Chaos and complexity in astrophysics

all areas of physics over the last two decades. Chaos and Complexity in Astrophysics provides a primer on nonlinear dynamics, and gives researchers and graduate students of astrophysics the investigative tools they need to explore chaotic and complex phenomena. Comprehensive mathematical concepts and techniques are introduced at an appropriate level in the first part of the book, before being applied to stellar, interstellar, galactic and large scale complex phenomena in the Universe. The book demonstrates the application of ideas such as strange attractors, Poincaré sections, fractals, bifurcations, complex spatial patterns, and so on, to specific astrophysical problems. This self-contained text will appeal to a broad audience of astrophysicists and astronomers who wish to learn, and then apply, modern dynamical approaches to the problems they are working on.