Course Content (Syllabus)
Emergence of periodic and chaotic behavior in physico-chemical dynamical systems. Chemical clocks: oscillatory homogeneous and heterogeneous chemical reactions.
Principles οf thermodynamics for systems being far from the equilibrium and stability criteria of non-reversible changes.
Linear stability analysis and bifurcation theory of non-linear dynamical systems.
Characterization of the non-linear response of dynamical systems and route to chaos. Time series analysis. Fractal structures.
Morphogenesis of static and dynamic chemical structures (Turing structures and chemical waves).
Βasics of mοdeling of physicochemical non-linear dynamical systems.
Laboratory classes:
Oscillatory chemical reactions (i) homogeneous and non-homogeneous Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction, (ii) electrochemical oscillators.
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
ΠEPIOΔIKH KAI XAOTIKH ΣYMΠEPIΦOPA ANOIKTΩN ΦYΣIKO-XHMIKΩN ΔYNAMIKΩN ΣYΣTHMATΩN, Μιχάλης Παγίτσας, Δήμητρα Σαζού, Εκδόσεις Γαρταγάνης, Θεσσαλονίκη, 2013