Proceedings of the 3rd Experimental Chaos Conference: August 21-23, 1995, Edinburgh, Scotland, Uk

by Harrison, Robert G.; Lu, Weiping; Ditto, William; Pecora, Lou; Spano, Mark; Vohra, Sandeep

• ISBN13: 9789810226893
• ISBN10: 9810226896
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-12-01
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Spatiotemporal Chaos and Patterns	1	(52)
Scale Segregation via Formation of Domains in a Nonlinear Optical System	3	(18)
F. T. Arecchi
S. Boccaletti
E. Pampaloni
P. L. Ramazza
S. Residori
Laser Dynamics as Hydrodynamics	21	(5)
M. Vaupel
C. O. Weiss
Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Human Epileptic Seizures	26	(5)
L. D. Iasemidis
K. E. Pappas
J. C. Principe
J. C. Sackellares
Experimental Transition to Chaos in a Quasi 1D Chain of Oscillators	31	(10)
J.-M. Flesselles
V. Croquette
Measuring Coupling in Spatiotemporal Dynamical Systems	41	(6)
G. Broze
S. Narayanan
F. Hussain
Chaos in Vortex Breakdown	47	(6)
P. S. Addison
D. A. Ervine
A. H. C. Chan
K. J. Williams
Dynamical Analysis	53	(28)
Radial Basis Function Modelling and Prediction of Time Series	55	(5)
R. C. A. Burr
T. Mullin
D. S. Broomhead
C. S. Garrard
B. Casadei
Nonlinear Phenomena in Polyrhythmic Hand Movements	60	(5)
R. Engbert
C. Scheffczyk
J. Kurths
R. T. Krampe
R. Kliegl
Using Models to Diagnose, Test and Control Chaotic Systems	65	(10)
R. Brown
New Real-Time Analysis of Time Series Data with Physical Wavelets	75	(6)
F. Takeda
Control and Synchronization	81	(36)
Measuring and Controlling Chaotic Dynamics in a Slugging Fluidized Bed	83	(9)
C. S. Daw
C. E. A. Finney
M. Vasudevan
Control of Chaos in a Laser with Feedback	92	(5)
R. Meucci
M. Ciofini
F. T. Arecchi
Synchronization and Chaotic Diode Resonators	97	(5)
T. C. Newell
P. M. Alsing
A. Gavrielides
V. Kovanis
Control of Chaos by Continuous-time Feedback with Delay	102	(5)
K. Pyragas
A. Kittel
A Framework for Communication using Chaos Sychronization	107	(5)
F. Bohme
Control of Chaos in Switching Circuits	112	(5)
K. Chakraborty
G. Poddar
S. Banerjee
Astrophysics, Meteorology and Oceanography	117	(22)
Solar-Wind-Magnetospheric Dynamics via Satellite Data	119	(10)
S. C. Chapman
P. E. Devine
N. W. Watkins
Nonlinear Dynamics of the Solar Atmosphere	129	(5)
A. Hanslmeier
J. A. Bonet
M. Vazquez
Fractal Dimension of Scalar and Vector Variables from Turbulence Measurements in the Atmospheric Surface Layer	134	(5)
D. W. Thomson
C. Tong
H. W. Henderson
N. S. Winstead
Mechanics	139	(26)
Escape and Overturning: Subtle Transient Behavior in Nonlinear Mechanical Models	141	(10)
L. N. Virgin
Organising Centres in the Dynamics of Parametrically Excited Double Pendulums	151	(8)
P. M. Jackel
Intermittent Behaviour in a Heating System Driven by Phase Transitions	159	(6)
M. Frank
K. Grimm
R. Joyce
M. Schmidt
R. Sporer
A. Weideman
Hydrodynamics	165	(18)
Size Segregation in Couette Flow of Granular Material	167	(5)
R. Khosropour
J. Zirinsky
Routes to Chaos in Rotational Taylor-Couette Flow	172	(5)
G. Pfister
J. von Stamm
Experimental Study of the Laminar-Turbulent Transition in an Open Flow System	177	(6)
N. G. Stocks
C. T. Shaw
G. P. King
Chemistry	183	(22)
Order and Chaos in Excitable Media under External Forcing	185	(15)
V. S. Zykov
S. Grill
S. C. Muller
A Chemical Wave Propagation with Accelerating Speed Accompanied by Hydrodynamic Flow	200	(5)
T. Sakurai
H. Miike
E. Yokoyama
Optics	205	(24)
Instabilities in Semiconductor Lasers with Optical Injection	207	(8)
A. Gavrielides
Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of a Bimode CO2 Laser with Saturable Absorber	215	(5)
C. Lepers
V. Zehnle
D. Hennequin
D. Dangoisse
P. Glorieux
A. Barsella
E. Arimondo
Chaotic Homoclinic Phenomena in Opto-Thermal Devices	220	(5)
R. Herrero
J. Farjas
R. Pons
F. Pi
G. Orriols
Observation and Characterisation of Low-Frequency Chaos in Semiconductor Lasers with External Feedback	225	(4)
N. Swanston
D. Yu
P. M. Ripley
W. -P. Lu
J. Kollmer
R. G. Harrison
Condensed Matter	229	(44)
The Application of Nonlinear Dynamics in the Study of Ferroelectric Materials	231	(10)
S. Blochwitz
R. Habel
M. Diestelhorst
H. Beige
Cellular Convection in a Small Aspect Ratio Liquid Crystal Device	241	(5)
D. J. Binks
T. Mullin
Driven Spin-Wave Dynamics in YIG Films	246	(5)
D. J. Mar
T. L. Carroll
L. M. Pecora
J. F. Heagy
F. J. Rachford
Quantum Chaology in Quartz	251	(10)
M. Oxborrow
C. Ellegaard
Small Signal Amplification Caused by Nonlinear Properties of Ferroelectrics	261	(6)
M. Diestelhorst
R. -P. Kapsch
H. Beige
Composite Materials Evolved from Chaos	267	(6)
D. A. Zumbrunnen
Electronics and Circuits	273	(26)
Controlling a Chaotic Array of Pulse-Coupled Fitzhugh-Nagumo Circuits	275	(9)
T. L. Carroll
Experimental Observation of On-Off Intermittency	284	(5)
A. Cenys
A. Namajunas
A. Tamasevicius
Phase Lock-In of Chaotic Relaxation Oscillators	289	(10)
A. Volkovskii
Biology and Medicine	299	(23)
Singular Value Decomposition and Circuit Structure in Invertebrate Ganglia	301	(5)
H. G. E. Hentschel
L. B. Cohen
Nonlinear Forecasting of Spike Trains from Neurons of a Mollusc	306	(6)
M. Barbi
S. Chillemi
A. Di Garbo
Ultradian Rhythm in the Sensitive Plants: Chaos or Coloured Noise?	312	(5)
H. Miike
T. Mikuchi
A. Osa
K. Nakajima
E. Yokoyama
Chaos and the Crayfish Sixth Ganglion	317	(5)
X. Pei
F. Moss
Hardware Coupled Nonlinear Oscillators as a Model of Retina	322
A. W. Przybyszewski
P. S. Linsay
P. Gaudiano
C. M. Wilson