide researchers, PhD students, and undergraduate students a research monograph containing both fundamentals on the topics and advanced results that have been recently obtained. With about 60 illustrations included in the book, it also shows the detailed schematics of several different implementations that can be easily reproduced with a low-cost experimental setup and PC-based measurement instrumentation.

Focuses on the research topics investigated during the three-year research project funded by the Italian Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca under the FIRB project RBNE01CW3M. This book presents the final results of the project after a general introduction to the subject.

With Chua's circuit, chaos became a physical phenomenon, understood and represented in mathematical language. But, it is difficult for the non-specialist to appreciate the variety of behaviors that the system can produce. This book aims to bridge the gap and contains illustrated 3D color images, time series and fast Fourier transform algorithms.

This book deals with the bifurcation and chaotic aspects of damped and driven nonlinear oscillators. The analytical and numerical aspects of the chaotic dynamics of these oscillators are covered, together with appropriate experimental studies using nonlinear electronic circuits.