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Lorenz63

Description

The famous three dimensional system due to Lorenz [^Lorenz1963], shown to exhibit so-called "deterministic nonperiodic flow". It was originally invented to study a simplified form of atmospheric convection. Currently, it is most famous for its strange attractor (occuring at the default parameters), which resembles a butterfly. For the same reason it is also associated with the term "butterfly effect" (a term which Lorenz himself disliked) even though the effect applies generally to dynamical systems. Default values are the ones used in the original paper.

Parameters
NameValueUnit
sigma 10.0
rho 28.0
beta 2.6666666666666665
State variables
NameInitial value
X 0.0
Y 10.0
Z 0.0