A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and
returns home to find it. George Moore (1852-1933)
This chapter presents a
method which is based on Poincaré maps and Poincaré sections [49].
Visualization is enabled to more directly show the
crucial aspects of system dynamics by
using a mathematical tool to distill essential
information from dynamical systems that are dominated by a cyclic
or quasi-cyclic behavior, i.e., the derivation of a discrete
Poincaré map. Cycle characteristics, for
example, are especially well-suited for being visualized using
this approach.
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