Lagrangian descriptors: A method for revealing phase space structures of general time dependent dynamical systems

Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3530-3557

  Mancho, Ana M ^a   Wiggins, Stephen ^b   Curbelo, Jezabel ^a,c   Mendoza, Carolina ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS MATEMÁTICAS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aperiodically time dependent; Invariant manifolds; Nonautonomous systems; Transport barriers; Vector fields

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; GEOMETRY; HEURISTIC METHODS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LYAPUNOV METHODS; VECTOR SPACES; VECTORS;

APERIODICALLY TIME-DEPENDENT; DESCRIPTORS; GEOMETRICAL STRUCTURE; INVARIANT MANIFOLDS; LAGRANGIAN; NON-AUTONOMOUS SYSTEM; PHASE SPACES; TIME DEPENDENT; TRANSPORT BARRIER; VECTOR FIELDS;

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84880042896     PISSN: 10075704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2013.05.002     Document Type: Article

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