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Dynamical Systems and Chaos

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction Czech
Code 470-6104/01
Abbreviation DSCH
Course title Dynamical Systems and Chaos
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Applied Mathematics
Course coordinator prof. RNDr. Marek Lampart, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Block A:
History of chaos and its importance in natural sciences and engineering; Fundamentals of chaos theory (classification of trajectories, parameter influence, nonlinear systems, Poincaré section); Stability, bifurcation (Lyapunov stability, the interface of stable and unstable regions); Analysis of equilibrium states (equilibrium states of continuous DS, basic types of bifurcations); Periodic solutions of dynamical systems (limit cycles, heteroclinic and homoclinic trajectories)
Block B:
Chaotic dynamical systems (bifurcations in chaotic systems, Lyapunov exponents, frequency spectrum); Chaos in discrete and continuous systems (the shift map, transitivity, chaos in the sense of Devaney and Li-Yorke, Poincaré's theorem); Chaos and fractals (fractal, Mandelbrot and Julius sets, IFS and TEA algorithms); Fractals (self-similarity, fractal dimensions and collage theorem)
Block C:
Quantification and qualification tools of dynamic systems (shadowing lemma); Wolf's and Kantz's algorithm for calculation of Lyapunov exponents (Takens' embedding theorem); 0-1 test for chaos, approximate and sampling entropy

Literature

[1] P. Blanchard, RL. Devaney, G.L Hall, Differential Equations, Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning, 2011. ISBN-13:978-0-495-56198-9
[2] J.T. Sandefur, Discrete dynamical systems, Theory and Applications, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1990. ISBN 0-19-853384-5

Advised literature

[1] F.R. Marotto, Mathematical Modeling Using Discrete Dynamical Systems, Brooks/Cole, USA. ISBN 0-495-01417-6
[2] R.L. Devaney, An Introduction to Dynamical Systems, Westview Press, Colorado, 2003. ISBN-13:978-0-8133-4085-2