Noise in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems 3 Volume Paperback Set

Table of Contents

• Volume 1: List of contributors
• Preface
• Introduction to volume one
• 1. Noise-activated escape from metastable states: an historical view Rolf Landauer
• 2. Some Markov methods in the theory of stochastic processes in non-linear dynamical systems R. L. Stratonovich
• 3. Langevin equations with coloured noise J. M. Sancho and M. San Miguel
• 4. First passage time problems for non-Markovian processes Katja Lindenberg, Bruce J. West and Jaume Masoliver
• 5. The projection approach to the Fokker-Planck equation: applications to phenomenological stochastic equations with coloured noises Paolo Grigolini
• 6. Methods for solving Fokker-Planck equations with applications to bistable and periodic potentials H. Risken and H. D. Vollmer
• 7. Macroscopic potentials, bifurcations and noise in dissipative systems Robert Graham
• 8. Transition phenomena in multidimensional systems - models of evolution W. Ebeling and L. Schimansky-Geier
• 9. Coloured noise in continuous dynamical systems: a functional calculus approach Peter Hanggi
• Appendix. On the statistical treatment of dynamical systems L. Pontryagin, A. Andronov and A. Vitt
• Index. Volume 2: List of contributors
• Preface
• Introduction to volume two
• 1. Stochastic processes in quantum mechanical settings Ronald F. Fox
• 2. Self-diffusion in non-Markovian condensed-matter systems Toyonori Munakata
• 3. Escape from the underdamped potential well M. Buttiker
• 4. Effect of noise on discrete dynamical systems with multiple attractors Edgar Knobloch and Jeffrey B. Weiss
• 5. Discrete dynamics perturbed by weak noise Peter Talkner and Peter Hanggi
• 6. Bifurcation behaviour under modulated control parameters M. Lucke
• 7. Period doubling bifurcations: what good are they? Kurt Wiesenfeld
• 8. Noise-induced transitions Werner Horsthemke and Rene Lefever
• 9. Mechanisms for noise-induced transitions in chemical systems Raymond Kapral and Edward Celarier
• 10. State selection dynamics in symmetry-breaking transitions Dilip K. Kondepudi
• 11. Noise in a ring-laser gyroscope K. Vogel, H. Risken and W. Schleich
• 12. Control of noise and applications to optical systems L. A. Lugiato, G. Broggi, M. Merri and M. A. Pernigo
• 13. Transition probabilities and spectral density of fluctuations of noise driven bistable systems M. I. Dykman, M. A. Krivoglaz and S. M. Soskin
• Index. Volume 3: List of contributors
• Preface
• Introduction to volume three
• 1. The effects of coloured quadratic noise on a turbulent transition in liquid He II J. T. Tough
• 2. Electrohydrodynamic instability of nematic liquid crystals: growth process and influence of noise S. Kai
• 3. Suppression of electrohydrodynamic instabilities by external noise Helmut R. Brand
• 4. Coloured noise in dye laser fluctuations R. Roy, A. W. Yu and S. Zhu
• 5. Noisy dynamics in optically bistable systems E. Arimondo, D. Hennequin and P. Glorieux
• 6. Use of an electronic model as a guideline in experiments on transient optical bistability W. Lange
• 7. Computer experiments in nonlinear stochastic physics Riccardo Mannella
• 8. Analogue simulations of stochastic processes by means of minimum component electronic devices Leone Fronzoni
• 9. Analogue techniques for the study of problems in stochastic nonlinear dynamics P. V. E. McClintock and Frank Moss
• Index.
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