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An Analog Macroscopic Technique for Studying Molecular Hydrodynamic Processes in Dense Gases and Liquids
Published on: December 4, 2017
How can we describe density evolution under delayed dynamics?
Michael C Mackey1, Marta Tyran-Kamińska2
1Department of Physiology, Department of Physics, and Department of Mathematics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H4X 2C1, Canada.
Abstract:
Although the theory of density evolution in maps and ordinary differential equations is well developed, the situation is far from satisfactory in continuous time systems with delay. This paper reviews some of the work that has been done numerically, the interesting dynamics that have emerged, and the largely unsuccessful attempts that have been made to analytically treat the evolution of densities in differential delay equations. We also present a new approach to the problem and illustrate it with a simple example.
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