Lorenz equations Part II: "Randomly" rotated homoclinic orbits and chaotic trajectories

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 121-140

  Chen, Xinfu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaotic behavior; Homoclinic orbits; Lorenz equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011672661     PISSN: 10780947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcds.1996.2.121     Document Type: Article

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