Bücher der Reihe World Scientific Series on Nonlinear Science Series A

In 1971, Leon O Chua presented the formulation of a memristor, which was postulated as the fourth circuit element in electrical circuit theory - one that could join the existing core group of elements: capacitor, resistor and inductor. This book describes advanced research on significant issues in the field of memristors.

This book is devoted to the study of an effective frequency-domain approach, based on systems control theory, to compute and analyze several types of standard bifurcation conditions for general continuous-time nonlinear dynamical systems. A very rich pictorial gallery of local bifurcation diagrams for such nonlinear systems under simultaneous variations of several system parameters is presented. Some higher-order harmonic balance approximation formulas are derived for analyzing the oscillatory dynamics in small neighborhoods of certain types of Hopf and degenerate Hopf bifurcations.The frequency-domain approach is then extended to the large class of delay-differential equations, where the time delays can be either discrete or distributed. For the case of discrete delays, two alternatives are presented, depending on the structure of the underlying dynamical system, where the more general setting is then extended to the case of distributed time-delayed systems. Some representative examples in engineering and biology are discussed.

This volume provides a broad introduction to nonlinear integral dynamical models and new classes of evolutionary integral equations.

This book shows, for the very first time, how love stories - a vital issue in our lives - can be tentatively described with classical mathematics.

This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the modern theory of differential-operator and kinetic models including Vlasov–Maxwell, Fredholm, Lyapunov–Schmidt branching equations to name a few. This book will bridge the gap in the considerable body of existing academic literature on the analytical methods used in studies of complex behavior of differential-operator equations and kinetic models. This monograph will be of interest to mathematicians, physicists and engineers interested in the theory of such non-standard systems.

A Physarum machine is a programmable amorphous biological computer experimentally implemented in the vegetative state of true slime mould Physarum polycephalum. This book shows how to create experimental Physarum machines for computational geometry and optimization, distributed manipulation and transportation, and general-purpose computation.

It is well known that FOS can be applied in control applications and systems modeling, and their effectiveness has been proven in many theoretical works and simulation routines. This book aims to propose implementations and applications of Fractional Order Systems (FOS).

Real-world systems that involve some non-smooth change are often well-modeled by piecewise-smooth systems. This title presents the results regarding bifurcations of piecewise-smooth, continuous, autonomous systems of ordinary differential equations and maps. It reveals various codimension-two, discontinuity induced bifurcations.

Autonomous and nonautonomous Chua's circuits are of special significance in the study of chaotic system modeling, chaos-based science and engineering applications. This book presents a collection of the author's published papers on design, simulation and implementation of Chua's circuits.

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.

This book focuses on a class of uncertain systems that are called imperfect, and shows how much systems can regularly work if an appropriate control strategy is adopted.

Focuses on both continuous and discontinuous one-dimensional piecewise-linear maps and summarizes the results related to bifurcation structures in regular and robust chaotic domains.

This book is aimed primarily towards physicists and mechanical engineers specializing in modeling, analysis, and control of discontinuous systems with friction and impacts. It fills a gap in the existing literature by offering an original contribution to the field of discontinuous mechanical systems based on mathematical and numerical modeling as well as the control of such systems. Each chapter provides the reader with both the theoretical background and results of verified and useful computations, including solutions of the problems of modeling and application of friction laws in numerical computations, results from finding and analyzing impact solutions, the analysis and control of dynamical systems with discontinuities, etc. The contents offer a smooth correspondence between science and engineering and will allow the reader to discover new ideas. Also emphasized is the unity of diverse branches of physics and mathematics towards understanding complex piecewise-smooth dynamical systems. Mathematical models presented will be important in numerical experiments, experimental measurements, and optimization problems found in applied mechanics.Sample Chapter(s)

This book focuses on the computational analysis of nonlinear vibrations of structural members (beams, plates, panels, shells), where the studied dynamical problems can be reduced to the consideration of one spatial variable and time.

This unique volume presents an original approach to physical acoustics with additional emphasis on the most useful surface acoustic waves on solids.

Contains numerous results in 1-dimensional cellular automata. This title states that only 82 local rules, out of 256, suffice to predict the time evolution of any of the remaining 174 local rules from an arbitrary initial bit-string configuration.

This book is devoted to the history of chaos theory, from celestial mechanics (three-body problem) to electronics and meteorology. Many illustrative examples of chaotic behaviors exist in various contexts found in nature (chemistry, astrophysics, biomedicine). This book includes the most popular systems from chaos theory (Lorenz, Rössler, van der Pol, Duffing, logistic map, Lozi map, Hénon map etc.) and introduces many other systems, some of them very rarely discussed in textbooks as well as in scientific papers. The contents are formulated with an original approach as compared to other books on chaos theory.

Memory is a universal function of organized matter. What is the mathematics of memory? How does memory affect the space-time behaviour of spatially extended systems? This book provides answers to these questions. It focuses on the study of spatially extended systems, such as cellular automata and other related discrete complex systems.

This book presents an electronic engineer's perspective on chaos and complex behaviour, starting from basic mathematical notions which enable understanding of the observed phenomena and guide the reader through methodology and tools used in the laboratory and numerical experiments.

For researchers in nonlinear science, this work includes coverage of linear systems, stability of solutions, periodic and almost periodic impulsive systems, integral sets of impulsive systems, optimal control in impulsive systems, and more.

This book is based on research on the rigorous proof of chaos and bifurcations in 2-D quadratic maps, especially the invertible case such as the Hnon map, and in 3-D ODE's, especially piecewise linear systems such as the Chua's circuit. In addition, the book covers some recent works in the field of general 2-D quadratic maps, especially their classification into equivalence classes, and finding regions for chaos, hyperchaos, and non-chaos in the space of bifurcation parameters. Following the main introduction to the rigorous tools used to prove chaos and bifurcations in the two representative systems, is the study of the invertibe case of the 2-D quadratic map, where previous works are oriented toward Hnon mapping. 2-D quadratic maps are then classified into 30 maps with well-known formulas. Two proofs on the regions for chaos, hyperchaos, and non-chaos in the space of the bifurcation parameters are presented using a technique based on the second-derivative test and bounds for Lyapunov exponents. Also included is the proof of chaos in the piecewise linear Chua's system using two methods, the first of which is based on the construction of Poincar map, and the second is based on a computer-assisted proof. Finally, a rigorous analysis is provided on the bifurcational phenomena in the piecewise linear Chua's system using both an analytical 2-D mapping and a 1-D approximated Poincar mapping in addition to other analytical methods.

Wave or weak turbulence is a branch of science concerned with the evolution of random wave fields of all kinds and on all scales, from waves in galaxies to capillary waves on water surface, from waves in nonlinear optics to quantum fluids. This title presents the advances in wave turbulence.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In years, the idea of synchronization has become an object of great interest in many areas of science, for example, biology and communication or laser physics. Devoted to the phenomenon of synchronization and its application for determining the values of Lyapunov exponents, this book presents the synchronization problem.