The definition of chaotic behaviour

Abstract

Over the past thirty years Chaos Theory evolved as a new scientific discipline that turned to Mathematics to model certain phenomena in nature, previously considered as unpredictable. The advent of computers and their ever-increasing calculating power made simulations possible and predictions more accurate. Chaos Theory is definitely not about disorder! It is the study of complex systems based on mathematical concepts of recursion. often modeled by a set of differential equations. Chaos Theory techniques have been used to model meteorological systems, biological populations, epidemics, fluid turbulence, chemical reactions, economic predictions, erratic animal cell behaviour and other dynamical systems too complicated to be assumed linear. Chaos is a section of Dynamics, a subject that deals with changes in systems that evolve with time. Some systems settle down to an equilibrium state, others keep repeating in cycles, while others behave in a more complicated way and never seem to settle down.