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Lui Lam, editor. Introduction to Nonlinear Physics. Springer. 1997

 

Contents

Lui Lam.
Introduction to Nonlinear Physics
Thomas C. Halsey.
Fractals and diffusive growth
Thomas C. Halsey.
Multifractality
Thomas C. Halsey.
Scaling arguments and diffusive growth
Stephen G. Eubank, J. Doyne Farmer.
Introduction to dynamical systems
Stephen G. Eubank, J. Doyne Farmer.
Probability, random processes, and the statistical description of dynamics
Stephen G. Eubank, J. Doyne Farmer.
Modeling chaotic systems
Leonard M. Sander.
Phenomenology of growth
Leonard M. Sander.
Models and applications
Lui Lam.
Integrable systems
Lui Lam.
Nonintegrable systems
David E. Heibler, Robert Tatar.
Cellular automata and discrete physics
Ralph H. Abraham.
Vizualization techniques for cellular dynamata
Geoffrey K. Vallis.
From laminar flow to turbulence
Lui Lam.
Active walks: pattern formation, self-organization, and complex systems
Michael Nauenberg.
Historical remarks on chaos

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Lui Lam, editor. Nonlinear Physics for Beginners: fractals, chaos, solitons, pattern formation, cellular automata and complex systems. World Scientific. 1998

 

Contents

Leonard M. Sander.
Fractal growth processes. Nature, 322, 789-793. 1986
M. A. F. Gomes.
Fratal geometry n crumpled paper balls. Am. J. Phys., 55, 649-650. 1987
L. Z. Fang.
Fractal of large scale structures in the universe. Mod. Phys. Lett., A1, 601-605. 1986
Per Bak.
The Devil's Staircase. Phys. Today, 39(12), 38-45. 1986
H. Eugene Stanley, Paul Meakin.
Multifractal phenomena in physics and chemistry. Nature, 335, 405-409. 1988
Lui Lam, R. D. Freimuth, J. L. Drake.
Simlpe mutlifractals with Sierpinski Gasket supports. 1992
James P. Crutchfield, J. Doyne Farmer, Norman H. Packard, Robert S. Shaw.
Chaos. Sci. Am., 254(12), 46-58. 1986
H. N. Nunes Yepez, A. L. Salas Brito, C. A. Vargas, L. A. Vicente.
Chaos in a dripping faucet. Eur. J. Phys., 10, 99-105. 1989
Celso Grebogi, Edward Ott, James A. Yorke.
Chaos, strange attractors, and fractal basin boundaries in nonlinear dynamics. Science, 238, 632-638. 1987
George Sugihara, Robert M. May.
Nonlinear forecasting as a way of distinguishing chaos from measurement error in time series. Nature, 344, 734-741. 1990
Edward Ott, Mark L. Spano.
Controlling chaos. Phys. Today, 48(5), 34-40. 1995
Martin C. Gutzwiller.
Quantum chaos. Sci. Am., 266(1), 78-84. 1992
Joseph Ford.
How random is a coin toss?. Phys. Today, 36(4), 40-47. 1983
R. K. Bullough.
Solitons. Phys. Bulletin, Feb, 78-82. 1978
Lin Lei, Chang-Qing Shu, Shen Juelian, P. M. Lam, Huang Yun.
Soliton propagation in liquid crystals. Phys. Rev. Lett., 49, 1335-1338. 1982
T. D. Lee.
Possible relevance of soliton solutions to superconductivity. Nature, 330, 460-461. 1987
J. S. Langer.
Dendrites, viscous fingers, and the theory of pattern formation. Science, 243, 1150-1156. 1989
Johann Nittmann, H. Eugene Stanley.
Tip splitting without interfacial tension and dendritic growth patterns arising from molecular anisotrpy. Nature, 321, 663-668. 1986
R. Ribotta, A. Joets, Lin Lei.
Oblique roll instability in an electroconvective anisotropic fluid. Phys. Rev. Lett., 56, 1595-1597. 1986
A. Joets, R. Ribotta, Lui Lam.
Critical behavior in the transitions to convective flows in nematic liquid crystals. 1988
John Ross, Stefan C. Muller, Christian Vidal.
Chemical waves. Science, 240, 460-465. 1988
Philip W. Anderson.
More is Different. Science, 177, 393-396. 1972
Stephen Wolfram.
Cellular automata as models of complexity. Nature, 311, 419-424. 1984
Per Bak.
Catastrophes and self-organized criticality. Comput. Phys., 5, 430-433. 1991
Lui Lam, Rocco D. Pochy.
Active-walker models: growth and form in nonequilibrium systems. Comput. Phys., 7, 534-541. 1993
Lui Lam, Chang-Qing Shu, Sabine Bodefeld.
Active walks and path dependent phenomena in social systems. 1997