Prigogine says that because the Russians have had to
analyse chaotic systems without the help of supercomputers, they have developed unique skills that complement those of scientists in the West.
We are not very good at
analysing chaotic systems.
Not exact matches
Rather than attack Tom you should see him as an example of climate scientists of all persuasions who are trying to
analyse the behaviour of complex
chaotic systems by the application of simplistic relationships studied in a laboratory.
The deterministically
chaotic — i.e. the climate butterfly —
system has been
analysed numerically by Swanson and Tsonis 2009 using network math.
Paradoxically, the real study of complexity is very simple — accept that it's a
chaotic - nonlinear
system and
analyse it accordingly.
When a nonlinear -
chaotic system (i.e. almost anything in nature) is weakly periodically forced by not one but several forcing periodicities, then it might be better to
analyse it as a nonlinear Helmholz response.
My interests, more specifically, are related to: * The consequence of scaling behaviour in non-linear coupled
systems (both
chaotic and non-
chaotic) * The consequence of external forcings on such
systems * The limitations of numerical methods used to
analyse these
systems, particularly with regard to initial conditions