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These notes were written during the 9th and 10th sessions of the subject Dynamical Systems II coursed at DTU (Denmark) during the Winter Semester 2015-2016, and later extended in February 2017. They aim to provide students with a…
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We apply round-off to planar rotations, obtaining a one-parameter family of invertible maps of a two-dimensional lattice. As the angle of rotation approaches pi/2, the fourth iterate of the map produces piecewise-rectilinear motion, which…
We apply the slip-back mapping method of Titov et al. 2009 and Lionello et al. 2020 to a thermodynamic MHD simulation to track topological changes in the magnetic field at a range of temporal cadences. The method constitutes the logical…
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