Global dynamics of the Rikitake system

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 238, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 241-252

  Llibre, Jaume ^a   Messias, Marcelo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Geodynamo; Lorenz attractor; Poincar compactification; Rikitake attractor; Strange attractor creation; Unbounded orbits

Indexed keywords

PHYSICS;

COMPACTIFICATION; GEODYNAMO; LORENZ ATTRACTOR; RIKITAKE ATTRACTOR; STRANGE ATTRACTORS;

GEOMAGNETISM;

EID: 58149492531     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physd.2008.10.011     Document Type: Article

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