From thermonuclear fusion to Hamiltonian chaos
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From thermonuclear fusion to Hamiltonian chaos
This paper aims at a historical and pedagogical presentation of some important contributions of the research on thermonuclear fusion by magnetic confinement to the study of Hamiltonian chaos. This chaos is defined with the help of Poincaré maps on a simple two-wave Hamiltonian system. A simple criterion for computing the transition to large scale chaos is introduced. A renormalization group app...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The European Physical Journal H
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2102-6459,2102-6467
DOI: 10.1140/epjh/e2016-70063-5