Visual analysis of nonlinear dynamical systems: Chaos, fractals, self-similarity and the limits of prediction

Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Boeing, Geoff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attractor; Bifurcation; Chaos; Dynamical systems; Fractal; Logistic map; Nonlinear dynamics; Prediction; Python; Visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 85111351559     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20798954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/systems4040037     Document Type: Article

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