A shooting approach to chaos in the Lorenz equations

Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 41-53

  Hastings, S P ^a   Troy, W C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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EID: 0030140607     PISSN: 00220396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jdeq.1996.0060     Document Type: Article

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