Glossary

Auto-organisation; self-organization

Self-organization, also called (in the social sciences) "spontaneous order", is a process in which a form of general order arises from local interactions between parts of an initially disordered system.

Bifurcations; bifurcation

Bifurcation theory studies certain aspects of multi-stationary dynamic systems. A bifurcation occurs when a small change in a parameter produces a change in the organization of the system.

CFD; Computational Fluid Dynamics

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is the study of fluid motion, or its effects, by numerically solving the equations governing the fluid.

Chaos; chaos

A system is said to be "chaotic" if a very small variation in initial conditions leads...