MAE5790-1 Course introduction and overview
1:16:31MAE5790-2 One dimensional Systems
1:16:44MAE5790-3 Overdamped bead on a rotating hoop
1:13:12MAE5790-4 Model of an insect outbreak
1:15:16MAE5790-5 Two dimensional linear systems
1:15:20MAE5790-6 Two dimensional nonlinear systems fixed points
1:07:17MAE5790-7 Conservative Systems
1:17:13MAE5790-8 Index theory and introduction to limit cycles
1:13:55Testing for Closed Orbits
1:16:52Van der Pol Oscillator
1:05:58Averaging Theory for Weakly Nonlinear Oscillators
1:16:08Bifurcations in Two-Dimensional Systems
46:54Hopf Bifurcations in Aeroelastic Instabilities and Chemical Oscillators
1:07:57Global Bifurcations of Cycles
1:16:23Chaotic Waterwheel
1:14:12Waterwheel Equations and Lorenz Equations
1:12:42Chaos in the Lorenz Equations
1:16:36Strange Attractor for the Lorenz Equations
1:13:48One-Dimensional Maps
1:14:35Universal Aspects of Period Doubling
1:11:56Feigenbaum's Renormalization Analysis of Period Doubling
1:15:59Renormalization: Function Space and a Hands-On Calculation
1:08:32Waterwheel Equations and Lorenz Equations
This lecture analyzes the waterwheel and Lorenz equations, detailing simple properties of the Lorenz system, including volume contraction and the linear stability of its fixed points. References Strogatz's "Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos."
Analysis of the waterwheel equations. Lorenz equations. Simple properties of the Lorenz system. Volume contraction. Fixed points and their linear stability.
Reading: Strogatz, "Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos", Sections 9.1, 9.2.