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MAE5790-4 Model of an insect outbreak

Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics

1:15:16·2014·undergraduate level

Model of spruce budworm outbreaks in the forests of northeastern Canada and United States. Nondimensionalization. Saddle-node bifurcations. Jump phenomena. Hysteresis. Cusp catastrophe.

Reading: Strogatz, "Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos", Section 3.7.

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