App Dyn Sys : Strange Attractors : Rikitake
Many 3D continuoustime systems exhibit chaotic dynamics in the form of an attractor (called strange by some). This model the Rikitake model of a pair of charged spinning disks has somewhat randomseeming flow patterns over short time scales, but if you let orbits evolve long enough, everything seems to converge onto an attractor with fascinating features. There are two equilibria (with spiralsink behavior) and a lot of beautiful structure in the attractor.
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