Joseph Ogoh

Chaos

Chaotic systems have been widely studied by many scientists and engineers from different viewpoints. Chaos and non-linear dynamics are presently active fields of interdisciplinary research, attracting the attention of researchers on account of its wide applicability in the physical world. Chaotic systems are dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions. This sensitivity is popularly known as the butterfly effect. Since chaos phenomenon in weather models which was first observed by Edward Lorenz in 1963, a large number of chaos phenomena and chaos behaviour have been discovered in social, economical, biological and electrical systems (El-Dessoky, 18 june 2007).