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Recent developments in dynamical systems theory, especially in the context of fluid turbulence, have provided new and stimulating points of view for examining nonlinear phenomena in the engineering sciences. The advent of high-speed computers has provided the impetus and an important tool for detailed simulation of the dynamics of simple as well as more complex models. In many cases, simulations and laboratory experiments exhibit sensitive dependence on initial conditions, a hallmark of chaotic behavior. This is a generic feature, that can be inherent in the behavior of deterministic nonlinear systems. Many important examples from the engineering sciences fall into this category. The existence of certain "universal" routes to chaos, realized both in analytical models and in careful experiments, has further stimulated research. The study of deterministic chaos, a highly interdisciplinary field, poses exciting challenges to researchers in many areas of engineering science.
A forum, sponsored by the Fluid Mechanics Committee of the ASME Fluids Engineering Division and the University of California at San Diego, has been organized for researchers examining recent advances in the methods for experimental, computational and rational/analytical studies of chaotic dynamics. The forum will concentrate on applications in the area of fluid mechanics and engineering, where a large number of interesting developments have taken place. Three invited and 24 contributed papers are to be presented, work-in-progress sessions are also included to allow a few additional brief presentations of the latest significant results.
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