Foundations of Synergetics II
Subtitle: Chaos and Noise
By: by Alexander S. Mikhailov, Alexander Yu. Loskutov
Contributors: Loskutov, Alexander Yu
Edition: Second Revised and Enlarged Edition.
Series: Springer Series in Synergetics -- 52; Springer Series in Synergetics -- 52
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9783642801983; 9783642801969
Subjects: Optical pattern recognition; Chemistry; Statistics; Computer science; Economics
Description: This book is the second of two volumes that together give a comprehensive introduction to the theory of cooperative behavior in active systems. This volume is devoted to the properties of the complex chaotic patterns that can arise in distributed active systems. The reader will encounter strange attractors, fractals, discrete maps, spatio-temporal chaos etc., and will learn how these phenomena relate to the emergence of complex and chaotic patterns. Examples treated in detail include population explosion and extinction in fluctuating distributed media, and fluctuation effects in binary annihilation. This second edition has been revised and enlarged, in particular with respect to turbulence in distributed active systems, and a new section on control of chaotic behavior has been added. Much new material has been included in chapters where noise-induced pattern formation is considered.
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