Instabilities, Chaos And Turbulence
Subtitle: An Introduction To Nonlinear Dynamics And Complex Systems
Publisher: Imperial College Press
Published: October 28, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9781860944918
Subjects: Differential equations; Science; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; Engineering - Civil; General; Mechanics - Dynamics - Fluid Dynamics
First sentence: In a linear world, the effects being always proportional to their causes, everything would be "simple" since the tools that would allow us to represent it as a superposition of elementary states are rather well mastered.