Vladimir Rasvan

The expertise of a professional mathmatician and a theoretical engineer provides a fresh perspective of stability and stable oscillations. The current state of affairs in stability theory, absolute stability of control systems, and stable oscillations of both periodic and almost periodic discrete systems is presented, including many applications in engineering such as stability of digital filters, digitally controlled thermal processes, neurodynamics, and chemical kinetics. This book will be an invaluable reference source for those whose work is in the area of discrete dynamical systems, difference equations, and control theory or applied areas that use discrete time models.

This volume, which coincides with the centennial anniversary of the publication of the celebrated monograph "The General Problem of the Stability Motion" by A. M. Liapunov, reviews the current state of the art of the theory and applications of the Liapunov methods. The text contains an introduction and four chapters. Chapter 2 presents some general results in stability theory. The remaining chapters deal with applications in power engineering, chemical engineering, and in non-engineering fields such as economics and in the modelling of interacting species. The diversity of mathematical tools employed, and the described approach to mathematical modelling provide considerations for applications in many other fields. The text is suitable for mathematicians and engineers whose work involves the study and applications of stability theory in systems.