On the Approximation of Complicated Dynamical Behavior

  • Authors:
  • Michael Dellnitz;Oliver Junge

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

We present efficient techniques for the numerical approximation of complicated dynamical behavior. In particular, we develop numerical methods which allow us to approximate Sinai--Ruelle--Bowen (SRB)-measures as well as (almost) cyclic behavior of a dynamical system. The methods are based on an appropriate discretization of the Frobenius--Perron operator, and two essentially different mathematical concepts are used: our idea is to combine classical convergence results for finite dimensional approximations of compact operators with results from ergodic theory concerning the approximation of SRB-measures by invariant measures of stochastically perturbed systems. The efficiency of the methods is illustrated by several numerical examples.