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Smooth and Nonsmooth High Dimensional Chaos and the Melnikov-Type Methods
Contributor(s): Awrejcewicz, Jan (Author), Holicke, Mariusz M. (Author)
ISBN: 9812709096     ISBN-13: 9789812709097
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
OUR PRICE:   $137.75  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: September 2007
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BISAC Categories:
- Science | Mechanics - Dynamics
- Mathematics | Applied
- Science | Chaotic Behavior In Systems
Dewey: 003.857
LCCN: 2008295967
Series: World Scientific Series on Nonlinear Science
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.3" W x 9.06" (1.28 lbs) 320 pages
 
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This book focuses on the development of Melnikov-type methods applied to high dimensional dynamical systems governed by ordinary differential equations. Although the classical Melnikov's technique has found various applications in predicting homoclinic intersections, it is devoted only to the analysis of three-dimensional systems (in the case of mechanics, they represent one-degree-of-freedom nonautonomous systems). This book extends the classical Melnikov's approach to the study of high dimensional dynamical systems, and uses simple models of dry friction to analytically predict the occurrence of both stick-slip and slip-slip chaotic orbits, research which is very rarely reported in the existing literature even on one-degree-of-freedom nonautonomous dynamics.This pioneering attempt to predict the occurrence of deterministic chaos of nonlinear dynamical systems will attract many researchers including applied mathematicians, physicists, as well as practicing engineers. Analytical formulas are explicitly formulated step-by-step, even attracting potential readers without a rigorous mathematical background.