Transient Chaos

Ying-Cheng Lai’s main research interests are Chaotic Dynamics, Complex Networks, Quantum Transport in Nanostructures, Biological Physics, and Signal Processing. He is a professor at the Arizona State University. Tamas Tel's main research interests are Chaotic Dynamics, Stochastic Processes, Hydrodynamics, Spreading of Pollutants, and Environmental Flows.

• Introduction.- Chaotic Saddles.- Transition to Transient Chaos.- Fractal Basin Boundaries.- Classical Chaotic Scattering.- Passive and Active Processes in open Chaotic Flows.- Quantum Chaotic Scattering and Transport in Nanosctructures.- Transient Chaos in High Dimensions.- Further Applications  and Outlooks.- Appendix: Multifractal Properties of Transient Chaos.

From the reviews:“The main strengths of the book is its unifying treatment of transient chaos, presented in the first couple of chapters. … Its target is the heterogeneous community of physicists, applied mathematicians and engineers who work in dynamical systems, and are interested in transient chaos. … this book is truly a gem, and is bound to become almost overnight the essential reference on transient chaos, and a must on the bookshelf of anyone seriously interested in the area. I highly recommend it.” (Alessandro P. S. de Moura, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2012 b)“The authors did an excellent job providing both a theoretical background necessary for the understanding of the concept of transient chaos and related notions and an overview of a variety of transient-chaos related phenomena. This encyclopedic monograph, nicely written by two well-known experts in the field, will be of interest for graduate students, researchers and engineers who deal with dynamical systems and their applications and have a working knowledge of nonlinear dynamics and sustained chaos.” (Yuri V. Rogovchenko, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1218, 2011)