homoclinic orbits, and chaos; and Melnikov's method, the Smale horseshoe, symbolic dynamics, and strange attractors. Offered in alternate years. An introduction to topics of current interest in the ...
It also explains how small divisors are at the origin of the divergence of perturbation series and Poincaré's discovery of homoclinic intersections and of chaotic behavior in near-to-integrable ...
Depinning of driven drops: Various depinning mechanisms (Hopf vs. sniper vs. homoclinic bifurcation) [35,36,49,51,55,61]. Relation to drops on rotating cylinder [58]. Liquid transport by electric ...