The onset of chaos in nonlinear dynamical systems determined with a new fractal technique

Fractals

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 19-31

  Musielak, Dora E ^a   Musielak, Zdzislaw E ^a   Kennamer, Kenny S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b University of Alabama in Huntsville ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Fractal Statistics; Lyapunov Method; Nonlinear Systems; Onset to Chaos

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FRACTALS; LYAPUNOV METHODS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; STATISTICS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

FRACTAL STATISTICS; LYAPUNOV METHOD; NONLINEAR DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; ONSET TO CHAOS;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 17044381293     PISSN: 0218348X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218348X0500274X     Document Type: Article

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