Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos

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About Course

This course provides an introduction to nonlinear dynamics and chaos. It covers analytic and geometric methods for analyzing systems of differential equations and maps, with applications to physics, biology, and engineering.

What Will You Learn?

  • Master the geometric and analytical techniques for analyzing nonlinear systems and understanding chaotic behavior in nature.

Course Content

Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
An extensive lecture series covering 1D and 2D systems, bifurcations, limit cycles, the Lorenz equations, and the geometry of strange attractors.

  • MAE5790-1 Course introduction and overview
    01:16:31
  • MAE5790-2 One dimensional Systems
    01:16:44
  • MAE5790-3 Overdamped bead on a rotating hoop
    01:13:12
  • MAE5790-4 Model of an insect outbreak
    01:15:16
  • MAE5790-5 Two dimensional linear systems
    01:15:20
  • MAE5790-6 Two dimensional nonlinear systems fixed points
    01:07:17
  • MAE5790-7 Conservative Systems
    01:17:13
  • MAE5790-8 Index theory and introduction to limit cycles
    01:13:55
  • MAE5790-9 Testing for closed orbits
    01:16:52
  • MAE5790-10 van der Pol oscillator
    01:05:57
  • MAE5790-11 Averaging theory for weakly nonlinear oscillators
    01:16:08
  • MAE5790-12 Bifurcations in two dimensional systems
    46:54
  • MAE5790-13 Hopf bifurcations in aeroelastic instabilities and chemical oscillators
    01:07:57
  • MAE5790-14 Global bifurcations of cycles
    01:16:22
  • MAE5790-15 Chaotic waterwheel
    01:14:11
  • MAE5790-16 waterwheel equations and Lorenz equations
    01:12:41
  • MAE5790-17 Chaos in the Lorenz equations
    01:16:35
  • MAE5790-18 Strange attractor for the Lorenz equations
    01:13:47
  • MAE5790-19 One dimensional maps
    01:14:35
  • MAE5790-20 Universal aspects of period doubling
    01:11:56
  • MAE5790-21 Feigenbaum’s renormalization analysis of period doubling
    01:15:58
  • MAE5790-22 Renormalization: Function space and a hands-on calculation
    01:08:32
  • MAE5790-23 Fractals and the geometry of strange attractors
    01:04:32
  • MAE5790-24 Hénon map
    51:24
  • MAE5790-25 Using chaos to send secret messages
    01:05:21

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