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- From: mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel)
- Subject: Re: Lorenz' Weather
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.201358.3135@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
- Organization: Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
- References: <1992Nov11.230938.12710@ncsu.edu> <gordon.721582896@tramp.Colorado.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 20:13:58 GMT
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- In article <gordon.721582896@tramp.Colorado.EDU> gordon@tramp.Colorado.EDU
- (GORDON ALLEN R) writes:
- >mrmarcel@eos.ncsu.edu (MICHAEL RONN MARCELAIS) writes:
- >>Does anybody have the equations that Lorenz used in his old weather program?
- >>It was the first time he noticed the 'sensitive to initial conditions'
- >>phenomenon that started research into Chaos.
- >
- > dX/dt = a(Y-X)
- > dY/dt = bX-Y-XZ
- > dZ/dt = XY - cZ
- >
- > where a = 10
- > c = 8/3
- > b = control parameter (try 28)
-
- These are indeed the Lorenz equations (as they are now known) but
- these aren't the original weather simulation equations where Lorenz
- noticed sensitive dependence on initial conditions. Lorenz actually
- started out with some specialized version of the Navier-Stokes equation
- (a PDE) and noticed sensitive dependence in these equations under the conditions
- of his weather simulation. The Lorenz ODEs shown above are a truncation
- of the Navier-Stokes equation for the special case of (I think)
- Rayleigh-Benard convection under certain fairly restrictive conditions.
- Lorenz cooked up these equations as a simple example of what he was
- seeing in his more sophisticated weather models.
-
- Marc R. Roussel
- mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca
-