Handbook of Chaos Control [Kõva köide]

Summarizes the current state in taking advantage of the sensitive dependence of a chaotic system to control its irregular dynamic behavior with a minimum of additional energy. After an introduction to chaos theory itself, describes all known methods of chaos control for a number of different type systems, among them controlling patterns and spatiotemporal chaos, spatially extended chaotic systems, topological defects, transient chaos on chaotic saddles, and periodic orbit theory for classical chaotic systems. Much of the text is concerned with applications, which include electronic circuits, lasers and chemical plants, and the anti-chaos control in biological systems that offers the possibility of avoiding epileptic seizures. The book shows the title and ISBN as indicated above, but Books in Print shows confusion about the ISBN (it's connected with an entirely different book); and Wiley's customer service department reports a variant title: Control of Chaos; From Theory to Application. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Chaos, that is irregular dynamical behaviour, is ubiquituous in nature and occurs in a wide range of systems including lasers, fluids, etc., heart beats and brain waves. Before 1990 the emergence of chaos in a system was mostly considered as a nuisance because chaotic systems are hard to predict due to their sensitivity to small perturbations. After 1990 it became clear that this sensitive dependence offers the unique possibility to control these systems with a minimum of additional energy.

This handbook provides a comprehensive up-to-date overview of the field. It starts with an introduction to chaos theory, and covers all known methods of chaos control from parametric feedback to neuronal networks. A large part of the handbook is devoted to applications which range from control of electronic circuits, the control of lasers and chemical plants up to "antichaos control" in biological systems which offers the possibility to avoid epileptic seizures.