Complex evolution of a multi-particle system

• Author(s): Machado, J. A. Tenreiro
• Date: 2013
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/3755
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico do Porto
• Subject(s): Complex systems; Multi-particle systems; Evolution; Entropy
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

This paper studies a discrete dynamical system of interacting particles that evolve by interacting among them. The computational model is an abstraction of the natural world, and real systems can range from the huge cosmological scale down to the scale of biological cell, or even molecules. Different conditions for the system evolution are tested. The emerging patterns are analysed by means of fractal dimension and entropy measures. It is observed that the population of particles evolves towards geometrical objects with a fractal nature. Moreover, the time signature of the entropy can be interpreted at the light of complex dynamical systems.