Chaos and Nonlinear Mechanics
The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:
PREFACE
EUROMECH Colloquium 308 “Chaos and Noise in Dynamical Systems”: The International Dimension
I. THEORY OF CHAOTIC SYSTEMS
Non-Integrability of Perturbed Twist Mappings and Chaotic Phenomena
On the Structure of Non-Wandering Sets of Two-Dimensional Diffeomorphisms with Homoclinic Tangencies
Bifurcations of Subharmonics in a Nonlinear Oscillator: Perturbation Methods Versus Numerical Experiment
Noninvertible Maps in the Plane
On the Dynamics of Diffusively Coupled Systems
Order for the Appearance of Attractors in Families of Piecewise Linear Maps
Estimating Point-Wise Dimensions from Dynamical Poincaré Maps by Means of Analogue Technique
Origin and Dimension of Strange Nonchaotic Attractors
Sectional Curvature in the Dynamics of N-body Systems
II. STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS
Multi-frequencies Stochastic Resonance
Wave Propagation in Randomly Stratified Media and Anderson Localization
A Noise-Controlled Dynamic Bifurcation
III. SPATIO-TEMPORAL SYSTEMS AND FLUID DYNAMICS
Spatiotemporal Chaos in the Nonlinear Three-Wave Interaction via Influence of Boundaries
Self-Stochasticity in Dynamical Systems as a Scenario for Deterministic Spatio-Temporal Chaos
Instabilities and Chaos in Taylor-Couette Flow
Evidence of the Soft Turbulence in Atmospheric Boundary Layer
IV. NUMERICAL TOOLS
New Method for Numerical Integration of Differential Equations in the Presence of First Integrals
Interpolation with Inhomogeneous Grids: An Extension of the Generalized Cell Mapping Method
Comparison of Simulation Methods for Obtaining Characteristics of Response of Stochastic Dynamical Systems
V. PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS
Chaotic Motions in Mechanical Systems with Impacts
Sub- and Supercritical Hopf Bifurcation in a Rotor subjected to a Follower Force
Stability of Flexibly Mounted, Self-Acting Gas Journal Bearings
Stochastic Stability of Rotating Composite Shafts with Brazier's Effect
