Bifurcation and Chaos in Engineering

1 Dynamical Systems, Ordinary Differential Equations and Stability of Motion.- 1.1 Concepts of Dynamical Systems.- 1.2 Ordinary Differential Equations.- 1.3 Properties of Flow.- 1.4 Limit Point Sets.- 1.5 Liapunov Stability of Motion.- 1.6 Poincaré-Bendixson Theorem and its Applications.- 2 Calculation of Flows.- 2.1 Divergence of Flows 3.- 2.2 Linear Autonomous Systems and Linear Flows and the Calculation of Flows about the IVP.- 2.3 Hyperbolic Operator (or Generality).- 2.4 Non-linear Differential Equations and the Calculation of their Flows.- 2.5 Stable Manifold Theorem.- 3 Discrete Dynamical Systems.- 3.1 Discrete Dynamical Systems and Linear Maps.- 3.2 Non-linear Maps and the Stable Manifold Theorem.- 3.3 Classification of Generic Systems.- 3.4 Stability of Maps and Poincaré Mapping.- 3.5 Structural Stability Theorem.- 4 Liapunov-Schmidt Reduction.- 4.1 Basic Concepts of Bifurcation.- 4.2 Classification of Bifurcations of Planar Vector Fields.- 4.3 The Implicit Function Theorem.- 4.4 Liapunov-Schmidt Reduction.- 4.5 Methods of Singularity.- 4.6 Simple Bifurcations.- 4.7 Bifurcation Solution of the 1/2 Subharmonic Resonance Case of Non-linear Parametrically Excited Vibration Systems.- 4.8 Hopf Bifurcation Analyzed by Liapunov-Schmidt Reduction.- 5 Centre Manifold Theorem and Normal Form of Vector Fields.- 5.1 Centre Manifold Theorem.- 5.2 Saddle-Node Bifurcation.- 5.3 Normal Form of Vector Fields.- 6 Hopf Bifurcation.- 6.1 Hopf Bifurcation Theorem.- 6.2 Complex Normal Form of the Hopf Bifurcation.- 6.3 Normal Form of the Hopf Bifurcation in Real Numbers.- 6.4 Hopf Bifurcation with Parameters.- 6.5 Calculating Formula for the Hopf Bifurcation Solution.- 6.6 Stability of the Hopf Bifurcation Solution.- 6.7 Effective Method for Computing the Hopf BifurcationSolution Coefficients.- 6.8 Bifurcation Problem Involving Double Zero Eigenvalues.- 7 Application of the Averaging Method in Bifurcation Theory.- 7.1 Standard Equation.- 7.2 Averaging Method and Poincaré Maps.-