Chaos in the dynamics generated by sequences of maps, with applications to chaotic advection in flows with aperiodic time dependence

Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik und Physik

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 585-616

  Wiggins, Stephen ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaos, symbolic dynamics; Chaotic advection; Nonautonomous vector field

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033245875     PISSN: 00442275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000330050168     Document Type: Article

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