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from skcomplex.systems import catalog, create_simulation, create_system, describe
names = [entry.name for entry in catalog(field='biology/ecology')]
entry = describe('lotka_volterra')
system = create_system('lotka_volterra')
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biology/collective_behaviour
- Active walkers and trail formation
active_walkers: Active walkers who walk between the corners of a green and wear a system of trails into it. - Ant colony optimization on a road network
ant_colony_optimization: Ants that find the shortest path between two points of a Delaunay road network, round after round. - Binary ant decision
binary_ant_decision: Ants that choose between two equal branches to a food source, following the marks of earlier ants. - Bird swarm with pair potentials
bird_swarm: A swarm of self-propelled birds held together by a pair potential that attracts far and repels near. - Boids in three dimensions
boids_3d: Boids in three dimensions, birds that flock by local rules in a periodic cube. - Boids in two dimensions
boids: Reynolds' boids in two dimensions, birds that flock by local rules without a leader. - Calm and nervous rats
rats: A colony of calm and nervous rats, in which nervousness spreads by contact and fades on its own. - Couzin shoal with repulsion, alignment, and informed leaders
couzin_leadership: The Couzin shoal, in which a small informed minority leads a group that does not know who is informed. - Pheromone foraging
pheromone_foraging: Ants that find food and lay a pheromone trail home, which other ants follow: stigmergy. - Strömbom shepherding of a flock
shepherding: A shepherd that collects a scattered flock and drives it to a goal, the heuristic of Strömbom et al.
biology/ecology
- Agent-based Lotka-Volterra
agent_based_lotka_volterra: Prey and predators that walk on a grid, whose numbers cycle like the Lotka-Volterra equations. - COMETS: dynamic flux balance on a lattice with diffusion
comets: An expanding colony of the E. coli core system on a lattice, which needs the extrametabolism. - Carrying capacity of a meadow
meadow_capacity: Cows that graze a summer of 25 weeks on a meadow, which shows how many cows the meadow can carry. - Competition
competition: Two species that compete for the same resources, which coexist or exclude each other. - Consumer-resource models of substitutable and essential resources
consumer_resource: Consumer species that compete only through the resources they take up, by MacArthur's niche theory. - Droop cell-quota growth
droop_cell_quota: The Droop system, a phytoplankton whose growth rate follows the nutrient stored in its cells. - Dynamic multi-species metabolic system
dynamic_multispecies_fba: Two E. coli core strains that differ in maximal glucose uptake on one medium, which needs the extra. - Exponential growth
exponential_growth: A population that grows or declines at a constant per-capita rate. - Fibonacci rabbits
fibonacci_rabbits: Fibonacci's rabbits,N_{t+1} = N_t + N_{t-1}, where every pair older than one month breeds a new pair. - Fisher-KPP
fisher_kpp: The Fisher-KPP equation, whose step invades the empty line as a front of speed2 sqrt(r D). - Food webs
food_webs: A food web where basal species grow logistically and consumers live on Lotka-Volterra predation. - Generalized Lotka-Volterra microbial community
generalized_lotka_volterra: The generalized Lotka-Volterra system of a microbial community,dx_i/dt = x_i (b_i + sum_j a_ij x_j). - Generalized stochastic predator-prey
stochastic_predator_prey: Prey and predators born and killed one at a time, with crowding of the prey and saturating predation. - Hutchinson
hutchinson: Hutchinson's delayed logistic equation, which oscillates aroundKwhenr * tauexceeds π/2. - Intrinsic-instability populations
intrinsic_instability: Jensen's coupled populations, whose steady state becomes unstable without a change of the surroundings. - Joint, community, and SteadyCom flux balance
community_fba: Two members of the E. coli core system that share a medium, which needs the extrametabolism. - Logistic growth
logistic_growth: A population that grows logistically towards its carrying capacity. - Logistic growth with a varying capacity
varying_capacity_logistic: Logistic growth under a seasonal carrying capacity, which settles on a cycle of the season's period. - Lotka-Volterra
lotka_volterra: Prey and predators whose populations oscillate through predation. - Lotka-Volterra with harvesting
lotka_volterra_with_harvesting: Lotka-Volterra predation where both species are harvested with a constant effort. - Mangrove succession
mangrove_succession: The regrowth of a mangrove forest of the Sundarbans after a clear cut, from pioneers to climax trees. - Mutualism
mutualism: Two species that grow logistically and feed each other, above their carrying capacities. - Neutral Moran system with speciation
neutral_biodiversity: A neutral community of constant size, where species arise by speciation and vanish by drift. - Neutral birth-death with hopping between boxes
neutral_clustering: Organisms that divide, die, and hop between patches on a periodic lattice, and gather in clusters. - Neutral macroecology
neutral_macroecology: Many species under neutral birth, death, and immigration, whose abundances follow a gamma-like law. - Nicholson-Bailey
nicholson_bailey: Hosts and parasitoids in discrete generations, whose equilibrium is unstable to growing oscillations. - Penaeid shrimp growth
penaeid_shrimp: The growth of one penaeid shrimp from the juvenile stage, forced by the food and the water temperature. - Random Lotka-Volterra with higher-order interactions
higher_order_random_lotka_volterra: A random Lotka-Volterra community with third-order interactions. - Ricker map of overcompensating generations
ricker: Ricker's map of a population in discrete generations,n' = r n exp(-n), chaotic for larger. - Rosenzweig-MacArthur and rate tipping
rosenzweig_macarthur: Fast prey and slow predators whose carrying capacity shrinks at a rate, which tips them when it is fast. - Sequentially linear ecosystem
sequentially_linear_ecosystem: An ecosystem whose abundances follow linear dynamics between extinctions that rewrite its network. - Size-structured forest with shading and seed dispersal
forest_size_structure: The McKendrick-von Foerster density of trees over position across a strip and height. - Stigmergic predator-prey automaton
stigmergic_predator_prey: Plants, prey, and predators on a grid, whose animals share emotions through decaying marks. - Wolf and sheep
wolf_sheep: The wolf and sheep predation system with one grass patch per cell.
biology/epidemiology
- Activity-driven temporal networks
activity_driven_epidemics: SIS spreading on an activity-driven temporal network, whose edges last one step. - Adaptive SIS with rewiring
adaptive_sis: The SIS epidemic on a network whose susceptible nodes cut their edges to infected neighbours. - Agent-based SIR with mortality, waning immunity, incubation, and lockdown
agent_based_sir: People who walk on a grid and infect those in their cell, with optional extensions of the SIR system. - Degree-class SIR on uncorrelated networks
heterogeneous_mean_field_sir: The SIR epidemic on an uncorrelated network of power-law degrees, in heterogeneous mean field. - Discrete-time SIRS with a recovery delay
delayed_sirs: Two cities with recurrent outbreaks of a disease of fixed infection and immunity periods. - EpiSims city of people and locations
episims_city: A synthetic city in the spirit of EpiSims, where people infect those they meet at home and at work. - Heterogeneous mean-field SIS
heterogeneous_mean_field_sis: The SIS epidemic on a network with a power-law degree distribution, in heterogeneous mean field. - Metapopulation reaction-diffusion
metapopulation: SIR epidemics in subpopulations at the nodes of a network, linked by individuals who travel. - Quenched mean-field SIS
quenched_mean_field_sis: The SIS epidemic on a fixed network in quenched mean field, one infection probability per node. - Random-walker epidemics on a grid and on a small world
random_walker_epidemics: Random walkers among whom one sick walker starts a deadly epidemic, on a grid or on a network. - Record-dynamics epidemic of resistant residents
record_dynamics_epidemic: Yearly strains that infect every resident less resistant than their strength, who become immune. - SIR
sir: An epidemic that moves individuals from susceptible to infected to recovered. - SIR on a network as an agent system
network_sir: SIR epidemics in cities at the nodes of a network, carried between cities by travellers. - SIR with optimal vaccination
sir_vaccination: An SIR epidemic with the vaccination rate that minimises the burden of infections and vaccines. - SIRS
sirs: An epidemic whose immunity wanes, which returns in damped waves to an endemic equilibrium. - SIS
sis: An infection without immunity, where the recovered become susceptible again and the disease is endemic. - SIS on partnerships that dissolve and re-form
pair_formation_sis: The SIS epidemic on partnerships that dissolve and are replaced at once, withkpartners each. - Watts-May SEIR with lasting partnerships
watts_may_concurrency: The SEIR epidemic of Watts and May, where partnerships that last longer spread the infection faster. - Zombie outbreak of susceptible, zombie, and removed compartments
zombie_outbreak: The outbreak of zombies of Munz et al., where the dead rise again and humans are eventually overrun.
biology/evolution
- Adaptive climbing in finite populations
adaptive_climbing: A finite population that climbs a random fitness landscape by mutation and strong selection. - Assembly growth along the assembly index
assembly_growth: The numbers of objects at successive assembly indices, each discovered from the level below. - Bak-Sneppen
bak_sneppen: The Bak-Sneppen system, whose fitnesses self-organise above a critical value in avalanches of extinction. - Competitive Jain-Krishna model with signed couplings
competitive_jain_krishna: The Jain-Krishna model with signed interactions, whose surviving species come to cooperate. - Eigen quasispecies
eigen_quasispecies: The shares of a population at every number of mutations from the master sequence, the linear chain system. - Genotype spaces and neutral networks of RNA folds
rna_neutral_networks: Walkers of RNA sequences that take one proposed point mutation per unit of time at temperature zero. - Hypercycles
hypercycles: A network of self-replicating molecules whose catalysis keeps a set of them alive, a hypercycle. - Jain-Krishna autocatalytic networks
jain_krishna: The system of Jain and Krishna, where selection of the fittest builds autocatalytic sets of molecules. - Kimura diffusion of allele frequencies
kimura_diffusion: Replicate populations whose allele frequencies diffuse by drift until the allele is lost or fixed. - Moran process
moran_process: The Moran process, a population of constant size where fitter traits fix by selection and drift. - NK fitness landscapes
nk_landscape: Agents that climb Kauffman's NK fitness landscape from random genomes until they reach local peaks. - NKCS coevolution on coupled NK landscapes
nkcs: The NKCS model of Kauffman and Johnsen, species climbing NK landscapes coupled to each other's genes. - Replicator dynamics and hawks and doves
replicator_dynamics: The replicator dynamics of a game, by default hawks and doves, which settle at a shareV / Cof hawks. - Rock-paper-scissors
rock_paper_scissors: Rock, paper, and scissors on a lattice, whose cyclic invasions keep the three strategies coexisting. - Solé-Manrubia extinctions
sole_manrubia: The ecosystem of Solé and Manrubia, whose species go extinct when their dependencies turn against them. - Strong-selection weak-mutation walk on fitness landscapes
origin_fixation_walk: A monomorphic population that climbs a fitness landscape as mutants arise and fix one at a time. - Tangled Nature
tangled_nature: The Tangled Nature system, where organisms whose types interact through random couplings coevolve. - Undirected and directed polymer assembly pool
polymer_assembly_pool: An assembly pool of linear polymers grown from one monomer by joining pairs of its polymers.
biology/neuroscience
- Adaptrode synapse
adaptrode: An Adaptrode synapse driven by a train of input pulses that stops after a while. - Amari neural field
amari_neural_field: The Amari neural field, whose lateral inhibition holds a stationary bump of activity. - Dense homogeneous associative network of transient attractors
associative_thought_process: The dense homogeneous associative network of Gros, whose memories become active one after the other. - FitzHugh-Nagumo ODE
fitzhugh_nagumo_ode: The FitzHugh-Nagumo neuron, the two-variable reduction of Hodgkin and Huxley's excitable membrane. - Fukai-Tanaka winner-take-all network
winners_take_all: A winner-take-all network of units with self-limited growth and mutual inhibition. - Hodgkin-Huxley
hodgkin_huxley: The Hodgkin-Huxley neuron, whose sodium and potassium channels produce action potentials. - Integrate-and-fire
integrate_and_fire: The leaky integrate-and-fire neuron,tau v' = -(v - rest) + R I, which spikes and resets at a threshold. - Izhikevich
izhikevich: The Izhikevich neuron, whose four parameters give regular spiking, bursting, chattering, and more. - Kinouchi-Copelli excitable network
kinouchi_copelli: The Kinouchi-Copelli network of excitable elements, whose dynamic range peaks at the critical point. - LEGION oscillators
legion: A LEGION network, a lattice of relaxation oscillators that segments a stimulus into its objects. - Networks of leaky integrate-and-fire neurons with delays
delayed_lif_network: A random network of leaky integrate-and-fire neurons whose spikes reach their targets after a delay. - Next-generation neural mass with theta forcing
next_generation_neural_mass: The exact neural mass of quadratic integrate-and-fire neurons whose gamma rhythm nests in a theta drive. - Phase units with activity-dependent conduction delays
adaptive_delay_network: Phase units coupled all to all through conduction delays that adapt to their activity, as myelination. - Polyhomeostatic neuron
polyhomeostatic_neuron: A neuron that adapts its gain and threshold so its firing rate approaches an exponential distribution. - Theta neurons and QIF networks
theta_neurons: A network of theta neurons, equivalently quadratic integrate-and-fire neurons, coupled all to all. - Theta neurons with spike-timing-dependent plasticity
stdp_network: Theta neurons on a random directed network whose synapses learn by spike-timing-dependent plasticity. - Wilson-Cowan
wilson_cowan: The Wilson-Cowan system of interacting excitatory and inhibitory populations of neurons.
biology/oncology
- Acquired and induced resistance with phenotype switching
drug_resistance_switching: Sensitive cells and cells resistant by mutation or by a reversible phenotype switch under a dose. - Bone-marrow and blood cells with blasts and cancer stem cells
bone_marrow_blood_leukaemia: The bone marrow and blood system of leukaemia, in which blasts crowd out the normal cells. - Cell-cycle compartments with killing, blocking, and recruiting agents
cell_cycle_chemotherapy: Tumour cells in cell-cycle compartments under killing, blocking, and recruiting agents. - Core and periphery vasculature under anti-angiogenic therapy
vascular_core_periphery: A tumour with a live core, a live periphery, and a necrotic core, each fed by its own vasculature. - Effector cells, tumour, and IL-2 under adoptive therapy
kirschner_panetta: The Kirschner-Panetta system of effector cells, tumour cells, and IL-2 under adoptive therapy and IL-2. - Exponential-linear tumour growth
exponential_linear_growth: A tumour that grows exponentially while small and linearly once its growth reaches a limiting rate. - Generalized logistic (Richards) growth
generalized_logistic: A tumour that saturates at a carrying capacity,dn/dt = r n (1 - (n / K)^p), logistic forp = 1. - Glioma, glia, and neurons under temozolomide and virus
glioma_chemovirotherapy: Glia, neurons, and a glioma under a constant temozolomide infusion and an oncolytic virus. - Gompertz growth
gompertz: A tumour whose growth slows as the logarithm of the room left,dn/dt = r n log(K / n). - Gompertz growth with a vascular carrying capacity
dynamic_carrying_capacity: Gompertz growth under a carrying capacity that the vessels on the tumour surface keep raising. - Gompertzian cell-cycle phases under tamoxifen
tamoxifen_cell_cycle: A breast tumour in Gompertzian cell-cycle phases under daily tamoxifen and its active metabolite. - Hahnfeldt system with effector cells, pharmacokinetics, resistance, and toxicity
angiogenesis_immunotherapy: The Hahnfeldt tumour with effector cells under bevacizumab and atezolizumab every three weeks. - Immune competition
immune_competition: The kinetic system of the competition between tumour cells and immune cells. - Intermittent androgen suppression switched by PSA thresholds
ideta_intermittent_androgen: The Ideta system of intermittent androgen suppression, switched on and off by PSA thresholds. - Kirschner-Panetta system with TGF-beta and siRNA
sirna_tgf_beta: The Kirschner-Panetta system with TGF-beta, which lets the tumour evade the immune system, and siRNA. - Linear-quadratic cell survival and biologically effective dose
lq_cell_survival: The linear-quadratic survival of cells after a total dose, with its biologically effective dose. - Linear-quadratic impulsive irradiation with a radiosensitizer
lq_radiosensitizer: A xenograft tumour irradiated in fractions scored by the linear-quadratic system, with a radiosensitizer. - Multiscale tumour angiogenesis
tumour_angiogenesis: A tumour that outgrows its oxygen supply and recruits new blood vessels from a parent vessel. - Normal and leukaemic stem cells with feedback regulation
leukaemia_stem_cells: Normal and leukaemic stem cells that compete for one niche through the feedback of their progeny. - Normal and malignant stem-cell compartments with feedback and therapy
stem_cell_differentiation: The eight-compartment system of normal and malignant stem-cell lineages with feedback and therapy. - Normal and tumour competition under radiation
radiotherapy_competition: Normal and tumour cells in Lotka-Volterra competition, the tumour irradiated periodically. - Normal, tumour, and immune cells under chemotherapy
de_pillis_radunskaya: The de Pillis-Radunskaya system of immune, tumour, and normal cells under a constant drug infusion. - Norton-Simon Gompertzian cell kill
norton_simon: The Norton-Simon system, a Gompertzian tumour killed in proportion to its size by a dose schedule. - Oncolytic adenovirus with T cells and dendritic-cell injection
oncolytic_virus_dendritic: A tumour treated with an oncolytic adenovirus that expresses immune signals and with dendritic cells. - Optimal adoptive therapy and IL-2 dosing
optimal_immunotherapy: A tumour under the adoptive therapy and IL-2 injection that minimise its burden and their cost. - Optimal chemotherapy dosing
optimal_chemotherapy: A patient under the chemotherapy that minimises the tumour burden and the toxicity of the drug. - Paclitaxel and trastuzumab with antibody binding
her2_targeted_therapy: HER2+ breast cancer cells under trastuzumab and paclitaxel, with antibody binding and drug uptake. - Piecewise-linear intermittent androgen suppression
piecewise_linear_ias: The Hirata piecewise-linear system of intermittent androgen suppression for one of three patient types. - Power-law tumour growth
power_law_growth: A tumour whose proliferating part scales as a power of its size,dn/dt = r n^p. - Predator-prey tumour-immune system of TCR gene therapy
tcr_gene_therapy: The predator-prey system of a gene therapy that lets the T cells recognise the tumour. - Primary and secondary sites with a migration delay under chemotherapy
delayed_metastasis: Normal and tumour cells at a primary and a secondary site, with a delayed migration of tumour cells. - Prostate cancer driven by activated androgen receptors
prostate_androgen_receptor: The Jain system of prostate epithelium and cancer driven by activated androgen receptors, with PSA. - Prostate cancer under continuous androgen suppression
continuous_androgen_suppression: Prostate cancer under continuous androgen suppression, which androgen-independent cells survive. - Prostate cancer with an androgen cell quota and PSA
prostate_cell_quota: The Portz cell-quota system of prostate cancer, whose cells grow on their internal androgen. - Red-cell production under 6-mercaptopurine
erythropoiesis_mercaptopurine: The production of red cells under a constant level of 6-mercaptopurine, starting from health. - Resistance subpopulations under three drugs
multidrug_resistance: A tumour of eight populations resistant to subsets of three drugs, given by constant infusions. - Resting and hunting immune cells with a conversion delay under chemotherapy
delayed_resting_hunting_chemotherapy: The tumour-immune system of resting and hunting cells with a conversion delay, under a drug infusion. - Skipper-Schabel-Wilcox log-kill
skipper_log_kill: The log-kill system, an exponentially growing tumour of which every dose kills a fixed fraction. - T cells, tumour, and anti-PD-1 checkpoint inhibitor
anti_pd1_checkpoint: Activated T cells, a tumour, and an anti-PD-1 drug that frees the T cells from checkpoint inhibition. - T cells, tumour, dendritic cells, and IL-2 under dendritic-cell vaccination
dendritic_cell_vaccine: Helper and cytotoxic T cells, a tumour, dendritic cells, and IL-2 under a dendritic-cell vaccine. - Tumour and vascular volume under an angiogenesis inhibitor
hahnfeldt: The Hahnfeldt system, a tumour whose carrying capacity is the vasculature it stimulates and inhibits. - Tumour, NK cells, CD8 T cells, and lymphocytes under chemoimmunotherapy
chemoimmunotherapy: A tumour with NK cells, CD8 T cells, and lymphocytes under chemotherapy, IL-2, and TIL injection. - Tumour-immune populations with division delays under dendritic-cell vaccination
delayed_dc_vaccine: A tumour and eight innate and adaptive immune populations, with division delays, under a vaccine. - Tumour-immune system with dendritic licensing, IL-2, IL-10, and TGF-beta
tumour_immune_suppression: A tumour against dendritic, cytotoxic, helper, and regulatory T cells with IL-2, IL-10, and TGF-beta. - Two tumour clones under chemotherapy and dendritic-cell vaccine
clonal_chemoimmunotherapy: Two competing tumour clones, sensitive and resistant to chemotherapy, under a drug and a vaccine. - Uninfected and infected cells, virus, and chemotherapy
chemovirotherapy: Uninfected and infected tumour cells, an oncolytic virus, and a chemotherapeutic drug. - Uninfected and infected tumour cells under an oncolytic virus
oncolytic_virus: Uninfected and infected tumour cells that share a carrying capacity, with infection by mass action. - Von Bertalanffy growth
von_bertalanffy: A tumour that grows by the balance of anabolism and catabolism,dn/dt = r n^p - d n.
biology/physiology
- Aliev-Panfilov cardiac tissue
aliev_panfilov: The Aliev-Panfilov system of cardiac tissue, started from a broken wave that curls into a spiral. - Barkley excitable medium with spirals and breakup
barkley: Barkley's excitable medium, started from orthogonal stripes whose crossing curls into a spiral wave. - Blood glucose stabilised by antagonistic insulin and glucagon loops
glucose_dual_hormone_control: Blood glucose stabilised by antagonistic hormone loops, insulin against highs and glucagon against lows. - Cellular Potts model of cell sorting on square, triangular, and disordered lattices
cellular_potts: The cellular Potts model of a confluent tissue whose cells of several kinds sort by differential adhesion. - Coagulation cascade amplified by positive feedback and bounded by fibrinolysis
coagulation_positive_feedback: The coagulation cascade, an all-or-nothing burst of thrombin bounded by protein C and fibrinolysis. - Cumulative drug toxicity
drug_toxicity: The toxicity a weekly drug accumulates in the body, which the metabolism clears once the doses stop. - FitzHugh-Nagumo spirals
fitzhugh_nagumo: The FitzHugh-Nagumo excitable medium, started from a broken wave that curls into a spiral. - Hyperbolic chemotaxis of cells and a chemical
hyperbolic_chemotaxis: Cells and a chemical moving with finite speed, whose two bumps of cells spread and attract each other. - Intercellular exchange through gap junctions and tunnelling nanotubes on a cell network
nanotube_gap_junction_exchange: The intercellular exchange of a substance through gap junctions and tunnelling nanotubes on a network. - Lumped cardiovascular system
cardiovascular: A closed lumped system of the systemic circulation driven by a left ventricle of varying elastance. - Mackey-Glass
mackey_glass: The Mackey-Glass equationx' = beta x(t - tau) / (1 + x(t - tau)^n) - gamma xof blood cell production. - Steerable receptor-effector negative feedback loop
steerable_feedback_loop: A receptor-effector loop that holds a product at its set point until a steering signal shifts it. - Stimulus-response, adaptive response, and anticipation with response, restore, repair, and preparedness costs
adaptive_response_costs: A system that meets recurring demands by stimulus-response, adaptive response, or anticipation. - Substance exchange between logistic cells in a closed contour
closed_contour_cell_exchange: The exchange of signalling molecules between logistic cells arranged in a closed contour. - Two-compartment pharmacokinetics
two_compartment_pharmacokinetics: The two-compartment pharmacokinetics of a bolus dose given into the central compartment. - Two-layer adaptive oscillator model of sepsis
two_layer_sepsis: The two-layer model of tumour disease and sepsis, parenchymal and immune cells as adaptive oscillators. - Vessel conductances adapting to Kirchhoff flows
adaptive_flow_network: A square grid of vessels fed at one corner and drained at every other node, whose conductances adapt. - West-Brown-Enquist distribution network and Kleiber scaling
west_brown_enquist: The distribution network of West, Brown, and Enquist, a space-filling tree of invariant capillaries.
biology/systems_biology
- Adenylate cyclase kinase cascade amplifier with G-protein timer inactivation
hormone_cascade_amplifier: The adenylate cyclase cascade, which amplifies a hormone pulse and ends it by the G-protein timer. - Boolean repressilator
boolean_repressilator: The Boolean repressilator, where LacI represses TetR, TetR represses cI, and cI represses LacI. - Boolean system of the mammalian cell cycle
mammalian_cell_cycle: The Boolean system of the mammalian cell cycle of Faure et al., ten proteins updated synchronously. - Bristle patterning by lateral inhibition on a ring
bristle_lateral_inhibition: A ring of cells that inhibit the neural fate of their neighbours, leaving sparse, evenly spaced bristles. - Carbon-13 metabolic flux analysis
carbon_13_mfa: A metabolic network thatLabellingAnalysisfits to labelling data, the TCA example by default. - Drosophila circadian clock
circadian_clock: Goldbeter's system of the Drosophila circadian clock, PER that represses its own transcription. - Dynamic flux balance analysis of a batch culture
dynamic_fba: A batch culture of the E. coli core system, which needs the extrametabolism. - Early-stage protein folding intermediate
early_stage_folding_intermediate: The residues of a protein sampling the cells of an ellipse path of the Ramachandran map by heat bath. - Elementary flux modes and extreme pathways
elementary_flux_modes: The toy network of Raman whose steady-state coneElementaryModeAnalysisenumerates. - Flux balance, flux variability, and parsimonious FBA
flux_balance: Flux balance analysis of a metabolic network, which sets its fluxes to maximise growth. - Fuzzy oil drop system of protein structure
fuzzy_oil_drop: The fuzzy oil drop of a protein, an ensemble replayed one member per frame or a chain folded by moves. - Generalised multi-valued logical networks
generalized_logical_network: A generalised logical network of Thomas, whose variables step asynchronously towards focal levels. - Generalized mass action and S-system power-law systems
biochemical_systems_theory: A biochemical system of power-law rates, in the S-system or the generalized mass action form. - Genetic toggle switch
toggle_switch: The genetic toggle switch of Gardner, Cantor, and Collins, two genes that repress each other. - Goodwin oscillator
goodwin_oscillator: The Goodwin oscillator, a chain of stages whose last one represses the synthesis of the first. - Huepe-Aldana noisy majority Boolean network
noisy_boolean_network: The Boolean network of Huepe and Aldana-González, nodes that follow the noisy majority ofkinputs. - Kauffman random Boolean networks
random_boolean_network: A Kauffman random Boolean network, nodes updated together by random functions ofkrandom inputs. - Knock-outs, MoMA, ROOM, OptKnock, and synthetic lethals
metabolic_perturbations: The E. coli core system with some genes knocked out, which needs the extrametabolism. - Min-protein skeleton system as mass-conserving reaction-diffusion
min_protein_skeleton: The skeleton system of the Min proteins on a periodic line, a mass-conserving reaction-diffusion system. - Negative autoregulation and bursty gene expression
negative_autoregulation: A gene that represses its own transcription and makes its protein in bursts. - Probabilistic Boolean network
probabilistic_boolean_network: A probabilistic Boolean network, whose nodes draw one of their candidate functions at every step. - Regulatory flux balance analysis
regulatory_fba: A batch culture on glucose and acetate with Boolean catabolite repression, which needs the extra. - Repressilator
repressilator: The repressilator of Elowitz and Leibler, three genes in a ring that each repress the next. - Stochastic and continuous Petri nets
petri_net: A Petri net, places that hold tokens and transitions that consume and produce them when they fire. - Three-enzyme adaptation circuits of Ma et al.
enzyme_adaptation_circuit: A circuit of three enzymes A, B, and C of Ma et al., whose output C may adapt to a step of the input. - Three-gene Boolean network
three_gene_boolean_network: The three-gene Boolean network of Raman, updated synchronously. - Three-node phosphorylation oscillator
phosphorylation_oscillator: Three proteins whose phosphorylation cycles regulate each other in a loop that oscillates. - Three-way fate decision on the compactified elliptic umbilic
three_way_fate_decision: Cells that choose among three fates on the compactified elliptic umbilic landscape of Rand et al. - Yeast cell-cycle network
yeast_cell_cycle: The Boolean network of the budding yeast cell cycle of Li et al., eleven proteins and their regulation. - Yeast glycolysis oscillations in a flow reactor
glycolysis_oscillations: The glycolysis of a yeast extract in a flow reactor, whose NADH oscillates with a period of minutes.
chemistry/kinetics
- Bistability on a catalyst pellet
catalyst_pellet: The surface concentration of a catalyst pellet, bistable through Langmuir-Hinshelwood kinetics. - Brusselator ODE
brusselator_ode: The well-mixed Brusselator, which oscillates on a limit cycle whenb > 1 + a**2. - Chemical Langevin equation of the Schlögl reaction
chemical_langevin_equation: The chemical Langevin equation of Schlögl's bistable reaction, whose noise switches between two states. - Chemical Langevin equation of the enzyme network
chemical_langevin_network: The chemical Langevin equation of the enzyme reactionE + S <-> C -> E + P. - Cubic autocatalysis
cubic_autocatalysis: Cubic autocatalysisA + 2B -> 3Bwith the decayB -> Cin a continuously fed reactor. - Cyclic cellular automaton
cyclic_cellular_automaton: Griffeath's cyclic cellular automaton, whose random levels organize into spiral waves. - Hodgepodge machine
hodgepodge: The hodgepodge machine, a system of a chemical reaction whose waves form spirals. - Michaelis-Menten as ODEs and as a jump process
michaelis_menten: The enzyme reactionE + S <-> C -> E + Pof Michaelis and Menten, as rate equations or as jumps. - Oregonator
oregonator: The scaled Oregonator, the reduction of the FKN mechanism of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction. - Protein corona binding on a nanoparticle
nanoparticle_corona: The corona that albumin, high-density lipoprotein, and fibrinogen form on a nanoparticle in plasma. - Pulsed electrochemical reactor
pulsed_electrochemical_reactor: A stirred electrochemical reactor whose electrode is driven by a train of current pulses.
chemistry/pattern_formation
- Brusselator fields
brusselator: The Brusselator reaction-diffusion system from small noise around its steady state(a, b / a). - Gray-Scott
gray_scott: The Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion system, seeded in its middle, which grows spots that replicate. - Schnakenberg
schnakenberg: The Schnakenberg reaction-diffusion system, which forms Turing patterns from noise whenDv >> Du.
computer_science/automata
- Adding machine (odometer)
adding_machine: The adding machiner → r + 1on the q-adic integers, the odometer acting on the q-ary tree. - Adleman DNA computation of a Hamiltonian path
dna_computation: Adleman's DNA computation of a Hamiltonian path, by random ligation of edge oligos in a test tube. - Automata on the Grigorchuk group
grigorchuk_automaton: The majority automaton on a ball of the Grigorchuk group, a group of intermediate growth. - Automata on the free group
free_group_automaton: The majority automaton on a ball of the free group, a tree in which every cell follows its neighbours. - Baumslag-Solitar groups
baumslag_solitar_automaton: The majority automaton on a ball of the Baumslag-Solitar groupBS(m, n), of exponential growth. - Context-free subshift
context_free_subshift: A Markov chain on the context-free subshift, ternary rings where every block0 1^h 2^k 0hash = k. - Diffusion automaton
diffusion_automaton: A cellular automaton of diffusion,c' = c + r Σ (c_neighbour - c), started from a square of ones. - Elementary automata
elementary_automaton: An elementary cellular automaton by its Wolfram number, started from a single live cell by default. - Even and S-gap subshifts
gap_subshift: The shift on the S-gap subshift, the binary sequences whose runs of zeros between ones lie inS. - Fredkin's self-replicating parity automaton
fredkin_replicator: Fredkin's parity automaton, whose local law copies any initial pattern into translated replicas. - Game of Life
game_of_life: Conway's Game of Life, or another life-like rule, on a torus. - Game of Life on a rewired small-world network
small_world_life: Conway's Game of Life on a small-world network rewired from the Moore lattice of a torus. - Group-valued difference automaton
group_difference_automaton: The automatonτ(x)(n) = x(n)^-1 x(n + 1)whose alphabet is a finite group, on a ring. - Heisenberg
heisenberg_automaton: The majority automaton on a ball of the discrete Heisenberg group, of polynomial growth of degree 4. - Highlife and the planar automaton zoo
highlife: HighLife,B36/S23, or any other life-like automaton of the planar zoo by its rule, on a torus. - Involutive automaton
involutive_automaton: A binary automaton on a ring that is its own inverse, with the minimal memory set{-1, 0, ..., n}. - Lamplighter
lamplighter_automaton: The parity automaton on a ball of the lamplighter group, a linear rule over the field of two elements. - Langton's ant
langtons_ant: Langton's ant, which wanders chaotically for about 10,000 steps before it builds a periodic highway. - Lenia and its expanded universe
lenia: Lenia, a continuous automaton whose ring-kernel convolutions grow gliding, lifelike solitons. - Life in a tree
life_in_a_tree: The Game of Life on the free group F4, a tree of degree 8, surjective but not pre-injective. - Linear automata over rings
linear_ring_automaton: The discrete Laplacian as a linear automaton on a ring, over the field ofmoduluselements. - Morse subshift
morse_subshift: The Thue-Morse substitution0 → 01,1 → 10, whose words make the language of the Morse subshift. - Muller's pre-injective non-surjective automaton on F2
muller_automaton: Muller's automaton on the free group F2, pre-injective but not surjective. - Nilpotent automaton of class n
nilpotent_automaton: A binary automaton on a ring that is nilpotent of classn:nsteps send every configuration to 0. - Noisy automata
noisy_automata: An elementary cellular automaton whose outputs are flipped at random with a small probability. - Power-series automaton
power_series_automaton: The automatonτ(x)(n) = x(n) - t x(n + 1)over the ringK[[t]]of formal power series on a ring. - Real quadratic automaton
real_quadratic_automaton: The automatonτ(x)(n) = x(n + 1) - x(n)^2over the reals on a ring. - Self-indexed shift over a group alphabet
self_indexed_shift: The mapτ(x)(g) = x(g · x(g))over the group as alphabet, continuous and equivariant but no automaton. - Subshifts
subshifts: A Markov chain on the golden mean shift, the configurations of a ring that never hold two adjacent ones. - Subtraction automaton over the naturals
subtraction_automaton: The automatonτ(x)(n) = max(0, x(n) - x(n + 1))over the naturals, whose image is not closed. - Surjective non-pre-injective linear automaton on F2
surjective_linear_automaton: A linear automaton overK^2on the free group F2, surjective but not pre-injective. - Turing machine (three-state busy beaver)
turing_machine: A Turing machine, a head with an internal state that reads, writes, and moves on a tape of symbols. - Unbounded-alphabet automaton
unbounded_alphabet_automaton: An additive automaton over the nonnegative integers,x'(n) = x(n - 1) + x(n), from a single 1.
computer_science/evolutionary_computation
- Bit-string evolution on a fitness landscape
bit_string_evolution: A population of bit strings that evolves on a random additive fitness landscape. - RobbyGA can collector and evolution by circumstance
robby_ga: Mitchell's genetic algorithm that evolves strategies for Robby, a robot that collects cans in a room. - Simulated annealing, genetic algorithms, and differential evolution
evolutionary_optimisers: A population of candidates that searches a two-dimensional landscape, one generation per step.
computer_science/neural_networks
- Asymmetric diluted Hopfield network
diluted_hopfield: The asymmetric diluted Hopfield network, which recalls a stored pattern below its memory capacity. - Binary perceptron and random K-SAT
perceptron_satisfiability: A binary perceptron that must store random patterns, revealed one per step, as cardinality constraints. - Echo state network
echo_state_network: An echo state network, a reservoir of leaky tanh units with random recurrent weights driven by a sine. - Elman recurrent network trained by backpropagation
elman_network: Elman's simple recurrent network, which learns to predict the next bit of a temporal XOR stream. - Hopfield network
hopfield: A Hopfield network that stores patterns with Hebb's rule and recalls the first from a corrupted copy. - Next-generation reservoir computer
next_generation_reservoir: A next-generation reservoir computer whose variables follow the ridge readout of their monomials.
economics/econophysics
- Boltzmann wealth exchange
boltzmann_wealth: A Boltzmann wealth exchange system where every agent starts with one unit. - El Farol
el_farol: Arthur's El Farol bar problem, whose attendance self-organizes around the capacity. - El Farol with strategic group formation
el_farol_coalitions: Collins' El Farol bar with strategic group formation, whose coalitions share their best strategy. - Exchange with debt limit and with saving propensity
kinetic_wealth_exchange: A kinetic wealth exchange system with a saving propensity or a debt limit. - Kinetic wealth and welfare dynamics
kinetic_wealth_welfare: The kinetic theory of wealth classes, with a welfare policy when the tax is positive. - Kolkata Paise Restaurant
kolkata_restaurant: The Kolkata Paise Restaurant problem, where diners spread over restaurants that serve one meal each. - Minority game and its evolutionary version
minority_game: The minority game of an odd number of agents with two random strategies each.
economics/finance
- Bouchaud-Mézard wealth
bouchaud_mezard_wealth: Bouchaud and Mezard's wealth dynamics, random multiplicative returns with exchange between neighbours. - Correlated geometric Brownian motions
correlated_geometric_brownian_motion: Two assets whose prices follow geometric Brownian motions driven by correlated Wiener processes. - DebtRank cascades
debtrank: The DebtRank cascade of distress from a set of banks through their interbank loans. - Default cascades with thresholds and recovery
default_cascade: A cascade of defaults through interbank exposures, from a shock to the external assets of some banks. - Eisenberg-Noe clearing of interbank payments
eisenberg_noe_clearing: The clearing of interbank payments of Eisenberg and Noe, a fixed point of proportional payments. - Fire sales of overlapping portfolios
overlapping_portfolio_fire_sales: Banks with overlapping portfolios whose fire sales of common assets spread their losses to one another. - Fundamentalists and chartists in an order book
order_book: A stock market of fundamentalists and chartists on a grid who trade in a limit order book and imitate. - Geometric Brownian motion
geometric_brownian_motion: An asset whose price follows geometric Brownian motion. - Gibrat
gibrat_process: Firms that grow by Gibrat's law of proportionate effect, which makes their sizes lognormal. - Kesten processes
kesten_process: Firms whose sizes follow Kesten's process, a random multiplicative factor plus a random positive term. - Kirman exchange rate with switching traders
kirman_exchange_rate: Kirman's foreign exchange market, whose traders switch between fundamentalism and chartism like ants. - Multiplicative
multiplicative_process: Levy and Solomon's multiplicative process, whose floor at a fraction of the mean makes a power-law tail. - Order book with a guru communication network
guru_order_book: The order-driven market of Grilli and Tedeschi, whose noise traders imitate gurus they choose by wealth. - Random-walk traders with arbitrage
arbitrage_traders: Schwichtenberg's diffusion of a good by random-walk traders, minimally coupled to exchange rates. - Traders and exchange rates coupled through arbitrage as lattice electrodynamics
gauge_arbitrage_market: Exchange-rate potentials on links as lattice Maxwell fields, sourced by traders who move a good on sites.
economics/innovation
- Arthur-Polak technology evolution
arthur_polak: Arthur and Polak's evolution of technology, which builds logic functions from NAND gates. - Bass diffusion
bass_diffusion: The Bass diffusion system, people who adopt a new product through advertising and word of mouth. - Co-evolving combinatorial critical model
ccc_model: The co-evolving combinatorial critical model, whose diversity shows punctuated equilibria. - Combinatorial creative phase transition
creative_phase_transition: The diversity of a combinatorial system, which jumps from sparse to full above a critical rule density. - Fixed-line phone adoption
phone_adoption: Hamill and Gilbert's adoption of fixed-line phones by British households from 1951. - Interacting urns with triggering on a network
interacting_urns_network: One urn with triggering per node of a network, which draws from its own urn and those of its neighbours. - NK technology system
nk_technology: McNerney's system of technological improvement, whose cost falls as a power of the cumulative production. - TAP growth with random catalysis and autocatalytic sets
tap_catalysis: The TAP growth of goods from combinations of goods, with random catalysis of their production functions.
economics/macroeconomics
- Brock-Mirman stochastic growth
brock_mirman_growth: The Brock-Mirman economy, the optimal growth of a representative agent whose productivity is Markov. - Capital stock
capital_stock: Meadows' capital stock, grown by reinvested output and drained by depreciation. - Exchange rates in international trade
exchange_rates: Hamill and Gilbert's staged adjustment of trade and the exchange rate to a rise in home prices. - Firm and bank credit networks
credit_networks: A credit market where firms sample banks and switch to cheaper lenders, and defaults hit the lenders. - Fractional-reserve banking
fractional_reserve_banking: Customers and banks whose lending of excess reserves multiplies the base money by1 / ratio. - Linear network herding
network_herding: Agents whose linear choices herd on the past choices of the agents they are linked to. - Mark-0 economy with a Covid shock and policies
mark0: The Mark-0 economy of Sharma, Bouchaud, and co-authors, with a Covid shock to supply and demand. - Metaphoria mortal hunter-gatherer and monetary economies
metaphoria: Gooding's Metaphoria, a mortal population of hunter-gatherers or of a monetary economy. - Multiplier-accelerator
multiplier_accelerator: Samuelson's multiplier-accelerator,Y_{t+1} = c (1 + v) Y_t - c v Y_{t-1} + G. - Pontryagin capital and consumption
optimal_consumption: The Ramsey economy that chooses the consumption path maximising its discounted utility. - Solow
solow: An economy whose capital per worker approaches its steady state through saving and depreciation. - Stock-flow consistent monetary economy
stock_flow_consistent_economy: A stock-flow consistent economy, a closed circuit of money between households, firms, and a bank. - Three-sector purchasing power decoupled by feedback
categorized_purchasing_power: Forrest's categorized purchasing power of money, three sectors that feedback can steer one by one. - Toy firm investment
toy_firm_investment: Heterogeneous firms that invest out of past profits and sell at random prices, with entry and exit.
economics/markets
- Beer distribution game
beer_game: Sterman's beer distribution game, a supply chain whose orders swing wider at every echelon upstream. - Bilateral barter of two or three goods
goods_traders: Traders who wander a grid and barter two or three goods with their neighbours. - Bilateral two-good trade on complete, isolated, and small-world networks
wilhite_trade_networks: Wilhite's bilateral barter of two goods among traders on one of four trade networks. - Brock-Hommes heuristic switching
brock_hommes: Brock and Hommes' asset market with traders switching between fundamentalists and trend chasers. - Car wash queue
car_wash: Chesney's Clean and Wax hand car wash, a shadow account of the revenue of its workers' labour. - Car-dealer inventory with delays
car_dealer: Meadows' car dealership, whose inventory oscillates after a step in demand because of its delays. - Cobweb
cobweb: A market whose price converges to or oscillates around equilibrium as supply lags the price. - Commodity cycle with capacity delay
commodity_cycle: A commodity market whose price and capacity cycle because new capacity arrives after a delay. - Cournot duopoly with beliefs
cournot_duopoly: Two Cournot duopolists that adjust their output to their beliefs about each other. - Customers choosing between two shops of perishable goods
perishable_goods_duopoly: Customers who choose between two shops of perishable goods, preferring the one that sold fresher goods. - Edgeworth and Red Cross barter
barter: Barter of chocolate and cigarettes, in an Edgeworth box of two barterers or among many prisoners. - Fair Food Program
fair_food_program: Chesney's Fair Food Program, in which pressure on tomato buyers draws farms into fair wages. - Fair-trade food choice with peer influence
fair_food: The choice between fair-trade and regular food of consumers who influence their neighbours. - Gooding double auction with adaptive quotes
gooding_double_auction: Gooding's double auction, whose buyers and sellers move their quotes towards trade and then apart. - Heterogeneous household demand by utility and by elasticities
household_demand: Hamill and Gilbert's heterogeneous households, whose demand for food traces a curve as its price rises. - Labour market
labour_market: Hamill and Gilbert's labour market of firms posting wage offers and unemployed workers searching. - Produce market
produce_market: Hamill and Gilbert's produce market, where shoppers with lists of produce visit stalls at random. - Riccati price adjustment
riccati_prices: A price that moves with excess demand under linear demand and saturating quadratic supply. - Shops and digital markets
shops: Shops on a grid that compete for the shoppers on every cell, in person or in a digital market. - Static oligopoly equilibria
oligopoly_equilibria: The equilibria of a Cournot duopoly and of a pricing game of firms with loyal customers and switchers. - Sugarscape
sugarscape: The Sugarscape of Epstein and Axtell, foragers of random vision and metabolism on two sugar peaks. - Toy Trader and Three-Goods Trader with money
toy_trader: Gooding's Toy Trader, traders with money and toys who buy the cheapest toy they can see. - Zero-intelligence double auction
double_auction: Gode and Sunder's double auction of zero-intelligence traders, a step per trading period.
economics/resources
- Cocoa
cocoa: A cocoa production system, plantations that boom with their profit and bust with the insects they invite. - Crop livestock household
crop_livestock_household: Bala's crop livestock model, a farming household that adds livestock rearing to its crop income. - Fishery with measurement errors
fishery_measurement_errors: Independent fisheries whose quota is set from a measurement of the stock with a Gaussian error. - Food security systems
food_security: A food security system, the rice self-sufficiency of a country under subsidy, research, and extension. - Harvesting farmers
harvesting: A socio-ecological system of farmer agents harvesting a logistically regrowing resource. - Hilsa fishery
hilsa_fishery: A hilsa fishery, the life cycle of a migratory fish that the catch of juveniles and spawners depletes. - Oil economy
oil_economy: Meadows' oil economy, capital that grows on a nonrenewable resource and collapses as it runs out. - Optimal harvesting
optimal_harvesting: A logistic resource harvested with the effort that maximises its discounted profit. - Renewable fishery with capital
fishery_capital: Meadows' fishing fleet, capital that grows on a renewable resource and can overshoot it. - Rice land, population, and food security
rice_food_balance: Bala's food security model, rice land that grows towards the land available against a growing population. - Tragedy of the meadow commons
tragedy_of_the_commons: Herders whose cows graze a shared meadow, each adding cows while a cow pays, until the grass collapses. - Von Thünen land use
von_thunen: A square plain around one market at its centre, whose every cell grows the crop of highest bid rent.
engineering/circuits
- Chua double and multiple scrolls
chua: Chua's circuit, whose double-scroll or multiscroll attractor is chaotic. - Circuits under periodic impulses
impulsive_circuits: An RLC circuit driven by a periodic train of current impulses,L C x'' + R C x' + x = A Σ δ(t - k T). - Coupled Colpitts oscillators
coupled_colpitts: Two detuned chaotic Colpitts oscillators coupled through the difference of their second variables. - Memristive mixed-mode oscillator
memristive_mixed_mode_oscillator: A slow-fast circuit with a cubic flux-controlled memristor, whose oscillations mix two amplitudes. - Memristor oscillator
memristor_oscillator: The simplest memristor oscillator: a capacitor, an inductor, and a memristor in series. - Modified Chua with mixed-mode oscillations
mixed_mode_chua: A modified Chua circuit on three time scales, whose oscillations mix small and large amplitudes. - RLC circuit
rlc_circuit: A series RLC circuit written as Kirchhoff's voltage law,L q'' + R q' + q / C = V cos(ω t). - Tunnel-diode oscillator
tunnel_diode_oscillator: A tunnel-diode oscillator: an inductor and a capacitor in parallel with a negative-resistance diode. - Vibration energy harvester
vibration_energy_harvester: A dual-mass piezoelectric harvester in a car suspension, driven by the roughness of the road.
engineering/control
- Heated room with a thermostat
heated_room: A room assembled from thermal and electrical components, heated under a thermostat with hysteresis. - Linear-quadratic regulated oscillator
lqr_oscillator: A harmonic oscillator that a linear-quadratic regulator brings to rest. - Minimum-time control of a free particle, a harmonic oscillator, and a saddle
minimum_time_control: A linear plant steered to the origin of its phase space in minimum time by a sampled bang-bang control. - Model predictive control of Duffing, Van der Pol, and a bilinear DC motor through Koopman surrogates
koopman_model_predictive_control: A plant that a discrete-time controller steers with model predictive control on a fitted surrogate. - PID governance loop
pid_loop: A work process whose output a PID controller keeps at a set point against a disturbance. - PID-stabilised inverted pendulum
pid_inverted_pendulum: An inverted pendulum on a cart that a PID controller of its angle keeps upright. - Pendulum swing-up
pendulum_swing_up: A pendulum swung up to its inverted position by a bang-bang acceleration of its pivot. - Satellite transfer
satellite_transfer: A satellite moved between Kepler orbits of equal angular momentum by radial thrust. - Thermostat
thermostat: A room heated by a furnace under a thermostat while heat leaks to the outside.
engineering/mechatronics
- DC motor with an inertia
dc_motor: A DC motor whose armature circuit of components drives an inertia on a Lagrangian coordinate. - Electromagnetic vibrating table
vibrating_table: An electromagnetic vibrating table, a shaker driven by a sinusoidal supply after its switch closes. - Magnetic levitation under alternating impulses
magnetic_levitation: A conductive ball levitated in a vacuum by a field that pushes and pulls it with alternating impulses. - Quarter-car suspension
quarter_car: A quarter-car suspension driving over a road step.
engineering/power_systems
- Faraday-disk charger
faraday_disk: A battery charger driven by a Faraday disk generator whose own current strengthens its field. - Regenerative braking
regenerative_braking: A car braked by a Faraday disk generator on its wheel, which charges a supercapacitor. - Swing-equation power grid with Braess paradox
power_grid: A ring power grid in the swing-equation system, where more transmission capacity can break synchrony. - Wheel and rail contact
wheel_rail_contact: A rail segment on a sleeper, loaded by the wheels of passing bogies.
engineering/processes
- Bathtub
bathtub: A bathtub, one stock of water with an inflow from the faucet and an outflow through the drain. - Cascade classifier
cascade_classifier: A cascade classifier, a column of stages that separates a narrow size class of particles by an air flow. - Food relief system
food_relief: A food relief system, a pipeline that ships food to a warehouse and distributes it to people in need. - Grain storage system
grain_storage: A retail grain store, whose orders through a supply line make its stock oscillate. - Irrigation system
irrigation: An irrigation system, a reservoir and an aquifer that keep the root zone of the crops supplied. - Rice milling system
rice_milling: A rice milling system, a mill that buys paddy, mills it into rice and by-products, and sells them. - Solid waste system
solid_waste: A solid waste system, the waste of a growing city collected, recycled, composted, and landfilled.
engineering/robotics
- Light-emitting robots with sensory delay
light_emitting_robots: Light-emitting robots, which cluster when they sense the light of the others late and spread when early. - Light-sensitive robots with sensory delay
light_seeking_robots: Light-sensitive robots in a circular well, whose sensory delay decides whether they gather in the light. - Swarmtaxis
swarmtaxis: The swarmtaxis algorithm, which moves a swarm of robots towards a beacon that only some of them see.
engineering/traffic
- Car following with delay
delayed_car_following: A chain of cars that react to the speed difference to the car ahead after a reaction time. - Charbonneau traffic
charbonneau_traffic: Charbonneau's traffic system, where random braking of single drivers sets off traffic jams. - GKT non-local traffic
gkt_traffic: The gas-kinetic-based traffic system, where drivers brake on the traffic at an interaction point ahead. - Intelligent driver system
intelligent_driver_system: The intelligent driver system of cars on a ring road. - Kerner-Konhäuser system
kerner_konhauser: The Kerner-Konhäuser system, where viscous traffic flow forms dense moving clusters. - Langevin car-following toward a density-dependent speed
langevin_traffic: Cars on a ring road whose speeds relax with noise towards a desired speed set by the local density. - Lighthill-Whitham-Richards
lighthill_whitham_richards: The Lighthill-Whitham-Richards system, the conservation of cars with the Greenshields speed law. - Moment equations of Langevin traffic with a jam instability
traffic_density_equation: The density and flux equations of Langevin traffic on a ring road, whose uniform flow breaks into jams. - Nagel-Schreckenberg
nagel_schreckenberg: The Nagel-Schreckenberg traffic system on a ring road, where jams emerge above a critical density. - Optimal velocity
optimal_velocity: The optimal velocity system of cars on a ring road, where uniform flow breaks into stop-and-go waves. - Payne system
payne: The Payne system, where the speed of traffic relaxes to the Greenshields speed and anticipates density. - Ridesharing
ridesharing: Riders who request trips on a city grid and cabs that a stable matching sends to them. - Ring-road driver agents
ring_road_drivers: Drivers on a circular highway, where small random errors of speed set off traffic jams.
mathematics/dynamical_systems
- Baker
baker_map: The generalized baker map, which stretches the unit square alongxand stacks the two pieces iny. - Bernoulli doubling map
doubling_map: An ensemble of the doubling mapx' = 2x (mod 1), iterated exactly on fractions with an odd denominator. - Cascais-Dilão-Noronha Gaussian map
cdn_map: The Cascais-Dilão-Noronha Gaussian mapx' = exp(-alpha² x²) + βof an interval. - Cat map
cat_map: Arnold's cat map(x, y) → (2x + y, x + y) (mod 1), an area-preserving hyperbolic map of the torus. - Circle
circle_map: The sine circle mapθ' = θ + Ω - K / (2π) sin 2πθ (mod 1), which locks into Arnold tongues. - Conservative Hénon map
conservative_henon_map: Hénon's area-preserving quadratic map, a rotation by2π nuwith a quadratic kick. - Cubic chaotic map and its chaotic walk
cubic_chaotic_map: Bertin's cubic chaotic map and the chaotic walk it drives, which spreads like a random walk. - Cusp normal forms
cusp_form: The cusp normal formx' = β1 + β2 x - x³, bistable inside the cusp27 β1² < 4 β2³. - Fermi-Ulam map
fermi_ulam_map: The Fermi-Ulam map of a ball bouncing between a fixed wall and a wall that oscillates in time. - Finite-time blow-up
finite_time_blow_up: Hyperbolic growthx' = a x^p, which diverges at the finite timex0^(1 - p) / (a (p - 1))for p > 1. - Generalized tent map
skew_tent_map: An ensemble of the skew tent map, whose density relaxes to the uniform invariant density for anya. - Hopf
hopf_form: The Hopf normal form, whose focus gives birth to a limit cycle of radius√(-μ / a)as μ crosses 0. - Hyperchaotic four-dimensional Rössler flow
hyperchaotic_rossler: Rössler's four-dimensional flow, hyperchaotic with two positive Lyapunov exponents for its defaults. - Hénon map
henon_map: The Hénon mapx' = 1 - a x² + y,y' = b x, with a fractal strange attractor for its defaults. - Ikeda delay equation
ikeda: The Ikeda delay equationx' = a sin x(t - tau)in the form of Dilão (2023, Exercise 6.4). - Intermittency maps
intermittency_map: The Pomeau-Manneville mapx' = x + x^z (mod 1), whose long laminar phases near 0 end in chaotic bursts. - Langford attractor
langford: The Langford flow, a rotation whose torus breaks into a strange attractor for the defaults of Dilão. - Logistic map
logistic_map: The logistic mapx_{t+1} = r x_t (1 - x_t), which reaches chaos through period doubling asrgrows. - Lorenz
lorenz: The Lorenz-63 system of convection, chaotic on a butterfly-shaped attractor for its standard parameters. - Lozi map
lozi_map: The Lozi mapx' = 1 + y - a |x|,y' = b x, the piecewise linear Hénon map with a strange attractor. - Newton-Raphson map
newton_raphson_map: Newton's method forz³ = 1in the complex plane,z' = (2z³ + 1) / (3z²), in real coordinates. - Nosé-Hoover oscillator
nose_hoover: The Nosé-Hoover oscillatorx' = y,y' = y z - x,z' = 1 - y², with tori next to a chaotic sea. - Quadratic system with a slow manifold and a finite Koopman embedding
koopman_slow_manifold: The quadratic flowx1' = mu x1,x2' = lam (x2 - x1^2), with a slow manifold and a linear embedding. - Rössler
rossler: The Rössler system, a chaotic flow with one folded band for its standard parameters. - Rössler with an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck control parameter
ou_driven_rossler: The Rössler flow driven through its bifurcations by a slow Ornstein-Uhlenbeck control parameter. - Saddle-node
saddle_node_form: The saddle-node normal formx' = μ - x², whose two equilibria±√μmeet and vanish at μ = 0. - Sprott flow with a conservative torus and a chaotic attractor
sprott_mixed_flow: Sprott's flow with a conservative torus and a dissipative chaotic attractor side by side. - Sprott jerk
sprott_jerk: Sprott's jerk equationx''' = -A x'' - x' + |x| - 1, chaotic near A = 0.6. - Standard
standard_map: The Chirikov standard mapp' = p + K sin θ,θ' = θ + p', with global chaos above K ≈ 0.9716. - Subcritical Hopf normal form
subcritical_hopf_form: The subcritical Hopf normal form, where a stable focus coexists with a stable limit cycle. - Takens-Bogdanov
takens_bogdanov_form: The Takens-Bogdanov normal formx' = y,y' = β1 + β2 x + x² + s x y, where a saddle-node meets a Hopf. - Tent
tent_map: The tent mapx' = μ min(x, 1 - x), chaotic with Lyapunov exponentln μfor μ above 1. - Thomas cyclically symmetric attractor
thomas: The Thomas flowx' = -a x + sin ywith its cyclic permutations, chaotic fora = 0.18. - Towel maps
towel_map: Rössler's towel map, a three-dimensional map with two positive Lyapunov exponents.
mathematics/fractals
- Cantor
cantor_set: The Cantor set as the substitution of every interval by its two outer parts. - Iterated function systems by the chaos game
chaos_game: Points that draw the attractor of an iterated function system by the chaos game. - Julia sets
julia: The filled Julia set ofz -> z^2 + c, the starting points whose orbit stays bounded (Dilão 2023 §5.5). - Koch
koch_curve: The Koch curve as the L-systemF → F+F--F+Fdrawn by a turtle. - Mandelbrot set
mandelbrot: The Mandelbrot set, the pointscwhose orbit ofz -> z^2 + cfrom 0 stays bounded (Dilão 2023 §5.5). - Random complex square-root function system
inverse_julia: The random function systemz -> ±√(z - omega), whose points settle on the Julia set ofz² + omega. - Sierpiński substitutions
sierpinski_substitution: The Sierpiński triangle or carpet as the substitution of a polygon by scaled copies of itself.
mathematics/fractional_dynamics
- Fractional Lorenz
fractional_lorenz: The fractional Lorenz flow of Grigorenko and Grigorenko, chaotic for orders close enough to 1. - Fractional Van der Pol
fractional_van_der_pol: The fractional Van der Pol oscillatorD^alpha x = y,D^alpha y = mu (1 - x^2) y - x. - Fractional damped oscillator
fractional_oscillator: The fractional damped oscillatorD^alpha x = v,D^alpha v = -omega^2 x - 2 gamma v. - Fractional relaxation
fractional_relaxation: Fractional relaxationD^alpha x = -lambda x, which decays as the Mittag-Leffler functionE_alpha.
mathematics/networks
- Barabási-Albert growth, with Bianconi-Barabási fitness
barabasi_albert: Barabási-Albert growth, whose degrees follow a power lawP(k) ~ k^-3by preferential attachment. - Cascades of failures in interdependent networks
interdependent_network_cascade: The cascade of failures of Buldyrev et al. between two networks whose nodes depend on each other. - Centralities, assortativity, communities, and motifs
network_structure_analysis: A network recorded with its centralities, degree mixing, communities, and triangle z-score. - Configuration model with stub matching and rewiring
configuration_model: The configuration model, the maximally random network of a given degree sequence. - Davidsen-Ebel-Bornholdt network of triadic closure and node turnover
davidsen_ebel_bornholdt: The Davidsen-Ebel-Bornholdt network, whose triadic closure and node turnover give high clustering. - Diffusion
network_diffusion: Diffusion on a network,du_i/dt = D Σ_j A_ij (u_j - u_i), which spreads a unit mass to every node. - Erdos-Renyi and Watts-Strogatz graphs
random_graph_ensembles: The construction of an Erdős-Rényi or a Watts-Strogatz random graph, one step of new edges at a time. - Explosive percolation by the Achlioptas product rule
explosive_percolation: Explosive percolation, where the Achlioptas product rule delays and sharpens the giant component. - Graphlet arrival growth
graphlet_arrival: Growth by the arrival of three-node graphlets, a tree whose degree exponent rises withalpha. - Growing simplicial complex by triangle attachment
growing_simplicial_complex: A simplicial complex that grows by gluing one triangle per step along an edge drawn uniformly. - Holme-Kim growth
holme_kim: Holme-Kim growth, scale-free like Barabási-Albert growth but with clustering that stays high. - Kronecker graphs
kronecker_graph: The Kronecker graph of two graphs, whose adjacency matrix is the Kronecker product of theirs. - Motter-Lai cascades of betweenness overload
motter_lai_overload: The cascade of overload failures of Motter and Lai after one node is removed. - Network superposition model of Erdős-Rényi subgraphs
network_superposition: The network superposition model, a union of Erdős-Rényi graphs whose linking probabilities are drawn. - Node-merging network of Kim et al.
node_merging: The node-merging network of Kim et al., whose merging of linked nodes builds hubs without growth. - PageRank iterations on networks
pagerank: The PageRank iterationr_i' = (1 - d) / n + d Σ_j A_ij r_j / k_jon an undirected network. - Popularity-similarity network
popularity_similarity_network: Popularity-similarity growth, scale-free and clustered, whose nodes attach by hyperbolic distance. - Random failures and targeted attacks on networks
network_attack: Failures or attacks on a scale-free network, robust to random failures but fragile to attacks on hubs. - Random walks
network_random_walk: Random walkers on a network, which visit every node of a connected graph in proportion to its degree. - Size-biased random walk on hypergraphs
hypergraph_random_walk: The size-biased random walk on a hypergraph,p_j' = sum_i p_i T_ij - p_j, from one node. - Spatial triadic percolation on a torus
spatial_triadic_percolation: Spatial triadic percolation, where nearby signed regulators make the giant component form moving patterns. - Steady-state duplication-deletion network
duplication_deletion: The steady-state duplication-deletion network of Jensen, whose connectance settles at Eq. 8.84. - Triadic percolation
triadic_percolation: Triadic percolation, where regulating nodes switch links on and off from the giant component. - Vertex-copying network growth
vertex_copying: Vertex-copying growth, whose new nodes copy the edges of existing nodes and make a heavy-tailed degree.
mathematics/stochastic_processes
- Ageing random walk
ageing_random_walk: Ageing random walks, whose up steps become rarer the more of them a walker has taken. - Bernoulli process
bernoulli_process: Independent Bernoulli processes, one success or failure per step, whose success counts are binomial. - Birth-death process and M/M/1 queue
birth_death_queue: Independent M/M/1 queues, birth-death processes with constant arrival and service rates. - Cascading sample-space-reducing process
cascading_sample_space_reducing: Cascading sample-space-reducing processes, whose visits follow the power lawi^(-mu)for anymu. - Exponential growth observed at exponential random times
exponential_growth_at_random_times: Exponential growth observed at exponentially distributed times, whose observed values follow a power law. - Fragmentation
fragmentation: The random fragmentation of an object of integer size, whose fragments keep breaking into smaller ones. - Galton-Watson branching
galton_watson: A Galton-Watson branching process with Poisson offspring, one generation per step. - Hidden Markov source
hidden_markov_source: A hidden Markov source, whose symbols are emitted at random from the states of a hidden Markov chain. - Markov source
markov_source: A Markov source, a sequence of symbols in which each symbol depends on the one before it. - Ornstein-Uhlenbeck with weakening restoring force
weakening_ornstein_uhlenbeck: Brownian particles held by a restoring force that weakens with distance. - Persistent random walk
persistent_random_walk: Walkers on the integers that keep the direction of their last step with a probability. - Poisson process
poisson_process: Independent Poisson processes, counters that grow by one at exponentially distributed waiting times. - Pólya urn
polya_urn: Independent Pólya urns, whose share of red balls converges to a random limit with a beta distribution. - Random two-branch interval map
random_branch_map: Orbits of a random map of[0, 1]with the two branches(1 + x) / 2andmu x². - Random walk with autoregressive velocity
random_walk_with_memory: Random walks whose velocity is an autoregressive process,x ← x + vandv ← alpha v + xi. - Random walks
random_walk: Independent walkers on the integers that step at random times, a continuous-time random walk. - Sample-space-reducing process
sample_space_reducing: Sample-space-reducing processes, whose state visits follow Zipf's law1 / iforlam = 1. - Stochastic on-off intermittency
on_off_intermittency: Stochastic on-off intermittency,dx/dt = (epsilon + xi) x - x^3with Stratonovich white noisexi.
physics/active_matter
- Active Brownian particles
active_brownian_particles: Active Brownian particles in the plane, which swim at a constant speed in a diffusing direction. - Active Brownian particles with local alignment
aligning_active_brownian_particles: Active Brownian particles in a periodic box whose headings align with the neighbours withind0. - Active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles
active_ornstein_uhlenbeck_particles: Active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles in the plane, driven by exponentially correlated propulsion. - Active System B+ of motility-induced phase separation
active_system_b: Active System B+, the conserved field theory of the density of active particles. - Active nematic and polar gels
active_gels: An active gel, a nematic tensor or a polarisation transported in the Stokes flow of its own stresses. - Active polymers
active_polymer: An active polymer, a Rouse chain of active Brownian beads that each swim along their own orientation. - Bertin-Droz-Grégoire kinetic flocking
bertin_droz_gregoire: The kinetic theory of flocking, whose polar order grows above a transition density. - Chiral active particles
chiral_active_particles: Chiral active particles, which swim along circles of radiusv / omegathat drift by diffusion. - Cucker-Smale flocking
cucker_smale_flocking: Cucker-Smale flocking, where every agent aligns its velocity with all others, weighted by distance. - Deformable active particles of Ohta and Ohkuma
deformable_active_particles: Deformable self-propelled particles of Ohta and Ohkuma, which move straight or along circles. - Depot-pumped Brownian particles
depot_brownian_particles: Brownian particles with energy depots, which start at rest and take up the speedsqrt(q/gamma - c/d). - Dry active nematics
dry_active_nematics: A dry active nematic, a conserved density coupled to a symmetric traceless alignment tensor. - Flocking with active and passive agents
active_passive_flocking: The active and passive agents of Charbonneau (2017, section 10.4) in a periodic box. - Ginelli nematic particles
ginelli_nematics: Polar particles with nematic alignment, which order along a common axis but move both ways along it. - Grégoire-Chaté cohesive flocks
gregoire_chate: The Grégoire-Chaté system: aligning particles that also attract and repel, forming cohesive flocks. - Inertial active Brownian particles
inertial_active_brownian_particles: Active Brownian particles with inertia, which lag behind their orientation as they speed up and turn. - Keller-Segel chemotaxis
keller_segel: The Keller-Segel system of cells that diffuse and climb the gradient of a chemical they secrete. - Living crystals
living_crystals: Active colloids of radius 1 with phoretic attraction, which gather into clusters that slowly coarsen. - Microscopic flocking with aligning binary collisions
binary_collision_flocking: Self-propelled particles that flock through aligning binary collisions, the Bertin-Droz-Grégoire system. - Motility-induced phase separation
motility_induced_phase_separation: Repulsive active Brownian disks of unit diameter, which phase separate into clusters at high speed. - Nonreciprocal Vicsek system
nonreciprocal_vicsek: Two species of Vicsek movers in a periodic box whose alignment with each other is nonreciprocal. - One-dimensional active viscoelastic and poroelastic gel with contractile cells
active_viscoelastic_gel: A one-dimensional active viscoelastic gel, where contractile cells concentrate by dragging the gel. - Run-and-tumble
run_and_tumble: Run-and-tumble agents in a periodic square, which diffuse withv^2 (1 + q) / (4 (1 - q))per step. - Squirmers
squirmers: Spherical squirmers that swim at2 B1 / 3and stir each other as pushers or pullers. - Szabó cell system
szabo_cells: The cells of Szabó et al. (2006) in a periodic box, which move together above a critical density. - Toner-Tu hydrodynamics
toner_tu: The Toner-Tu hydrodynamics of a polar flock on a periodic lattice, from a disordered velocity field. - Vicsek system with metric, topological, vision-cone, and delayed alignment
vicsek: The Vicsek system: particles that move at a constant speed along the mean heading of their neighbours.
physics/celestial_mechanics
- Bending of light by a mass
light_bending: A light ray that passes a static mass and is deflected towards it. - Frame dragging around a spinning mass
kerr_frame_dragging: A particle without angular momentum that falls into a spinning mass and is dragged around it. - Keplerian dumbbell and spin-orbit coupling
keplerian_dumbbell: The Keplerian dumbbell: two masses on a rigid massless arm that orbit a primary under gravity. - N-body and solar system
n_body: Bodies in the plane that attract each other pairwise by Newtonian gravity. - Perihelion precession in the Schwarzschild spacetime
schwarzschild_precession: A massive particle on a bound orbit around a static mass, whose perihelion advances every turn. - Relativistic orbit equation
relativistic_orbit: Einstein's orbit equationu'' + u = alpha + epsilon u²of a planet, whose perihelion precesses. - Restricted three-body problem
restricted_three_body: A light body moving in the plane of two primaries on circular orbits, in the frame that rotates with them. - Sitnikov problem
sitnikov: A light body moving on the axis through the centre of mass of two equal primaries, normal to their orbit. - Störmer charge in a dipole field
stormer_problem: A charged particle moving in the magnetic dipole field of a planet, the Störmer problem. - Two-body orbit
two_body_orbit: A light planet orbiting a heavy star under Newtonian gravity, as the Kepler problem of their separation.
physics/climate
- Budyko-Sellers latitude system
budyko_sellers: The Budyko-Sellers energy balance of one hemisphere, resolved in the sine of latitude. - Coupled soil and deep temperature maps
soil_temperature: The coupled maps of the soil surface temperature and the deeper soil temperature. - Daisyworld
daisyworld: Daisyworld, where white and black daisies regulate the temperature of their planet through its albedo. - Declining energy return on investment
energy_return: The extraction of a finite energy reserve whose energy return on investment declines as it depletes. - ENSO delay oscillator
enso: The delayed oscillator of El Niño of Suarez and Schopf,dT/dt = T - T^3 - alpha T(t - delta). - Forest dieback
forest_dieback: The forest dieback model of the Amazon, whose cover tips to bare soil when the ambient temperature rises. - Forest dieback with replicator dynamics of mitigators
social_forest_dieback: The forest dieback model coupled with the replicator dynamics of mitigators who perceive its warming. - Gissinger geodynamo
geodynamo: Gissinger's geodynamo, whose dipole field reverses at irregular times. - Hasselmann stochastic climate
hasselmann: Hasselmann's stochastic climate, where fast weather noise drives a slow, damped temperature anomaly. - Leading-following tipping cascade
leading_following_cascade: A cascade of two tipping elements, a leading fold driven by a ramp and a follower forced by the leader. - Lorenz-84
lorenz_84: Lorenz-84, the general circulation reduced to a westerly jet and a travelling wave, chaotic forF = 8. - Lorenz-96
lorenz_96: Lorenz-96,dx_i/dt = (x_{i+1} - x_{i-2}) x_{i-1} - x_i + Fon a ring of sites around a latitude circle. - Network of interacting tipping elements
tipping_cascade_network: A network of tipping elements, where one element pushed past its tipping point can tip its neighbours. - Population and pollution
population_pollution: The pollution model of Bala, Arshad, and Noh, a population that degrades its environment. - Rothman excitable carbon cycle
carbon_cycle: Rothman's excitable carbon cycle, where a large enough perturbation of the ocean sets off an excursion. - Saltzman-Maasch glaciation
saltzman_glaciation: The glacial cycles of Saltzman and Maasch, a self-sustained oscillation of ice, carbon, and ocean. - Stochastic energy balance with bifurcation-, noise-, and rate-induced tipping
sutera_fraedrich_tipping: The Sutera-Fraedrich stochastic energy balance set up for bifurcation-, noise-, or rate-induced tipping. - Stochastic fold with a ramped control parameter
ramped_stochastic_fold: A stochastic fold whose control is ramped through the tipping point of its lower branch. - Van der Pol ice ages
van_der_pol_ice_ages: Glacial cycles as a Van der Pol relaxation oscillator, optionally paced by orbital forcing. - Zero-dimensional energy balance with ice albedo
energy_balance: The zero-dimensional energy balance of the Earth, bistable through the ice-albedo feedback.
physics/cosmology
- FLRW cosmology from the Einstein equations
flrw_cosmology: A homogeneous universe whose expansion follows from the Einstein equations of the Robertson-Walker metric. - Friedmann expansion
friedmann_expansion: The scale factor of a homogeneous universe of matter and dark energy, after Friedmann and Lemaître. - Oppenheimer-Snyder collapse of a dust ball
oppenheimer_snyder_collapse: A ball of dust at rest that collapses under its own gravity into a black hole, as Oppenheimer and Snyder.
physics/criticality
- Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld sandpile
sandpile: The Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld sandpile on a lattice with open edges, started from random stable heights. - Drossel-Schwabl forest fire
forest_fire: The Drossel-Schwabl forest fire, where slow growth and rare lightning give fires of every size. - Evolutionary Sherrington-Kirkpatrick game
evolutionary_sk_game: The evolutionary Sherrington-Kirkpatrick game, which self-organises to the edge of ergodicity breaking. - Fixed-energy sandpile
fixed_energy_sandpile: The fixed-energy sandpile, a Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld pile with no drive and no loss on a periodic lattice. - Forest fire on hexagonal lattices and graphs
hexagonal_forest_fire: The Drossel-Schwabl forest fire on a triangular lattice of hexagonal cells, or on the nodes of a graph. - Langevin field theory of absorbing-state transitions with a conserved energy field
directed_percolation_langevin: The Langevin field theory of an absorbing-state transition, an active density fed by an energy field. - Manna sandpile
manna_sandpile: The Manna sandpile, a stochastic sandpile of another universality class than Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld. - SK game of reinforcement learners
sk_game: The SK game, reinforcement learners whose rewards come from quenched Sherrington-Kirkpatrick couplings. - Self-organized branching process
self_organized_branching: The self-organized branching process of Zapperi, Lauritsen, and Stanley, a mean-field sandpile. - Zhang sandpile
zhang_sandpile: The Zhang sandpile, a continuous sandpile whose unstable sites give away all their energy.
physics/fluids
- BGK
bgk_equation: The BGK equation of the Sod shock tube over one position and one velocity axis. - Boltzmann
boltzmann_equation: The Boltzmann equation of Maxwell molecules over one position and two velocity axes. - Burgers
burgers: The inviscid Burgers equation on a periodic interval of length 2 pi, whose sine steepens into a shock. - Bénard-Marangoni convection with a free, thermocapillary surface
benard_marangoni: The order-parameter equation of Bénard-Marangoni convection, which forms hexagonal cells. - Decaying turbulence
decaying_turbulence: Decaying two-dimensional turbulence from a random vorticity field on a periodic square of side 2 pi. - Discrete-velocity Boltzmann gas of Carleman
discrete_velocity_boltzmann: The Carleman discrete-velocity Boltzmann equation on a periodic line, from a pulse of right movers. - Enskog equations
enskog: The local Enskog equation, the Boltzmann equation with the contact value of the pair correlation of disks. - FHP lattice gas
fhp_lattice_gas: The FHP-I lattice gas on a periodic triangular lattice, with a dense disc that spreads into the gas. - HPP lattice gas
hpp_lattice_gas: The HPP lattice gas on a periodic square lattice, whose particles move along four directions and collide. - Kuramoto-Sivashinsky
kuramoto_sivashinsky: The Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equationu_t = -u u_x - u_xx - u_xxxx, spatiotemporally chaotic. - Rayleigh-Bénard
rayleigh_benard: Rayleigh-Bénard convection between free-slip walls, from a small perturbation of the critical mode. - Shallow-water dam break
shallow_water: The shallow-water dam break: still water at two depths that a removed dam separated at the middle. - Vlasov
vlasov_equation: The Vlasov-Poisson equation of electrons over a neutralizing background, on a periodic position axis. - Wave-number conservation and wave breaking
wave_breaking: The kinematic wave equation of deep-water wave trains on a periodic interval of length 2 pi.
physics/heat
- Cooling coffee
cooling_coffee: A cup of coffee whose temperature relaxes to that of the room,T' = -k (T - T_room). - Heat diffusion
heat_diffusion: Heat diffusing on a plate from a hot square in its middle,du/dt = D laplacian(u). - Heat on an L-shaped domain
heat_l_shape: Heat on the L-shaped domain with fixed boundary temperatures, discretised by linear finite elements.
physics/mechanics
- Ballistic pendulum
ballistic_pendulum: A bullet that sticks in the block of a pendulum at rest, which then swings up. - Beam-beam map
beam_beam_map: The beam-beam map of a particle of an accelerator beam that meets the opposite beam once every turn. - Bouncing ball
bouncing_ball: A ball that falls under gravity and bounces off the floor, losing speed by a coefficient of restitution. - Circular billiard
circular_billiard: A particle moving freely inside a circle and reflecting specularly off its wall. - Coupled pendulums
coupled_pendulums: Two pendulums whose bobs are joined by a spring, which pass their energy back and forth. - Double pendulum
double_pendulum: A double pendulum, a pendulum hanging from the bob of another, written as its two Lagrange equations. - Driven damped oscillator
driven_damped_oscillator: A mass on a spring with damping and a periodic force,m x'' = -k x - c x' + F cos(ω t). - Gyroscope in a gimbal
gimballed_gyroscope: A gyroscope in a gimbal: a rotor in an inner ring that turns in an outer ring about a fixed axis. - Harmonic oscillator
harmonic_oscillator: A particle on a spring, optionally damped. - Huygens clocks and pendulums on coupled supports
huygens_clocks: Pendulum clocks on supports joined by springs, which synchronize through the motion of the supports. - Magnetic pendulum
magnetic_pendulum: A magnetic bob on a string swinging above magnets on a circle, which comes to rest at one of them. - Mass-spring oscillator with static and Coulomb friction
friction_oscillator: A mass on a linear spring with static, Coulomb, and viscous friction,m x'' + c x' + k x + f = 0. - Newton's cradle
newtons_cradle: Newton's cradle: pendulum balls in a row that pass momentum along by elastic collisions. - Particle in the well
k x^2 e^-xparticle_in_a_well: A particle moving without friction in the potentialU(x) = k x² e^-x. - Pendulum
pendulum: A pendulum, whose angle follows Newton's second lawm l θ'' = -m g sin θ. - Pendulum on a sliding cart
cart_pendulum: A pendulum hanging from a cart that slides without friction along a horizontal track. - Pendulum with a vertically or horizontally oscillating pivot
parametric_pendulum: A pendulum whose suspension point oscillates vertically or horizontally, with accelerationε g cos Ω t. - Projectile
projectile: A particle launched under uniform gravity, optionally slowed by linear drag. - Rotating balls on rods
rotating_balls_on_rods: Two balls on rods that turn about a vertical axis and conserve their angular momentum. - Rotating swing
rotating_swing: A rotating swing: chairs on chains hanging from the rods of a stand that turns about a vertical axis. - Two-mass spring-damper between walls
two_mass_spring_damper: Two masses between two walls, tied to the walls and to each other by springs, with dampers and forces.
physics/nonlinear_oscillators
- Adler equation
adler_equation: The Adler equationΔφ' = Δω + ε sin Δφfor the phase difference of an oscillator and its drive. - Duffing
duffing: The forced Duffing oscillatorx'' = -delta x' - alpha x - beta x^3 + gamma cos(omega t), chaotic here. - Dynamical billiards of Sinai, mushroom, and open three-disk shapes
billiards: A particle moving freely on a billiard table and reflecting specularly off its walls. - Forced Toda oscillator
forced_toda: The forced Toda oscillatorx'' + d x' + e^x - 1 = a sin(omega t), a passive asymmetric oscillator. - Forced Van der Pol
forced_van_der_pol: The Van der Pol oscillator driven by a periodic force,x'' = μ (1 - x²) x' - x + A cos(ω t). - Hénon-Heiles
henon_heiles: The Hénon-Heiles system of a star in a galactic potential, whose motion is chaotic at higher energies. - Nuclear quadrupole vibrations
nuclear_quadrupole: The quadrupole vibrations of a nuclear surface, a Hamiltonian system of two degrees of freedom. - Strongly nonlinear oscillator under periodic impulses
impulsive_oscillator: An oscillator kicked by a periodic train of impulses of alternating sign. - Stuart-Landau
stuart_landau: The Stuart-Landau oscillatorz' = (μ + i ω) z - (1 + i β) |z|² z, the normal form of a Hopf bifurcation. - Van der Pol
van_der_pol: The Van der Pol oscillatorx'' = μ (1 - x²) x' - x, which settles on a limit cycle forμ > 0.
physics/oceanography
- Quasi-geostrophic double gyre
double_gyre: The quasi-geostrophic double gyre, the wind-driven circulation of a closed ocean basin. - Stommel thermohaline boxes
stommel: Stommel's two-box thermohaline circulation, bistable between a thermal and a haline mode.
physics/pattern_formation
- Allen-Cahn non-conserved relaxation (System A)
allen_cahn: The Allen-Cahn equation, System A, the non-conserved relaxation of an order parameter in a double well. - Cahn-Hilliard phase separation (System B)
cahn_hilliard: The Cahn-Hilliard equation, System B, the conserved relaxation of an order parameter in a double well. - Complex Ginzburg-Landau
complex_ginzburg_landau: The complex Ginzburg-Landau equationA_t = A + (1 + i b) laplacian(A) - (1 + i c) |A|^2 A. - Nonreciprocal Cahn-Hilliard
nonreciprocal_cahn_hilliard: The nonreciprocal Cahn-Hilliard equations, a demixing field coupled to a diffusing one. - Swift-Hohenberg
swift_hohenberg: The Swift-Hohenberg equationu_t = r u - (1 + laplacian)^2 u - u^3, which forms rolls of length 2 pi.
physics/seismology
- Burridge-Knopoff spring-block fault
burridge_knopoff: The Burridge-Knopoff fault, a chain of blocks pulled by a moving plate that sticks and slips. - Olami-Feder-Christensen
earthquakes: The Olami-Feder-Christensen earthquake system with open edges, started from random forces.
physics/soft_matter
- Annealed transient time motion
annealed_transient_time_motion: Annealed transient time motion, Brownian walkers whose diffusion coefficient changes at random times. - Brownian motion of Janus, ellipsoidal, and chiral particles in three dimensions
anisotropic_brownian_particles: Overdamped axisymmetric Brownian particles in three dimensions that translate and rotate. - Brownian particle near a wall
brownian_near_wall: A Brownian particle whose diffusion slows near a wall,D(z) = D0 z² / (z² + a²), as it settles on it. - Continuous-time random walk
continuous_time_random_walk: The continuous-time random walk, Gaussian jumps after waiting times with the tailtau^(-1 - alpha). - Diffusion in a speckle field
diffusion_in_a_speckle_field: Brownian particles in a random speckle field, trapped at hotspots for longer as the field grows stronger. - Fractional Brownian motion
fractional_brownian_motion: Fractional Brownian motion,dx = sqrt(2 D) dB_H, with<x^2> = 2 D t^(2 H)along every axis. - Fully biased walk among quenched broad traps
biased_trap_walk: Walkers that hop always to the right through quenched traps with broadly distributed trapping times. - Hydrodynamically coupled particles in blinking traps
hydrodynamically_coupled_traps: Two Brownian spheres in blinking optical traps, whose free motion is correlated through the fluid. - Inertial and overdamped Brownian motion
brownian_motion: Free Brownian particles with inertia,m x'' = -gamma x' + sqrt(2 kT gamma) W, or without it. - Kramers escape
kramers_escape: Particles that escape over the barrier ofU = x^4 / 4 - x^2 / 2by thermal noise of intensityD. - Langevin equation with colored noise
colored_noise_langevin: Particles whose velocitydv/dt = -gamma v + xiis driven by Ornstein-Uhlenbeck noisexi. - Lévy walk
levy_walk: The Lévy walk, flights at constant speed in random directions for times with the tailtau^(-1 - sigma). - Multiplicative noise conventions
multiplicative_noise: Free particles in a box with position-dependent noise, read in the Itô, Stratonovich, or anti-Itô sense. - On-off flashing ratchet
flashing_ratchet: The on-off flashing ratchet, Brownian particles in a sawtooth potential switched on and off at random. - Optical trap including oscillating and blinking traps
optical_trap: Overdamped particles in a harmonic optical trap, still, oscillating, or blinking. - Overdamped particle in a tilted periodic potential
tilted_periodic_potential: Overdamped particles in the tilted periodic potentialV(x) = U0 cos(2 pi x / L) - f x. - Rigid Brownian and active dimers
rigid_dimers: Colloidal molecules: pairs of Brownian or active spheres joined by rigid rods, free in the plane. - Scaled Brownian motion
scaled_brownian_motion: Scaled Brownian motion,dx = sqrt(2 K alpha (t + t0)^(alpha - 1)) dW, with<x^2> ~ 2 K t^alpha. - Shaken frictional spring-block chain
shaken_spring_block: A chain of blocks joined by springs on a frictional substrate, shaken and relaxed in turn. - Stochastic resonance
stochastic_resonance: A particle in a double well,dx = (x - x^3 + A cos(2 pi f t)) dt + sqrt(2 D) dW. - Superdiffusive Levy flight
levy_flight: The Lévy flight, a walk whose jumps have lengths with the taill^(-1 - mu)in random directions.
physics/statistical_mechanics
- Asymmetric exclusion process with open boundaries
asep: The asymmetric simple exclusion process on an open line, in continuous time. - Bouchaud trap system
trap_system: The Bouchaud trap system, walkers that escape from traps of exponentially distributed depths. - Contact process
contact_process: The contact process on a periodic lattice, which survives above a critical infection rate near 1.65. - Continuum percolation
continuum_percolation: Overlapping disks at uniform positions in a square, whose clusters percolate near a filling of 1.13. - Diffusion-limited aggregation
diffusion_limited_aggregation: Diffusion-limited aggregation on a periodic grid, where random walkers stick to a seed at the center. - Discrete master equation
discrete_master_equation: The discrete-time master equation of states on a ring, which relaxes to the Boltzmann distribution. - Dissipative zero-range process on a tree
dissipative_zero_range: The dissipative zero-range process on a tree, with energy injected at the root and lost at the leaves. - Edwards-Anderson spin glass
edwards_anderson: The Edwards-Anderson spin glass on a periodic square lattice, with quenched random bonds. - Ehrenfest urn system of two boxes
ehrenfest_urn: The Ehrenfest urn system, balls moved one at a time between two boxes, which relaxes to equal counts. - Fully connected Ising system with Glauber dynamics
curie_weiss: The fully connected Ising system with Glauber dynamics, ordered below the critical temperatureT_c = J. - Fully connected branching and annihilation
absorbing_birth_death: The fully connected branching and annihilation process, active abovekappa = nuuntil it dies out. - Ideal gas
ideal_gas: An ideal gas of non-interacting molecules in a reflecting box. - Ising
ising: The two-dimensional Ising system on a torus, ordered below the critical temperature2 / ln(1 + sqrt 2). - Ising on a graph
graph_ising: The Ising system on a graph, ordered below a critical temperature set by the degrees of the nodes. - Landau mean-field relaxation
landau_relaxation: The relaxation of a Landau order parameter, tosqrt(a (Tc - T) / b)belowTcand to 0 above it. - Lennard-Jones fluid
lennard_jones_fluid: Lennard-Jones particles in a periodic square box, optionally held at a temperature by a thermostat. - Mattis spin glass
mattis_spin_glass: The Mattis spin glass on a periodic square lattice, with couplingsJ_ij = J xi_i xi_jof a patternxi. - Potts
potts: The q-state Potts system on a torus, ordered below the critical temperature1 / ln(1 + sqrt q). - Q2R reversible Ising automaton
q2r: The Q2R automaton, a reversible, energy-conserving Ising dynamics on a periodic lattice of even sides. - Quantum Heisenberg system
quantum_heisenberg: A chain of spins one half with the XXZ Hamiltonian, a field, and optional dephasing. - Random energy system
random_energy_system: The random energy system,2^Nquenched Gaussian energies of varianceN / 2at a temperature. - Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass
sherrington_kirkpatrick: The Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass with Glauber dynamics, frozen below the temperatureT_c = J. - Site percolation
site_percolation: Site percolation probed by a fire lit along the top row, which spans the lattice abovep_c = 0.5927. - TASEP
tasep: The totally asymmetric simple exclusion process with parallel update, on an open line or a ring. - Two-phase zone exchange
two_phase_zone_exchange: Independent zones of a two-phase apparatus, each exchanging particles with the rest of the apparatus. - XY
xy: The XY system of planar spins on a torus, with vortices that bind below the Kosterlitz-Thouless point. - Zero-range process
zero_range_process: The zero-range process on a ring, which condenses above the critical density1 / (b - 2)forb > 2.
physics/synchronization
- Adaptive Kuramoto-Sakaguchi oscillators with frequency clusters
adaptive_kuramoto: Globally coupled phase oscillators whose coupling weights adapt to their phase differences. - Aggregate-averaging synchronization of logistic and delay-coupled Bernoulli maps
aggregate_averaging_synchronization: Two chaotic maps coupled by aggregate averaging, which synchronize their chaos for strong coupling. - Coupled Rössler and the master stability function
coupled_rossler: Chaotic Rössler oscillators on a ring, diffusively coupled through their second variable. - Coupled map lattices on networks
coupled_map_lattices_on_networks: Chaotic logistic maps on the nodes of a network, each pulled towards the mean of its neighbours. - Delayed Kuramoto
delayed_kuramoto: Kuramoto phase oscillators coupled all to all through signals that arrive after a delay. - Explosive topological Kuramoto of node and link phases on a simplicial complex, with the Nodes-Links-Triangles variant
topological_kuramoto: Phases on the nodes and links of a clique complex, coupled through its incidence by order parameters. - Globally coupled Stuart-Landau oscillators with frequency spread
oscillator_death: Globally coupled Stuart-Landau oscillators, whose oscillations all die for strong coupling and spread. - Globally coupled systems with heterogeneous time scales
heterogeneous_global_coupling: Globally coupled oscillators with heterogeneous time scales, whose fixed point the coupling restabilizes. - Kuramoto
kuramoto: Kuramoto oscillators coupled all to all,theta_i' = omega_i + (K / N) sum_j sin(theta_j - theta_i). - Kuramoto on networks
kuramoto_on_networks: Kuramoto oscillators coupled along the edges of a network,theta_i' = omega_i + K sum_j A_ij sin(...). - Kuramoto oscillators with three-body coupling
hypergraph_kuramoto: Kuramoto oscillators coupled in pairs and by three-body interactions on the triangles of a hypergraph. - Kuramoto-Sakaguchi chimera
kuramoto_sakaguchi_chimera: Two populations of identical phase oscillators with phase lag, where one synchronizes and one drifts. - Mirollo-Strogatz pulse-coupled oscillators
mirollo_strogatz: Integrate-and-fire oscillators coupled by pulses, which end up firing in unison. - Nonlocal ring chimera
nonlocal_ring_chimera: Identical phase oscillators on a ring, each coupled to itsRnearest neighbours on both sides. - Ott-Antonsen reduction
ott_antonsen: The Ott-Antonsen equation for the order parameter of infinitely many Kuramoto oscillators. - Rössler-driven Lorenz and generalized synchronization
rossler_driven_lorenz: A chaotic Rössler system that drives a Lorenz-63 system through its second variable. - Swarmalators
swarmalators: Swarmalators, identical oscillators whose phases set their attraction and whose positions their coupling. - Winfree system
winfree: The Winfree system,theta_i' = omega_i + (K / N) sum_j P(theta_j) R(theta_i), with the sum over allj.
physics/waves
- Lattice Maxwell and gauge link fields
lattice_gauge_fields: Link variables on the cell complex of a periodic lattice, sampled or evolved in real time. - Lattice Yang-Mills and pure lattice QCD
lattice_yang_mills: SU(2) or SU(3) matrices on the links of a periodic lattice, sampled by the Wilson action. - Schrödinger equation as real and imaginary fields
schrodinger: A Gaussian wave packet that follows the Schrödinger equation, as its real and imaginary parts. - Schrödinger equation minimally coupled to an electromagnetic potential
charged_schrodinger: A Gaussian wave packet of a charge in a prescribed electromagnetic potential, after Schwichtenberg 4.3. - Spring chains and guitar string
spring_chain: Masses joined in a row by springs of zero rest length between two anchors, a discrete string. - Standing waves on a string
standing_waves: A string with fixed ends on[-length / 2, length / 2]that vibrates as a standing wave.
social/cooperation
- Evolutionary dynamics with game transitions
game_transitions: Evolutionary dynamics with game transitions on a random regular graph, after Su, McAvoy, Wang, and Nowak. - Finite two-level birth-death process of defectors and punishers
two_level_birth_death: The finite two-level birth-death process of defectors and altruistic punishers in competing groups. - Iterated prisoner's dilemma on a lattice with strategies of cooperation rounds
iterated_lattice_dilemma: Argun's evolutionary iterated prisoner's dilemma on a lattice, with strategies ofncooperation rounds. - Iterated prisoner's dilemma tournament
prisoners_dilemma_tournament: The evolution of strategies of the iterated prisoner's dilemma from random genomes. - Multilevel selection of cooperators, defectors, and punishers on the simplex
trimorphic_multilevel_selection: The density of groups of cooperators, defectors, and altruistic punishers on the 2-simplex. - Multilevel selection with non-additive pairwise group conflict
nonlinear_pairwise_group_conflict: The density of groups of defectors and altruistic punishers under pairwise group conflict. - Public goods game
public_goods_game: The spatial public goods game in groups of five neighbours, with Fermi imitation. - Public goods game on hypergraphs
hypergraph_public_goods: The public goods game on a hypergraph, played in every hyperedge, with Fermi imitation. - Spatial prisoner's dilemma with best-neighbour and Fermi imitation
spatial_prisoners_dilemma: The spatial prisoner's dilemma of Nowak and May, with best-neighbour or Fermi imitation. - Two-level replicator equation of additive pairwise group conflict
two_level_replicator: The two-level replicator equation of defectors and altruistic punishers, additive pairwise group conflict. - Two-player games on links and three-body games on 2-simplices
simplicial_social_dilemmas: The social dilemmas of Guo et al. on the links and the 2-simplices of a simplicial complex.
social/crowds
- Bellomo's kinetic crowd in a street with walls and panic
kinetic_crowd: Bellomo's kinetic crowd of two groups walking in opposite directions along a street with walls. - Criminality and security
criminality: The kinetic system of criminality in a society and the security forces that act against it. - Kinetic evacuation of a network of rooms
evacuation: The kinetic system of the evacuation of a building whose rooms form a network. - Social force pedestrians
social_force: Two crowds walking in opposite directions along a periodic corridor, which form lanes.
social/language
- Mandelbrot least-effort word frequencies
mandelbrot_least_effort: The word frequencies that minimise the mean cost of a language over its entropy, a power law of rank. - Miller's random typewriting
random_typewriting: Miller's random typewriting, monkeys whose random keystrokes give Zipf's law of word frequencies.
social/opinion_dynamics
- Axelrod culture dissemination
axelrod: Axelrod's culture dissemination system on a full grid with von Neumann neighbourhoods. - Belief diffusion with influentials
influentials: The belief diffusion system with influentials who care passionately and weigh more with their neighbours. - Coevolving voter
coevolving_voter: The coevolving voter system, which fragments into consensual components when rewiring is fast. - Cognitive consistency agents
cognitive_consistency: Agents whose attitudes spread by conversation and settle in a belief network that seeks consistency. - Complex agents with internal states and standardization
standardized_agents: Complex agents whose interactions make them standardized, all showing one characteristic, and ordered. - Deffuant bounded confidence
deffuant: The Deffuant bounded confidence system, whose opinions settle into about1 / (2 * confidence)clusters. - Echo chambers and radicalization on an activity-driven network
echo_chamber_radicalization: The radicalization model of echo chambers of Baumann and coauthors on an activity-driven network. - Galam majority
galam_majority: The Galam majority system, where random groups adopt their majority until one opinion wins. - Gauge theory of agents on a network
gauge_network_agents: Agent phases on the nodes of a network that relax towards the transported phases of their neighbours. - Hegselmann-Krause
hegselmann_krause: The Hegselmann-Krause system, whose opinions freeze within a few steps into clusters about2 εapart. - Join-a-club spins
join_a_club: Join-a-club spins, agents who join a club with their acquaintances while acquaintances follow the club. - Kinetic opinion formation
kinetic_opinion: The kinetic system of opinion formation over a discrete grid of opinions. - Majority rule automaton
majority_rule: Voters that take the majority opinion of their neighbourhood, which coarsens into domains. - Majority rule with willingness and zealots
willing_majority: The majority rule with willingness, where zealots of willingness 0 never change their opinion. - Mean-field flows of undecided agents
undecided_flows: The mean-field flows between agents against,A, undecided,C, and for,B. - Naming game
naming_game: The minimal naming game, where agents with empty inventories agree on one word. - Nonlinear three-body consensus on temporal hypergraphs
hypergraph_consensus: The nonlinear three-body consensus system on a random hypergraph of triangles that switch on and off. - Social impact theory
social_impact: The social impact system on a full grid, with random persuasiveness and supportiveness. - Sznajd
sznajd: The Sznajd system, where agreeing pairs of agents convince their neighbours. - Three-state opinion with undecided agents
three_state_opinion: The three-state opinion system of agents against, undecided, and for, on a random regular network. - Threshold adoption
threshold_adoption: The threshold adoption system in social circles, started by the 2.5% of agents with the lowest thresholds. - Voter system
voter_system: A voter system with one voter per node of a network. - Voter variants
voter_variants: Voter system variants on a network, with threshold voters and a share of contrarians.
social/organizations
- Ajani's Choice
ajanis_choice: Chesney's Ajani's Choice, migrant farm workers and employers among whom underpayment emerges. - Barabási priority queues
priority_queues: The Barabási priority queue, whose waiting times follow a power law as the choice becomes greedy. - Bonabeau hierarchies
bonabeau_hierarchies: The Bonabeau system, where a hierarchy of strengths emerges above a critical density of agents. - Brothel movement system
trafficking: The brothel movement system, where victims moved between brothels leave traces in bills and train trips. - Container model of human mobility
container_mobility: The container model of human mobility of Alessandretti, Aslak, and Lehmann, trajectories across scales. - Drift to low performance
drift_to_low_performance: Meadows' drift to low performance trap, eroding goals that follow a pessimistic view of the performance. - Employment takeover
employment_takeover: The employment takeover system on a periodic checkerboard, with half of each kind coloured at random. - Escalation
escalation: Meadows' escalation trap, two parties that each want to exceed the other's stock by a margin. - Exploration and preferential return
exploration_preferential_return: The exploration and preferential return model of human mobility of Song and coauthors. - Gravity interaction system of urban scaling
gravity_urban_scaling: The residents of a city at uniform positions in a disc, each interacting with the others asr^-gamma. - Hora and Tempus watchmakers
watchmakers: Simon's fable of the watchmakers Hora and Tempus, told by Meadows, with and without stable subassemblies. - Insider sabotage
insider_sabotage: The insider sabotage system of employees whose risk of sabotage builds up over the days of a year. - Namrata's Family, diffusion of working conditions in supply chains
supply_chain_diffusion: Chesney's Namrata's Family, buyers who push good working conditions down their supply network. - Obesity system
obesity: The obesity system of adults who eat near home and work, one step per day. - Policy resistance
policy_resistance: Meadows' policy resistance trap, one stock pulled by three actors toward inconsistent goals. - Shifting the burden
shifting_the_burden: Meadows' shifting the burden trap, a quick fix that relieves a symptom and erodes the system's capability. - Success to the successful
success_to_the_successful: Meadows' success to the successful trap, two competitors that share a budget by their past success. - The Kauai population system on region layers
kauai_population: One agent per resident of the census regions of a map, moving between home, work, and favourite places. - Urban scaling of interactions
urban_scaling_interactions: A city that grows by residents and internal links, so its meetings grow faster than its population.
social/segregation
- Schelling
schelling: A Schelling segregation system on a grid with at most one resident per cell. - Stochastic Schelling
stochastic_schelling: The stochastic Schelling system of agents moving between blocks, which segregates abovebeta = 2.
social/spreading
- Maki-Thompson rumours
maki_thompson: The Maki-Thompson rumour system started by one spreader, which leaves about 20% of people ignorant. - SIS on hypergraphs with heterogeneous exposure and a nonlinear infection kernel
hypergraph_exposure_sis: The SIS contagion of St-Onge et al. in the environments of a hypergraph, with a nonlinear kernel. - Simon-Yule growth
simon_yule: The Simon system of a text that grows from one word, whose word counts follow a power law. - Simplicial contagion
simplicial_contagion: The simplicial contagion of Iacopini et al., an SIS process on the links and triangles of a complex. - Watts threshold cascades
watts_cascades: The Watts threshold system of global cascades started by a few random seeds.
By tag
Achlioptas process
- Explosive percolation by the Achlioptas product rule
explosive_percolation: Explosive percolation, where the Achlioptas product rule delays and sharpens the giant component.
B-tipping
- Stochastic energy balance with bifurcation-, noise-, and rate-induced tipping
sutera_fraedrich_tipping: The Sutera-Fraedrich stochastic energy balance set up for bifurcation-, noise-, or rate-induced tipping.
Belousov-Zhabotinsky
- Oregonator
oregonator: The scaled Oregonator, the reduction of the FKN mechanism of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction.
COMETS
- COMETS: dynamic flux balance on a lattice with diffusion
comets: An expanding colony of the E. coli core system on a lattice, which needs the extrametabolism.
ENSO
- ENSO delay oscillator
enso: The delayed oscillator of El Niño of Suarez and Schopf,dT/dt = T - T^3 - alpha T(t - delta).
Edgeworth box
- Edgeworth and Red Cross barter
barter: Barter of chocolate and cigarettes, in an Edgeworth box of two barterers or among many prisoners.
El Niño
- ENSO delay oscillator
enso: The delayed oscillator of El Niño of Suarez and Schopf,dT/dt = T - T^3 - alpha T(t - delta).
Gaia
- Daisyworld
daisyworld: Daisyworld, where white and black daisies regulate the temperature of their planet through its albedo.
Garden of Eden
- Life in a tree
life_in_a_tree: The Game of Life on the free group F4, a tree of degree 8, surjective but not pre-injective. - Muller's pre-injective non-surjective automaton on F2
muller_automaton: Muller's automaton on the free group F2, pre-injective but not surjective. - Surjective non-pre-injective linear automaton on F2
surjective_linear_automaton: A linear automaton overK^2on the free group F2, surjective but not pre-injective.
Gompertz
- Norton-Simon Gompertzian cell kill
norton_simon: The Norton-Simon system, a Gompertzian tumour killed in proportion to its size by a dose schedule. - Tumour and vascular volume under an angiogenesis inhibitor
hahnfeldt: The Hahnfeldt system, a tumour whose carrying capacity is the vasculature it stimulates and inhibits.
HER2
- Paclitaxel and trastuzumab with antibody binding
her2_targeted_therapy: HER2+ breast cancer cells under trastuzumab and paclitaxel, with antibody binding and drug uptake.
Hill function
- Goodwin oscillator
goodwin_oscillator: The Goodwin oscillator, a chain of stages whose last one represses the synthesis of the first.
IL-2
- Effector cells, tumour, and IL-2 under adoptive therapy
kirschner_panetta: The Kirschner-Panetta system of effector cells, tumour cells, and IL-2 under adoptive therapy and IL-2. - Optimal adoptive therapy and IL-2 dosing
optimal_immunotherapy: A tumour under the adoptive therapy and IL-2 injection that minimise its burden and their cost.
Koopman operator
- Quadratic system with a slow manifold and a finite Koopman embedding
koopman_slow_manifold: The quadratic flowx1' = mu x1,x2' = lam (x2 - x1^2), with a slow manifold and a linear embedding.
L-system
- Koch
koch_curve: The Koch curve as the L-systemF → F+F--F+Fdrawn by a turtle.
Langmuir-Hinshelwood
- Bistability on a catalyst pellet
catalyst_pellet: The surface concentration of a catalyst pellet, bistable through Langmuir-Hinshelwood kinetics.
Laplacian
- Linear automata over rings
linear_ring_automaton: The discrete Laplacian as a linear automaton on a ring, over the field ofmoduluselements.
Lotka-Volterra
- Generalized Lotka-Volterra microbial community
generalized_lotka_volterra: The generalized Lotka-Volterra system of a microbial community,dx_i/dt = x_i (b_i + sum_j a_ij x_j). - Random Lotka-Volterra with higher-order interactions
higher_order_random_lotka_volterra: A random Lotka-Volterra community with third-order interactions.
Markov chain
- Subshifts
subshifts: A Markov chain on the golden mean shift, the configurations of a ring that never hold two adjacent ones.
Michaelis-Menten
- Three-node phosphorylation oscillator
phosphorylation_oscillator: Three proteins whose phosphorylation cycles regulate each other in a loop that oscillates.
Monte Carlo
- Context-free subshift
context_free_subshift: A Markov chain on the context-free subshift, ternary rings where every block0 1^h 2^k 0hash = k. - Edwards-Anderson spin glass
edwards_anderson: The Edwards-Anderson spin glass on a periodic square lattice, with quenched random bonds. - Ising
ising: The two-dimensional Ising system on a torus, ordered below the critical temperature2 / ln(1 + sqrt 2). - Ising on a graph
graph_ising: The Ising system on a graph, ordered below a critical temperature set by the degrees of the nodes. - Mattis spin glass
mattis_spin_glass: The Mattis spin glass on a periodic square lattice, with couplingsJ_ij = J xi_i xi_jof a patternxi. - Potts
potts: The q-state Potts system on a torus, ordered below the critical temperature1 / ln(1 + sqrt q). - XY
xy: The XY system of planar spins on a torus, with vortices that bind below the Kosterlitz-Thouless point.
N-tipping
- Stochastic energy balance with bifurcation-, noise-, and rate-induced tipping
sutera_fraedrich_tipping: The Sutera-Fraedrich stochastic energy balance set up for bifurcation-, noise-, or rate-induced tipping.
NK system
- NK fitness landscapes
nk_landscape: Agents that climb Kauffman's NK fitness landscape from random genomes until they reach local peaks.
Ornstein-Uhlenbeck
- Hasselmann stochastic climate
hasselmann: Hasselmann's stochastic climate, where fast weather noise drives a slow, damped temperature anomaly. - Rössler with an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck control parameter
ou_driven_rossler: The Rössler flow driven through its bifurcations by a slow Ornstein-Uhlenbeck control parameter.
PD-1
- T cells, tumour, and anti-PD-1 checkpoint inhibitor
anti_pd1_checkpoint: Activated T cells, a tumour, and an anti-PD-1 drug that frees the T cells from checkpoint inhibition.
PSA
- Prostate cancer driven by activated androgen receptors
prostate_androgen_receptor: The Jain system of prostate epithelium and cancer driven by activated androgen receptors, with PSA.
Perron eigenvalue
- Jain-Krishna autocatalytic networks
jain_krishna: The system of Jain and Krishna, where selection of the fittest builds autocatalytic sets of molecules.
R-tipping
- Stochastic energy balance with bifurcation-, noise-, and rate-induced tipping
sutera_fraedrich_tipping: The Sutera-Fraedrich stochastic energy balance set up for bifurcation-, noise-, or rate-induced tipping.
Richards
- Generalized logistic (Richards) growth
generalized_logistic: A tumour that saturates at a carrying capacity,dn/dt = r n (1 - (n / K)^p), logistic forp = 1.
Rössler
- Rössler with an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck control parameter
ou_driven_rossler: The Rössler flow driven through its bifurcations by a slow Ornstein-Uhlenbeck control parameter.
S-gap
- Even and S-gap subshifts
gap_subshift: The shift on the S-gap subshift, the binary sequences whose runs of zeros between ones lie inS.
S-system
- Generalized mass action and S-system power-law systems
biochemical_systems_theory: A biochemical system of power-law rates, in the S-system or the generalized mass action form.
SteadyCom
- Joint, community, and SteadyCom flux balance
community_fba: Two members of the E. coli core system that share a medium, which needs the extrametabolism.
Thue-Morse
- Morse subshift
morse_subshift: The Thue-Morse substitution0 → 01,1 → 10, whose words make the language of the Morse subshift.
Turing
- Brusselator fields
brusselator: The Brusselator reaction-diffusion system from small noise around its steady state(a, b / a). - Schnakenberg
schnakenberg: The Schnakenberg reaction-diffusion system, which forms Turing patterns from noise whenDv >> Du.
Vroman effect
- Protein corona binding on a nanoparticle
nanoparticle_corona: The corona that albumin, high-density lipoprotein, and fibrinogen form on a nanoparticle in plasma.
absorbing state
- Contact process
contact_process: The contact process on a periodic lattice, which survives above a critical infection rate near 1.65. - Fully connected branching and annihilation
absorbing_birth_death: The fully connected branching and annihilation process, active abovekappa = nuuntil it dies out. - Langevin field theory of absorbing-state transitions with a conserved energy field
directed_percolation_langevin: The Langevin field theory of an absorbing-state transition, an active density fed by an energy field.
absorbing states
- Fixed-energy sandpile
fixed_energy_sandpile: The fixed-energy sandpile, a Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld pile with no drive and no loss on a periodic lattice.
acausal components
- DC motor with an inertia
dc_motor: A DC motor whose armature circuit of components drives an inertia on a Lagrangian coordinate. - Heated room with a thermostat
heated_room: A room assembled from thermal and electrical components, heated under a thermostat with hysteresis.
accelerator
- Beam-beam map
beam_beam_map: The beam-beam map of a particle of an accelerator beam that meets the opposite beam once every turn.
active gel
- One-dimensional active viscoelastic and poroelastic gel with contractile cells
active_viscoelastic_gel: A one-dimensional active viscoelastic gel, where contractile cells concentrate by dragging the gel.
active matter
- Active Brownian particles
active_brownian_particles: Active Brownian particles in the plane, which swim at a constant speed in a diffusing direction. - Active Brownian particles with local alignment
aligning_active_brownian_particles: Active Brownian particles in a periodic box whose headings align with the neighbours withind0. - Active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles
active_ornstein_uhlenbeck_particles: Active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles in the plane, driven by exponentially correlated propulsion. - Active System B+ of motility-induced phase separation
active_system_b: Active System B+, the conserved field theory of the density of active particles. - Active nematic and polar gels
active_gels: An active gel, a nematic tensor or a polarisation transported in the Stokes flow of its own stresses. - Active polymers
active_polymer: An active polymer, a Rouse chain of active Brownian beads that each swim along their own orientation. - Bird swarm with pair potentials
bird_swarm: A swarm of self-propelled birds held together by a pair potential that attracts far and repels near. - Chiral active particles
chiral_active_particles: Chiral active particles, which swim along circles of radiusv / omegathat drift by diffusion. - Deformable active particles of Ohta and Ohkuma
deformable_active_particles: Deformable self-propelled particles of Ohta and Ohkuma, which move straight or along circles. - Depot-pumped Brownian particles
depot_brownian_particles: Brownian particles with energy depots, which start at rest and take up the speedsqrt(q/gamma - c/d). - Dry active nematics
dry_active_nematics: A dry active nematic, a conserved density coupled to a symmetric traceless alignment tensor. - Flocking with active and passive agents
active_passive_flocking: The active and passive agents of Charbonneau (2017, section 10.4) in a periodic box. - Ginelli nematic particles
ginelli_nematics: Polar particles with nematic alignment, which order along a common axis but move both ways along it. - Grégoire-Chaté cohesive flocks
gregoire_chate: The Grégoire-Chaté system: aligning particles that also attract and repel, forming cohesive flocks. - Inertial active Brownian particles
inertial_active_brownian_particles: Active Brownian particles with inertia, which lag behind their orientation as they speed up and turn. - Light-emitting robots with sensory delay
light_emitting_robots: Light-emitting robots, which cluster when they sense the light of the others late and spread when early. - Light-sensitive robots with sensory delay
light_seeking_robots: Light-sensitive robots in a circular well, whose sensory delay decides whether they gather in the light. - Living crystals
living_crystals: Active colloids of radius 1 with phoretic attraction, which gather into clusters that slowly coarsen. - Microscopic flocking with aligning binary collisions
binary_collision_flocking: Self-propelled particles that flock through aligning binary collisions, the Bertin-Droz-Grégoire system. - Motility-induced phase separation
motility_induced_phase_separation: Repulsive active Brownian disks of unit diameter, which phase separate into clusters at high speed. - Nonreciprocal Vicsek system
nonreciprocal_vicsek: Two species of Vicsek movers in a periodic box whose alignment with each other is nonreciprocal. - Rigid Brownian and active dimers
rigid_dimers: Colloidal molecules: pairs of Brownian or active spheres joined by rigid rods, free in the plane. - Run-and-tumble
run_and_tumble: Run-and-tumble agents in a periodic square, which diffuse withv^2 (1 + q) / (4 (1 - q))per step. - Squirmers
squirmers: Spherical squirmers that swim at2 B1 / 3and stir each other as pushers or pullers. - Szabó cell system
szabo_cells: The cells of Szabó et al. (2006) in a periodic box, which move together above a critical density. - Vicsek system with metric, topological, vision-cone, and delayed alignment
vicsek: The Vicsek system: particles that move at a constant speed along the mean heading of their neighbours.
active turbulence
- Active nematic and polar gels
active_gels: An active gel, a nematic tensor or a polarisation transported in the Stokes flow of its own stresses.
activity-driven
- Activity-driven temporal networks
activity_driven_epidemics: SIS spreading on an activity-driven temporal network, whose edges last one step.
adaptation
- Polyhomeostatic neuron
polyhomeostatic_neuron: A neuron that adapts its gain and threshold so its firing rate approaches an exponential distribution. - Stimulus-response, adaptive response, and anticipation with response, restore, repair, and preparedness costs
adaptive_response_costs: A system that meets recurring demands by stimulus-response, adaptive response, or anticipation. - Three-enzyme adaptation circuits of Ma et al.
enzyme_adaptation_circuit: A circuit of three enzymes A, B, and C of Ma et al., whose output C may adapt to a step of the input.
adaptive delays
- Phase units with activity-dependent conduction delays
adaptive_delay_network: Phase units coupled all to all through conduction delays that adapt to their activity, as myelination.
adaptive network
- Adaptive Kuramoto-Sakaguchi oscillators with frequency clusters
adaptive_kuramoto: Globally coupled phase oscillators whose coupling weights adapt to their phase differences. - Adaptive SIS with rewiring
adaptive_sis: The SIS epidemic on a network whose susceptible nodes cut their edges to infected neighbours. - Coevolving voter
coevolving_voter: The coevolving voter system, which fragments into consensual components when rewiring is fast. - Jain-Krishna autocatalytic networks
jain_krishna: The system of Jain and Krishna, where selection of the fittest builds autocatalytic sets of molecules. - Join-a-club spins
join_a_club: Join-a-club spins, agents who join a club with their acquaintances while acquaintances follow the club. - Phase units with activity-dependent conduction delays
adaptive_delay_network: Phase units coupled all to all through conduction delays that adapt to their activity, as myelination. - Sequentially linear ecosystem
sequentially_linear_ecosystem: An ecosystem whose abundances follow linear dynamics between extinctions that rewrite its network. - Solé-Manrubia extinctions
sole_manrubia: The ecosystem of Solé and Manrubia, whose species go extinct when their dependencies turn against them. - Theta neurons with spike-timing-dependent plasticity
stdp_network: Theta neurons on a random directed network whose synapses learn by spike-timing-dependent plasticity. - Two-layer adaptive oscillator model of sepsis
two_layer_sepsis: The two-layer model of tumour disease and sepsis, parenchymal and immune cells as adaptive oscillators. - Vessel conductances adapting to Kirchhoff flows
adaptive_flow_network: A square grid of vessels fed at one corner and drained at every other node, whose conductances adapt.
adaptive quotes
- Gooding double auction with adaptive quotes
gooding_double_auction: Gooding's double auction, whose buyers and sellers move their quotes towards trade and then apart.
addiction
- Shifting the burden
shifting_the_burden: Meadows' shifting the burden trap, a quick fix that relieves a symptom and erodes the system's capability.
additive
- Unbounded-alphabet automaton
unbounded_alphabet_automaton: An additive automaton over the nonnegative integers,x'(n) = x(n - 1) + x(n), from a single 1.
adjacent possible
- Interacting urns with triggering on a network
interacting_urns_network: One urn with triggering per node of a network, which draws from its own urn and those of its neighbours. - TAP growth with random catalysis and autocatalytic sets
tap_catalysis: The TAP growth of goods from combinations of goods, with random catalysis of their production functions.
adoption
- Fixed-line phone adoption
phone_adoption: Hamill and Gilbert's adoption of fixed-line phones by British households from 1951.
adoptive therapy
- Effector cells, tumour, and IL-2 under adoptive therapy
kirschner_panetta: The Kirschner-Panetta system of effector cells, tumour cells, and IL-2 under adoptive therapy and IL-2. - Optimal adoptive therapy and IL-2 dosing
optimal_immunotherapy: A tumour under the adoptive therapy and IL-2 injection that minimise its burden and their cost.
age structure
- Fibonacci rabbits
fibonacci_rabbits: Fibonacci's rabbits,N_{t+1} = N_t + N_{t-1}, where every pair older than one month breeds a new pair.
ageing
- Ageing random walk
ageing_random_walk: Ageing random walks, whose up steps become rarer the more of them a walker has taken.
agents
- Active walkers and trail formation
active_walkers: Active walkers who walk between the corners of a green and wear a system of trails into it. - Adaptive climbing in finite populations
adaptive_climbing: A finite population that climbs a random fitness landscape by mutation and strong selection. - Adleman DNA computation of a Hamiltonian path
dna_computation: Adleman's DNA computation of a Hamiltonian path, by random ligation of edge oligos in a test tube. - Ageing random walk
ageing_random_walk: Ageing random walks, whose up steps become rarer the more of them a walker has taken. - Agent-based Lotka-Volterra
agent_based_lotka_volterra: Prey and predators that walk on a grid, whose numbers cycle like the Lotka-Volterra equations. - Agent-based SIR with mortality, waning immunity, incubation, and lockdown
agent_based_sir: People who walk on a grid and infect those in their cell, with optional extensions of the SIR system. - Ajani's Choice
ajanis_choice: Chesney's Ajani's Choice, migrant farm workers and employers among whom underpayment emerges. - Ant colony optimization on a road network
ant_colony_optimization: Ants that find the shortest path between two points of a Delaunay road network, round after round. - Arthur-Polak technology evolution
arthur_polak: Arthur and Polak's evolution of technology, which builds logic functions from NAND gates. - Axelrod culture dissemination
axelrod: Axelrod's culture dissemination system on a full grid with von Neumann neighbourhoods. - Barabási priority queues
priority_queues: The Barabási priority queue, whose waiting times follow a power law as the choice becomes greedy. - Belief diffusion with influentials
influentials: The belief diffusion system with influentials who care passionately and weigh more with their neighbours. - Bellomo's kinetic crowd in a street with walls and panic
kinetic_crowd: Bellomo's kinetic crowd of two groups walking in opposite directions along a street with walls. - Bernoulli process
bernoulli_process: Independent Bernoulli processes, one success or failure per step, whose success counts are binomial. - Bilateral barter of two or three goods
goods_traders: Traders who wander a grid and barter two or three goods with their neighbours. - Bilateral two-good trade on complete, isolated, and small-world networks
wilhite_trade_networks: Wilhite's bilateral barter of two goods among traders on one of four trade networks. - Bit-string evolution on a fitness landscape
bit_string_evolution: A population of bit strings that evolves on a random additive fitness landscape. - Boids in three dimensions
boids_3d: Boids in three dimensions, birds that flock by local rules in a periodic cube. - Boids in two dimensions
boids: Reynolds' boids in two dimensions, birds that flock by local rules without a leader. - Boltzmann wealth exchange
boltzmann_wealth: A Boltzmann wealth exchange system where every agent starts with one unit. - Bonabeau hierarchies
bonabeau_hierarchies: The Bonabeau system, where a hierarchy of strengths emerges above a critical density of agents. - Brock-Hommes heuristic switching
brock_hommes: Brock and Hommes' asset market with traders switching between fundamentalists and trend chasers. - Brothel movement system
trafficking: The brothel movement system, where victims moved between brothels leave traces in bills and train trips. - Car wash queue
car_wash: Chesney's Clean and Wax hand car wash, a shadow account of the revenue of its workers' labour. - Carrying capacity of a meadow
meadow_capacity: Cows that graze a summer of 25 weeks on a meadow, which shows how many cows the meadow can carry. - Cascading sample-space-reducing process
cascading_sample_space_reducing: Cascading sample-space-reducing processes, whose visits follow the power lawi^(-mu)for anymu. - Charbonneau traffic
charbonneau_traffic: Charbonneau's traffic system, where random braking of single drivers sets off traffic jams. - Co-evolving combinatorial critical model
ccc_model: The co-evolving combinatorial critical model, whose diversity shows punctuated equilibria. - Cognitive consistency agents
cognitive_consistency: Agents whose attitudes spread by conversation and settle in a belief network that seeks consistency. - Competitive Jain-Krishna model with signed couplings
competitive_jain_krishna: The Jain-Krishna model with signed interactions, whose surviving species come to cooperate. - Complex agents with internal states and standardization
standardized_agents: Complex agents whose interactions make them standardized, all showing one characteristic, and ordered. - Container model of human mobility
container_mobility: The container model of human mobility of Alessandretti, Aslak, and Lehmann, trajectories across scales. - Cournot duopoly with beliefs
cournot_duopoly: Two Cournot duopolists that adjust their output to their beliefs about each other. - Couzin shoal with repulsion, alignment, and informed leaders
couzin_leadership: The Couzin shoal, in which a small informed minority leads a group that does not know who is informed. - Customers choosing between two shops of perishable goods
perishable_goods_duopoly: Customers who choose between two shops of perishable goods, preferring the one that sold fresher goods. - DebtRank cascades
debtrank: The DebtRank cascade of distress from a set of banks through their interbank loans. - Default cascades with thresholds and recovery
default_cascade: A cascade of defaults through interbank exposures, from a shock to the external assets of some banks. - Deffuant bounded confidence
deffuant: The Deffuant bounded confidence system, whose opinions settle into about1 / (2 * confidence)clusters. - Diffusion-limited aggregation
diffusion_limited_aggregation: Diffusion-limited aggregation on a periodic grid, where random walkers stick to a seed at the center. - Echo chambers and radicalization on an activity-driven network
echo_chamber_radicalization: The radicalization model of echo chambers of Baumann and coauthors on an activity-driven network. - Edgeworth and Red Cross barter
barter: Barter of chocolate and cigarettes, in an Edgeworth box of two barterers or among many prisoners. - Eisenberg-Noe clearing of interbank payments
eisenberg_noe_clearing: The clearing of interbank payments of Eisenberg and Noe, a fixed point of proportional payments. - El Farol
el_farol: Arthur's El Farol bar problem, whose attendance self-organizes around the capacity. - El Farol with strategic group formation
el_farol_coalitions: Collins' El Farol bar with strategic group formation, whose coalitions share their best strategy. - EpiSims city of people and locations
episims_city: A synthetic city in the spirit of EpiSims, where people infect those they meet at home and at work. - Exchange with debt limit and with saving propensity
kinetic_wealth_exchange: A kinetic wealth exchange system with a saving propensity or a debt limit. - Exploration and preferential return
exploration_preferential_return: The exploration and preferential return model of human mobility of Song and coauthors. - Fair Food Program
fair_food_program: Chesney's Fair Food Program, in which pressure on tomato buyers draws farms into fair wages. - Fair-trade food choice with peer influence
fair_food: The choice between fair-trade and regular food of consumers who influence their neighbours. - Finite two-level birth-death process of defectors and punishers
two_level_birth_death: The finite two-level birth-death process of defectors and altruistic punishers in competing groups. - Fire sales of overlapping portfolios
overlapping_portfolio_fire_sales: Banks with overlapping portfolios whose fire sales of common assets spread their losses to one another. - Firm and bank credit networks
credit_networks: A credit market where firms sample banks and switch to cheaper lenders, and defaults hit the lenders. - Fixed-line phone adoption
phone_adoption: Hamill and Gilbert's adoption of fixed-line phones by British households from 1951. - Fractional-reserve banking
fractional_reserve_banking: Customers and banks whose lending of excess reserves multiplies the base money by1 / ratio. - Fragmentation
fragmentation: The random fragmentation of an object of integer size, whose fragments keep breaking into smaller ones. - Fundamentalists and chartists in an order book
order_book: A stock market of fundamentalists and chartists on a grid who trade in a limit order book and imitate. - Galam majority
galam_majority: The Galam majority system, where random groups adopt their majority until one opinion wins. - Galton-Watson branching
galton_watson: A Galton-Watson branching process with Poisson offspring, one generation per step. - Gibrat
gibrat_process: Firms that grow by Gibrat's law of proportionate effect, which makes their sizes lognormal. - Gooding double auction with adaptive quotes
gooding_double_auction: Gooding's double auction, whose buyers and sellers move their quotes towards trade and then apart. - Harvesting farmers
harvesting: A socio-ecological system of farmer agents harvesting a logistically regrowing resource. - Heterogeneous household demand by utility and by elasticities
household_demand: Hamill and Gilbert's heterogeneous households, whose demand for food traces a curve as its price rises. - Hopfield network
hopfield: A Hopfield network that stores patterns with Hebb's rule and recalls the first from a corrupted copy. - Hora and Tempus watchmakers
watchmakers: Simon's fable of the watchmakers Hora and Tempus, told by Meadows, with and without stable subassemblies. - Insider sabotage
insider_sabotage: The insider sabotage system of employees whose risk of sabotage builds up over the days of a year. - Interacting urns with triggering on a network
interacting_urns_network: One urn with triggering per node of a network, which draws from its own urn and those of its neighbours. - Iterated prisoner's dilemma tournament
prisoners_dilemma_tournament: The evolution of strategies of the iterated prisoner's dilemma from random genomes. - Kesten processes
kesten_process: Firms whose sizes follow Kesten's process, a random multiplicative factor plus a random positive term. - Kolkata Paise Restaurant
kolkata_restaurant: The Kolkata Paise Restaurant problem, where diners spread over restaurants that serve one meal each. - Labour market
labour_market: Hamill and Gilbert's labour market of firms posting wage offers and unemployed workers searching. - Light-emitting robots with sensory delay
light_emitting_robots: Light-emitting robots, which cluster when they sense the light of the others late and spread when early. - Linear network herding
network_herding: Agents whose linear choices herd on the past choices of the agents they are linked to. - Majority rule with willingness and zealots
willing_majority: The majority rule with willingness, where zealots of willingness 0 never change their opinion. - Mark-0 economy with a Covid shock and policies
mark0: The Mark-0 economy of Sharma, Bouchaud, and co-authors, with a Covid shock to supply and demand. - Metaphoria mortal hunter-gatherer and monetary economies
metaphoria: Gooding's Metaphoria, a mortal population of hunter-gatherers or of a monetary economy. - Microscopic flocking with aligning binary collisions
binary_collision_flocking: Self-propelled particles that flock through aligning binary collisions, the Bertin-Droz-Grégoire system. - Miller's random typewriting
random_typewriting: Miller's random typewriting, monkeys whose random keystrokes give Zipf's law of word frequencies. - Minority game and its evolutionary version
minority_game: The minority game of an odd number of agents with two random strategies each. - Moran process
moran_process: The Moran process, a population of constant size where fitter traits fix by selection and drift. - Multiplicative
multiplicative_process: Levy and Solomon's multiplicative process, whose floor at a fraction of the mean makes a power-law tail. - Multiscale tumour angiogenesis
tumour_angiogenesis: A tumour that outgrows its oxygen supply and recruits new blood vessels from a parent vessel. - NK fitness landscapes
nk_landscape: Agents that climb Kauffman's NK fitness landscape from random genomes until they reach local peaks. - NK technology system
nk_technology: McNerney's system of technological improvement, whose cost falls as a power of the cumulative production. - NKCS coevolution on coupled NK landscapes
nkcs: The NKCS model of Kauffman and Johnsen, species climbing NK landscapes coupled to each other's genes. - Naming game
naming_game: The minimal naming game, where agents with empty inventories agree on one word. - Namrata's Family, diffusion of working conditions in supply chains
supply_chain_diffusion: Chesney's Namrata's Family, buyers who push good working conditions down their supply network. - Neutral Moran system with speciation
neutral_biodiversity: A neutral community of constant size, where species arise by speciation and vanish by drift. - Obesity system
obesity: The obesity system of adults who eat near home and work, one step per day. - Order book with a guru communication network
guru_order_book: The order-driven market of Grilli and Tedeschi, whose noise traders imitate gurus they choose by wealth. - Pheromone foraging
pheromone_foraging: Ants that find food and lay a pheromone trail home, which other ants follow: stigmergy. - Produce market
produce_market: Hamill and Gilbert's produce market, where shoppers with lists of produce visit stalls at random. - Random walks
network_random_walk: Random walkers on a network, which visit every node of a connected graph in proportion to its degree. - Random-walker epidemics on a grid and on a small world
random_walker_epidemics: Random walkers among whom one sick walker starts a deadly epidemic, on a grid or on a network. - Ridesharing
ridesharing: Riders who request trips on a city grid and cabs that a stable matching sends to them. - Ring-road driver agents
ring_road_drivers: Drivers on a circular highway, where small random errors of speed set off traffic jams. - RobbyGA can collector and evolution by circumstance
robby_ga: Mitchell's genetic algorithm that evolves strategies for Robby, a robot that collects cans in a room. - Run-and-tumble
run_and_tumble: Run-and-tumble agents in a periodic square, which diffuse withv^2 (1 + q) / (4 (1 - q))per step. - SIR on a network as an agent system
network_sir: SIR epidemics in cities at the nodes of a network, carried between cities by travellers. - Sample-space-reducing process
sample_space_reducing: Sample-space-reducing processes, whose state visits follow Zipf's law1 / iforlam = 1. - Schelling
schelling: A Schelling segregation system on a grid with at most one resident per cell. - Shops and digital markets
shops: Shops on a grid that compete for the shoppers on every cell, in person or in a digital market. - Simon-Yule growth
simon_yule: The Simon system of a text that grows from one word, whose word counts follow a power law. - Social impact theory
social_impact: The social impact system on a full grid, with random persuasiveness and supportiveness. - Stigmergic predator-prey automaton
stigmergic_predator_prey: Plants, prey, and predators on a grid, whose animals share emotions through decaying marks. - Stochastic Schelling
stochastic_schelling: The stochastic Schelling system of agents moving between blocks, which segregates abovebeta = 2. - Strömbom shepherding of a flock
shepherding: A shepherd that collects a scattered flock and drives it to a goal, the heuristic of Strömbom et al. - Sugarscape
sugarscape: The Sugarscape of Epstein and Axtell, foragers of random vision and metabolism on two sugar peaks. - Swarmtaxis
swarmtaxis: The swarmtaxis algorithm, which moves a swarm of robots towards a beacon that only some of them see. - Sznajd
sznajd: The Sznajd system, where agreeing pairs of agents convince their neighbours. - Tangled Nature
tangled_nature: The Tangled Nature system, where organisms whose types interact through random couplings coevolve. - The Kauai population system on region layers
kauai_population: One agent per resident of the census regions of a map, moving between home, work, and favourite places. - Three-state opinion with undecided agents
three_state_opinion: The three-state opinion system of agents against, undecided, and for, on a random regular network. - Threshold adoption
threshold_adoption: The threshold adoption system in social circles, started by the 2.5% of agents with the lowest thresholds. - Toy Trader and Three-Goods Trader with money
toy_trader: Gooding's Toy Trader, traders with money and toys who buy the cheapest toy they can see. - Toy firm investment
toy_firm_investment: Heterogeneous firms that invest out of past profits and sell at random prices, with entry and exit. - Tragedy of the meadow commons
tragedy_of_the_commons: Herders whose cows graze a shared meadow, each adding cows while a cow pays, until the grass collapses. - Undirected and directed polymer assembly pool
polymer_assembly_pool: An assembly pool of linear polymers grown from one monomer by joining pairs of its polymers. - Voter system
voter_system: A voter system with one voter per node of a network. - Voter variants
voter_variants: Voter system variants on a network, with threshold voters and a share of contrarians. - Watts threshold cascades
watts_cascades: The Watts threshold system of global cascades started by a few random seeds. - Wolf and sheep
wolf_sheep: The wolf and sheep predation system with one grass patch per cell. - Zero-intelligence double auction
double_auction: Gode and Sunder's double auction of zero-intelligence traders, a step per trading period.
aggregation
- Diffusion-limited aggregation
diffusion_limited_aggregation: Diffusion-limited aggregation on a periodic grid, where random walkers stick to a seed at the center. - Keller-Segel chemotaxis
keller_segel: The Keller-Segel system of cells that diffuse and climb the gradient of a chemical they secrete. - Linear network herding
network_herding: Agents whose linear choices herd on the past choices of the agents they are linked to.
aging
- Bouchaud trap system
trap_system: The Bouchaud trap system, walkers that escape from traps of exponentially distributed depths.
agriculture
- Cocoa
cocoa: A cocoa production system, plantations that boom with their profit and bust with the insects they invite. - Crop livestock household
crop_livestock_household: Bala's crop livestock model, a farming household that adds livestock rearing to its crop income. - Food security systems
food_security: A food security system, the rice self-sufficiency of a country under subsidy, research, and extension. - Grain storage system
grain_storage: A retail grain store, whose orders through a supply line make its stock oscillate. - Irrigation system
irrigation: An irrigation system, a reservoir and an aquifer that keep the root zone of the crops supplied. - Rice land, population, and food security
rice_food_balance: Bala's food security model, rice land that grows towards the land available against a growing population. - Rice milling system
rice_milling: A rice milling system, a mill that buys paddy, mills it into rice and by-products, and sells them.
alignment
- Active Brownian particles with local alignment
aligning_active_brownian_particles: Active Brownian particles in a periodic box whose headings align with the neighbours withind0. - Cucker-Smale flocking
cucker_smale_flocking: Cucker-Smale flocking, where every agent aligns its velocity with all others, weighted by distance. - Vicsek system with metric, topological, vision-cone, and delayed alignment
vicsek: The Vicsek system: particles that move at a constant speed along the mean heading of their neighbours.
allometry
- Gravity interaction system of urban scaling
gravity_urban_scaling: The residents of a city at uniform positions in a disc, each interacting with the others asr^-gamma. - Urban scaling of interactions
urban_scaling_interactions: A city that grows by residents and internal links, so its meetings grow faster than its population. - Von Bertalanffy growth
von_bertalanffy: A tumour that grows by the balance of anabolism and catabolism,dn/dt = r n^p - d n. - West-Brown-Enquist distribution network and Kleiber scaling
west_brown_enquist: The distribution network of West, Brown, and Enquist, a space-filling tree of invariant capillaries.
amplification
- Adenylate cyclase kinase cascade amplifier with G-protein timer inactivation
hormone_cascade_amplifier: The adenylate cyclase cascade, which amplifies a hormone pulse and ends it by the G-protein timer.
amplitude death
- Globally coupled Stuart-Landau oscillators with frequency spread
oscillator_death: Globally coupled Stuart-Landau oscillators, whose oscillations all die for strong coupling and spread. - Globally coupled systems with heterogeneous time scales
heterogeneous_global_coupling: Globally coupled oscillators with heterogeneous time scales, whose fixed point the coupling restabilizes.
androgen
- Prostate cancer under continuous androgen suppression
continuous_androgen_suppression: Prostate cancer under continuous androgen suppression, which androgen-independent cells survive.
androgen receptor
- Prostate cancer driven by activated androgen receptors
prostate_androgen_receptor: The Jain system of prostate epithelium and cancer driven by activated androgen receptors, with PSA.
angiogenesis
- Core and periphery vasculature under anti-angiogenic therapy
vascular_core_periphery: A tumour with a live core, a live periphery, and a necrotic core, each fed by its own vasculature. - Gompertz growth with a vascular carrying capacity
dynamic_carrying_capacity: Gompertz growth under a carrying capacity that the vessels on the tumour surface keep raising. - Multiscale tumour angiogenesis
tumour_angiogenesis: A tumour that outgrows its oxygen supply and recruits new blood vessels from a parent vessel. - Tumour and vascular volume under an angiogenesis inhibitor
hahnfeldt: The Hahnfeldt system, a tumour whose carrying capacity is the vasculature it stimulates and inhibits.
angular momentum
- Rotating balls on rods
rotating_balls_on_rods: Two balls on rods that turn about a vertical axis and conserve their angular momentum.
anisotropy
- Brownian motion of Janus, ellipsoidal, and chiral particles in three dimensions
anisotropic_brownian_particles: Overdamped axisymmetric Brownian particles in three dimensions that translate and rotate.
annealing
- Simulated annealing, genetic algorithms, and differential evolution
evolutionary_optimisers: A population of candidates that searches a two-dimensional landscape, one generation per step.
anomalous diffusion
- Annealed transient time motion
annealed_transient_time_motion: Annealed transient time motion, Brownian walkers whose diffusion coefficient changes at random times. - Continuous-time random walk
continuous_time_random_walk: The continuous-time random walk, Gaussian jumps after waiting times with the tailtau^(-1 - alpha). - Diffusion in a speckle field
diffusion_in_a_speckle_field: Brownian particles in a random speckle field, trapped at hotspots for longer as the field grows stronger. - Fractional Brownian motion
fractional_brownian_motion: Fractional Brownian motion,dx = sqrt(2 D) dB_H, with<x^2> = 2 D t^(2 H)along every axis. - Fully biased walk among quenched broad traps
biased_trap_walk: Walkers that hop always to the right through quenched traps with broadly distributed trapping times. - Lévy walk
levy_walk: The Lévy walk, flights at constant speed in random directions for times with the tailtau^(-1 - sigma). - Scaled Brownian motion
scaled_brownian_motion: Scaled Brownian motion,dx = sqrt(2 K alpha (t + t0)^(alpha - 1)) dW, with<x^2> ~ 2 K t^alpha. - Superdiffusive Levy flight
levy_flight: The Lévy flight, a walk whose jumps have lengths with the taill^(-1 - mu)in random directions.
anomalous relaxation
- Fractional relaxation
fractional_relaxation: Fractional relaxationD^alpha x = -lambda x, which decays as the Mittag-Leffler functionE_alpha.
ant
- Langton's ant
langtons_ant: Langton's ant, which wanders chaotically for about 10,000 steps before it builds a periodic highway.
ant colony optimization
- Ant colony optimization on a road network
ant_colony_optimization: Ants that find the shortest path between two points of a Delaunay road network, round after round.
anti-angiogenic therapy
- Core and periphery vasculature under anti-angiogenic therapy
vascular_core_periphery: A tumour with a live core, a live periphery, and a necrotic core, each fed by its own vasculature. - Tumour and vascular volume under an angiogenesis inhibitor
hahnfeldt: The Hahnfeldt system, a tumour whose carrying capacity is the vasculature it stimulates and inhibits.
antiangiogenic therapy
- Hahnfeldt system with effector cells, pharmacokinetics, resistance, and toxicity
angiogenesis_immunotherapy: The Hahnfeldt tumour with effector cells under bevacizumab and atezolizumab every three weeks.
antibody
- Paclitaxel and trastuzumab with antibody binding
her2_targeted_therapy: HER2+ breast cancer cells under trastuzumab and paclitaxel, with antibody binding and drug uptake.
anticipation
- Stimulus-response, adaptive response, and anticipation with response, restore, repair, and preparedness costs
adaptive_response_costs: A system that meets recurring demands by stimulus-response, adaptive response, or anticipation.
antigenicity
- Tumour-immune system with dendritic licensing, IL-2, IL-10, and TGF-beta
tumour_immune_suppression: A tumour against dendritic, cytotoxic, helper, and regulatory T cells with IL-2, IL-10, and TGF-beta.
ants
- Kirman exchange rate with switching traders
kirman_exchange_rate: Kirman's foreign exchange market, whose traders switch between fundamentalism and chartism like ants.
aquaculture
- Penaeid shrimp growth
penaeid_shrimp: The growth of one penaeid shrimp from the juvenile stage, forced by the food and the water temperature.
arbitrage
- Random-walk traders with arbitrage
arbitrage_traders: Schwichtenberg's diffusion of a good by random-walk traders, minimally coupled to exchange rates. - Traders and exchange rates coupled through arbitrage as lattice electrodynamics
gauge_arbitrage_market: Exchange-rate potentials on links as lattice Maxwell fields, sourced by traders who move a good on sites.
area preserving
- Beam-beam map
beam_beam_map: The beam-beam map of a particle of an accelerator beam that meets the opposite beam once every turn. - Conservative Hénon map
conservative_henon_map: Hénon's area-preserving quadratic map, a rotation by2π nuwith a quadratic kick. - Fermi-Ulam map
fermi_ulam_map: The Fermi-Ulam map of a ball bouncing between a fixed wall and a wall that oscillates in time.
arms race
- Escalation
escalation: Meadows' escalation trap, two parties that each want to exceed the other's stock by a margin.
arnold tongues
- Circle
circle_map: The sine circle mapθ' = θ + Ω - K / (2π) sin 2πθ (mod 1), which locks into Arnold tongues.
artificial life
- Lenia and its expanded universe
lenia: Lenia, a continuous automaton whose ring-kernel convolutions grow gliding, lifelike solitons.
assembly theory
- Assembly growth along the assembly index
assembly_growth: The numbers of objects at successive assembly indices, each discovered from the level below. - Undirected and directed polymer assembly pool
polymer_assembly_pool: An assembly pool of linear polymers grown from one monomer by joining pairs of its polymers.
asset
- Correlated geometric Brownian motions
correlated_geometric_brownian_motion: Two assets whose prices follow geometric Brownian motions driven by correlated Wiener processes. - Geometric Brownian motion
geometric_brownian_motion: An asset whose price follows geometric Brownian motion.
asset pricing
- Brock-Hommes heuristic switching
brock_hommes: Brock and Hommes' asset market with traders switching between fundamentalists and trend chasers.
associative memory
- Asymmetric diluted Hopfield network
diluted_hopfield: The asymmetric diluted Hopfield network, which recalls a stored pattern below its memory capacity. - Dense homogeneous associative network of transient attractors
associative_thought_process: The dense homogeneous associative network of Gros, whose memories become active one after the other. - Hopfield network
hopfield: A Hopfield network that stores patterns with Hebb's rule and recalls the first from a corrupted copy.
assortativity
- Centralities, assortativity, communities, and motifs
network_structure_analysis: A network recorded with its centralities, degree mixing, communities, and triangle z-score.
asynchronous
- Generalised multi-valued logical networks
generalized_logical_network: A generalised logical network of Thomas, whose variables step asynchronously towards focal levels.
atmosphere
- Lorenz-84
lorenz_84: Lorenz-84, the general circulation reduced to a westerly jet and a travelling wave, chaotic forF = 8. - Lorenz-96
lorenz_96: Lorenz-96,dx_i/dt = (x_{i+1} - x_{i-2}) x_{i-1} - x_i + Fon a ring of sites around a latitude circle.
attack
- Random failures and targeted attacks on networks
network_attack: Failures or attacks on a scale-free network, robust to random failures but fragile to attacks on hubs.
attractor
- Chua double and multiple scrolls
chua: Chua's circuit, whose double-scroll or multiscroll attractor is chaotic. - Hopfield network
hopfield: A Hopfield network that stores patterns with Hebb's rule and recalls the first from a corrupted copy.
attractors
- Boolean system of the mammalian cell cycle
mammalian_cell_cycle: The Boolean system of the mammalian cell cycle of Faure et al., ten proteins updated synchronously. - Three-gene Boolean network
three_gene_boolean_network: The three-gene Boolean network of Raman, updated synchronously.
autocatalysis
- Brusselator ODE
brusselator_ode: The well-mixed Brusselator, which oscillates on a limit cycle whenb > 1 + a**2. - Cubic autocatalysis
cubic_autocatalysis: Cubic autocatalysisA + 2B -> 3Bwith the decayB -> Cin a continuously fed reactor. - Hypercycles
hypercycles: A network of self-replicating molecules whose catalysis keeps a set of them alive, a hypercycle.
autocatalytic set
- Competitive Jain-Krishna model with signed couplings
competitive_jain_krishna: The Jain-Krishna model with signed interactions, whose surviving species come to cooperate. - Jain-Krishna autocatalytic networks
jain_krishna: The system of Jain and Krishna, where selection of the fittest builds autocatalytic sets of molecules.
autocatalytic sets
- TAP growth with random catalysis and autocatalytic sets
tap_catalysis: The TAP growth of goods from combinations of goods, with random catalysis of their production functions.
autoregressive
- Random walk with autoregressive velocity
random_walk_with_memory: Random walks whose velocity is an autoregressive process,x ← x + vandv ← alpha v + xi.
avalanches
- Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld sandpile
sandpile: The Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld sandpile on a lattice with open edges, started from random stable heights. - Charbonneau traffic
charbonneau_traffic: Charbonneau's traffic system, where random braking of single drivers sets off traffic jams. - Manna sandpile
manna_sandpile: The Manna sandpile, a stochastic sandpile of another universality class than Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld. - NKCS coevolution on coupled NK landscapes
nkcs: The NKCS model of Kauffman and Johnsen, species climbing NK landscapes coupled to each other's genes. - Self-organized branching process
self_organized_branching: The self-organized branching process of Zapperi, Lauritsen, and Stanley, a mean-field sandpile. - Solé-Manrubia extinctions
sole_manrubia: The ecosystem of Solé and Manrubia, whose species go extinct when their dependencies turn against them. - Zhang sandpile
zhang_sandpile: The Zhang sandpile, a continuous sandpile whose unstable sites give away all their energy.
backpropagation through time
- Elman recurrent network trained by backpropagation
elman_network: Elman's simple recurrent network, which learns to predict the next bit of a temporal XOR stream.
bacteria
- Run-and-tumble
run_and_tumble: Run-and-tumble agents in a periodic square, which diffuse withv^2 (1 + q) / (4 (1 - q))per step.
balancing feedback
- Cooling coffee
cooling_coffee: A cup of coffee whose temperature relaxes to that of the room,T' = -k (T - T_room).
bang-bang
- Minimum-time control of a free particle, a harmonic oscillator, and a saddle
minimum_time_control: A linear plant steered to the origin of its phase space in minimum time by a sampled bang-bang control. - Optimal harvesting
optimal_harvesting: A logistic resource harvested with the effort that maximises its discounted profit. - Pendulum swing-up
pendulum_swing_up: A pendulum swung up to its inverted position by a bang-bang acceleration of its pivot.
banks
- Firm and bank credit networks
credit_networks: A credit market where firms sample banks and switch to cheaper lenders, and defaults hit the lenders. - Fractional-reserve banking
fractional_reserve_banking: Customers and banks whose lending of excess reserves multiplies the base money by1 / ratio.
barter
- Bilateral barter of two or three goods
goods_traders: Traders who wander a grid and barter two or three goods with their neighbours. - Bilateral two-good trade on complete, isolated, and small-world networks
wilhite_trade_networks: Wilhite's bilateral barter of two goods among traders on one of four trade networks. - Edgeworth and Red Cross barter
barter: Barter of chocolate and cigarettes, in an Edgeworth box of two barterers or among many prisoners.
basins
- Newton-Raphson map
newton_raphson_map: Newton's method forz³ = 1in the complex plane,z' = (2z³ + 1) / (3z²), in real coordinates.
batch culture
- Dynamic flux balance analysis of a batch culture
dynamic_fba: A batch culture of the E. coli core system, which needs the extrametabolism.
batteries
- Faraday-disk charger
faraday_disk: A battery charger driven by a Faraday disk generator whose own current strengthens its field.
bernoulli map
- Aggregate-averaging synchronization of logistic and delay-coupled Bernoulli maps
aggregate_averaging_synchronization: Two chaotic maps coupled by aggregate averaging, which synchronize their chaos for strong coupling.
bernoulli shift
- Bernoulli doubling map
doubling_map: An ensemble of the doubling mapx' = 2x (mod 1), iterated exactly on fractions with an odd denominator.
betweenness
- Motter-Lai cascades of betweenness overload
motter_lai_overload: The cascade of overload failures of Motter and Lai after one node is removed.
bid rent
- Von Thünen land use
von_thunen: A square plain around one market at its centre, whose every cell grows the crop of highest bid rent.
bifurcation
- Cusp normal forms
cusp_form: The cusp normal formx' = β1 + β2 x - x³, bistable inside the cusp27 β1² < 4 β2³. - Deformable active particles of Ohta and Ohkuma
deformable_active_particles: Deformable self-propelled particles of Ohta and Ohkuma, which move straight or along circles. - Hopf
hopf_form: The Hopf normal form, whose focus gives birth to a limit cycle of radius√(-μ / a)as μ crosses 0. - Saddle-node
saddle_node_form: The saddle-node normal formx' = μ - x², whose two equilibria±√μmeet and vanish at μ = 0. - Stochastic on-off intermittency
on_off_intermittency: Stochastic on-off intermittency,dx/dt = (epsilon + xi) x - x^3with Stratonovich white noisexi. - Subcritical Hopf normal form
subcritical_hopf_form: The subcritical Hopf normal form, where a stable focus coexists with a stable limit cycle. - Takens-Bogdanov
takens_bogdanov_form: The Takens-Bogdanov normal formx' = y,y' = β1 + β2 x + x² + s x y, where a saddle-node meets a Hopf.
bifurcation diagram
- Rössler with an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck control parameter
ou_driven_rossler: The Rössler flow driven through its bifurcations by a slow Ornstein-Uhlenbeck control parameter.
bijective
- Power-series automaton
power_series_automaton: The automatonτ(x)(n) = x(n) - t x(n + 1)over the ringK[[t]]of formal power series on a ring.
billiard
- Circular billiard
circular_billiard: A particle moving freely inside a circle and reflecting specularly off its wall. - Dynamical billiards of Sinai, mushroom, and open three-disk shapes
billiards: A particle moving freely on a billiard table and reflecting specularly off its walls. - Fermi-Ulam map
fermi_ulam_map: The Fermi-Ulam map of a ball bouncing between a fixed wall and a wall that oscillates in time.
binomial
- Two-phase zone exchange
two_phase_zone_exchange: Independent zones of a two-phase apparatus, each exchanging particles with the rest of the apparatus.
biochemical systems theory
- Generalized mass action and S-system power-law systems
biochemical_systems_theory: A biochemical system of power-law rates, in the S-system or the generalized mass action form.
biodiversity
- Neutral Moran system with speciation
neutral_biodiversity: A neutral community of constant size, where species arise by speciation and vanish by drift.
bioenergetics
- Penaeid shrimp growth
penaeid_shrimp: The growth of one penaeid shrimp from the juvenile stage, forced by the food and the water temperature.
biomodels
- Yeast glycolysis oscillations in a flow reactor
glycolysis_oscillations: The glycolysis of a yeast extract in a flow reactor, whose NADH oscillates with a period of minutes.
bipartite
- EpiSims city of people and locations
episims_city: A synthetic city in the spirit of EpiSims, where people infect those they meet at home and at work.
bipartite network
- Fire sales of overlapping portfolios
overlapping_portfolio_fire_sales: Banks with overlapping portfolios whose fire sales of common assets spread their losses to one another.
birth-death
- Finite two-level birth-death process of defectors and punishers
two_level_birth_death: The finite two-level birth-death process of defectors and altruistic punishers in competing groups. - Neutral birth-death with hopping between boxes
neutral_clustering: Organisms that divide, die, and hop between patches on a periodic lattice, and gather in clusters.
birth-death process
- Birth-death process and M/M/1 queue
birth_death_queue: Independent M/M/1 queues, birth-death processes with constant arrival and service rates. - Fully connected branching and annihilation
absorbing_birth_death: The fully connected branching and annihilation process, active abovekappa = nuuntil it dies out.
bistability
- Bistability on a catalyst pellet
catalyst_pellet: The surface concentration of a catalyst pellet, bistable through Langmuir-Hinshelwood kinetics. - Chemical Langevin equation of the Schlögl reaction
chemical_langevin_equation: The chemical Langevin equation of Schlögl's bistable reaction, whose noise switches between two states. - Cubic autocatalysis
cubic_autocatalysis: Cubic autocatalysisA + 2B -> 3Bwith the decayB -> Cin a continuously fed reactor. - Cusp normal forms
cusp_form: The cusp normal formx' = β1 + β2 x - x³, bistable inside the cusp27 β1² < 4 β2³. - Forest dieback
forest_dieback: The forest dieback model of the Amazon, whose cover tips to bare soil when the ambient temperature rises. - Genetic toggle switch
toggle_switch: The genetic toggle switch of Gardner, Cantor, and Collins, two genes that repress each other. - Network of interacting tipping elements
tipping_cascade_network: A network of tipping elements, where one element pushed past its tipping point can tip its neighbours. - SIS on hypergraphs with heterogeneous exposure and a nonlinear infection kernel
hypergraph_exposure_sis: The SIS contagion of St-Onge et al. in the environments of a hypergraph, with a nonlinear kernel. - Simplicial contagion
simplicial_contagion: The simplicial contagion of Iacopini et al., an SIS process on the links and triangles of a complex. - Stommel thermohaline boxes
stommel: Stommel's two-box thermohaline circulation, bistable between a thermal and a haline mode. - Subcritical Hopf normal form
subcritical_hopf_form: The subcritical Hopf normal form, where a stable focus coexists with a stable limit cycle. - Zero-dimensional energy balance with ice albedo
energy_balance: The zero-dimensional energy balance of the Earth, bistable through the ice-albedo feedback.
black holes
- Oppenheimer-Snyder collapse of a dust ball
oppenheimer_snyder_collapse: A ball of dust at rest that collapses under its own gravity into a black hole, as Oppenheimer and Snyder.
blinking traps
- Hydrodynamically coupled particles in blinking traps
hydrodynamically_coupled_traps: Two Brownian spheres in blinking optical traps, whose free motion is correlated through the fluid.
blocked states
- Shaken frictional spring-block chain
shaken_spring_block: A chain of blocks joined by springs on a frictional substrate, shaken and relaxed in turn.
boltzmann equation
- Microscopic flocking with aligning binary collisions
binary_collision_flocking: Self-propelled particles that flock through aligning binary collisions, the Bertin-Droz-Grégoire system.
bone marrow
- Bone-marrow and blood cells with blasts and cancer stem cells
bone_marrow_blood_leukaemia: The bone marrow and blood system of leukaemia, in which blasts crowd out the normal cells.
boolean network
- Boolean repressilator
boolean_repressilator: The Boolean repressilator, where LacI represses TetR, TetR represses cI, and cI represses LacI. - Boolean system of the mammalian cell cycle
mammalian_cell_cycle: The Boolean system of the mammalian cell cycle of Faure et al., ten proteins updated synchronously. - Huepe-Aldana noisy majority Boolean network
noisy_boolean_network: The Boolean network of Huepe and Aldana-González, nodes that follow the noisy majority ofkinputs. - Kauffman random Boolean networks
random_boolean_network: A Kauffman random Boolean network, nodes updated together by random functions ofkrandom inputs. - Probabilistic Boolean network
probabilistic_boolean_network: A probabilistic Boolean network, whose nodes draw one of their candidate functions at every step. - Regulatory flux balance analysis
regulatory_fba: A batch culture on glucose and acetate with Boolean catabolite repression, which needs the extra. - Three-gene Boolean network
three_gene_boolean_network: The three-gene Boolean network of Raman, updated synchronously. - Yeast cell-cycle network
yeast_cell_cycle: The Boolean network of the budding yeast cell cycle of Li et al., eleven proteins and their regulation.
boom and bust
- Cocoa
cocoa: A cocoa production system, plantations that boom with their profit and bust with the insects they invite.
boundary
- Ideal gas
ideal_gas: An ideal gas of non-interacting molecules in a reflecting box.
bounded confidence
- Deffuant bounded confidence
deffuant: The Deffuant bounded confidence system, whose opinions settle into about1 / (2 * confidence)clusters. - Hegselmann-Krause
hegselmann_krause: The Hegselmann-Krause system, whose opinions freeze within a few steps into clusters about2 εapart.
bounded rationality
- Brock-Hommes heuristic switching
brock_hommes: Brock and Hommes' asset market with traders switching between fundamentalists and trend chasers. - El Farol
el_farol: Arthur's El Farol bar problem, whose attendance self-organizes around the capacity. - El Farol with strategic group formation
el_farol_coalitions: Collins' El Farol bar with strategic group formation, whose coalitions share their best strategy.
braess paradox
- Swing-equation power grid with Braess paradox
power_grid: A ring power grid in the swing-equation system, where more transmission capacity can break synchrony.
branching process
- Galton-Watson branching
galton_watson: A Galton-Watson branching process with Poisson offspring, one generation per step. - Self-organized branching process
self_organized_branching: The self-organized branching process of Zapperi, Lauritsen, and Stanley, a mean-field sandpile.
breaking
- Wave-number conservation and wave breaking
wave_breaking: The kinematic wave equation of deep-water wave trains on a periodic interval of length 2 pi.
breast cancer
- Gompertzian cell-cycle phases under tamoxifen
tamoxifen_cell_cycle: A breast tumour in Gompertzian cell-cycle phases under daily tamoxifen and its active metabolite.
bristles
- Bristle patterning by lateral inhibition on a ring
bristle_lateral_inhibition: A ring of cells that inhibit the neural fate of their neighbours, leaving sparse, evenly spaced bristles.
brownian motion
- Brownian motion of Janus, ellipsoidal, and chiral particles in three dimensions
anisotropic_brownian_particles: Overdamped axisymmetric Brownian particles in three dimensions that translate and rotate. - Brownian particle near a wall
brownian_near_wall: A Brownian particle whose diffusion slows near a wall,D(z) = D0 z² / (z² + a²), as it settles on it. - Hydrodynamically coupled particles in blinking traps
hydrodynamically_coupled_traps: Two Brownian spheres in blinking optical traps, whose free motion is correlated through the fluid. - Inertial and overdamped Brownian motion
brownian_motion: Free Brownian particles with inertia,m x'' = -gamma x' + sqrt(2 kT gamma) W, or without it. - On-off flashing ratchet
flashing_ratchet: The on-off flashing ratchet, Brownian particles in a sawtooth potential switched on and off at random. - Optical trap including oscillating and blinking traps
optical_trap: Overdamped particles in a harmonic optical trap, still, oscillating, or blinking. - Overdamped particle in a tilted periodic potential
tilted_periodic_potential: Overdamped particles in the tilted periodic potentialV(x) = U0 cos(2 pi x / L) - f x. - Rigid Brownian and active dimers
rigid_dimers: Colloidal molecules: pairs of Brownian or active spheres joined by rigid rods, free in the plane.
bullwhip effect
- Beer distribution game
beer_game: Sterman's beer distribution game, a supply chain whose orders swing wider at every echelon upstream.
bump
- Amari neural field
amari_neural_field: The Amari neural field, whose lateral inhibition holds a stationary bump of activity.
bursting
- Izhikevich
izhikevich: The Izhikevich neuron, whose four parameters give regular spiking, bursting, chattering, and more.
bursts
- Barabási priority queues
priority_queues: The Barabási priority queue, whose waiting times follow a power law as the choice becomes greedy. - Negative autoregulation and bursty gene expression
negative_autoregulation: A gene that represses its own transcription and makes its protein in bursts.
business cycle
- Multiplier-accelerator
multiplier_accelerator: Samuelson's multiplier-accelerator,Y_{t+1} = c (1 + v) Y_t - c v Y_{t-1} + G. - Toy firm investment
toy_firm_investment: Heterogeneous firms that invest out of past profits and sell at random prices, with entry and exit.
busy beaver
- Turing machine (three-state busy beaver)
turing_machine: A Turing machine, a head with an internal state that reads, writes, and moves on a tape of symbols.
canards
- Modified Chua with mixed-mode oscillations
mixed_mode_chua: A modified Chua circuit on three time scales, whose oscillations mix small and large amplitudes.
cancer stem cells
- Normal and malignant stem-cell compartments with feedback and therapy
stem_cell_differentiation: The eight-compartment system of normal and malignant stem-cell lineages with feedback and therapy.
capital
- Pontryagin capital and consumption
optimal_consumption: The Ramsey economy that chooses the consumption path maximising its discounted utility.
car following
- Car following with delay
delayed_car_following: A chain of cars that react to the speed difference to the car ahead after a reaction time. - Intelligent driver system
intelligent_driver_system: The intelligent driver system of cars on a ring road. - Langevin car-following toward a density-dependent speed
langevin_traffic: Cars on a ring road whose speeds relax with noise towards a desired speed set by the local density. - Optimal velocity
optimal_velocity: The optimal velocity system of cars on a ring road, where uniform flow breaks into stop-and-go waves.
carbon cycle
- Rothman excitable carbon cycle
carbon_cycle: Rothman's excitable carbon cycle, where a large enough perturbation of the ocean sets off an excursion.
carbon-13 flux analysis
- Carbon-13 metabolic flux analysis
carbon_13_mfa: A metabolic network thatLabellingAnalysisfits to labelling data, the TCA example by default.
cardiac
- Aliev-Panfilov cardiac tissue
aliev_panfilov: The Aliev-Panfilov system of cardiac tissue, started from a broken wave that curls into a spiral.
cardiovascular
- Lumped cardiovascular system
cardiovascular: A closed lumped system of the systemic circulation driven by a left ventricle of varying elastance.
carrying capacity
- Carrying capacity of a meadow
meadow_capacity: Cows that graze a summer of 25 weeks on a meadow, which shows how many cows the meadow can carry.
cascade
- Adenylate cyclase kinase cascade amplifier with G-protein timer inactivation
hormone_cascade_amplifier: The adenylate cyclase cascade, which amplifies a hormone pulse and ends it by the G-protein timer. - Cascade classifier
cascade_classifier: A cascade classifier, a column of stages that separates a narrow size class of particles by an air flow. - Cascades of failures in interdependent networks
interdependent_network_cascade: The cascade of failures of Buldyrev et al. between two networks whose nodes depend on each other. - Cascading sample-space-reducing process
cascading_sample_space_reducing: Cascading sample-space-reducing processes, whose visits follow the power lawi^(-mu)for anymu. - Motter-Lai cascades of betweenness overload
motter_lai_overload: The cascade of overload failures of Motter and Lai after one node is removed.
cascades
- Leading-following tipping cascade
leading_following_cascade: A cascade of two tipping elements, a leading fold driven by a ramp and a follower forced by the leader. - Network of interacting tipping elements
tipping_cascade_network: A network of tipping elements, where one element pushed past its tipping point can tip its neighbours. - Watts threshold cascades
watts_cascades: The Watts threshold system of global cascades started by a few random seeds.
catalysis
- Bistability on a catalyst pellet
catalyst_pellet: The surface concentration of a catalyst pellet, bistable through Langmuir-Hinshelwood kinetics.
celestial mechanics
- Satellite transfer
satellite_transfer: A satellite moved between Kepler orbits of equal angular momentum by radial thrust.
cell communication
- Intercellular exchange through gap junctions and tunnelling nanotubes on a cell network
nanotube_gap_junction_exchange: The intercellular exchange of a substance through gap junctions and tunnelling nanotubes on a network. - Substance exchange between logistic cells in a closed contour
closed_contour_cell_exchange: The exchange of signalling molecules between logistic cells arranged in a closed contour.
cell complex
- Explosive topological Kuramoto of node and link phases on a simplicial complex, with the Nodes-Links-Triangles variant
topological_kuramoto: Phases on the nodes and links of a clique complex, coupled through its incidence by order parameters. - Gauge theory of agents on a network
gauge_network_agents: Agent phases on the nodes of a network that relax towards the transported phases of their neighbours. - Lattice Maxwell and gauge link fields
lattice_gauge_fields: Link variables on the cell complex of a periodic lattice, sampled or evolved in real time. - Lattice Yang-Mills and pure lattice QCD
lattice_yang_mills: SU(2) or SU(3) matrices on the links of a periodic lattice, sampled by the Wilson action. - Traders and exchange rates coupled through arbitrage as lattice electrodynamics
gauge_arbitrage_market: Exchange-rate potentials on links as lattice Maxwell fields, sourced by traders who move a good on sites.
cell cycle
- Boolean system of the mammalian cell cycle
mammalian_cell_cycle: The Boolean system of the mammalian cell cycle of Faure et al., ten proteins updated synchronously. - Cell-cycle compartments with killing, blocking, and recruiting agents
cell_cycle_chemotherapy: Tumour cells in cell-cycle compartments under killing, blocking, and recruiting agents. - Gompertzian cell-cycle phases under tamoxifen
tamoxifen_cell_cycle: A breast tumour in Gompertzian cell-cycle phases under daily tamoxifen and its active metabolite. - Yeast cell-cycle network
yeast_cell_cycle: The Boolean network of the budding yeast cell cycle of Li et al., eleven proteins and their regulation.
cell fate
- Three-way fate decision on the compactified elliptic umbilic
three_way_fate_decision: Cells that choose among three fates on the compactified elliptic umbilic landscape of Rand et al.
cell quota
- Droop cell-quota growth
droop_cell_quota: The Droop system, a phytoplankton whose growth rate follows the nutrient stored in its cells. - Prostate cancer with an androgen cell quota and PSA
prostate_cell_quota: The Portz cell-quota system of prostate cancer, whose cells grow on their internal androgen.
cell sorting
- Cellular Potts model of cell sorting on square, triangular, and disordered lattices
cellular_potts: The cellular Potts model of a confluent tissue whose cells of several kinds sort by differential adhesion.
cellular automaton
- Automata on the Grigorchuk group
grigorchuk_automaton: The majority automaton on a ball of the Grigorchuk group, a group of intermediate growth. - Automata on the free group
free_group_automaton: The majority automaton on a ball of the free group, a tree in which every cell follows its neighbours. - Baumslag-Solitar groups
baumslag_solitar_automaton: The majority automaton on a ball of the Baumslag-Solitar groupBS(m, n), of exponential growth. - Cyclic cellular automaton
cyclic_cellular_automaton: Griffeath's cyclic cellular automaton, whose random levels organize into spiral waves. - Heisenberg
heisenberg_automaton: The majority automaton on a ball of the discrete Heisenberg group, of polynomial growth of degree 4. - Involutive automaton
involutive_automaton: A binary automaton on a ring that is its own inverse, with the minimal memory set{-1, 0, ..., n}. - Lamplighter
lamplighter_automaton: The parity automaton on a ball of the lamplighter group, a linear rule over the field of two elements. - Life in a tree
life_in_a_tree: The Game of Life on the free group F4, a tree of degree 8, surjective but not pre-injective. - Linear automata over rings
linear_ring_automaton: The discrete Laplacian as a linear automaton on a ring, over the field ofmoduluselements. - Muller's pre-injective non-surjective automaton on F2
muller_automaton: Muller's automaton on the free group F2, pre-injective but not surjective. - Nilpotent automaton of class n
nilpotent_automaton: A binary automaton on a ring that is nilpotent of classn:nsteps send every configuration to 0. - Q2R reversible Ising automaton
q2r: The Q2R automaton, a reversible, energy-conserving Ising dynamics on a periodic lattice of even sides. - Surjective non-pre-injective linear automaton on F2
surjective_linear_automaton: A linear automaton overK^2on the free group F2, surjective but not pre-injective.
cellular potts
- Cellular Potts model of cell sorting on square, triangular, and disordered lattices
cellular_potts: The cellular Potts model of a confluent tissue whose cells of several kinds sort by differential adhesion.
census
- The Kauai population system on region layers
kauai_population: One agent per resident of the census regions of a map, moving between home, work, and favourite places.
centrality
- Centralities, assortativity, communities, and motifs
network_structure_analysis: A network recorded with its centralities, degree mixing, communities, and triangle z-score. - PageRank iterations on networks
pagerank: The PageRank iterationr_i' = (1 - d) / n + d Σ_j A_ij r_j / k_jon an undirected network.
chaos
- Aggregate-averaging synchronization of logistic and delay-coupled Bernoulli maps
aggregate_averaging_synchronization: Two chaotic maps coupled by aggregate averaging, which synchronize their chaos for strong coupling. - Baker
baker_map: The generalized baker map, which stretches the unit square alongxand stacks the two pieces iny. - Beam-beam map
beam_beam_map: The beam-beam map of a particle of an accelerator beam that meets the opposite beam once every turn. - Bernoulli doubling map
doubling_map: An ensemble of the doubling mapx' = 2x (mod 1), iterated exactly on fractions with an odd denominator. - Cascais-Dilão-Noronha Gaussian map
cdn_map: The Cascais-Dilão-Noronha Gaussian mapx' = exp(-alpha² x²) + βof an interval. - Cat map
cat_map: Arnold's cat map(x, y) → (2x + y, x + y) (mod 1), an area-preserving hyperbolic map of the torus. - Chua double and multiple scrolls
chua: Chua's circuit, whose double-scroll or multiscroll attractor is chaotic. - Complex Ginzburg-Landau
complex_ginzburg_landau: The complex Ginzburg-Landau equationA_t = A + (1 + i b) laplacian(A) - (1 + i c) |A|^2 A. - Coupled Colpitts oscillators
coupled_colpitts: Two detuned chaotic Colpitts oscillators coupled through the difference of their second variables. - Coupled Rössler and the master stability function
coupled_rossler: Chaotic Rössler oscillators on a ring, diffusively coupled through their second variable. - Coupled map lattices on networks
coupled_map_lattices_on_networks: Chaotic logistic maps on the nodes of a network, each pulled towards the mean of its neighbours. - Coupled soil and deep temperature maps
soil_temperature: The coupled maps of the soil surface temperature and the deeper soil temperature. - Cubic chaotic map and its chaotic walk
cubic_chaotic_map: Bertin's cubic chaotic map and the chaotic walk it drives, which spreads like a random walk. - Double pendulum
double_pendulum: A double pendulum, a pendulum hanging from the bob of another, written as its two Lagrange equations. - Duffing
duffing: The forced Duffing oscillatorx'' = -delta x' - alpha x - beta x^3 + gamma cos(omega t), chaotic here. - Dynamical billiards of Sinai, mushroom, and open three-disk shapes
billiards: A particle moving freely on a billiard table and reflecting specularly off its walls. - Elementary automata
elementary_automaton: An elementary cellular automaton by its Wolfram number, started from a single live cell by default. - Forced Toda oscillator
forced_toda: The forced Toda oscillatorx'' + d x' + e^x - 1 = a sin(omega t), a passive asymmetric oscillator. - Fractional Lorenz
fractional_lorenz: The fractional Lorenz flow of Grigorenko and Grigorenko, chaotic for orders close enough to 1. - Generalized tent map
skew_tent_map: An ensemble of the skew tent map, whose density relaxes to the uniform invariant density for anya. - Gissinger geodynamo
geodynamo: Gissinger's geodynamo, whose dipole field reverses at irregular times. - Hyperchaotic four-dimensional Rössler flow
hyperchaotic_rossler: Rössler's four-dimensional flow, hyperchaotic with two positive Lyapunov exponents for its defaults. - Hénon map
henon_map: The Hénon mapx' = 1 - a x² + y,y' = b x, with a fractal strange attractor for its defaults. - Hénon-Heiles
henon_heiles: The Hénon-Heiles system of a star in a galactic potential, whose motion is chaotic at higher energies. - Intermittency maps
intermittency_map: The Pomeau-Manneville mapx' = x + x^z (mod 1), whose long laminar phases near 0 end in chaotic bursts. - Kuramoto-Sivashinsky
kuramoto_sivashinsky: The Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equationu_t = -u u_x - u_xx - u_xxxx, spatiotemporally chaotic. - Langford attractor
langford: The Langford flow, a rotation whose torus breaks into a strange attractor for the defaults of Dilão. - Logistic map
logistic_map: The logistic mapx_{t+1} = r x_t (1 - x_t), which reaches chaos through period doubling asrgrows. - Lorenz
lorenz: The Lorenz-63 system of convection, chaotic on a butterfly-shaped attractor for its standard parameters. - Lorenz-84
lorenz_84: Lorenz-84, the general circulation reduced to a westerly jet and a travelling wave, chaotic forF = 8. - Lorenz-96
lorenz_96: Lorenz-96,dx_i/dt = (x_{i+1} - x_{i-2}) x_{i-1} - x_i + Fon a ring of sites around a latitude circle. - Lozi map
lozi_map: The Lozi mapx' = 1 + y - a |x|,y' = b x, the piecewise linear Hénon map with a strange attractor. - Mackey-Glass
mackey_glass: The Mackey-Glass equationx' = beta x(t - tau) / (1 + x(t - tau)^n) - gamma xof blood cell production. - Memristor oscillator
memristor_oscillator: The simplest memristor oscillator: a capacitor, an inductor, and a memristor in series. - N-body and solar system
n_body: Bodies in the plane that attract each other pairwise by Newtonian gravity. - Nosé-Hoover oscillator
nose_hoover: The Nosé-Hoover oscillatorx' = y,y' = y z - x,z' = 1 - y², with tori next to a chaotic sea. - Nuclear quadrupole vibrations
nuclear_quadrupole: The quadrupole vibrations of a nuclear surface, a Hamiltonian system of two degrees of freedom. - Restricted three-body problem
restricted_three_body: A light body moving in the plane of two primaries on circular orbits, in the frame that rotates with them. - Ricker map of overcompensating generations
ricker: Ricker's map of a population in discrete generations,n' = r n exp(-n), chaotic for larger. - Rössler
rossler: The Rössler system, a chaotic flow with one folded band for its standard parameters. - Rössler with an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck control parameter
ou_driven_rossler: The Rössler flow driven through its bifurcations by a slow Ornstein-Uhlenbeck control parameter. - Rössler-driven Lorenz and generalized synchronization
rossler_driven_lorenz: A chaotic Rössler system that drives a Lorenz-63 system through its second variable. - Sitnikov problem
sitnikov: A light body moving on the axis through the centre of mass of two equal primaries, normal to their orbit. - Sprott flow with a conservative torus and a chaotic attractor
sprott_mixed_flow: Sprott's flow with a conservative torus and a dissipative chaotic attractor side by side. - Sprott jerk
sprott_jerk: Sprott's jerk equationx''' = -A x'' - x' + |x| - 1, chaotic near A = 0.6. - Standard
standard_map: The Chirikov standard mapp' = p + K sin θ,θ' = θ + p', with global chaos above K ≈ 0.9716. - Störmer charge in a dipole field
stormer_problem: A charged particle moving in the magnetic dipole field of a planet, the Störmer problem. - Tent
tent_map: The tent mapx' = μ min(x, 1 - x), chaotic with Lyapunov exponentln μfor μ above 1. - Thomas cyclically symmetric attractor
thomas: The Thomas flowx' = -a x + sin ywith its cyclic permutations, chaotic fora = 0.18. - Towel maps
towel_map: Rössler's towel map, a three-dimensional map with two positive Lyapunov exponents.
chaos game
- Iterated function systems by the chaos game
chaos_game: Points that draw the attractor of an iterated function system by the chaos game.
chartists
- Fundamentalists and chartists in an order book
order_book: A stock market of fundamentalists and chartists on a grid who trade in a limit order book and imitate. - Kirman exchange rate with switching traders
kirman_exchange_rate: Kirman's foreign exchange market, whose traders switch between fundamentalism and chartism like ants.
checkpoint inhibitor
- T cells, tumour, and anti-PD-1 checkpoint inhibitor
anti_pd1_checkpoint: Activated T cells, a tumour, and an anti-PD-1 drug that frees the T cells from checkpoint inhibition.
chemical Langevin equation
- Chemical Langevin equation of the Schlögl reaction
chemical_langevin_equation: The chemical Langevin equation of Schlögl's bistable reaction, whose noise switches between two states. - Chemical Langevin equation of the enzyme network
chemical_langevin_network: The chemical Langevin equation of the enzyme reactionE + S <-> C -> E + P.
chemotaxis
- Hyperbolic chemotaxis of cells and a chemical
hyperbolic_chemotaxis: Cells and a chemical moving with finite speed, whose two bumps of cells spread and attract each other. - Keller-Segel chemotaxis
keller_segel: The Keller-Segel system of cells that diffuse and climb the gradient of a chemical they secrete.
chemotherapy
- Acquired and induced resistance with phenotype switching
drug_resistance_switching: Sensitive cells and cells resistant by mutation or by a reversible phenotype switch under a dose. - Cell-cycle compartments with killing, blocking, and recruiting agents
cell_cycle_chemotherapy: Tumour cells in cell-cycle compartments under killing, blocking, and recruiting agents. - Glioma, glia, and neurons under temozolomide and virus
glioma_chemovirotherapy: Glia, neurons, and a glioma under a constant temozolomide infusion and an oncolytic virus. - Normal, tumour, and immune cells under chemotherapy
de_pillis_radunskaya: The de Pillis-Radunskaya system of immune, tumour, and normal cells under a constant drug infusion. - Norton-Simon Gompertzian cell kill
norton_simon: The Norton-Simon system, a Gompertzian tumour killed in proportion to its size by a dose schedule. - Optimal chemotherapy dosing
optimal_chemotherapy: A patient under the chemotherapy that minimises the tumour burden and the toxicity of the drug. - Paclitaxel and trastuzumab with antibody binding
her2_targeted_therapy: HER2+ breast cancer cells under trastuzumab and paclitaxel, with antibody binding and drug uptake. - Primary and secondary sites with a migration delay under chemotherapy
delayed_metastasis: Normal and tumour cells at a primary and a secondary site, with a delayed migration of tumour cells. - Red-cell production under 6-mercaptopurine
erythropoiesis_mercaptopurine: The production of red cells under a constant level of 6-mercaptopurine, starting from health. - Resistance subpopulations under three drugs
multidrug_resistance: A tumour of eight populations resistant to subsets of three drugs, given by constant infusions. - Resting and hunting immune cells with a conversion delay under chemotherapy
delayed_resting_hunting_chemotherapy: The tumour-immune system of resting and hunting cells with a conversion delay, under a drug infusion. - Skipper-Schabel-Wilcox log-kill
skipper_log_kill: The log-kill system, an exponentially growing tumour of which every dose kills a fixed fraction. - Tumour, NK cells, CD8 T cells, and lymphocytes under chemoimmunotherapy
chemoimmunotherapy: A tumour with NK cells, CD8 T cells, and lymphocytes under chemotherapy, IL-2, and TIL injection. - Two tumour clones under chemotherapy and dendritic-cell vaccine
clonal_chemoimmunotherapy: Two competing tumour clones, sensitive and resistant to chemotherapy, under a drug and a vaccine. - Uninfected and infected cells, virus, and chemotherapy
chemovirotherapy: Uninfected and infected tumour cells, an oncolytic virus, and a chemotherapeutic drug.
chimera
- Kuramoto-Sakaguchi chimera
kuramoto_sakaguchi_chimera: Two populations of identical phase oscillators with phase lag, where one synchronizes and one drifts. - Nonlocal ring chimera
nonlocal_ring_chimera: Identical phase oscillators on a ring, each coupled to itsRnearest neighbours on both sides.
chiral phase
- Nonreciprocal Vicsek system
nonreciprocal_vicsek: Two species of Vicsek movers in a periodic box whose alignment with each other is nonreciprocal.
chirality
- Brownian motion of Janus, ellipsoidal, and chiral particles in three dimensions
anisotropic_brownian_particles: Overdamped axisymmetric Brownian particles in three dimensions that translate and rotate. - Chiral active particles
chiral_active_particles: Chiral active particles, which swim along circles of radiusv / omegathat drift by diffusion.
circadian rhythm
- Drosophila circadian clock
circadian_clock: Goldbeter's system of the Drosophila circadian clock, PER that represses its own transcription.
circuit
- Chua double and multiple scrolls
chua: Chua's circuit, whose double-scroll or multiscroll attractor is chaotic. - Circuits under periodic impulses
impulsive_circuits: An RLC circuit driven by a periodic train of current impulses,L C x'' + R C x' + x = A Σ δ(t - k T). - Coupled Colpitts oscillators
coupled_colpitts: Two detuned chaotic Colpitts oscillators coupled through the difference of their second variables. - DC motor with an inertia
dc_motor: A DC motor whose armature circuit of components drives an inertia on a Lagrangian coordinate. - Memristive mixed-mode oscillator
memristive_mixed_mode_oscillator: A slow-fast circuit with a cubic flux-controlled memristor, whose oscillations mix two amplitudes. - Memristor oscillator
memristor_oscillator: The simplest memristor oscillator: a capacitor, an inductor, and a memristor in series. - Modified Chua with mixed-mode oscillations
mixed_mode_chua: A modified Chua circuit on three time scales, whose oscillations mix small and large amplitudes. - RLC circuit
rlc_circuit: A series RLC circuit written as Kirchhoff's voltage law,L q'' + R q' + q / C = V cos(ω t). - Tunnel-diode oscillator
tunnel_diode_oscillator: A tunnel-diode oscillator: an inductor and a capacitor in parallel with a negative-resistance diode.
circular motion
- Deformable active particles of Ohta and Ohkuma
deformable_active_particles: Deformable self-propelled particles of Ohta and Ohkuma, which move straight or along circles.
circulation
- Lumped cardiovascular system
cardiovascular: A closed lumped system of the systemic circulation driven by a left ventricle of varying elastance.
clearing
- Eisenberg-Noe clearing of interbank payments
eisenberg_noe_clearing: The clearing of interbank payments of Eisenberg and Noe, a fixed point of proportional payments.
clubs
- Join-a-club spins
join_a_club: Join-a-club spins, agents who join a club with their acquaintances while acquaintances follow the club.
clustering
- Davidsen-Ebel-Bornholdt network of triadic closure and node turnover
davidsen_ebel_bornholdt: The Davidsen-Ebel-Bornholdt network, whose triadic closure and node turnover give high clustering. - Holme-Kim growth
holme_kim: Holme-Kim growth, scale-free like Barabási-Albert growth but with clustering that stays high. - Neutral birth-death with hopping between boxes
neutral_clustering: Organisms that divide, die, and hop between patches on a periodic lattice, and gather in clusters. - Popularity-similarity network
popularity_similarity_network: Popularity-similarity growth, scale-free and clustered, whose nodes attach by hyperbolic distance.
clusters
- Continuum percolation
continuum_percolation: Overlapping disks at uniform positions in a square, whose clusters percolate near a filling of 1.13. - Deffuant bounded confidence
deffuant: The Deffuant bounded confidence system, whose opinions settle into about1 / (2 * confidence)clusters. - Hegselmann-Krause
hegselmann_krause: The Hegselmann-Krause system, whose opinions freeze within a few steps into clusters about2 εapart. - Living crystals
living_crystals: Active colloids of radius 1 with phoretic attraction, which gather into clusters that slowly coarsen. - Social impact theory
social_impact: The social impact system on a full grid, with random persuasiveness and supportiveness.
co-simulation
- Active walkers and trail formation
active_walkers: Active walkers who walk between the corners of a green and wear a system of trails into it. - Dynamic flux balance analysis of a batch culture
dynamic_fba: A batch culture of the E. coli core system, which needs the extrametabolism. - Dynamic multi-species metabolic system
dynamic_multispecies_fba: Two E. coli core strains that differ in maximal glucose uptake on one medium, which needs the extra. - Harvesting farmers
harvesting: A socio-ecological system of farmer agents harvesting a logistically regrowing resource. - Model predictive control of Duffing, Van der Pol, and a bilinear DC motor through Koopman surrogates
koopman_model_predictive_control: A plant that a discrete-time controller steers with model predictive control on a fitted surrogate. - Multiscale tumour angiogenesis
tumour_angiogenesis: A tumour that outgrows its oxygen supply and recruits new blood vessels from a parent vessel. - Pheromone foraging
pheromone_foraging: Ants that find food and lay a pheromone trail home, which other ants follow: stigmergy. - Regulatory flux balance analysis
regulatory_fba: A batch culture on glucose and acetate with Boolean catabolite repression, which needs the extra. - Stigmergic predator-prey automaton
stigmergic_predator_prey: Plants, prey, and predators on a grid, whose animals share emotions through decaying marks.
coagulation
- Coagulation cascade amplified by positive feedback and bounded by fibrinolysis
coagulation_positive_feedback: The coagulation cascade, an all-or-nothing burst of thrombin bounded by protein C and fibrinolysis.
coalitions
- El Farol with strategic group formation
el_farol_coalitions: Collins' El Farol bar with strategic group formation, whose coalitions share their best strategy.
coarsening
- Allen-Cahn non-conserved relaxation (System A)
allen_cahn: The Allen-Cahn equation, System A, the non-conserved relaxation of an order parameter in a double well. - Cahn-Hilliard phase separation (System B)
cahn_hilliard: The Cahn-Hilliard equation, System B, the conserved relaxation of an order parameter in a double well.
codimension two
- Takens-Bogdanov
takens_bogdanov_form: The Takens-Bogdanov normal formx' = y,y' = β1 + β2 x + x² + s x y, where a saddle-node meets a Hopf.
coevolution
- NKCS coevolution on coupled NK landscapes
nkcs: The NKCS model of Kauffman and Johnsen, species climbing NK landscapes coupled to each other's genes. - Solé-Manrubia extinctions
sole_manrubia: The ecosystem of Solé and Manrubia, whose species go extinct when their dependencies turn against them. - Tangled Nature
tangled_nature: The Tangled Nature system, where organisms whose types interact through random couplings coevolve.
cognition
- Cognitive consistency agents
cognitive_consistency: Agents whose attitudes spread by conversation and settle in a belief network that seeks consistency.
cognitive systems
- Dense homogeneous associative network of transient attractors
associative_thought_process: The dense homogeneous associative network of Gros, whose memories become active one after the other.
cohesion
- Grégoire-Chaté cohesive flocks
gregoire_chate: The Grégoire-Chaté system: aligning particles that also attract and repel, forming cohesive flocks.
collapse
- Keller-Segel chemotaxis
keller_segel: The Keller-Segel system of cells that diffuse and climb the gradient of a chemical they secrete.
collective decision
- Binary ant decision
binary_ant_decision: Ants that choose between two equal branches to a food source, following the marks of earlier ants. - Couzin shoal with repulsion, alignment, and informed leaders
couzin_leadership: The Couzin shoal, in which a small informed minority leads a group that does not know who is informed.
collisions
- Boltzmann
boltzmann_equation: The Boltzmann equation of Maxwell molecules over one position and two velocity axes. - Enskog equations
enskog: The local Enskog equation, the Boltzmann equation with the contact value of the pair correlation of disks. - Microscopic flocking with aligning binary collisions
binary_collision_flocking: Self-propelled particles that flock through aligning binary collisions, the Bertin-Droz-Grégoire system.
collocation
- Pontryagin capital and consumption
optimal_consumption: The Ramsey economy that chooses the consumption path maximising its discounted utility.
colloidal molecule
- Rigid Brownian and active dimers
rigid_dimers: Colloidal molecules: pairs of Brownian or active spheres joined by rigid rods, free in the plane.
colored noise
- Active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles
active_ornstein_uhlenbeck_particles: Active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles in the plane, driven by exponentially correlated propulsion. - Langevin equation with colored noise
colored_noise_langevin: Particles whose velocitydv/dt = -gamma v + xiis driven by Ornstein-Uhlenbeck noisexi.
combination therapy
- Glioma, glia, and neurons under temozolomide and virus
glioma_chemovirotherapy: Glia, neurons, and a glioma under a constant temozolomide infusion and an oncolytic virus. - Hahnfeldt system with effector cells, pharmacokinetics, resistance, and toxicity
angiogenesis_immunotherapy: The Hahnfeldt tumour with effector cells under bevacizumab and atezolizumab every three weeks. - Paclitaxel and trastuzumab with antibody binding
her2_targeted_therapy: HER2+ breast cancer cells under trastuzumab and paclitaxel, with antibody binding and drug uptake. - Tumour, NK cells, CD8 T cells, and lymphocytes under chemoimmunotherapy
chemoimmunotherapy: A tumour with NK cells, CD8 T cells, and lymphocytes under chemotherapy, IL-2, and TIL injection. - Two tumour clones under chemotherapy and dendritic-cell vaccine
clonal_chemoimmunotherapy: Two competing tumour clones, sensitive and resistant to chemotherapy, under a drug and a vaccine. - Uninfected and infected cells, virus, and chemotherapy
chemovirotherapy: Uninfected and infected tumour cells, an oncolytic virus, and a chemotherapeutic drug.
combinatorial evolution
- Arthur-Polak technology evolution
arthur_polak: Arthur and Polak's evolution of technology, which builds logic functions from NAND gates. - Co-evolving combinatorial critical model
ccc_model: The co-evolving combinatorial critical model, whose diversity shows punctuated equilibria. - Combinatorial creative phase transition
creative_phase_transition: The diversity of a combinatorial system, which jumps from sparse to full above a critical rule density.
commodity cycle
- Commodity cycle with capacity delay
commodity_cycle: A commodity market whose price and capacity cycle because new capacity arrives after a delay.
commons
- Carrying capacity of a meadow
meadow_capacity: Cows that graze a summer of 25 weeks on a meadow, which shows how many cows the meadow can carry. - Tragedy of the meadow commons
tragedy_of_the_commons: Herders whose cows graze a shared meadow, each adding cows while a cow pays, until the grass collapses.
communities
- Centralities, assortativity, communities, and motifs
network_structure_analysis: A network recorded with its centralities, degree mixing, communities, and triangle z-score.
community flux balance
- Joint, community, and SteadyCom flux balance
community_fba: Two members of the E. coli core system that share a medium, which needs the extrametabolism.
commuting
- EpiSims city of people and locations
episims_city: A synthetic city in the spirit of EpiSims, where people infect those they meet at home and at work.
compartments
- Agent-based SIR with mortality, waning immunity, incubation, and lockdown
agent_based_sir: People who walk on a grid and infect those in their cell, with optional extensions of the SIR system. - Cell-cycle compartments with killing, blocking, and recruiting agents
cell_cycle_chemotherapy: Tumour cells in cell-cycle compartments under killing, blocking, and recruiting agents. - Discrete-time SIRS with a recovery delay
delayed_sirs: Two cities with recurrent outbreaks of a disease of fixed infection and immunity periods. - SIR
sir: An epidemic that moves individuals from susceptible to infected to recovered. - SIR on a network as an agent system
network_sir: SIR epidemics in cities at the nodes of a network, carried between cities by travellers. - SIRS
sirs: An epidemic whose immunity wanes, which returns in damped waves to an endemic equilibrium. - SIS
sis: An infection without immunity, where the recovered become susceptible again and the disease is endemic. - Two-compartment pharmacokinetics
two_compartment_pharmacokinetics: The two-compartment pharmacokinetics of a bolus dose given into the central compartment. - Zombie outbreak of susceptible, zombie, and removed compartments
zombie_outbreak: The outbreak of zombies of Munz et al., where the dead rise again and humans are eventually overrun.
competition
- Competition
competition: Two species that compete for the same resources, which coexist or exclude each other. - Competitive Jain-Krishna model with signed couplings
competitive_jain_krishna: The Jain-Krishna model with signed interactions, whose surviving species come to cooperate. - Dynamic multi-species metabolic system
dynamic_multispecies_fba: Two E. coli core strains that differ in maximal glucose uptake on one medium, which needs the extra. - Fukai-Tanaka winner-take-all network
winners_take_all: A winner-take-all network of units with self-limited growth and mutual inhibition. - Mangrove succession
mangrove_succession: The regrowth of a mangrove forest of the Sundarbans after a clear cut, from pioneers to climax trees. - Normal and leukaemic stem cells with feedback regulation
leukaemia_stem_cells: Normal and leukaemic stem cells that compete for one niche through the feedback of their progeny. - Normal and tumour competition under radiation
radiotherapy_competition: Normal and tumour cells in Lotka-Volterra competition, the tumour irradiated periodically. - Normal, tumour, and immune cells under chemotherapy
de_pillis_radunskaya: The de Pillis-Radunskaya system of immune, tumour, and normal cells under a constant drug infusion. - Uninfected and infected tumour cells under an oncolytic virus
oncolytic_virus: Uninfected and infected tumour cells that share a carrying capacity, with infection by mass action.
competitive exclusion
- Consumer-resource models of substitutable and essential resources
consumer_resource: Consumer species that compete only through the resources they take up, by MacArthur's niche theory. - Success to the successful
success_to_the_successful: Meadows' success to the successful trap, two competitors that share a budget by their past success.
complex
- Julia sets
julia: The filled Julia set ofz -> z^2 + c, the starting points whose orbit stays bounded (Dilão 2023 §5.5). - Mandelbrot set
mandelbrot: The Mandelbrot set, the pointscwhose orbit ofz -> z^2 + cfrom 0 stays bounded (Dilão 2023 §5.5). - Random complex square-root function system
inverse_julia: The random function systemz -> ±√(z - omega), whose points settle on the Julia set ofz² + omega.
computation
- Turing machine (three-state busy beaver)
turing_machine: A Turing machine, a head with an internal state that reads, writes, and moves on a tape of symbols.
concurrency
- SIS on partnerships that dissolve and re-form
pair_formation_sis: The SIS epidemic on partnerships that dissolve and are replaced at once, withkpartners each. - Watts-May SEIR with lasting partnerships
watts_may_concurrency: The SEIR epidemic of Watts and May, where partnerships that last longer spread the infection faster.
condensation
- Zero-range process
zero_range_process: The zero-range process on a ring, which condenses above the critical density1 / (b - 2)forb > 2.
conductance
- Hodgkin-Huxley
hodgkin_huxley: The Hodgkin-Huxley neuron, whose sodium and potassium channels produce action potentials.
configuration model
- Configuration model with stub matching and rewiring
configuration_model: The configuration model, the maximally random network of a given degree sequence.
connectance
- Steady-state duplication-deletion network
duplication_deletion: The steady-state duplication-deletion network of Jensen, whose connectance settles at Eq. 8.84.
consensus
- Galam majority
galam_majority: The Galam majority system, where random groups adopt their majority until one opinion wins. - Majority rule with willingness and zealots
willing_majority: The majority rule with willingness, where zealots of willingness 0 never change their opinion. - Naming game
naming_game: The minimal naming game, where agents with empty inventories agree on one word. - Nonlinear three-body consensus on temporal hypergraphs
hypergraph_consensus: The nonlinear three-body consensus system on a random hypergraph of triangles that switch on and off. - Sznajd
sznajd: The Sznajd system, where agreeing pairs of agents convince their neighbours.
conservation
- Diffusion automaton
diffusion_automaton: A cellular automaton of diffusion,c' = c + r Σ (c_neighbour - c), started from a square of ones. - FHP lattice gas
fhp_lattice_gas: The FHP-I lattice gas on a periodic triangular lattice, with a dense disc that spreads into the gas. - Fixed-energy sandpile
fixed_energy_sandpile: The fixed-energy sandpile, a Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld pile with no drive and no loss on a periodic lattice. - HPP lattice gas
hpp_lattice_gas: The HPP lattice gas on a periodic square lattice, whose particles move along four directions and collide.
conservation law
- Burgers
burgers: The inviscid Burgers equation on a periodic interval of length 2 pi, whose sine steepens into a shock. - GKT non-local traffic
gkt_traffic: The gas-kinetic-based traffic system, where drivers brake on the traffic at an interaction point ahead. - Kerner-Konhäuser system
kerner_konhauser: The Kerner-Konhäuser system, where viscous traffic flow forms dense moving clusters. - Lighthill-Whitham-Richards
lighthill_whitham_richards: The Lighthill-Whitham-Richards system, the conservation of cars with the Greenshields speed law. - Payne system
payne: The Payne system, where the speed of traffic relaxes to the Greenshields speed and anticipates density. - Shallow-water dam break
shallow_water: The shallow-water dam break: still water at two depths that a removed dam separated at the middle. - Wave-number conservation and wave breaking
wave_breaking: The kinematic wave equation of deep-water wave trains on a periodic interval of length 2 pi.
conservative
- Nosé-Hoover oscillator
nose_hoover: The Nosé-Hoover oscillatorx' = y,y' = y z - x,z' = 1 - y², with tori next to a chaotic sea. - Sprott flow with a conservative torus and a chaotic attractor
sprott_mixed_flow: Sprott's flow with a conservative torus and a dissipative chaotic attractor side by side.
conserved
- Cahn-Hilliard phase separation (System B)
cahn_hilliard: The Cahn-Hilliard equation, System B, the conserved relaxation of an order parameter in a double well. - Nonreciprocal Cahn-Hilliard
nonreciprocal_cahn_hilliard: The nonreciprocal Cahn-Hilliard equations, a demixing field coupled to a diffusing one.
conserved noise
- Active System B+ of motility-induced phase separation
active_system_b: Active System B+, the conserved field theory of the density of active particles. - Cahn-Hilliard phase separation (System B)
cahn_hilliard: The Cahn-Hilliard equation, System B, the conserved relaxation of an order parameter in a double well.
consumer choice
- Fair-trade food choice with peer influence
fair_food: The choice between fair-trade and regular food of consumers who influence their neighbours.
consumer-resource
- Consumer-resource models of substitutable and essential resources
consumer_resource: Consumer species that compete only through the resources they take up, by MacArthur's niche theory.
contact network
- EpiSims city of people and locations
episims_city: A synthetic city in the spirit of EpiSims, where people infect those they meet at home and at work.
contagion
- Calm and nervous rats
rats: A colony of calm and nervous rats, in which nervousness spreads by contact and fades on its own. - DebtRank cascades
debtrank: The DebtRank cascade of distress from a set of banks through their interbank loans. - Default cascades with thresholds and recovery
default_cascade: A cascade of defaults through interbank exposures, from a shock to the external assets of some banks. - SIS on hypergraphs with heterogeneous exposure and a nonlinear infection kernel
hypergraph_exposure_sis: The SIS contagion of St-Onge et al. in the environments of a hypergraph, with a nonlinear kernel. - Simplicial contagion
simplicial_contagion: The simplicial contagion of Iacopini et al., an SIS process on the links and triangles of a complex.
containers
- Container model of human mobility
container_mobility: The container model of human mobility of Alessandretti, Aslak, and Lehmann, trajectories across scales.
context-free
- Context-free subshift
context_free_subshift: A Markov chain on the context-free subshift, ternary rings where every block0 1^h 2^k 0hash = k.
continuous automaton
- Lenia and its expanded universe
lenia: Lenia, a continuous automaton whose ring-kernel convolutions grow gliding, lifelike solitons.
continuous energy
- Zhang sandpile
zhang_sandpile: The Zhang sandpile, a continuous sandpile whose unstable sites give away all their energy.
continuous space
- Boids in three dimensions
boids_3d: Boids in three dimensions, birds that flock by local rules in a periodic cube. - Boids in two dimensions
boids: Reynolds' boids in two dimensions, birds that flock by local rules without a leader. - Couzin shoal with repulsion, alignment, and informed leaders
couzin_leadership: The Couzin shoal, in which a small informed minority leads a group that does not know who is informed. - Obesity system
obesity: The obesity system of adults who eat near home and work, one step per day. - The Kauai population system on region layers
kauai_population: One agent per resident of the census regions of a map, moving between home, work, and favourite places.
contract curve
- Edgeworth and Red Cross barter
barter: Barter of chocolate and cigarettes, in an Edgeworth box of two barterers or among many prisoners.
contractile
- One-dimensional active viscoelastic and poroelastic gel with contractile cells
active_viscoelastic_gel: A one-dimensional active viscoelastic gel, where contractile cells concentrate by dragging the gel.
contrarians
- Voter variants
voter_variants: Voter system variants on a network, with threshold voters and a share of contrarians.
control
- Heated room with a thermostat
heated_room: A room assembled from thermal and electrical components, heated under a thermostat with hysteresis. - Linear-quadratic regulated oscillator
lqr_oscillator: A harmonic oscillator that a linear-quadratic regulator brings to rest. - Minimum-time control of a free particle, a harmonic oscillator, and a saddle
minimum_time_control: A linear plant steered to the origin of its phase space in minimum time by a sampled bang-bang control. - Model predictive control of Duffing, Van der Pol, and a bilinear DC motor through Koopman surrogates
koopman_model_predictive_control: A plant that a discrete-time controller steers with model predictive control on a fitted surrogate. - PID governance loop
pid_loop: A work process whose output a PID controller keeps at a set point against a disturbance. - PID-stabilised inverted pendulum
pid_inverted_pendulum: An inverted pendulum on a cart that a PID controller of its angle keeps upright. - Pendulum swing-up
pendulum_swing_up: A pendulum swung up to its inverted position by a bang-bang acceleration of its pivot. - Satellite transfer
satellite_transfer: A satellite moved between Kepler orbits of equal angular momentum by radial thrust. - Thermostat
thermostat: A room heated by a furnace under a thermostat while heat leaks to the outside.
convection
- Bénard-Marangoni convection with a free, thermocapillary surface
benard_marangoni: The order-parameter equation of Bénard-Marangoni convection, which forms hexagonal cells. - Rayleigh-Bénard
rayleigh_benard: Rayleigh-Bénard convection between free-slip walls, from a small perturbation of the critical mode. - Swift-Hohenberg
swift_hohenberg: The Swift-Hohenberg equationu_t = r u - (1 + laplacian)^2 u - u^3, which forms rolls of length 2 pi.
convolution
- Amari neural field
amari_neural_field: The Amari neural field, whose lateral inhibition holds a stationary bump of activity. - Lenia and its expanded universe
lenia: Lenia, a continuous automaton whose ring-kernel convolutions grow gliding, lifelike solitons.
cooperation
- Competitive Jain-Krishna model with signed couplings
competitive_jain_krishna: The Jain-Krishna model with signed interactions, whose surviving species come to cooperate. - Evolutionary dynamics with game transitions
game_transitions: Evolutionary dynamics with game transitions on a random regular graph, after Su, McAvoy, Wang, and Nowak. - Iterated prisoner's dilemma on a lattice with strategies of cooperation rounds
iterated_lattice_dilemma: Argun's evolutionary iterated prisoner's dilemma on a lattice, with strategies ofncooperation rounds. - Iterated prisoner's dilemma tournament
prisoners_dilemma_tournament: The evolution of strategies of the iterated prisoner's dilemma from random genomes. - Public goods game
public_goods_game: The spatial public goods game in groups of five neighbours, with Fermi imitation. - Public goods game on hypergraphs
hypergraph_public_goods: The public goods game on a hypergraph, played in every hyperedge, with Fermi imitation. - Spatial prisoner's dilemma with best-neighbour and Fermi imitation
spatial_prisoners_dilemma: The spatial prisoner's dilemma of Nowak and May, with best-neighbour or Fermi imitation. - Two-player games on links and three-body games on 2-simplices
simplicial_social_dilemmas: The social dilemmas of Guo et al. on the links and the 2-simplices of a simplicial complex.
cooperative game theory
- El Farol with strategic group formation
el_farol_coalitions: Collins' El Farol bar with strategic group formation, whose coalitions share their best strategy.
copying
- Vertex-copying network growth
vertex_copying: Vertex-copying growth, whose new nodes copy the edges of existing nodes and make a heavy-tailed degree.
correlated noise
- Correlated geometric Brownian motions
correlated_geometric_brownian_motion: Two assets whose prices follow geometric Brownian motions driven by correlated Wiener processes. - Hydrodynamically coupled particles in blinking traps
hydrodynamically_coupled_traps: Two Brownian spheres in blinking optical traps, whose free motion is correlated through the fluid.
cosmology
- FLRW cosmology from the Einstein equations
flrw_cosmology: A homogeneous universe whose expansion follows from the Einstein equations of the Robertson-Walker metric. - Friedmann expansion
friedmann_expansion: The scale factor of a homogeneous universe of matter and dark energy, after Friedmann and Lemaître. - Oppenheimer-Snyder collapse of a dust ball
oppenheimer_snyder_collapse: A ball of dust at rest that collapses under its own gravity into a black hole, as Oppenheimer and Snyder.
costs
- Stimulus-response, adaptive response, and anticipation with response, restore, repair, and preparedness costs
adaptive_response_costs: A system that meets recurring demands by stimulus-response, adaptive response, or anticipation.
counting process
- Bernoulli process
bernoulli_process: Independent Bernoulli processes, one success or failure per step, whose success counts are binomial. - Poisson process
poisson_process: Independent Poisson processes, counters that grow by one at exponentially distributed waiting times.
coupled maps
- Coupled soil and deep temperature maps
soil_temperature: The coupled maps of the soil surface temperature and the deeper soil temperature. - Substance exchange between logistic cells in a closed contour
closed_contour_cell_exchange: The exchange of signalling molecules between logistic cells arranged in a closed contour.
coupling tensor
- Random Lotka-Volterra with higher-order interactions
higher_order_random_lotka_volterra: A random Lotka-Volterra community with third-order interactions.
covid
- Mark-0 economy with a Covid shock and policies
mark0: The Mark-0 economy of Sharma, Bouchaud, and co-authors, with a Covid shock to supply and demand.
credit
- Firm and bank credit networks
credit_networks: A credit market where firms sample banks and switch to cheaper lenders, and defaults hit the lenders.
crime
- Brothel movement system
trafficking: The brothel movement system, where victims moved between brothels leave traces in bills and train trips.
criminality
- Criminality and security
criminality: The kinetic system of criminality in a society and the security forces that act against it.
crises
- Mark-0 economy with a Covid shock and policies
mark0: The Mark-0 economy of Sharma, Bouchaud, and co-authors, with a Covid shock to supply and demand.
critical load
- Binary perceptron and random K-SAT
perceptron_satisfiability: A binary perceptron that must store random patterns, revealed one per step, as cardinality constraints.
critical slowing down
- Landau mean-field relaxation
landau_relaxation: The relaxation of a Landau order parameter, tosqrt(a (Tc - T) / b)belowTcand to 0 above it. - Stochastic fold with a ramped control parameter
ramped_stochastic_fold: A stochastic fold whose control is ramped through the tipping point of its lower branch.
criticality
- Galton-Watson branching
galton_watson: A Galton-Watson branching process with Poisson offspring, one generation per step. - Kauffman random Boolean networks
random_boolean_network: A Kauffman random Boolean network, nodes updated together by random functions ofkrandom inputs. - Kinouchi-Copelli excitable network
kinouchi_copelli: The Kinouchi-Copelli network of excitable elements, whose dynamic range peaks at the critical point. - NKCS coevolution on coupled NK landscapes
nkcs: The NKCS model of Kauffman and Johnsen, species climbing NK landscapes coupled to each other's genes.
cross-feeding
- Joint, community, and SteadyCom flux balance
community_fba: Two members of the E. coli core system that share a medium, which needs the extrametabolism.
crowds
- Kinetic evacuation of a network of rooms
evacuation: The kinetic system of the evacuation of a building whose rooms form a network.
culture
- Axelrod culture dissemination
axelrod: Axelrod's culture dissemination system on a full grid with von Neumann neighbourhoods.
current
- On-off flashing ratchet
flashing_ratchet: The on-off flashing ratchet, Brownian particles in a sawtooth potential switched on and off at random. - Overdamped particle in a tilted periodic potential
tilted_periodic_potential: Overdamped particles in the tilted periodic potentialV(x) = U0 cos(2 pi x / L) - f x.
cyclic dominance
- Rock-paper-scissors
rock_paper_scissors: Rock, paper, and scissors on a lattice, whose cyclic invasions keep the three strategies coexisting.
cyclic symmetry
- Thomas cyclically symmetric attractor
thomas: The Thomas flowx' = -a x + sin ywith its cyclic permutations, chaotic fora = 0.18.
cytokines
- Kirschner-Panetta system with TGF-beta and siRNA
sirna_tgf_beta: The Kirschner-Panetta system with TGF-beta, which lets the tumour evade the immune system, and siRNA. - Tumour-immune system with dendritic licensing, IL-2, IL-10, and TGF-beta
tumour_immune_suppression: A tumour against dendritic, cytotoxic, helper, and regulatory T cells with IL-2, IL-10, and TGF-beta.
dark energy
- FLRW cosmology from the Einstein equations
flrw_cosmology: A homogeneous universe whose expansion follows from the Einstein equations of the Robertson-Walker metric. - Friedmann expansion
friedmann_expansion: The scale factor of a homogeneous universe of matter and dark energy, after Friedmann and Lemaître.
data assimilation
- Lorenz-96
lorenz_96: Lorenz-96,dx_i/dt = (x_{i+1} - x_{i-2}) x_{i-1} - x_i + Fon a ring of sites around a latitude circle.
dde
- Forest dieback with replicator dynamics of mitigators
social_forest_dieback: The forest dieback model coupled with the replicator dynamics of mitigators who perceive its warming. - Ikeda delay equation
ikeda: The Ikeda delay equationx' = a sin x(t - tau)in the form of Dilão (2023, Exercise 6.4). - Phase units with activity-dependent conduction delays
adaptive_delay_network: Phase units coupled all to all through conduction delays that adapt to their activity, as myelination. - Primary and secondary sites with a migration delay under chemotherapy
delayed_metastasis: Normal and tumour cells at a primary and a secondary site, with a delayed migration of tumour cells. - Red-cell production under 6-mercaptopurine
erythropoiesis_mercaptopurine: The production of red cells under a constant level of 6-mercaptopurine, starting from health. - Resting and hunting immune cells with a conversion delay under chemotherapy
delayed_resting_hunting_chemotherapy: The tumour-immune system of resting and hunting cells with a conversion delay, under a drug infusion.
decoupling
- Three-sector purchasing power decoupled by feedback
categorized_purchasing_power: Forrest's categorized purchasing power of money, three sectors that feedback can steer one by one.
default cascade
- Default cascades with thresholds and recovery
default_cascade: A cascade of defaults through interbank exposures, from a shock to the external assets of some banks.
deformable particles
- Deformable active particles of Ohta and Ohkuma
deformable_active_particles: Deformable self-propelled particles of Ohta and Ohkuma, which move straight or along circles.
degree distribution
- Kronecker graphs
kronecker_graph: The Kronecker graph of two graphs, whose adjacency matrix is the Kronecker product of theirs. - Network superposition model of Erdős-Rényi subgraphs
network_superposition: The network superposition model, a union of Erdős-Rényi graphs whose linking probabilities are drawn.
degree sequence
- Configuration model with stub matching and rewiring
configuration_model: The configuration model, the maximally random network of a given degree sequence.
delay
- Aggregate-averaging synchronization of logistic and delay-coupled Bernoulli maps
aggregate_averaging_synchronization: Two chaotic maps coupled by aggregate averaging, which synchronize their chaos for strong coupling. - Beer distribution game
beer_game: Sterman's beer distribution game, a supply chain whose orders swing wider at every echelon upstream. - Bone-marrow and blood cells with blasts and cancer stem cells
bone_marrow_blood_leukaemia: The bone marrow and blood system of leukaemia, in which blasts crowd out the normal cells. - Boolean repressilator
boolean_repressilator: The Boolean repressilator, where LacI represses TetR, TetR represses cI, and cI represses LacI. - Car following with delay
delayed_car_following: A chain of cars that react to the speed difference to the car ahead after a reaction time. - Car-dealer inventory with delays
car_dealer: Meadows' car dealership, whose inventory oscillates after a step in demand because of its delays. - Commodity cycle with capacity delay
commodity_cycle: A commodity market whose price and capacity cycle because new capacity arrives after a delay. - Delayed Kuramoto
delayed_kuramoto: Kuramoto phase oscillators coupled all to all through signals that arrive after a delay. - Discrete-time SIRS with a recovery delay
delayed_sirs: Two cities with recurrent outbreaks of a disease of fixed infection and immunity periods. - ENSO delay oscillator
enso: The delayed oscillator of El Niño of Suarez and Schopf,dT/dt = T - T^3 - alpha T(t - delta). - Forest dieback with replicator dynamics of mitigators
social_forest_dieback: The forest dieback model coupled with the replicator dynamics of mitigators who perceive its warming. - Hutchinson
hutchinson: Hutchinson's delayed logistic equation, which oscillates aroundKwhenr * tauexceeds π/2. - Ikeda delay equation
ikeda: The Ikeda delay equationx' = a sin x(t - tau)in the form of Dilão (2023, Exercise 6.4). - Light-emitting robots with sensory delay
light_emitting_robots: Light-emitting robots, which cluster when they sense the light of the others late and spread when early. - Light-sensitive robots with sensory delay
light_seeking_robots: Light-sensitive robots in a circular well, whose sensory delay decides whether they gather in the light. - Mackey-Glass
mackey_glass: The Mackey-Glass equationx' = beta x(t - tau) / (1 + x(t - tau)^n) - gamma xof blood cell production. - Networks of leaky integrate-and-fire neurons with delays
delayed_lif_network: A random network of leaky integrate-and-fire neurons whose spikes reach their targets after a delay. - Primary and secondary sites with a migration delay under chemotherapy
delayed_metastasis: Normal and tumour cells at a primary and a secondary site, with a delayed migration of tumour cells. - Red-cell production under 6-mercaptopurine
erythropoiesis_mercaptopurine: The production of red cells under a constant level of 6-mercaptopurine, starting from health. - Resting and hunting immune cells with a conversion delay under chemotherapy
delayed_resting_hunting_chemotherapy: The tumour-immune system of resting and hunting cells with a conversion delay, under a drug infusion. - Steerable receptor-effector negative feedback loop
steerable_feedback_loop: A receptor-effector loop that holds a product at its set point until a steering signal shifts it. - Tumour-immune populations with division delays under dendritic-cell vaccination
delayed_dc_vaccine: A tumour and eight innate and adaptive immune populations, with division delays, under a vaccine. - Watts-May SEIR with lasting partnerships
watts_may_concurrency: The SEIR epidemic of Watts and May, where partnerships that last longer spread the infection faster.
deletion
- Steady-state duplication-deletion network
duplication_deletion: The steady-state duplication-deletion network of Jensen, whose connectance settles at Eq. 8.84.
demand
- Heterogeneous household demand by utility and by elasticities
household_demand: Hamill and Gilbert's heterogeneous households, whose demand for food traces a curve as its price rises.
dendritic cells
- Oncolytic adenovirus with T cells and dendritic-cell injection
oncolytic_virus_dendritic: A tumour treated with an oncolytic adenovirus that expresses immune signals and with dendritic cells. - T cells, tumour, dendritic cells, and IL-2 under dendritic-cell vaccination
dendritic_cell_vaccine: Helper and cytotoxic T cells, a tumour, dendritic cells, and IL-2 under a dendritic-cell vaccine. - Tumour-immune populations with division delays under dendritic-cell vaccination
delayed_dc_vaccine: A tumour and eight innate and adaptive immune populations, with division delays, under a vaccine.
detailed balance
- Discrete master equation
discrete_master_equation: The discrete-time master equation of states on a ring, which relaxes to the Boltzmann distribution.
deterministic
- Employment takeover
employment_takeover: The employment takeover system on a periodic checkerboard, with half of each kind coloured at random. - HPP lattice gas
hpp_lattice_gas: The HPP lattice gas on a periodic square lattice, whose particles move along four directions and collide.
diauxie
- Regulatory flux balance analysis
regulatory_fba: A batch culture on glucose and acetate with Boolean catabolite repression, which needs the extra.
differential adhesion
- Cellular Potts model of cell sorting on square, triangular, and disordered lattices
cellular_potts: The cellular Potts model of a confluent tissue whose cells of several kinds sort by differential adhesion.
diffusion
- Active Brownian particles
active_brownian_particles: Active Brownian particles in the plane, which swim at a constant speed in a diffusing direction. - Bass diffusion
bass_diffusion: The Bass diffusion system, people who adopt a new product through advertising and word of mouth. - COMETS: dynamic flux balance on a lattice with diffusion
comets: An expanding colony of the E. coli core system on a lattice, which needs the extrametabolism. - Cubic chaotic map and its chaotic walk
cubic_chaotic_map: Bertin's cubic chaotic map and the chaotic walk it drives, which spreads like a random walk. - Diffusion
network_diffusion: Diffusion on a network,du_i/dt = D Σ_j A_ij (u_j - u_i), which spreads a unit mass to every node. - Diffusion automaton
diffusion_automaton: A cellular automaton of diffusion,c' = c + r Σ (c_neighbour - c), started from a square of ones. - Fixed-line phone adoption
phone_adoption: Hamill and Gilbert's adoption of fixed-line phones by British households from 1951. - Heat diffusion
heat_diffusion: Heat diffusing on a plate from a hot square in its middle,du/dt = D laplacian(u). - Heat on an L-shaped domain
heat_l_shape: Heat on the L-shaped domain with fixed boundary temperatures, discretised by linear finite elements. - Inertial and overdamped Brownian motion
brownian_motion: Free Brownian particles with inertia,m x'' = -gamma x' + sqrt(2 kT gamma) W, or without it. - Kimura diffusion of allele frequencies
kimura_diffusion: Replicate populations whose allele frequencies diffuse by drift until the allele is lost or fixed. - Namrata's Family, diffusion of working conditions in supply chains
supply_chain_diffusion: Chesney's Namrata's Family, buyers who push good working conditions down their supply network. - Neutral birth-death with hopping between boxes
neutral_clustering: Organisms that divide, die, and hop between patches on a periodic lattice, and gather in clusters. - Persistent random walk
persistent_random_walk: Walkers on the integers that keep the direction of their last step with a probability. - Random walks
random_walk: Independent walkers on the integers that step at random times, a continuous-time random walk. - Random-walk traders with arbitrage
arbitrage_traders: Schwichtenberg's diffusion of a good by random-walk traders, minimally coupled to exchange rates.
digital market
- Shops and digital markets
shops: Shops on a grid that compete for the shoppers on every cell, in person or in a digital market.
dimension reduction
- Ott-Antonsen reduction
ott_antonsen: The Ott-Antonsen equation for the order parameter of infinitely many Kuramoto oscillators.
directed percolation
- Langevin field theory of absorbing-state transitions with a conserved energy field
directed_percolation_langevin: The Langevin field theory of an absorbing-state transition, an active density fed by an energy field.
discrete choice
- Customers choosing between two shops of perishable goods
perishable_goods_duopoly: Customers who choose between two shops of perishable goods, preferring the one that sold fresher goods.
discrete map
- Adaptrode synapse
adaptrode: An Adaptrode synapse driven by a train of input pulses that stops after a while. - Asymmetric diluted Hopfield network
diluted_hopfield: The asymmetric diluted Hopfield network, which recalls a stored pattern below its memory capacity. - Baker
baker_map: The generalized baker map, which stretches the unit square alongxand stacks the two pieces iny. - Beam-beam map
beam_beam_map: The beam-beam map of a particle of an accelerator beam that meets the opposite beam once every turn. - Bernoulli doubling map
doubling_map: An ensemble of the doubling mapx' = 2x (mod 1), iterated exactly on fractions with an odd denominator. - Boolean repressilator
boolean_repressilator: The Boolean repressilator, where LacI represses TetR, TetR represses cI, and cI represses LacI. - Boolean system of the mammalian cell cycle
mammalian_cell_cycle: The Boolean system of the mammalian cell cycle of Faure et al., ten proteins updated synchronously. - Brock-Mirman stochastic growth
brock_mirman_growth: The Brock-Mirman economy, the optimal growth of a representative agent whose productivity is Markov. - Cascais-Dilão-Noronha Gaussian map
cdn_map: The Cascais-Dilão-Noronha Gaussian mapx' = exp(-alpha² x²) + βof an interval. - Cat map
cat_map: Arnold's cat map(x, y) → (2x + y, x + y) (mod 1), an area-preserving hyperbolic map of the torus. - Circle
circle_map: The sine circle mapθ' = θ + Ω - K / (2π) sin 2πθ (mod 1), which locks into Arnold tongues. - Cobweb
cobweb: A market whose price converges to or oscillates around equilibrium as supply lags the price. - Combinatorial creative phase transition
creative_phase_transition: The diversity of a combinatorial system, which jumps from sparse to full above a critical rule density. - Conservative Hénon map
conservative_henon_map: Hénon's area-preserving quadratic map, a rotation by2π nuwith a quadratic kick. - Coupled soil and deep temperature maps
soil_temperature: The coupled maps of the soil surface temperature and the deeper soil temperature. - Crop livestock household
crop_livestock_household: Bala's crop livestock model, a farming household that adds livestock rearing to its crop income. - Cubic chaotic map and its chaotic walk
cubic_chaotic_map: Bertin's cubic chaotic map and the chaotic walk it drives, which spreads like a random walk. - Discrete-time SIRS with a recovery delay
delayed_sirs: Two cities with recurrent outbreaks of a disease of fixed infection and immunity periods. - Echo state network
echo_state_network: An echo state network, a reservoir of leaky tanh units with random recurrent weights driven by a sine. - Ehrenfest urn system of two boxes
ehrenfest_urn: The Ehrenfest urn system, balls moved one at a time between two boxes, which relaxes to equal counts. - Eigen quasispecies
eigen_quasispecies: The shares of a population at every number of mutations from the master sequence, the linear chain system. - Elman recurrent network trained by backpropagation
elman_network: Elman's simple recurrent network, which learns to predict the next bit of a temporal XOR stream. - Evolutionary Sherrington-Kirkpatrick game
evolutionary_sk_game: The evolutionary Sherrington-Kirkpatrick game, which self-organises to the edge of ergodicity breaking. - Exchange rates in international trade
exchange_rates: Hamill and Gilbert's staged adjustment of trade and the exchange rate to a rise in home prices. - Fermi-Ulam map
fermi_ulam_map: The Fermi-Ulam map of a ball bouncing between a fixed wall and a wall that oscillates in time. - Fibonacci rabbits
fibonacci_rabbits: Fibonacci's rabbits,N_{t+1} = N_t + N_{t-1}, where every pair older than one month breeds a new pair. - Generalized tent map
skew_tent_map: An ensemble of the skew tent map, whose density relaxes to the uniform invariant density for anya. - Heterogeneous household demand by utility and by elasticities
household_demand: Hamill and Gilbert's heterogeneous households, whose demand for food traces a curve as its price rises. - Hidden Markov source
hidden_markov_source: A hidden Markov source, whose symbols are emitted at random from the states of a hidden Markov chain. - Hénon map
henon_map: The Hénon mapx' = 1 - a x² + y,y' = b x, with a fractal strange attractor for its defaults. - Intermittency maps
intermittency_map: The Pomeau-Manneville mapx' = x + x^z (mod 1), whose long laminar phases near 0 end in chaotic bursts. - Intrinsic-instability populations
intrinsic_instability: Jensen's coupled populations, whose steady state becomes unstable without a change of the surroundings. - Iterated function systems by the chaos game
chaos_game: Points that draw the attractor of an iterated function system by the chaos game. - Kauffman random Boolean networks
random_boolean_network: A Kauffman random Boolean network, nodes updated together by random functions ofkrandom inputs. - Kirman exchange rate with switching traders
kirman_exchange_rate: Kirman's foreign exchange market, whose traders switch between fundamentalism and chartism like ants. - Logistic map
logistic_map: The logistic mapx_{t+1} = r x_t (1 - x_t), which reaches chaos through period doubling asrgrows. - Lozi map
lozi_map: The Lozi mapx' = 1 + y - a |x|,y' = b x, the piecewise linear Hénon map with a strange attractor. - Markov source
markov_source: A Markov source, a sequence of symbols in which each symbol depends on the one before it. - Multiplier-accelerator
multiplier_accelerator: Samuelson's multiplier-accelerator,Y_{t+1} = c (1 + v) Y_t - c v Y_{t-1} + G. - Newton-Raphson map
newton_raphson_map: Newton's method forz³ = 1in the complex plane,z' = (2z³ + 1) / (3z²), in real coordinates. - Next-generation reservoir computer
next_generation_reservoir: A next-generation reservoir computer whose variables follow the ridge readout of their monomials. - Nicholson-Bailey
nicholson_bailey: Hosts and parasitoids in discrete generations, whose equilibrium is unstable to growing oscillations. - PageRank iterations on networks
pagerank: The PageRank iterationr_i' = (1 - d) / n + d Σ_j A_ij r_j / k_jon an undirected network. - Persistent random walk
persistent_random_walk: Walkers on the integers that keep the direction of their last step with a probability. - Probabilistic Boolean network
probabilistic_boolean_network: A probabilistic Boolean network, whose nodes draw one of their candidate functions at every step. - Random walk with autoregressive velocity
random_walk_with_memory: Random walks whose velocity is an autoregressive process,x ← x + vandv ← alpha v + xi. - Ricker map of overcompensating generations
ricker: Ricker's map of a population in discrete generations,n' = r n exp(-n), chaotic for larger. - SK game of reinforcement learners
sk_game: The SK game, reinforcement learners whose rewards come from quenched Sherrington-Kirkpatrick couplings. - Standard
standard_map: The Chirikov standard mapp' = p + K sin θ,θ' = θ + p', with global chaos above K ≈ 0.9716. - Stock-flow consistent monetary economy
stock_flow_consistent_economy: A stock-flow consistent economy, a closed circuit of money between households, firms, and a bank. - Tent
tent_map: The tent mapx' = μ min(x, 1 - x), chaotic with Lyapunov exponentln μfor μ above 1. - Three-gene Boolean network
three_gene_boolean_network: The three-gene Boolean network of Raman, updated synchronously. - Towel maps
towel_map: Rössler's towel map, a three-dimensional map with two positive Lyapunov exponents. - Yeast cell-cycle network
yeast_cell_cycle: The Boolean network of the budding yeast cell cycle of Li et al., eleven proteins and their regulation.
discrete time
- Ginelli nematic particles
ginelli_nematics: Polar particles with nematic alignment, which order along a common axis but move both ways along it. - Grégoire-Chaté cohesive flocks
gregoire_chate: The Grégoire-Chaté system: aligning particles that also attract and repel, forming cohesive flocks. - Vicsek system with metric, topological, vision-cone, and delayed alignment
vicsek: The Vicsek system: particles that move at a constant speed along the mean heading of their neighbours.
discrete velocities
- Discrete-velocity Boltzmann gas of Carleman
discrete_velocity_boltzmann: The Carleman discrete-velocity Boltzmann equation on a periodic line, from a pulse of right movers.
disorder
- Binary perceptron and random K-SAT
perceptron_satisfiability: A binary perceptron that must store random patterns, revealed one per step, as cardinality constraints. - Continuum percolation
continuum_percolation: Overlapping disks at uniform positions in a square, whose clusters percolate near a filling of 1.13. - Diffusion in a speckle field
diffusion_in_a_speckle_field: Brownian particles in a random speckle field, trapped at hotspots for longer as the field grows stronger. - Edwards-Anderson spin glass
edwards_anderson: The Edwards-Anderson spin glass on a periodic square lattice, with quenched random bonds. - Fully biased walk among quenched broad traps
biased_trap_walk: Walkers that hop always to the right through quenched traps with broadly distributed trapping times. - Mattis spin glass
mattis_spin_glass: The Mattis spin glass on a periodic square lattice, with couplingsJ_ij = J xi_i xi_jof a patternxi. - Random energy system
random_energy_system: The random energy system,2^Nquenched Gaussian energies of varianceN / 2at a temperature. - SK game of reinforcement learners
sk_game: The SK game, reinforcement learners whose rewards come from quenched Sherrington-Kirkpatrick couplings. - Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass
sherrington_kirkpatrick: The Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass with Glauber dynamics, frozen below the temperatureT_c = J.
dispersal
- Size-structured forest with shading and seed dispersal
forest_size_structure: The McKendrick-von Foerster density of trees over position across a strip and height.
distribution
- Criminality and security
criminality: The kinetic system of criminality in a society and the security forces that act against it. - Immune competition
immune_competition: The kinetic system of the competition between tumour cells and immune cells. - Kinetic evacuation of a network of rooms
evacuation: The kinetic system of the evacuation of a building whose rooms form a network. - Kinetic opinion formation
kinetic_opinion: The kinetic system of opinion formation over a discrete grid of opinions. - Kinetic wealth and welfare dynamics
kinetic_wealth_welfare: The kinetic theory of wealth classes, with a welfare policy when the tax is positive.
divergence entropy
- Fuzzy oil drop system of protein structure
fuzzy_oil_drop: The fuzzy oil drop of a protein, an ensemble replayed one member per frame or a chain folded by moves.
diversity
- Sequentially linear ecosystem
sequentially_linear_ecosystem: An ecosystem whose abundances follow linear dynamics between extinctions that rewrite its network.
dna computing
- Adleman DNA computation of a Hamiltonian path
dna_computation: Adleman's DNA computation of a Hamiltonian path, by random ligation of edge oligos in a test tube.
dose response
- Linear-quadratic cell survival and biologically effective dose
lq_cell_survival: The linear-quadratic survival of cells after a total dose, with its biologically effective dose.
dosing
- Core and periphery vasculature under anti-angiogenic therapy
vascular_core_periphery: A tumour with a live core, a live periphery, and a necrotic core, each fed by its own vasculature. - Cumulative drug toxicity
drug_toxicity: The toxicity a weekly drug accumulates in the body, which the metabolism clears once the doses stop. - Linear-quadratic impulsive irradiation with a radiosensitizer
lq_radiosensitizer: A xenograft tumour irradiated in fractions scored by the linear-quadratic system, with a radiosensitizer. - Normal and tumour competition under radiation
radiotherapy_competition: Normal and tumour cells in Lotka-Volterra competition, the tumour irradiated periodically. - Norton-Simon Gompertzian cell kill
norton_simon: The Norton-Simon system, a Gompertzian tumour killed in proportion to its size by a dose schedule. - Skipper-Schabel-Wilcox log-kill
skipper_log_kill: The log-kill system, an exponentially growing tumour of which every dose kills a fixed fraction. - T cells, tumour, and anti-PD-1 checkpoint inhibitor
anti_pd1_checkpoint: Activated T cells, a tumour, and an anti-PD-1 drug that frees the T cells from checkpoint inhibition. - T cells, tumour, dendritic cells, and IL-2 under dendritic-cell vaccination
dendritic_cell_vaccine: Helper and cytotoxic T cells, a tumour, dendritic cells, and IL-2 under a dendritic-cell vaccine. - Tumour and vascular volume under an angiogenesis inhibitor
hahnfeldt: The Hahnfeldt system, a tumour whose carrying capacity is the vasculature it stimulates and inhibits. - Tumour, NK cells, CD8 T cells, and lymphocytes under chemoimmunotherapy
chemoimmunotherapy: A tumour with NK cells, CD8 T cells, and lymphocytes under chemotherapy, IL-2, and TIL injection.
double auction
- Gooding double auction with adaptive quotes
gooding_double_auction: Gooding's double auction, whose buyers and sellers move their quotes towards trade and then apart. - Zero-intelligence double auction
double_auction: Gode and Sunder's double auction of zero-intelligence traders, a step per trading period.
double well
- Kramers escape
kramers_escape: Particles that escape over the barrier ofU = x^4 / 4 - x^2 / 2by thermal noise of intensityD.
drive-response
- Rössler-driven Lorenz and generalized synchronization
rossler_driven_lorenz: A chaotic Rössler system that drives a Lorenz-63 system through its second variable.
driven
- Pulsed electrochemical reactor
pulsed_electrochemical_reactor: A stirred electrochemical reactor whose electrode is driven by a train of current pulses.
drug resistance
- Acquired and induced resistance with phenotype switching
drug_resistance_switching: Sensitive cells and cells resistant by mutation or by a reversible phenotype switch under a dose. - Resistance subpopulations under three drugs
multidrug_resistance: A tumour of eight populations resistant to subsets of three drugs, given by constant infusions.
duplication
- Steady-state duplication-deletion network
duplication_deletion: The steady-state duplication-deletion network of Jensen, whose connectance settles at Eq. 8.84.
dynamic aperture
- Conservative Hénon map
conservative_henon_map: Hénon's area-preserving quadratic map, a rotation by2π nuwith a quadratic kick.
dynamic flux balance
- COMETS: dynamic flux balance on a lattice with diffusion
comets: An expanding colony of the E. coli core system on a lattice, which needs the extrametabolism. - Dynamic flux balance analysis of a batch culture
dynamic_fba: A batch culture of the E. coli core system, which needs the extrametabolism. - Dynamic multi-species metabolic system
dynamic_multispecies_fba: Two E. coli core strains that differ in maximal glucose uptake on one medium, which needs the extra.
dynamic range
- Kinouchi-Copelli excitable network
kinouchi_copelli: The Kinouchi-Copelli network of excitable elements, whose dynamic range peaks at the critical point.
early stage
- Early-stage protein folding intermediate
early_stage_folding_intermediate: The residues of a protein sampling the cells of an ellipse path of the Ramachandran map by heat bath.
early warning
- Intrinsic-instability populations
intrinsic_instability: Jensen's coupled populations, whose steady state becomes unstable without a change of the surroundings.
early warning signals
- Stochastic fold with a ramped control parameter
ramped_stochastic_fold: A stochastic fold whose control is ramped through the tipping point of its lower branch.
earthquakes
- Burridge-Knopoff spring-block fault
burridge_knopoff: The Burridge-Knopoff fault, a chain of blocks pulled by a moving plate that sticks and slips. - Olami-Feder-Christensen
earthquakes: The Olami-Feder-Christensen earthquake system with open edges, started from random forces.
echo chambers
- Echo chambers and radicalization on an activity-driven network
echo_chamber_radicalization: The radicalization model of echo chambers of Baumann and coauthors on an activity-driven network.
echo state
- Echo state network
echo_state_network: An echo state network, a reservoir of leaky tanh units with random recurrent weights driven by a sine.
ecosystems
- Tangled Nature
tangled_nature: The Tangled Nature system, where organisms whose types interact through random couplings coevolve.
edge contraction
- Node-merging network of Kim et al.
node_merging: The node-merging network of Kim et al., whose merging of linked nodes builds hubs without growth.
eigenfunctions
- Quadratic system with a slow manifold and a finite Koopman embedding
koopman_slow_manifold: The quadratic flowx1' = mu x1,x2' = lam (x2 - x1^2), with a slow manifold and a linear embedding.
el farol
- El Farol
el_farol: Arthur's El Farol bar problem, whose attendance self-organizes around the capacity. - El Farol with strategic group formation
el_farol_coalitions: Collins' El Farol bar with strategic group formation, whose coalitions share their best strategy.
electrochemistry
- Pulsed electrochemical reactor
pulsed_electrochemical_reactor: A stirred electrochemical reactor whose electrode is driven by a train of current pulses.
electromagnet
- Electromagnetic vibrating table
vibrating_table: An electromagnetic vibrating table, a shaker driven by a sinusoidal supply after its switch closes.
electromagnetism
- RLC circuit
rlc_circuit: A series RLC circuit written as Kirchhoff's voltage law,L q'' + R q' + q / C = V cos(ω t). - Schrödinger equation minimally coupled to an electromagnetic potential
charged_schrodinger: A Gaussian wave packet of a charge in a prescribed electromagnetic potential, after Schwichtenberg 4.3.
electromechanics
- Faraday-disk charger
faraday_disk: A battery charger driven by a Faraday disk generator whose own current strengthens its field. - Regenerative braking
regenerative_braking: A car braked by a Faraday disk generator on its wheel, which charges a supercapacitor.
elementary
- Elementary automata
elementary_automaton: An elementary cellular automaton by its Wolfram number, started from a single live cell by default. - Noisy automata
noisy_automata: An elementary cellular automaton whose outputs are flipped at random with a small probability.
elementary flux modes
- Elementary flux modes and extreme pathways
elementary_flux_modes: The toy network of Raman whose steady-state coneElementaryModeAnalysisenumerates.
elementary metabolite units
- Carbon-13 metabolic flux analysis
carbon_13_mfa: A metabolic network thatLabellingAnalysisfits to labelling data, the TCA example by default.
elliptic umbilic
- Three-way fate decision on the compactified elliptic umbilic
three_way_fate_decision: Cells that choose among three fates on the compactified elliptic umbilic landscape of Rand et al.
emergence
- Ajani's Choice
ajanis_choice: Chesney's Ajani's Choice, migrant farm workers and employers among whom underpayment emerges. - Game of Life
game_of_life: Conway's Game of Life, or another life-like rule, on a torus. - Game of Life on a rewired small-world network
small_world_life: Conway's Game of Life on a small-world network rewired from the Moore lattice of a torus. - Langton's ant
langtons_ant: Langton's ant, which wanders chaotically for about 10,000 steps before it builds a periodic highway.
emotions
- Stigmergic predator-prey automaton
stigmergic_predator_prey: Plants, prey, and predators on a grid, whose animals share emotions through decaying marks.
employment
- Employment takeover
employment_takeover: The employment takeover system on a periodic checkerboard, with half of each kind coloured at random.
endemic
- SIRS
sirs: An epidemic whose immunity wanes, which returns in damped waves to an endemic equilibrium. - SIS
sis: An infection without immunity, where the recovered become susceptible again and the disease is endemic.
energy
- Declining energy return on investment
energy_return: The extraction of a finite energy reserve whose energy return on investment declines as it depletes. - Faraday-disk charger
faraday_disk: A battery charger driven by a Faraday disk generator whose own current strengthens its field. - Pendulum swing-up
pendulum_swing_up: A pendulum swung up to its inverted position by a bang-bang acceleration of its pivot. - Regenerative braking
regenerative_braking: A car braked by a Faraday disk generator on its wheel, which charges a supercapacitor. - Wheel and rail contact
wheel_rail_contact: A rail segment on a sleeper, loaded by the wheels of passing bogies.
energy balance
- Budyko-Sellers latitude system
budyko_sellers: The Budyko-Sellers energy balance of one hemisphere, resolved in the sine of latitude. - Stochastic energy balance with bifurcation-, noise-, and rate-induced tipping
sutera_fraedrich_tipping: The Sutera-Fraedrich stochastic energy balance set up for bifurcation-, noise-, or rate-induced tipping. - Zero-dimensional energy balance with ice albedo
energy_balance: The zero-dimensional energy balance of the Earth, bistable through the ice-albedo feedback.
energy cascade
- Dissipative zero-range process on a tree
dissipative_zero_range: The dissipative zero-range process on a tree, with energy injected at the root and lost at the leaves.
energy depot
- Depot-pumped Brownian particles
depot_brownian_particles: Brownian particles with energy depots, which start at rest and take up the speedsqrt(q/gamma - c/d).
energy harvesting
- Vibration energy harvester
vibration_energy_harvester: A dual-mass piezoelectric harvester in a car suspension, driven by the roughness of the road.
entropy
- Ehrenfest urn system of two boxes
ehrenfest_urn: The Ehrenfest urn system, balls moved one at a time between two boxes, which relaxes to equal counts. - Mandelbrot least-effort word frequencies
mandelbrot_least_effort: The word frequencies that minimise the mean cost of a language over its entropy, a power law of rank.
entropy rate
- Markov source
markov_source: A Markov source, a sequence of symbols in which each symbol depends on the one before it.
enzyme kinetics
- Chemical Langevin equation of the enzyme network
chemical_langevin_network: The chemical Langevin equation of the enzyme reactionE + S <-> C -> E + P. - Michaelis-Menten as ODEs and as a jump process
michaelis_menten: The enzyme reactionE + S <-> C -> E + Pof Michaelis and Menten, as rate equations or as jumps.
epidemic threshold
- Activity-driven temporal networks
activity_driven_epidemics: SIS spreading on an activity-driven temporal network, whose edges last one step. - Adaptive SIS with rewiring
adaptive_sis: The SIS epidemic on a network whose susceptible nodes cut their edges to infected neighbours. - Degree-class SIR on uncorrelated networks
heterogeneous_mean_field_sir: The SIR epidemic on an uncorrelated network of power-law degrees, in heterogeneous mean field. - Heterogeneous mean-field SIS
heterogeneous_mean_field_sis: The SIS epidemic on a network with a power-law degree distribution, in heterogeneous mean field. - Quenched mean-field SIS
quenched_mean_field_sis: The SIS epidemic on a fixed network in quenched mean field, one infection probability per node.
epidemics
- Contact process
contact_process: The contact process on a periodic lattice, which survives above a critical infection rate near 1.65.
episims
- EpiSims city of people and locations
episims_city: A synthetic city in the spirit of EpiSims, where people infect those they meet at home and at work.
equilibrium
- Gooding double auction with adaptive quotes
gooding_double_auction: Gooding's double auction, whose buyers and sellers move their quotes towards trade and then apart. - Static oligopoly equilibria
oligopoly_equilibria: The equilibria of a Cournot duopoly and of a pricing game of firms with loyal customers and switchers.
equivariant
- Self-indexed shift over a group alphabet
self_indexed_shift: The mapτ(x)(g) = x(g · x(g))over the group as alphabet, continuous and equivariant but no automaton.
eroding goals
- Drift to low performance
drift_to_low_performance: Meadows' drift to low performance trap, eroding goals that follow a pessimistic view of the performance.
error threshold
- Eigen quasispecies
eigen_quasispecies: The shares of a population at every number of mutations from the master sequence, the linear chain system.
escape
- Kramers escape
kramers_escape: Particles that escape over the barrier ofU = x^4 / 4 - x^2 / 2by thermal noise of intensityD.
escape time
- Julia sets
julia: The filled Julia set ofz -> z^2 + c, the starting points whose orbit stays bounded (Dilão 2023 §5.5). - Mandelbrot set
mandelbrot: The Mandelbrot set, the pointscwhose orbit ofz -> z^2 + cfrom 0 stays bounded (Dilão 2023 §5.5).
euler-lagrange
- DC motor with an inertia
dc_motor: A DC motor whose armature circuit of components drives an inertia on a Lagrangian coordinate.
evacuation
- Kinetic evacuation of a network of rooms
evacuation: The kinetic system of the evacuation of a building whose rooms form a network.
even shift
- Even and S-gap subshifts
gap_subshift: The shift on the S-gap subshift, the binary sequences whose runs of zeros between ones lie inS.
events
- Ballistic pendulum
ballistic_pendulum: A bullet that sticks in the block of a pendulum at rest, which then swings up. - Bouncing ball
bouncing_ball: A ball that falls under gravity and bounces off the floor, losing speed by a coefficient of restitution. - Circuits under periodic impulses
impulsive_circuits: An RLC circuit driven by a periodic train of current impulses,L C x'' + R C x' + x = A Σ δ(t - k T). - Circular billiard
circular_billiard: A particle moving freely inside a circle and reflecting specularly off its wall. - Dynamical billiards of Sinai, mushroom, and open three-disk shapes
billiards: A particle moving freely on a billiard table and reflecting specularly off its walls. - Heated room with a thermostat
heated_room: A room assembled from thermal and electrical components, heated under a thermostat with hysteresis. - Integrate-and-fire
integrate_and_fire: The leaky integrate-and-fire neuron,tau v' = -(v - rest) + R I, which spikes and resets at a threshold. - Intermittent androgen suppression switched by PSA thresholds
ideta_intermittent_androgen: The Ideta system of intermittent androgen suppression, switched on and off by PSA thresholds. - Izhikevich
izhikevich: The Izhikevich neuron, whose four parameters give regular spiking, bursting, chattering, and more. - Linear-quadratic impulsive irradiation with a radiosensitizer
lq_radiosensitizer: A xenograft tumour irradiated in fractions scored by the linear-quadratic system, with a radiosensitizer. - Magnetic levitation under alternating impulses
magnetic_levitation: A conductive ball levitated in a vacuum by a field that pushes and pulls it with alternating impulses. - Minimum-time control of a free particle, a harmonic oscillator, and a saddle
minimum_time_control: A linear plant steered to the origin of its phase space in minimum time by a sampled bang-bang control. - Mirollo-Strogatz pulse-coupled oscillators
mirollo_strogatz: Integrate-and-fire oscillators coupled by pulses, which end up firing in unison. - Networks of leaky integrate-and-fire neurons with delays
delayed_lif_network: A random network of leaky integrate-and-fire neurons whose spikes reach their targets after a delay. - Newton's cradle
newtons_cradle: Newton's cradle: pendulum balls in a row that pass momentum along by elastic collisions. - Piecewise-linear intermittent androgen suppression
piecewise_linear_ias: The Hirata piecewise-linear system of intermittent androgen suppression for one of three patient types. - Strongly nonlinear oscillator under periodic impulses
impulsive_oscillator: An oscillator kicked by a periodic train of impulses of alternating sign.
evolution
- Bit-string evolution on a fitness landscape
bit_string_evolution: A population of bit strings that evolves on a random additive fitness landscape. - Evolutionary dynamics with game transitions
game_transitions: Evolutionary dynamics with game transitions on a random regular graph, after Su, McAvoy, Wang, and Nowak. - Iterated prisoner's dilemma tournament
prisoners_dilemma_tournament: The evolution of strategies of the iterated prisoner's dilemma from random genomes. - Metaphoria mortal hunter-gatherer and monetary economies
metaphoria: Gooding's Metaphoria, a mortal population of hunter-gatherers or of a monetary economy. - Minority game and its evolutionary version
minority_game: The minority game of an odd number of agents with two random strategies each. - RobbyGA can collector and evolution by circumstance
robby_ga: Mitchell's genetic algorithm that evolves strategies for Robby, a robot that collects cans in a room. - Spatial prisoner's dilemma with best-neighbour and Fermi imitation
spatial_prisoners_dilemma: The spatial prisoner's dilemma of Nowak and May, with best-neighbour or Fermi imitation. - Steady-state duplication-deletion network
duplication_deletion: The steady-state duplication-deletion network of Jensen, whose connectance settles at Eq. 8.84. - Toy Trader and Three-Goods Trader with money
toy_trader: Gooding's Toy Trader, traders with money and toys who buy the cheapest toy they can see.
evolutionary algorithm
- Simulated annealing, genetic algorithms, and differential evolution
evolutionary_optimisers: A population of candidates that searches a two-dimensional landscape, one generation per step.
evolutionary game
- Replicator dynamics and hawks and doves
replicator_dynamics: The replicator dynamics of a game, by default hawks and doves, which settle at a shareV / Cof hawks. - Rock-paper-scissors
rock_paper_scissors: Rock, paper, and scissors on a lattice, whose cyclic invasions keep the three strategies coexisting.
evolvability
- Genotype spaces and neutral networks of RNA folds
rna_neutral_networks: Walkers of RNA sequences that take one proposed point mutation per unit of time at temperature zero.
exchange
- Boltzmann wealth exchange
boltzmann_wealth: A Boltzmann wealth exchange system where every agent starts with one unit. - Exchange with debt limit and with saving propensity
kinetic_wealth_exchange: A kinetic wealth exchange system with a saving propensity or a debt limit.
exchange rate
- Exchange rates in international trade
exchange_rates: Hamill and Gilbert's staged adjustment of trade and the exchange rate to a rise in home prices. - Kirman exchange rate with switching traders
kirman_exchange_rate: Kirman's foreign exchange market, whose traders switch between fundamentalism and chartism like ants.
exchange rates
- Traders and exchange rates coupled through arbitrage as lattice electrodynamics
gauge_arbitrage_market: Exchange-rate potentials on links as lattice Maxwell fields, sourced by traders who move a good on sites.
excitability
- FitzHugh-Nagumo ODE
fitzhugh_nagumo_ode: The FitzHugh-Nagumo neuron, the two-variable reduction of Hodgkin and Huxley's excitable membrane. - Hodgkin-Huxley
hodgkin_huxley: The Hodgkin-Huxley neuron, whose sodium and potassium channels produce action potentials. - Rothman excitable carbon cycle
carbon_cycle: Rothman's excitable carbon cycle, where a large enough perturbation of the ocean sets off an excursion.
excitable
- Coagulation cascade amplified by positive feedback and bounded by fibrinolysis
coagulation_positive_feedback: The coagulation cascade, an all-or-nothing burst of thrombin bounded by protein C and fibrinolysis. - Kinouchi-Copelli excitable network
kinouchi_copelli: The Kinouchi-Copelli network of excitable elements, whose dynamic range peaks at the critical point.
excitable media
- Aliev-Panfilov cardiac tissue
aliev_panfilov: The Aliev-Panfilov system of cardiac tissue, started from a broken wave that curls into a spiral. - Barkley excitable medium with spirals and breakup
barkley: Barkley's excitable medium, started from orthogonal stripes whose crossing curls into a spiral wave. - Cyclic cellular automaton
cyclic_cellular_automaton: Griffeath's cyclic cellular automaton, whose random levels organize into spiral waves. - FitzHugh-Nagumo spirals
fitzhugh_nagumo: The FitzHugh-Nagumo excitable medium, started from a broken wave that curls into a spiral. - Hodgepodge machine
hodgepodge: The hodgepodge machine, a system of a chemical reaction whose waves form spirals.
excitation-inhibition
- Wilson-Cowan
wilson_cowan: The Wilson-Cowan system of interacting excitatory and inhibitory populations of neurons.
exclusion
- Asymmetric exclusion process with open boundaries
asep: The asymmetric simple exclusion process on an open line, in continuous time. - Competition
competition: Two species that compete for the same resources, which coexist or exclude each other. - TASEP
tasep: The totally asymmetric simple exclusion process with parallel update, on an open line or a ring.
exploration
- Exploration and preferential return
exploration_preferential_return: The exploration and preferential return model of human mobility of Song and coauthors.
explosive
- Explosive topological Kuramoto of node and link phases on a simplicial complex, with the Nodes-Links-Triangles variant
topological_kuramoto: Phases on the nodes and links of a clique complex, coupled through its incidence by order parameters.
explosive percolation
- Explosive percolation by the Achlioptas product rule
explosive_percolation: Explosive percolation, where the Achlioptas product rule delays and sharpens the giant component.
exponential growth
- Exponential growth observed at exponential random times
exponential_growth_at_random_times: Exponential growth observed at exponentially distributed times, whose observed values follow a power law.
exposure
- SIS on hypergraphs with heterogeneous exposure and a nonlinear infection kernel
hypergraph_exposure_sis: The SIS contagion of St-Onge et al. in the environments of a hypergraph, with a nonlinear kernel.
extinction
- Fishery with measurement errors
fishery_measurement_errors: Independent fisheries whose quota is set from a measurement of the stock with a Gaussian error. - Galton-Watson branching
galton_watson: A Galton-Watson branching process with Poisson offspring, one generation per step. - Sequentially linear ecosystem
sequentially_linear_ecosystem: An ecosystem whose abundances follow linear dynamics between extinctions that rewrite its network. - Solé-Manrubia extinctions
sole_manrubia: The ecosystem of Solé and Manrubia, whose species go extinct when their dependencies turn against them.
extremal dynamics
- Bak-Sneppen
bak_sneppen: The Bak-Sneppen system, whose fitnesses self-organise above a critical value in avalanches of extinction. - Evolutionary Sherrington-Kirkpatrick game
evolutionary_sk_game: The evolutionary Sherrington-Kirkpatrick game, which self-organises to the edge of ergodicity breaking.
extreme pathways
- Elementary flux modes and extreme pathways
elementary_flux_modes: The toy network of Raman whose steady-state coneElementaryModeAnalysisenumerates.
fair trade
- Fair Food Program
fair_food_program: Chesney's Fair Food Program, in which pressure on tomato buyers draws farms into fair wages.
feedback
- Linear-quadratic regulated oscillator
lqr_oscillator: A harmonic oscillator that a linear-quadratic regulator brings to rest. - Normal and leukaemic stem cells with feedback regulation
leukaemia_stem_cells: Normal and leukaemic stem cells that compete for one niche through the feedback of their progeny. - Normal and malignant stem-cell compartments with feedback and therapy
stem_cell_differentiation: The eight-compartment system of normal and malignant stem-cell lineages with feedback and therapy. - PID governance loop
pid_loop: A work process whose output a PID controller keeps at a set point against a disturbance. - PID-stabilised inverted pendulum
pid_inverted_pendulum: An inverted pendulum on a cart that a PID controller of its angle keeps upright. - Thermostat
thermostat: A room heated by a furnace under a thermostat while heat leaks to the outside. - Three-sector purchasing power decoupled by feedback
categorized_purchasing_power: Forrest's categorized purchasing power of money, three sectors that feedback can steer one by one.
feedback control
- Fishery with measurement errors
fishery_measurement_errors: Independent fisheries whose quota is set from a measurement of the stock with a Gaussian error.
fermi acceleration
- Fermi-Ulam map
fermi_ulam_map: The Fermi-Ulam map of a ball bouncing between a fixed wall and a wall that oscillates in time.
fever
- Steerable receptor-effector negative feedback loop
steerable_feedback_loop: A receptor-effector loop that holds a product at its set point until a steering signal shifts it.
fibrinolysis
- Coagulation cascade amplified by positive feedback and bounded by fibrinolysis
coagulation_positive_feedback: The coagulation cascade, an all-or-nothing burst of thrombin bounded by protein C and fibrinolysis.
field
- Active System B+ of motility-induced phase separation
active_system_b: Active System B+, the conserved field theory of the density of active particles. - Active nematic and polar gels
active_gels: An active gel, a nematic tensor or a polarisation transported in the Stokes flow of its own stresses. - Active walkers and trail formation
active_walkers: Active walkers who walk between the corners of a green and wear a system of trails into it. - Aliev-Panfilov cardiac tissue
aliev_panfilov: The Aliev-Panfilov system of cardiac tissue, started from a broken wave that curls into a spiral. - Allen-Cahn non-conserved relaxation (System A)
allen_cahn: The Allen-Cahn equation, System A, the non-conserved relaxation of an order parameter in a double well. - Amari neural field
amari_neural_field: The Amari neural field, whose lateral inhibition holds a stationary bump of activity. - BGK
bgk_equation: The BGK equation of the Sod shock tube over one position and one velocity axis. - Barkley excitable medium with spirals and breakup
barkley: Barkley's excitable medium, started from orthogonal stripes whose crossing curls into a spiral wave. - Bertin-Droz-Grégoire kinetic flocking
bertin_droz_gregoire: The kinetic theory of flocking, whose polar order grows above a transition density. - Boltzmann
boltzmann_equation: The Boltzmann equation of Maxwell molecules over one position and two velocity axes. - Brusselator fields
brusselator: The Brusselator reaction-diffusion system from small noise around its steady state(a, b / a). - Budyko-Sellers latitude system
budyko_sellers: The Budyko-Sellers energy balance of one hemisphere, resolved in the sine of latitude. - Burgers
burgers: The inviscid Burgers equation on a periodic interval of length 2 pi, whose sine steepens into a shock. - Burridge-Knopoff spring-block fault
burridge_knopoff: The Burridge-Knopoff fault, a chain of blocks pulled by a moving plate that sticks and slips. - Bénard-Marangoni convection with a free, thermocapillary surface
benard_marangoni: The order-parameter equation of Bénard-Marangoni convection, which forms hexagonal cells. - Cahn-Hilliard phase separation (System B)
cahn_hilliard: The Cahn-Hilliard equation, System B, the conserved relaxation of an order parameter in a double well. - Complex Ginzburg-Landau
complex_ginzburg_landau: The complex Ginzburg-Landau equationA_t = A + (1 + i b) laplacian(A) - (1 + i c) |A|^2 A. - Decaying turbulence
decaying_turbulence: Decaying two-dimensional turbulence from a random vorticity field on a periodic square of side 2 pi. - Discrete-velocity Boltzmann gas of Carleman
discrete_velocity_boltzmann: The Carleman discrete-velocity Boltzmann equation on a periodic line, from a pulse of right movers. - Dry active nematics
dry_active_nematics: A dry active nematic, a conserved density coupled to a symmetric traceless alignment tensor. - Enskog equations
enskog: The local Enskog equation, the Boltzmann equation with the contact value of the pair correlation of disks. - Fisher-KPP
fisher_kpp: The Fisher-KPP equation, whose step invades the empty line as a front of speed2 sqrt(r D). - FitzHugh-Nagumo spirals
fitzhugh_nagumo: The FitzHugh-Nagumo excitable medium, started from a broken wave that curls into a spiral. - GKT non-local traffic
gkt_traffic: The gas-kinetic-based traffic system, where drivers brake on the traffic at an interaction point ahead. - Gray-Scott
gray_scott: The Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion system, seeded in its middle, which grows spots that replicate. - Heat diffusion
heat_diffusion: Heat diffusing on a plate from a hot square in its middle,du/dt = D laplacian(u). - Heat on an L-shaped domain
heat_l_shape: Heat on the L-shaped domain with fixed boundary temperatures, discretised by linear finite elements. - Hyperbolic chemotaxis of cells and a chemical
hyperbolic_chemotaxis: Cells and a chemical moving with finite speed, whose two bumps of cells spread and attract each other. - Keller-Segel chemotaxis
keller_segel: The Keller-Segel system of cells that diffuse and climb the gradient of a chemical they secrete. - Kerner-Konhäuser system
kerner_konhauser: The Kerner-Konhäuser system, where viscous traffic flow forms dense moving clusters. - Kuramoto-Sivashinsky
kuramoto_sivashinsky: The Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equationu_t = -u u_x - u_xx - u_xxxx, spatiotemporally chaotic. - LEGION oscillators
legion: A LEGION network, a lattice of relaxation oscillators that segments a stimulus into its objects. - Langevin field theory of absorbing-state transitions with a conserved energy field
directed_percolation_langevin: The Langevin field theory of an absorbing-state transition, an active density fed by an energy field. - Lenia and its expanded universe
lenia: Lenia, a continuous automaton whose ring-kernel convolutions grow gliding, lifelike solitons. - Lighthill-Whitham-Richards
lighthill_whitham_richards: The Lighthill-Whitham-Richards system, the conservation of cars with the Greenshields speed law. - Metapopulation reaction-diffusion
metapopulation: SIR epidemics in subpopulations at the nodes of a network, linked by individuals who travel. - Min-protein skeleton system as mass-conserving reaction-diffusion
min_protein_skeleton: The skeleton system of the Min proteins on a periodic line, a mass-conserving reaction-diffusion system. - Moment equations of Langevin traffic with a jam instability
traffic_density_equation: The density and flux equations of Langevin traffic on a ring road, whose uniform flow breaks into jams. - Multilevel selection of cooperators, defectors, and punishers on the simplex
trimorphic_multilevel_selection: The density of groups of cooperators, defectors, and altruistic punishers on the 2-simplex. - Multilevel selection with non-additive pairwise group conflict
nonlinear_pairwise_group_conflict: The density of groups of defectors and altruistic punishers under pairwise group conflict. - Multiscale tumour angiogenesis
tumour_angiogenesis: A tumour that outgrows its oxygen supply and recruits new blood vessels from a parent vessel. - Nonreciprocal Cahn-Hilliard
nonreciprocal_cahn_hilliard: The nonreciprocal Cahn-Hilliard equations, a demixing field coupled to a diffusing one. - One-dimensional active viscoelastic and poroelastic gel with contractile cells
active_viscoelastic_gel: A one-dimensional active viscoelastic gel, where contractile cells concentrate by dragging the gel. - Payne system
payne: The Payne system, where the speed of traffic relaxes to the Greenshields speed and anticipates density. - Pheromone foraging
pheromone_foraging: Ants that find food and lay a pheromone trail home, which other ants follow: stigmergy. - Quasi-geostrophic double gyre
double_gyre: The quasi-geostrophic double gyre, the wind-driven circulation of a closed ocean basin. - Rayleigh-Bénard
rayleigh_benard: Rayleigh-Bénard convection between free-slip walls, from a small perturbation of the critical mode. - Schnakenberg
schnakenberg: The Schnakenberg reaction-diffusion system, which forms Turing patterns from noise whenDv >> Du. - Schrödinger equation as real and imaginary fields
schrodinger: A Gaussian wave packet that follows the Schrödinger equation, as its real and imaginary parts. - Shaken frictional spring-block chain
shaken_spring_block: A chain of blocks joined by springs on a frictional substrate, shaken and relaxed in turn. - Shallow-water dam break
shallow_water: The shallow-water dam break: still water at two depths that a removed dam separated at the middle. - Size-structured forest with shading and seed dispersal
forest_size_structure: The McKendrick-von Foerster density of trees over position across a strip and height. - Standing waves on a string
standing_waves: A string with fixed ends on[-length / 2, length / 2]that vibrates as a standing wave. - Swift-Hohenberg
swift_hohenberg: The Swift-Hohenberg equationu_t = r u - (1 + laplacian)^2 u - u^3, which forms rolls of length 2 pi. - Toner-Tu hydrodynamics
toner_tu: The Toner-Tu hydrodynamics of a polar flock on a periodic lattice, from a disordered velocity field. - Two-level replicator equation of additive pairwise group conflict
two_level_replicator: The two-level replicator equation of defectors and altruistic punishers, additive pairwise group conflict. - Vlasov
vlasov_equation: The Vlasov-Poisson equation of electrons over a neutralizing background, on a periodic position axis. - Wave-number conservation and wave breaking
wave_breaking: The kinematic wave equation of deep-water wave trains on a periodic interval of length 2 pi.
final size
- Degree-class SIR on uncorrelated networks
heterogeneous_mean_field_sir: The SIR epidemic on an uncorrelated network of power-law degrees, in heterogeneous mean field.
finite element
- Heat on an L-shaped domain
heat_l_shape: Heat on the L-shaped domain with fixed boundary temperatures, discretised by linear finite elements.
finite volume
- Burgers
burgers: The inviscid Burgers equation on a periodic interval of length 2 pi, whose sine steepens into a shock. - Discrete-velocity Boltzmann gas of Carleman
discrete_velocity_boltzmann: The Carleman discrete-velocity Boltzmann equation on a periodic line, from a pulse of right movers. - GKT non-local traffic
gkt_traffic: The gas-kinetic-based traffic system, where drivers brake on the traffic at an interaction point ahead. - Kerner-Konhäuser system
kerner_konhauser: The Kerner-Konhäuser system, where viscous traffic flow forms dense moving clusters. - Lighthill-Whitham-Richards
lighthill_whitham_richards: The Lighthill-Whitham-Richards system, the conservation of cars with the Greenshields speed law. - Payne system
payne: The Payne system, where the speed of traffic relaxes to the Greenshields speed and anticipates density. - Shallow-water dam break
shallow_water: The shallow-water dam break: still water at two depths that a removed dam separated at the middle. - Wave-number conservation and wave breaking
wave_breaking: The kinematic wave equation of deep-water wave trains on a periodic interval of length 2 pi.
fire
- Drossel-Schwabl forest fire
forest_fire: The Drossel-Schwabl forest fire, where slow growth and rare lightning give fires of every size. - Forest fire on hexagonal lattices and graphs
hexagonal_forest_fire: The Drossel-Schwabl forest fire on a triangular lattice of hexagonal cells, or on the nodes of a graph. - Site percolation
site_percolation: Site percolation probed by a fire lit along the top row, which spans the lattice abovep_c = 0.5927.
fire sales
- Fire sales of overlapping portfolios
overlapping_portfolio_fire_sales: Banks with overlapping portfolios whose fire sales of common assets spread their losses to one another.
firms
- Mark-0 economy with a Covid shock and policies
mark0: The Mark-0 economy of Sharma, Bouchaud, and co-authors, with a Covid shock to supply and demand. - Toy firm investment
toy_firm_investment: Heterogeneous firms that invest out of past profits and sell at random prices, with entry and exit.
fiscal policy
- Three-sector purchasing power decoupled by feedback
categorized_purchasing_power: Forrest's categorized purchasing power of money, three sectors that feedback can steer one by one.
fishery
- Fishery with measurement errors
fishery_measurement_errors: Independent fisheries whose quota is set from a measurement of the stock with a Gaussian error. - Hilsa fishery
hilsa_fishery: A hilsa fishery, the life cycle of a migratory fish that the catch of juveniles and spawners depletes.
fitness landscape
- Adaptive climbing in finite populations
adaptive_climbing: A finite population that climbs a random fitness landscape by mutation and strong selection. - Bit-string evolution on a fitness landscape
bit_string_evolution: A population of bit strings that evolves on a random additive fitness landscape. - NK fitness landscapes
nk_landscape: Agents that climb Kauffman's NK fitness landscape from random genomes until they reach local peaks. - NKCS coevolution on coupled NK landscapes
nkcs: The NKCS model of Kauffman and Johnsen, species climbing NK landscapes coupled to each other's genes. - Simulated annealing, genetic algorithms, and differential evolution
evolutionary_optimisers: A population of candidates that searches a two-dimensional landscape, one generation per step. - Strong-selection weak-mutation walk on fitness landscapes
origin_fixation_walk: A monomorphic population that climbs a fitness landscape as mutants arise and fix one at a time.
fixation
- Kimura diffusion of allele frequencies
kimura_diffusion: Replicate populations whose allele frequencies diffuse by drift until the allele is lost or fixed. - Moran process
moran_process: The Moran process, a population of constant size where fitter traits fix by selection and drift. - Strong-selection weak-mutation walk on fitness landscapes
origin_fixation_walk: A monomorphic population that climbs a fitness landscape as mutants arise and fix one at a time.
fixed point
- Eisenberg-Noe clearing of interbank payments
eisenberg_noe_clearing: The clearing of interbank payments of Eisenberg and Noe, a fixed point of proportional payments.
flocking
- Active Brownian particles with local alignment
aligning_active_brownian_particles: Active Brownian particles in a periodic box whose headings align with the neighbours withind0. - Bertin-Droz-Grégoire kinetic flocking
bertin_droz_gregoire: The kinetic theory of flocking, whose polar order grows above a transition density. - Boids in three dimensions
boids_3d: Boids in three dimensions, birds that flock by local rules in a periodic cube. - Boids in two dimensions
boids: Reynolds' boids in two dimensions, birds that flock by local rules without a leader. - Cucker-Smale flocking
cucker_smale_flocking: Cucker-Smale flocking, where every agent aligns its velocity with all others, weighted by distance. - Flocking with active and passive agents
active_passive_flocking: The active and passive agents of Charbonneau (2017, section 10.4) in a periodic box. - Ginelli nematic particles
ginelli_nematics: Polar particles with nematic alignment, which order along a common axis but move both ways along it. - Grégoire-Chaté cohesive flocks
gregoire_chate: The Grégoire-Chaté system: aligning particles that also attract and repel, forming cohesive flocks. - Microscopic flocking with aligning binary collisions
binary_collision_flocking: Self-propelled particles that flock through aligning binary collisions, the Bertin-Droz-Grégoire system. - Nonreciprocal Vicsek system
nonreciprocal_vicsek: Two species of Vicsek movers in a periodic box whose alignment with each other is nonreciprocal. - Szabó cell system
szabo_cells: The cells of Szabó et al. (2006) in a periodic box, which move together above a critical density. - Toner-Tu hydrodynamics
toner_tu: The Toner-Tu hydrodynamics of a polar flock on a periodic lattice, from a disordered velocity field. - Vicsek system with metric, topological, vision-cone, and delayed alignment
vicsek: The Vicsek system: particles that move at a constant speed along the mean heading of their neighbours.
fluctuations
- Two-phase zone exchange
two_phase_zone_exchange: Independent zones of a two-phase apparatus, each exchanging particles with the rest of the apparatus.
flux balance
- Flux balance, flux variability, and parsimonious FBA
flux_balance: Flux balance analysis of a metabolic network, which sets its fluxes to maximise growth. - Knock-outs, MoMA, ROOM, OptKnock, and synthetic lethals
metabolic_perturbations: The E. coli core system with some genes knocked out, which needs the extrametabolism.
fold
- Leading-following tipping cascade
leading_following_cascade: A cascade of two tipping elements, a leading fold driven by a ramp and a follower forced by the leader. - Stochastic fold with a ramped control parameter
ramped_stochastic_fold: A stochastic fold whose control is ramped through the tipping point of its lower branch.
food security
- Food security systems
food_security: A food security system, the rice self-sufficiency of a country under subsidy, research, and extension. - Rice land, population, and food security
rice_food_balance: Bala's food security model, rice land that grows towards the land available against a growing population.
food web
- Food webs
food_webs: A food web where basal species grow logistically and consumers live on Lotka-Volterra predation.
forcing
- Driven damped oscillator
driven_damped_oscillator: A mass on a spring with damping and a periodic force,m x'' = -k x - c x' + F cos(ω t). - Duffing
duffing: The forced Duffing oscillatorx'' = -delta x' - alpha x - beta x^3 + gamma cos(omega t), chaotic here. - Electromagnetic vibrating table
vibrating_table: An electromagnetic vibrating table, a shaker driven by a sinusoidal supply after its switch closes. - Forced Toda oscillator
forced_toda: The forced Toda oscillatorx'' + d x' + e^x - 1 = a sin(omega t), a passive asymmetric oscillator. - Forced Van der Pol
forced_van_der_pol: The Van der Pol oscillator driven by a periodic force,x'' = μ (1 - x²) x' - x + A cos(ω t). - Logistic growth with a varying capacity
varying_capacity_logistic: Logistic growth under a seasonal carrying capacity, which settles on a cycle of the season's period. - Optical trap including oscillating and blinking traps
optical_trap: Overdamped particles in a harmonic optical trap, still, oscillating, or blinking. - Pendulum with a vertically or horizontally oscillating pivot
parametric_pendulum: A pendulum whose suspension point oscillates vertically or horizontally, with accelerationε g cos Ω t. - Stochastic resonance
stochastic_resonance: A particle in a double well,dx = (x - x^3 + A cos(2 pi f t)) dt + sqrt(2 D) dW. - Strongly nonlinear oscillator under periodic impulses
impulsive_oscillator: An oscillator kicked by a periodic train of impulses of alternating sign. - Two-mass spring-damper between walls
two_mass_spring_damper: Two masses between two walls, tied to the walls and to each other by springs, with dampers and forces.
forest
- Mangrove succession
mangrove_succession: The regrowth of a mangrove forest of the Sundarbans after a clear cut, from pioneers to climax trees. - Size-structured forest with shading and seed dispersal
forest_size_structure: The McKendrick-von Foerster density of trees over position across a strip and height.
fractal
- Baker
baker_map: The generalized baker map, which stretches the unit square alongxand stacks the two pieces iny. - Cantor
cantor_set: The Cantor set as the substitution of every interval by its two outer parts. - Diffusion-limited aggregation
diffusion_limited_aggregation: Diffusion-limited aggregation on a periodic grid, where random walkers stick to a seed at the center. - Iterated function systems by the chaos game
chaos_game: Points that draw the attractor of an iterated function system by the chaos game. - Julia sets
julia: The filled Julia set ofz -> z^2 + c, the starting points whose orbit stays bounded (Dilão 2023 §5.5). - Koch
koch_curve: The Koch curve as the L-systemF → F+F--F+Fdrawn by a turtle. - Mandelbrot set
mandelbrot: The Mandelbrot set, the pointscwhose orbit ofz -> z^2 + cfrom 0 stays bounded (Dilão 2023 §5.5). - Newton-Raphson map
newton_raphson_map: Newton's method forz³ = 1in the complex plane,z' = (2z³ + 1) / (3z²), in real coordinates. - Random complex square-root function system
inverse_julia: The random function systemz -> ±√(z - omega), whose points settle on the Julia set ofz² + omega. - Sierpiński substitutions
sierpinski_substitution: The Sierpiński triangle or carpet as the substitution of a polygon by scaled copies of itself.
fractal basins
- Magnetic pendulum
magnetic_pendulum: A magnetic bob on a string swinging above magnets on a circle, which comes to rest at one of them.
fractal network
- West-Brown-Enquist distribution network and Kleiber scaling
west_brown_enquist: The distribution network of West, Brown, and Enquist, a space-filling tree of invariant capillaries.
fractional
- Fractional Lorenz
fractional_lorenz: The fractional Lorenz flow of Grigorenko and Grigorenko, chaotic for orders close enough to 1. - Fractional Van der Pol
fractional_van_der_pol: The fractional Van der Pol oscillatorD^alpha x = y,D^alpha y = mu (1 - x^2) y - x. - Fractional damped oscillator
fractional_oscillator: The fractional damped oscillatorD^alpha x = v,D^alpha v = -omega^2 x - 2 gamma v. - Fractional relaxation
fractional_relaxation: Fractional relaxationD^alpha x = -lambda x, which decays as the Mittag-Leffler functionE_alpha.
fractional noise
- Fractional Brownian motion
fractional_brownian_motion: Fractional Brownian motion,dx = sqrt(2 D) dB_H, with<x^2> = 2 D t^(2 H)along every axis.
fragmentation
- Coevolving voter
coevolving_voter: The coevolving voter system, which fragments into consensual components when rewiring is fast. - Fragmentation
fragmentation: The random fragmentation of an object of integer size, whose fragments keep breaking into smaller ones.
frame dragging
- Frame dragging around a spinning mass
kerr_frame_dragging: A particle without angular momentum that falls into a spinning mass and is dragged around it.
free group
- Automata on the free group
free_group_automaton: The majority automaton on a ball of the free group, a tree in which every cell follows its neighbours. - Life in a tree
life_in_a_tree: The Game of Life on the free group F4, a tree of degree 8, surjective but not pre-injective. - Muller's pre-injective non-surjective automaton on F2
muller_automaton: Muller's automaton on the free group F2, pre-injective but not surjective. - Self-indexed shift over a group alphabet
self_indexed_shift: The mapτ(x)(g) = x(g · x(g))over the group as alphabet, continuous and equivariant but no automaton. - Surjective non-pre-injective linear automaton on F2
surjective_linear_automaton: A linear automaton overK^2on the free group F2, surjective but not pre-injective.
frequency clusters
- Adaptive Kuramoto-Sakaguchi oscillators with frequency clusters
adaptive_kuramoto: Globally coupled phase oscillators whose coupling weights adapt to their phase differences.
friction
- Burridge-Knopoff spring-block fault
burridge_knopoff: The Burridge-Knopoff fault, a chain of blocks pulled by a moving plate that sticks and slips. - Mass-spring oscillator with static and Coulomb friction
friction_oscillator: A mass on a linear spring with static, Coulomb, and viscous friction,m x'' + c x' + k x + f = 0. - Shaken frictional spring-block chain
shaken_spring_block: A chain of blocks joined by springs on a frictional substrate, shaken and relaxed in turn.
friendship paradox
- Configuration model with stub matching and rewiring
configuration_model: The configuration model, the maximally random network of a given degree sequence.
fronts
- Fisher-KPP
fisher_kpp: The Fisher-KPP equation, whose step invades the empty line as a front of speed2 sqrt(r D).
frustration
- Gauge theory of agents on a network
gauge_network_agents: Agent phases on the nodes of a network that relax towards the transported phases of their neighbours.
fundamentalists
- Fundamentalists and chartists in an order book
order_book: A stock market of fundamentalists and chartists on a grid who trade in a limit order book and imitate. - Kirman exchange rate with switching traders
kirman_exchange_rate: Kirman's foreign exchange market, whose traders switch between fundamentalism and chartism like ants.
g protein
- Adenylate cyclase kinase cascade amplifier with G-protein timer inactivation
hormone_cascade_amplifier: The adenylate cyclase cascade, which amplifies a hormone pulse and ends it by the G-protein timer.
game
- SK game of reinforcement learners
sk_game: The SK game, reinforcement learners whose rewards come from quenched Sherrington-Kirkpatrick couplings.
game theory
- Replicator dynamics and hawks and doves
replicator_dynamics: The replicator dynamics of a game, by default hawks and doves, which settle at a shareV / Cof hawks. - Static oligopoly equilibria
oligopoly_equilibria: The equilibria of a Cournot duopoly and of a pricing game of firms with loyal customers and switchers.
game transitions
- Evolutionary dynamics with game transitions
game_transitions: Evolutionary dynamics with game transitions on a random regular graph, after Su, McAvoy, Wang, and Nowak.
games
- Evolutionary dynamics with game transitions
game_transitions: Evolutionary dynamics with game transitions on a random regular graph, after Su, McAvoy, Wang, and Nowak. - Iterated prisoner's dilemma on a lattice with strategies of cooperation rounds
iterated_lattice_dilemma: Argun's evolutionary iterated prisoner's dilemma on a lattice, with strategies ofncooperation rounds. - Iterated prisoner's dilemma tournament
prisoners_dilemma_tournament: The evolution of strategies of the iterated prisoner's dilemma from random genomes. - Public goods game
public_goods_game: The spatial public goods game in groups of five neighbours, with Fermi imitation. - Public goods game on hypergraphs
hypergraph_public_goods: The public goods game on a hypergraph, played in every hyperedge, with Fermi imitation. - Spatial prisoner's dilemma with best-neighbour and Fermi imitation
spatial_prisoners_dilemma: The spatial prisoner's dilemma of Nowak and May, with best-neighbour or Fermi imitation. - Two-player games on links and three-body games on 2-simplices
simplicial_social_dilemmas: The social dilemmas of Guo et al. on the links and the 2-simplices of a simplicial complex.
gamma oscillations
- Next-generation neural mass with theta forcing
next_generation_neural_mass: The exact neural mass of quadratic integrate-and-fire neurons whose gamma rhythm nests in a theta drive.
gap junctions
- Intercellular exchange through gap junctions and tunnelling nanotubes on a cell network
nanotube_gap_junction_exchange: The intercellular exchange of a substance through gap junctions and tunnelling nanotubes on a network.
gas
- Ideal gas
ideal_gas: An ideal gas of non-interacting molecules in a reflecting box.
gauge
- Gauge theory of agents on a network
gauge_network_agents: Agent phases on the nodes of a network that relax towards the transported phases of their neighbours. - Lattice Maxwell and gauge link fields
lattice_gauge_fields: Link variables on the cell complex of a periodic lattice, sampled or evolved in real time. - Lattice Yang-Mills and pure lattice QCD
lattice_yang_mills: SU(2) or SU(3) matrices on the links of a periodic lattice, sampled by the Wilson action. - Traders and exchange rates coupled through arbitrage as lattice electrodynamics
gauge_arbitrage_market: Exchange-rate potentials on links as lattice Maxwell fields, sourced by traders who move a good on sites.
gauge field
- Random-walk traders with arbitrage
arbitrage_traders: Schwichtenberg's diffusion of a good by random-walk traders, minimally coupled to exchange rates. - Schrödinger equation minimally coupled to an electromagnetic potential
charged_schrodinger: A Gaussian wave packet of a charge in a prescribed electromagnetic potential, after Schwichtenberg 4.3.
gel
- Active nematic and polar gels
active_gels: An active gel, a nematic tensor or a polarisation transported in the Stokes flow of its own stresses.
gene expression
- Stochastic and continuous Petri nets
petri_net: A Petri net, places that hold tokens and transitions that consume and produce them when they fire.
gene knock-out
- Knock-outs, MoMA, ROOM, OptKnock, and synthetic lethals
metabolic_perturbations: The E. coli core system with some genes knocked out, which needs the extrametabolism.
gene regulation
- Drosophila circadian clock
circadian_clock: Goldbeter's system of the Drosophila circadian clock, PER that represses its own transcription. - Genetic toggle switch
toggle_switch: The genetic toggle switch of Gardner, Cantor, and Collins, two genes that repress each other. - Goodwin oscillator
goodwin_oscillator: The Goodwin oscillator, a chain of stages whose last one represses the synthesis of the first. - Kauffman random Boolean networks
random_boolean_network: A Kauffman random Boolean network, nodes updated together by random functions ofkrandom inputs. - Negative autoregulation and bursty gene expression
negative_autoregulation: A gene that represses its own transcription and makes its protein in bursts. - Probabilistic Boolean network
probabilistic_boolean_network: A probabilistic Boolean network, whose nodes draw one of their candidate functions at every step. - Repressilator
repressilator: The repressilator of Elowitz and Leibler, three genes in a ring that each repress the next. - Three-gene Boolean network
three_gene_boolean_network: The three-gene Boolean network of Raman, updated synchronously. - Yeast cell-cycle network
yeast_cell_cycle: The Boolean network of the budding yeast cell cycle of Li et al., eleven proteins and their regulation.
gene therapy
- Kirschner-Panetta system with TGF-beta and siRNA
sirna_tgf_beta: The Kirschner-Panetta system with TGF-beta, which lets the tumour evade the immune system, and siRNA. - Predator-prey tumour-immune system of TCR gene therapy
tcr_gene_therapy: The predator-prey system of a gene therapy that lets the T cells recognise the tumour.
general circulation
- Lorenz-84
lorenz_84: Lorenz-84, the general circulation reduced to a westerly jet and a travelling wave, chaotic forF = 8.
general relativity
- Bending of light by a mass
light_bending: A light ray that passes a static mass and is deflected towards it. - FLRW cosmology from the Einstein equations
flrw_cosmology: A homogeneous universe whose expansion follows from the Einstein equations of the Robertson-Walker metric. - Frame dragging around a spinning mass
kerr_frame_dragging: A particle without angular momentum that falls into a spinning mass and is dragged around it. - Oppenheimer-Snyder collapse of a dust ball
oppenheimer_snyder_collapse: A ball of dust at rest that collapses under its own gravity into a black hole, as Oppenheimer and Snyder. - Perihelion precession in the Schwarzschild spacetime
schwarzschild_precession: A massive particle on a bound orbit around a static mass, whose perihelion advances every turn. - Relativistic orbit equation
relativistic_orbit: Einstein's orbit equationu'' + u = alpha + epsilon u²of a planet, whose perihelion precesses.
generalized mass action
- Generalized mass action and S-system power-law systems
biochemical_systems_theory: A biochemical system of power-law rates, in the S-system or the generalized mass action form.
generalized synchronization
- Rössler-driven Lorenz and generalized synchronization
rossler_driven_lorenz: A chaotic Rössler system that drives a Lorenz-63 system through its second variable.
genetic algorithm
- Bit-string evolution on a fitness landscape
bit_string_evolution: A population of bit strings that evolves on a random additive fitness landscape. - RobbyGA can collector and evolution by circumstance
robby_ga: Mitchell's genetic algorithm that evolves strategies for Robby, a robot that collects cans in a room.
genetic drift
- Kimura diffusion of allele frequencies
kimura_diffusion: Replicate populations whose allele frequencies diffuse by drift until the allele is lost or fixed. - Moran process
moran_process: The Moran process, a population of constant size where fitter traits fix by selection and drift.
genotype networks
- Genotype spaces and neutral networks of RNA folds
rna_neutral_networks: Walkers of RNA sequences that take one proposed point mutation per unit of time at temperature zero.
geodesics
- Bending of light by a mass
light_bending: A light ray that passes a static mass and is deflected towards it. - Frame dragging around a spinning mass
kerr_frame_dragging: A particle without angular momentum that falls into a spinning mass and is dragged around it. - Perihelion precession in the Schwarzschild spacetime
schwarzschild_precession: A massive particle on a bound orbit around a static mass, whose perihelion advances every turn.
geomagnetism
- Gissinger geodynamo
geodynamo: Gissinger's geodynamo, whose dipole field reverses at irregular times.
giant component
- Erdos-Renyi and Watts-Strogatz graphs
random_graph_ensembles: The construction of an Erdős-Rényi or a Watts-Strogatz random graph, one step of new edges at a time. - Explosive percolation by the Achlioptas product rule
explosive_percolation: Explosive percolation, where the Achlioptas product rule delays and sharpens the giant component.
giant number fluctuations
- Dry active nematics
dry_active_nematics: A dry active nematic, a conserved density coupled to a symmetric traceless alignment tensor.
gillespie
- Finite two-level birth-death process of defectors and punishers
two_level_birth_death: The finite two-level birth-death process of defectors and altruistic punishers in competing groups. - Generalized stochastic predator-prey
stochastic_predator_prey: Prey and predators born and killed one at a time, with crowding of the prey and saturating predation. - Michaelis-Menten as ODEs and as a jump process
michaelis_menten: The enzyme reactionE + S <-> C -> E + Pof Michaelis and Menten, as rate equations or as jumps.
glass
- Bouchaud trap system
trap_system: The Bouchaud trap system, walkers that escape from traps of exponentially distributed depths.
glass transition
- Random energy system
random_energy_system: The random energy system,2^Nquenched Gaussian energies of varianceN / 2at a temperature.
glioma
- Glioma, glia, and neurons under temozolomide and virus
glioma_chemovirotherapy: Glia, neurons, and a glioma under a constant temozolomide infusion and an oncolytic virus.
glucagon
- Blood glucose stabilised by antagonistic insulin and glucagon loops
glucose_dual_hormone_control: Blood glucose stabilised by antagonistic hormone loops, insulin against highs and glucagon against lows.
glycolysis
- Yeast glycolysis oscillations in a flow reactor
glycolysis_oscillations: The glycolysis of a yeast extract in a flow reactor, whose NADH oscillates with a period of minutes.
golden mean
- Subshifts
subshifts: A Markov chain on the golden mean shift, the configurations of a ring that never hold two adjacent ones.
governance
- PID governance loop
pid_loop: A work process whose output a PID controller keeps at a set point against a disturbance.
granular matter
- Shaken frictional spring-block chain
shaken_spring_block: A chain of blocks joined by springs on a frictional substrate, shaken and relaxed in turn.
graph laplacian
- Diffusion
network_diffusion: Diffusion on a network,du_i/dt = D Σ_j A_ij (u_j - u_i), which spreads a unit mass to every node.
graphlet
- Graphlet arrival growth
graphlet_arrival: Growth by the arrival of three-node graphlets, a tree whose degree exponent rises withalpha.
gravity
- Bending of light by a mass
light_bending: A light ray that passes a static mass and is deflected towards it. - FLRW cosmology from the Einstein equations
flrw_cosmology: A homogeneous universe whose expansion follows from the Einstein equations of the Robertson-Walker metric. - Frame dragging around a spinning mass
kerr_frame_dragging: A particle without angular momentum that falls into a spinning mass and is dragged around it. - Friedmann expansion
friedmann_expansion: The scale factor of a homogeneous universe of matter and dark energy, after Friedmann and Lemaître. - Keplerian dumbbell and spin-orbit coupling
keplerian_dumbbell: The Keplerian dumbbell: two masses on a rigid massless arm that orbit a primary under gravity. - N-body and solar system
n_body: Bodies in the plane that attract each other pairwise by Newtonian gravity. - Oppenheimer-Snyder collapse of a dust ball
oppenheimer_snyder_collapse: A ball of dust at rest that collapses under its own gravity into a black hole, as Oppenheimer and Snyder. - Perihelion precession in the Schwarzschild spacetime
schwarzschild_precession: A massive particle on a bound orbit around a static mass, whose perihelion advances every turn. - Relativistic orbit equation
relativistic_orbit: Einstein's orbit equationu'' + u = alpha + epsilon u²of a planet, whose perihelion precesses. - Restricted three-body problem
restricted_three_body: A light body moving in the plane of two primaries on circular orbits, in the frame that rotates with them. - Sitnikov problem
sitnikov: A light body moving on the axis through the centre of mass of two equal primaries, normal to their orbit. - Two-body orbit
two_body_orbit: A light planet orbiting a heavy star under Newtonian gravity, as the Kepler problem of their separation.
gravity system
- Gravity interaction system of urban scaling
gravity_urban_scaling: The residents of a city at uniform positions in a disc, each interacting with the others asr^-gamma.
grazing
- Carrying capacity of a meadow
meadow_capacity: Cows that graze a summer of 25 weeks on a meadow, which shows how many cows the meadow can carry.
grid
- Agent-based Lotka-Volterra
agent_based_lotka_volterra: Prey and predators that walk on a grid, whose numbers cycle like the Lotka-Volterra equations. - Agent-based SIR with mortality, waning immunity, incubation, and lockdown
agent_based_sir: People who walk on a grid and infect those in their cell, with optional extensions of the SIR system. - Axelrod culture dissemination
axelrod: Axelrod's culture dissemination system on a full grid with von Neumann neighbourhoods. - Belief diffusion with influentials
influentials: The belief diffusion system with influentials who care passionately and weigh more with their neighbours. - Bilateral barter of two or three goods
goods_traders: Traders who wander a grid and barter two or three goods with their neighbours. - Bonabeau hierarchies
bonabeau_hierarchies: The Bonabeau system, where a hierarchy of strengths emerges above a critical density of agents. - Brothel movement system
trafficking: The brothel movement system, where victims moved between brothels leave traces in bills and train trips. - Carrying capacity of a meadow
meadow_capacity: Cows that graze a summer of 25 weeks on a meadow, which shows how many cows the meadow can carry. - Fair-trade food choice with peer influence
fair_food: The choice between fair-trade and regular food of consumers who influence their neighbours. - Insider sabotage
insider_sabotage: The insider sabotage system of employees whose risk of sabotage builds up over the days of a year. - Random-walker epidemics on a grid and on a small world
random_walker_epidemics: Random walkers among whom one sick walker starts a deadly epidemic, on a grid or on a network. - Ridesharing
ridesharing: Riders who request trips on a city grid and cabs that a stable matching sends to them. - Schelling
schelling: A Schelling segregation system on a grid with at most one resident per cell. - Shops and digital markets
shops: Shops on a grid that compete for the shoppers on every cell, in person or in a digital market. - Social impact theory
social_impact: The social impact system on a full grid, with random persuasiveness and supportiveness. - Stochastic Schelling
stochastic_schelling: The stochastic Schelling system of agents moving between blocks, which segregates abovebeta = 2. - Sugarscape
sugarscape: The Sugarscape of Epstein and Axtell, foragers of random vision and metabolism on two sugar peaks. - Tragedy of the meadow commons
tragedy_of_the_commons: Herders whose cows graze a shared meadow, each adding cows while a cow pays, until the grass collapses. - Wolf and sheep
wolf_sheep: The wolf and sheep predation system with one grass patch per cell.
group
- Automata on the Grigorchuk group
grigorchuk_automaton: The majority automaton on a ball of the Grigorchuk group, a group of intermediate growth. - Automata on the free group
free_group_automaton: The majority automaton on a ball of the free group, a tree in which every cell follows its neighbours. - Baumslag-Solitar groups
baumslag_solitar_automaton: The majority automaton on a ball of the Baumslag-Solitar groupBS(m, n), of exponential growth. - Heisenberg
heisenberg_automaton: The majority automaton on a ball of the discrete Heisenberg group, of polynomial growth of degree 4. - Lamplighter
lamplighter_automaton: The parity automaton on a ball of the lamplighter group, a linear rule over the field of two elements. - Life in a tree
life_in_a_tree: The Game of Life on the free group F4, a tree of degree 8, surjective but not pre-injective. - Linear automata over rings
linear_ring_automaton: The discrete Laplacian as a linear automaton on a ring, over the field ofmoduluselements. - Muller's pre-injective non-surjective automaton on F2
muller_automaton: Muller's automaton on the free group F2, pre-injective but not surjective. - Self-indexed shift over a group alphabet
self_indexed_shift: The mapτ(x)(g) = x(g · x(g))over the group as alphabet, continuous and equivariant but no automaton. - Subshifts
subshifts: A Markov chain on the golden mean shift, the configurations of a ring that never hold two adjacent ones. - Surjective non-pre-injective linear automaton on F2
surjective_linear_automaton: A linear automaton overK^2on the free group F2, surjective but not pre-injective.
group alphabet
- Group-valued difference automaton
group_difference_automaton: The automatonτ(x)(n) = x(n)^-1 x(n + 1)whose alphabet is a finite group, on a ring.
group formation
- El Farol with strategic group formation
el_farol_coalitions: Collins' El Farol bar with strategic group formation, whose coalitions share their best strategy.
growth
- Barabási-Albert growth, with Bianconi-Barabási fitness
barabasi_albert: Barabási-Albert growth, whose degrees follow a power lawP(k) ~ k^-3by preferential attachment. - Capital stock
capital_stock: Meadows' capital stock, grown by reinvested output and drained by depreciation. - Graphlet arrival growth
graphlet_arrival: Growth by the arrival of three-node graphlets, a tree whose degree exponent rises withalpha. - Growing simplicial complex by triangle attachment
growing_simplicial_complex: A simplicial complex that grows by gluing one triangle per step along an edge drawn uniformly. - Holme-Kim growth
holme_kim: Holme-Kim growth, scale-free like Barabási-Albert growth but with clustering that stays high. - Pontryagin capital and consumption
optimal_consumption: The Ramsey economy that chooses the consumption path maximising its discounted utility. - Popularity-similarity network
popularity_similarity_network: Popularity-similarity growth, scale-free and clustered, whose nodes attach by hyperbolic distance. - Simon-Yule growth
simon_yule: The Simon system of a text that grows from one word, whose word counts follow a power law. - Solow
solow: An economy whose capital per worker approaches its steady state through saving and depreciation. - Urban scaling of interactions
urban_scaling_interactions: A city that grows by residents and internal links, so its meetings grow faster than its population. - Vertex-copying network growth
vertex_copying: Vertex-copying growth, whose new nodes copy the edges of existing nodes and make a heavy-tailed degree.
gurus
- Order book with a guru communication network
guru_order_book: The order-driven market of Grilli and Tedeschi, whose noise traders imitate gurus they choose by wealth.
gyre
- Quasi-geostrophic double gyre
double_gyre: The quasi-geostrophic double gyre, the wind-driven circulation of a closed ocean basin.
gyroscope
- Gyroscope in a gimbal
gimballed_gyroscope: A gyroscope in a gimbal: a rotor in an inner ring that turns in an outer ring about a fixed axis.
haematopoiesis
- Red-cell production under 6-mercaptopurine
erythropoiesis_mercaptopurine: The production of red cells under a constant level of 6-mercaptopurine, starting from health.
hamiltonian
- Beam-beam map
beam_beam_map: The beam-beam map of a particle of an accelerator beam that meets the opposite beam once every turn. - Cat map
cat_map: Arnold's cat map(x, y) → (2x + y, x + y) (mod 1), an area-preserving hyperbolic map of the torus. - Conservative Hénon map
conservative_henon_map: Hénon's area-preserving quadratic map, a rotation by2π nuwith a quadratic kick. - Hénon-Heiles
henon_heiles: The Hénon-Heiles system of a star in a galactic potential, whose motion is chaotic at higher energies. - Nuclear quadrupole vibrations
nuclear_quadrupole: The quadrupole vibrations of a nuclear surface, a Hamiltonian system of two degrees of freedom. - Particle in the well
k x^2 e^-xparticle_in_a_well: A particle moving without friction in the potentialU(x) = k x² e^-x. - Restricted three-body problem
restricted_three_body: A light body moving in the plane of two primaries on circular orbits, in the frame that rotates with them. - Standard
standard_map: The Chirikov standard mapp' = p + K sin θ,θ' = θ + p', with global chaos above K ≈ 0.9716. - Störmer charge in a dipole field
stormer_problem: A charged particle moving in the magnetic dipole field of a planet, the Störmer problem. - Two-body orbit
two_body_orbit: A light planet orbiting a heavy star under Newtonian gravity, as the Kepler problem of their separation.
hamiltonian path
- Adleman DNA computation of a Hamiltonian path
dna_computation: Adleman's DNA computation of a Hamiltonian path, by random ligation of edge oligos in a test tube.
handling time
- Mutualism
mutualism: Two species that grow logistically and feed each other, above their carrying capacities.
harvesting
- Fishery with measurement errors
fishery_measurement_errors: Independent fisheries whose quota is set from a measurement of the stock with a Gaussian error. - Lotka-Volterra with harvesting
lotka_volterra_with_harvesting: Lotka-Volterra predation where both species are harvested with a constant effort. - Optimal harvesting
optimal_harvesting: A logistic resource harvested with the effort that maximises its discounted profit.
health
- Obesity system
obesity: The obesity system of adults who eat near home and work, one step per day.
heaps law
- Interacting urns with triggering on a network
interacting_urns_network: One urn with triggering per node of a network, which draws from its own urn and those of its neighbours.
heat
- Cooling coffee
cooling_coffee: A cup of coffee whose temperature relaxes to that of the room,T' = -k (T - T_room).
heat bath
- Early-stage protein folding intermediate
early_stage_folding_intermediate: The residues of a protein sampling the cells of an ellipse path of the Ramachandran map by heat bath. - Join-a-club spins
join_a_club: Join-a-club spins, agents who join a club with their acquaintances while acquaintances follow the club.
heavy tails
- Ornstein-Uhlenbeck with weakening restoring force
weakening_ornstein_uhlenbeck: Brownian particles held by a restoring force that weakens with distance.
herding
- Kirman exchange rate with switching traders
kirman_exchange_rate: Kirman's foreign exchange market, whose traders switch between fundamentalism and chartism like ants. - Linear network herding
network_herding: Agents whose linear choices herd on the past choices of the agents they are linked to. - Strömbom shepherding of a flock
shepherding: A shepherd that collects a scattered flock and drives it to a goal, the heuristic of Strömbom et al.
heterogeneity
- Annealed transient time motion
annealed_transient_time_motion: Annealed transient time motion, Brownian walkers whose diffusion coefficient changes at random times. - Globally coupled systems with heterogeneous time scales
heterogeneous_global_coupling: Globally coupled oscillators with heterogeneous time scales, whose fixed point the coupling restabilizes. - Heterogeneous household demand by utility and by elasticities
household_demand: Hamill and Gilbert's heterogeneous households, whose demand for food traces a curve as its price rises. - Produce market
produce_market: Hamill and Gilbert's produce market, where shoppers with lists of produce visit stalls at random. - Two tumour clones under chemotherapy and dendritic-cell vaccine
clonal_chemoimmunotherapy: Two competing tumour clones, sensitive and resistant to chemotherapy, under a drug and a vaccine.
heuristics
- Brock-Hommes heuristic switching
brock_hommes: Brock and Hommes' asset market with traders switching between fundamentalists and trend chasers.
hexagons
- Bénard-Marangoni convection with a free, thermocapillary surface
benard_marangoni: The order-parameter equation of Bénard-Marangoni convection, which forms hexagonal cells.
hidden markov system
- Hidden Markov source
hidden_markov_source: A hidden Markov source, whose symbols are emitted at random from the states of a hidden Markov chain.
hierarchy
- Bonabeau hierarchies
bonabeau_hierarchies: The Bonabeau system, where a hierarchy of strengths emerges above a critical density of agents. - Container model of human mobility
container_mobility: The container model of human mobility of Alessandretti, Aslak, and Lehmann, trajectories across scales. - Hora and Tempus watchmakers
watchmakers: Simon's fable of the watchmakers Hora and Tempus, told by Meadows, with and without stable subassemblies.
higher-order interactions
- Random Lotka-Volterra with higher-order interactions
higher_order_random_lotka_volterra: A random Lotka-Volterra community with third-order interactions.
hill climbing
- NK fitness landscapes
nk_landscape: Agents that climb Kauffman's NK fitness landscape from random genomes until they reach local peaks.
history dependence
- Ageing random walk
ageing_random_walk: Ageing random walks, whose up steps become rarer the more of them a walker has taken. - Pólya urn
polya_urn: Independent Pólya urns, whose share of red balls converges to a random limit with a beta distribution.
hiv
- Watts-May SEIR with lasting partnerships
watts_may_concurrency: The SEIR epidemic of Watts and May, where partnerships that last longer spread the infection faster.
homeostasis
- Blood glucose stabilised by antagonistic insulin and glucagon loops
glucose_dual_hormone_control: Blood glucose stabilised by antagonistic hormone loops, insulin against highs and glucagon against lows. - Polyhomeostatic neuron
polyhomeostatic_neuron: A neuron that adapts its gain and threshold so its firing rate approaches an exponential distribution. - Steerable receptor-effector negative feedback loop
steerable_feedback_loop: A receptor-effector loop that holds a product at its set point until a steering signal shifts it. - Stimulus-response, adaptive response, and anticipation with response, restore, repair, and preparedness costs
adaptive_response_costs: A system that meets recurring demands by stimulus-response, adaptive response, or anticipation.
hopf bifurcation
- Ikeda delay equation
ikeda: The Ikeda delay equationx' = a sin x(t - tau)in the form of Dilão (2023, Exercise 6.4). - Leading-following tipping cascade
leading_following_cascade: A cascade of two tipping elements, a leading fold driven by a ramp and a follower forced by the leader. - Stuart-Landau
stuart_landau: The Stuart-Landau oscillatorz' = (μ + i ω) z - (1 + i β) |z|² z, the normal form of a Hopf bifurcation.
hormone
- Adenylate cyclase kinase cascade amplifier with G-protein timer inactivation
hormone_cascade_amplifier: The adenylate cyclase cascade, which amplifies a hormone pulse and ends it by the G-protein timer.
hormone therapy
- Gompertzian cell-cycle phases under tamoxifen
tamoxifen_cell_cycle: A breast tumour in Gompertzian cell-cycle phases under daily tamoxifen and its active metabolite. - Intermittent androgen suppression switched by PSA thresholds
ideta_intermittent_androgen: The Ideta system of intermittent androgen suppression, switched on and off by PSA thresholds. - Piecewise-linear intermittent androgen suppression
piecewise_linear_ias: The Hirata piecewise-linear system of intermittent androgen suppression for one of three patient types. - Prostate cancer driven by activated androgen receptors
prostate_androgen_receptor: The Jain system of prostate epithelium and cancer driven by activated androgen receptors, with PSA. - Prostate cancer under continuous androgen suppression
continuous_androgen_suppression: Prostate cancer under continuous androgen suppression, which androgen-independent cells survive. - Prostate cancer with an androgen cell quota and PSA
prostate_cell_quota: The Portz cell-quota system of prostate cancer, whose cells grow on their internal androgen.
hormones
- Blood glucose stabilised by antagonistic insulin and glucagon loops
glucose_dual_hormone_control: Blood glucose stabilised by antagonistic hormone loops, insulin against highs and glucagon against lows.
host-parasitoid
- Nicholson-Bailey
nicholson_bailey: Hosts and parasitoids in discrete generations, whose equilibrium is unstable to growing oscillations.
household
- Crop livestock household
crop_livestock_household: Bala's crop livestock model, a farming household that adds livestock rearing to its crop income.
human mobility
- Container model of human mobility
container_mobility: The container model of human mobility of Alessandretti, Aslak, and Lehmann, trajectories across scales. - Exploration and preferential return
exploration_preferential_return: The exploration and preferential return model of human mobility of Song and coauthors.
humanitarian logistics
- Food relief system
food_relief: A food relief system, a pipeline that ships food to a warehouse and distributes it to people in need.
hunter-gatherers
- Metaphoria mortal hunter-gatherer and monetary economies
metaphoria: Gooding's Metaphoria, a mortal population of hunter-gatherers or of a monetary economy.
hybrid
- Ballistic pendulum
ballistic_pendulum: A bullet that sticks in the block of a pendulum at rest, which then swings up. - Circuits under periodic impulses
impulsive_circuits: An RLC circuit driven by a periodic train of current impulses,L C x'' + R C x' + x = A Σ δ(t - k T). - Lumped cardiovascular system
cardiovascular: A closed lumped system of the systemic circulation driven by a left ventricle of varying elastance.
hydrodynamics
- Brownian particle near a wall
brownian_near_wall: A Brownian particle whose diffusion slows near a wall,D(z) = D0 z² / (z² + a²), as it settles on it. - Hydrodynamically coupled particles in blinking traps
hydrodynamically_coupled_traps: Two Brownian spheres in blinking optical traps, whose free motion is correlated through the fluid. - Squirmers
squirmers: Spherical squirmers that swim at2 B1 / 3and stir each other as pushers or pullers. - Toner-Tu hydrodynamics
toner_tu: The Toner-Tu hydrodynamics of a polar flock on a periodic lattice, from a disordered velocity field.
hydrophobicity
- Fuzzy oil drop system of protein structure
fuzzy_oil_drop: The fuzzy oil drop of a protein, an ensemble replayed one member per frame or a chain folded by moves.
hyperbolic
- Hyperbolic chemotaxis of cells and a chemical
hyperbolic_chemotaxis: Cells and a chemical moving with finite speed, whose two bumps of cells spread and attract each other. - Popularity-similarity network
popularity_similarity_network: Popularity-similarity growth, scale-free and clustered, whose nodes attach by hyperbolic distance. - Urban scaling of interactions
urban_scaling_interactions: A city that grows by residents and internal links, so its meetings grow faster than its population.
hyperbolic growth
- Finite-time blow-up
finite_time_blow_up: Hyperbolic growthx' = a x^p, which diverges at the finite timex0^(1 - p) / (a (p - 1))for p > 1.
hyperchaos
- Hyperchaotic four-dimensional Rössler flow
hyperchaotic_rossler: Rössler's four-dimensional flow, hyperchaotic with two positive Lyapunov exponents for its defaults. - Towel maps
towel_map: Rössler's towel map, a three-dimensional map with two positive Lyapunov exponents.
hypercycle
- Hypercycles
hypercycles: A network of self-replicating molecules whose catalysis keeps a set of them alive, a hypercycle.
hypergraph
- Growing simplicial complex by triangle attachment
growing_simplicial_complex: A simplicial complex that grows by gluing one triangle per step along an edge drawn uniformly. - Kuramoto oscillators with three-body coupling
hypergraph_kuramoto: Kuramoto oscillators coupled in pairs and by three-body interactions on the triangles of a hypergraph. - Nonlinear three-body consensus on temporal hypergraphs
hypergraph_consensus: The nonlinear three-body consensus system on a random hypergraph of triangles that switch on and off. - Public goods game on hypergraphs
hypergraph_public_goods: The public goods game on a hypergraph, played in every hyperedge, with Fermi imitation. - SIS on hypergraphs with heterogeneous exposure and a nonlinear infection kernel
hypergraph_exposure_sis: The SIS contagion of St-Onge et al. in the environments of a hypergraph, with a nonlinear kernel. - Simplicial contagion
simplicial_contagion: The simplicial contagion of Iacopini et al., an SIS process on the links and triangles of a complex. - Size-biased random walk on hypergraphs
hypergraph_random_walk: The size-biased random walk on a hypergraph,p_j' = sum_i p_i T_ij - p_j, from one node. - Spatial triadic percolation on a torus
spatial_triadic_percolation: Spatial triadic percolation, where nearby signed regulators make the giant component form moving patterns. - TAP growth with random catalysis and autocatalytic sets
tap_catalysis: The TAP growth of goods from combinations of goods, with random catalysis of their production functions. - Triadic percolation
triadic_percolation: Triadic percolation, where regulating nodes switch links on and off from the giant component.
hysteresis
- Cusp normal forms
cusp_form: The cusp normal formx' = β1 + β2 x - x³, bistable inside the cusp27 β1² < 4 β2³. - Forest dieback
forest_dieback: The forest dieback model of the Amazon, whose cover tips to bare soil when the ambient temperature rises. - Heated room with a thermostat
heated_room: A room assembled from thermal and electrical components, heated under a thermostat with hysteresis. - Subcritical Hopf normal form
subcritical_hopf_form: The subcritical Hopf normal form, where a stable focus coexists with a stable limit cycle.
ice ages
- Saltzman-Maasch glaciation
saltzman_glaciation: The glacial cycles of Saltzman and Maasch, a self-sustained oscillation of ice, carbon, and ocean. - Van der Pol ice ages
van_der_pol_ice_ages: Glacial cycles as a Van der Pol relaxation oscillator, optionally paced by orbital forcing.
ice-albedo feedback
- Budyko-Sellers latitude system
budyko_sellers: The Budyko-Sellers energy balance of one hemisphere, resolved in the sine of latitude. - Zero-dimensional energy balance with ice albedo
energy_balance: The zero-dimensional energy balance of the Earth, bistable through the ice-albedo feedback.
imitation
- Fundamentalists and chartists in an order book
order_book: A stock market of fundamentalists and chartists on a grid who trade in a limit order book and imitate. - Order book with a guru communication network
guru_order_book: The order-driven market of Grilli and Tedeschi, whose noise traders imitate gurus they choose by wealth. - Toy Trader and Three-Goods Trader with money
toy_trader: Gooding's Toy Trader, traders with money and toys who buy the cheapest toy they can see.
immune
- Immune competition
immune_competition: The kinetic system of the competition between tumour cells and immune cells.
immunity
- Record-dynamics epidemic of resistant residents
record_dynamics_epidemic: Yearly strains that infect every resident less resistant than their strength, who become immune.
immunosuppression
- Tumour-immune system with dendritic licensing, IL-2, IL-10, and TGF-beta
tumour_immune_suppression: A tumour against dendritic, cytotoxic, helper, and regulatory T cells with IL-2, IL-10, and TGF-beta.
immunotherapy
- Effector cells, tumour, and IL-2 under adoptive therapy
kirschner_panetta: The Kirschner-Panetta system of effector cells, tumour cells, and IL-2 under adoptive therapy and IL-2. - Hahnfeldt system with effector cells, pharmacokinetics, resistance, and toxicity
angiogenesis_immunotherapy: The Hahnfeldt tumour with effector cells under bevacizumab and atezolizumab every three weeks. - Kirschner-Panetta system with TGF-beta and siRNA
sirna_tgf_beta: The Kirschner-Panetta system with TGF-beta, which lets the tumour evade the immune system, and siRNA. - Oncolytic adenovirus with T cells and dendritic-cell injection
oncolytic_virus_dendritic: A tumour treated with an oncolytic adenovirus that expresses immune signals and with dendritic cells. - Optimal adoptive therapy and IL-2 dosing
optimal_immunotherapy: A tumour under the adoptive therapy and IL-2 injection that minimise its burden and their cost. - Predator-prey tumour-immune system of TCR gene therapy
tcr_gene_therapy: The predator-prey system of a gene therapy that lets the T cells recognise the tumour. - T cells, tumour, and anti-PD-1 checkpoint inhibitor
anti_pd1_checkpoint: Activated T cells, a tumour, and an anti-PD-1 drug that frees the T cells from checkpoint inhibition. - T cells, tumour, dendritic cells, and IL-2 under dendritic-cell vaccination
dendritic_cell_vaccine: Helper and cytotoxic T cells, a tumour, dendritic cells, and IL-2 under a dendritic-cell vaccine. - Tumour, NK cells, CD8 T cells, and lymphocytes under chemoimmunotherapy
chemoimmunotherapy: A tumour with NK cells, CD8 T cells, and lymphocytes under chemotherapy, IL-2, and TIL injection. - Tumour-immune populations with division delays under dendritic-cell vaccination
delayed_dc_vaccine: A tumour and eight innate and adaptive immune populations, with division delays, under a vaccine. - Tumour-immune system with dendritic licensing, IL-2, IL-10, and TGF-beta
tumour_immune_suppression: A tumour against dendritic, cytotoxic, helper, and regulatory T cells with IL-2, IL-10, and TGF-beta. - Two tumour clones under chemotherapy and dendritic-cell vaccine
clonal_chemoimmunotherapy: Two competing tumour clones, sensitive and resistant to chemotherapy, under a drug and a vaccine.
impacts
- Ballistic pendulum
ballistic_pendulum: A bullet that sticks in the block of a pendulum at rest, which then swings up. - Bouncing ball
bouncing_ball: A ball that falls under gravity and bounces off the floor, losing speed by a coefficient of restitution. - Newton's cradle
newtons_cradle: Newton's cradle: pendulum balls in a row that pass momentum along by elastic collisions.
impulses
- Circuits under periodic impulses
impulsive_circuits: An RLC circuit driven by a periodic train of current impulses,L C x'' + R C x' + x = A Σ δ(t - k T). - Magnetic levitation under alternating impulses
magnetic_levitation: A conductive ball levitated in a vacuum by a field that pushes and pulls it with alternating impulses. - Strongly nonlinear oscillator under periodic impulses
impulsive_oscillator: An oscillator kicked by a periodic train of impulses of alternating sign.
incoherent feedforward
- Three-enzyme adaptation circuits of Ma et al.
enzyme_adaptation_circuit: A circuit of three enzymes A, B, and C of Ma et al., whose output C may adapt to a step of the input.
income distribution
- Heterogeneous household demand by utility and by elasticities
household_demand: Hamill and Gilbert's heterogeneous households, whose demand for food traces a curve as its price rises.
independent trials
- Bernoulli process
bernoulli_process: Independent Bernoulli processes, one success or failure per step, whose success counts are binomial.
individual growth
- Penaeid shrimp growth
penaeid_shrimp: The growth of one penaeid shrimp from the juvenile stage, forced by the food and the water temperature.
inductive reasoning
- El Farol
el_farol: Arthur's El Farol bar problem, whose attendance self-organizes around the capacity. - Minority game and its evolutionary version
minority_game: The minority game of an odd number of agents with two random strategies each.
inequality
- Toy Trader and Three-Goods Trader with money
toy_trader: Gooding's Toy Trader, traders with money and toys who buy the cheapest toy they can see.
inertia
- Inertial active Brownian particles
inertial_active_brownian_particles: Active Brownian particles with inertia, which lag behind their orientation as they speed up and turn. - Inertial and overdamped Brownian motion
brownian_motion: Free Brownian particles with inertia,m x'' = -gamma x' + sqrt(2 kT gamma) W, or without it.
infection
- Uninfected and infected tumour cells under an oncolytic virus
oncolytic_virus: Uninfected and infected tumour cells that share a carrying capacity, with infection by mass action.
infinite alphabet
- Power-series automaton
power_series_automaton: The automatonτ(x)(n) = x(n) - t x(n + 1)over the ringK[[t]]of formal power series on a ring. - Real quadratic automaton
real_quadratic_automaton: The automatonτ(x)(n) = x(n + 1) - x(n)^2over the reals on a ring. - Self-indexed shift over a group alphabet
self_indexed_shift: The mapτ(x)(g) = x(g · x(g))over the group as alphabet, continuous and equivariant but no automaton. - Subtraction automaton over the naturals
subtraction_automaton: The automatonτ(x)(n) = max(0, x(n) - x(n + 1))over the naturals, whose image is not closed.
influentials
- Belief diffusion with influentials
influentials: The belief diffusion system with influentials who care passionately and weigh more with their neighbours.
information
- Polyhomeostatic neuron
polyhomeostatic_neuron: A neuron that adapts its gain and threshold so its firing rate approaches an exponential distribution.
information theory
- Hidden Markov source
hidden_markov_source: A hidden Markov source, whose symbols are emitted at random from the states of a hidden Markov chain. - Markov source
markov_source: A Markov source, a sequence of symbols in which each symbol depends on the one before it.
innovation
- Arthur-Polak technology evolution
arthur_polak: Arthur and Polak's evolution of technology, which builds logic functions from NAND gates. - Co-evolving combinatorial critical model
ccc_model: The co-evolving combinatorial critical model, whose diversity shows punctuated equilibria. - Combinatorial creative phase transition
creative_phase_transition: The diversity of a combinatorial system, which jumps from sparse to full above a critical rule density. - Interacting urns with triggering on a network
interacting_urns_network: One urn with triggering per node of a network, which draws from its own urn and those of its neighbours. - NK technology system
nk_technology: McNerney's system of technological improvement, whose cost falls as a power of the cumulative production. - TAP growth with random catalysis and autocatalytic sets
tap_catalysis: The TAP growth of goods from combinations of goods, with random catalysis of their production functions. - Threshold adoption
threshold_adoption: The threshold adoption system in social circles, started by the 2.5% of agents with the lowest thresholds.
insider threat
- Insider sabotage
insider_sabotage: The insider sabotage system of employees whose risk of sabotage builds up over the days of a year.
instability
- Car following with delay
delayed_car_following: A chain of cars that react to the speed difference to the car ahead after a reaction time. - Moment equations of Langevin traffic with a jam instability
traffic_density_equation: The density and flux equations of Langevin traffic on a ring road, whose uniform flow breaks into jams. - Rayleigh-Bénard
rayleigh_benard: Rayleigh-Bénard convection between free-slip walls, from a small perturbation of the critical mode.
institution
- Fractional-reserve banking
fractional_reserve_banking: Customers and banks whose lending of excess reserves multiplies the base money by1 / ratio.
insulin
- Blood glucose stabilised by antagonistic insulin and glucagon loops
glucose_dual_hormone_control: Blood glucose stabilised by antagonistic hormone loops, insulin against highs and glucagon against lows.
integers
- Unbounded-alphabet automaton
unbounded_alphabet_automaton: An additive automaton over the nonnegative integers,x'(n) = x(n - 1) + x(n), from a single 1.
integrable
- Circular billiard
circular_billiard: A particle moving freely inside a circle and reflecting specularly off its wall.
integral operator
- Multilevel selection of cooperators, defectors, and punishers on the simplex
trimorphic_multilevel_selection: The density of groups of cooperators, defectors, and altruistic punishers on the 2-simplex. - Multilevel selection with non-additive pairwise group conflict
nonlinear_pairwise_group_conflict: The density of groups of defectors and altruistic punishers under pairwise group conflict. - Size-structured forest with shading and seed dispersal
forest_size_structure: The McKendrick-von Foerster density of trees over position across a strip and height.
integrate and fire
- Mirollo-Strogatz pulse-coupled oscillators
mirollo_strogatz: Integrate-and-fire oscillators coupled by pulses, which end up firing in unison.
interaction matrix
- Generalized Lotka-Volterra microbial community
generalized_lotka_volterra: The generalized Lotka-Volterra system of a microbial community,dx_i/dt = x_i (b_i + sum_j a_ij x_j).
interdependent networks
- Cascades of failures in interdependent networks
interdependent_network_cascade: The cascade of failures of Buldyrev et al. between two networks whose nodes depend on each other.
intermediate growth
- Automata on the Grigorchuk group
grigorchuk_automaton: The majority automaton on a ball of the Grigorchuk group, a group of intermediate growth.
intermittency
- Intermittency maps
intermittency_map: The Pomeau-Manneville mapx' = x + x^z (mod 1), whose long laminar phases near 0 end in chaotic bursts. - Record-dynamics epidemic of resistant residents
record_dynamics_epidemic: Yearly strains that infect every resident less resistant than their strength, who become immune. - Stochastic on-off intermittency
on_off_intermittency: Stochastic on-off intermittency,dx/dt = (epsilon + xi) x - x^3with Stratonovich white noisexi.
intermittent
- Intermittent androgen suppression switched by PSA thresholds
ideta_intermittent_androgen: The Ideta system of intermittent androgen suppression, switched on and off by PSA thresholds. - Piecewise-linear intermittent androgen suppression
piecewise_linear_ias: The Hirata piecewise-linear system of intermittent androgen suppression for one of three patient types. - Prostate cancer with an androgen cell quota and PSA
prostate_cell_quota: The Portz cell-quota system of prostate cancer, whose cells grow on their internal androgen.
international trade
- Exchange rates in international trade
exchange_rates: Hamill and Gilbert's staged adjustment of trade and the exchange rate to a rise in home prices.
interruptions
- Hora and Tempus watchmakers
watchmakers: Simon's fable of the watchmakers Hora and Tempus, told by Meadows, with and without stable subassemblies.
interval map
- Cascais-Dilão-Noronha Gaussian map
cdn_map: The Cascais-Dilão-Noronha Gaussian mapx' = exp(-alpha² x²) + βof an interval. - Random two-branch interval map
random_branch_map: Orbits of a random map of[0, 1]with the two branches(1 + x) / 2andmu x².
invariant density
- Bernoulli doubling map
doubling_map: An ensemble of the doubling mapx' = 2x (mod 1), iterated exactly on fractions with an odd denominator. - Generalized tent map
skew_tent_map: An ensemble of the skew tent map, whose density relaxes to the uniform invariant density for anya.
invariants
- Stochastic and continuous Petri nets
petri_net: A Petri net, places that hold tokens and transitions that consume and produce them when they fire.
inventory
- Car-dealer inventory with delays
car_dealer: Meadows' car dealership, whose inventory oscillates after a step in demand because of its delays.
inversion
- One-dimensional active viscoelastic and poroelastic gel with contractile cells
active_viscoelastic_gel: A one-dimensional active viscoelastic gel, where contractile cells concentrate by dragging the gel. - Quasi-geostrophic double gyre
double_gyre: The quasi-geostrophic double gyre, the wind-driven circulation of a closed ocean basin.
invertible
- Involutive automaton
involutive_automaton: A binary automaton on a ring that is its own inverse, with the minimal memory set{-1, 0, ..., n}.
involution
- Involutive automaton
involutive_automaton: A binary automaton on a ring that is its own inverse, with the minimal memory set{-1, 0, ..., n}.
irreversibility
- Ehrenfest urn system of two boxes
ehrenfest_urn: The Ehrenfest urn system, balls moved one at a time between two boxes, which relaxes to equal counts.
isotope labelling
- Carbon-13 metabolic flux analysis
carbon_13_mfa: A metabolic network thatLabellingAnalysisfits to labelling data, the TCA example by default.
iterated
- Iterated prisoner's dilemma on a lattice with strategies of cooperation rounds
iterated_lattice_dilemma: Argun's evolutionary iterated prisoner's dilemma on a lattice, with strategies ofncooperation rounds.
iterated function system
- Iterated function systems by the chaos game
chaos_game: Points that draw the attractor of an iterated function system by the chaos game. - Random complex square-root function system
inverse_julia: The random function systemz -> ±√(z - omega), whose points settle on the Julia set ofz² + omega. - Random two-branch interval map
random_branch_map: Orbits of a random map of[0, 1]with the two branches(1 + x) / 2andmu x².
jams
- Charbonneau traffic
charbonneau_traffic: Charbonneau's traffic system, where random braking of single drivers sets off traffic jams. - Intelligent driver system
intelligent_driver_system: The intelligent driver system of cars on a ring road. - Kerner-Konhäuser system
kerner_konhauser: The Kerner-Konhäuser system, where viscous traffic flow forms dense moving clusters. - Moment equations of Langevin traffic with a jam instability
traffic_density_equation: The density and flux equations of Langevin traffic on a ring road, whose uniform flow breaks into jams. - Nagel-Schreckenberg
nagel_schreckenberg: The Nagel-Schreckenberg traffic system on a ring road, where jams emerge above a critical density. - Optimal velocity
optimal_velocity: The optimal velocity system of cars on a ring road, where uniform flow breaks into stop-and-go waves. - Ring-road driver agents
ring_road_drivers: Drivers on a circular highway, where small random errors of speed set off traffic jams.
julia set
- Random complex square-root function system
inverse_julia: The random function systemz -> ±√(z - omega), whose points settle on the Julia set ofz² + omega.
jump
- SIR
sir: An epidemic that moves individuals from susceptible to infected to recovered. - SIRS
sirs: An epidemic whose immunity wanes, which returns in damped waves to an endemic equilibrium. - SIS
sis: An infection without immunity, where the recovered become susceptible again and the disease is endemic. - Zombie outbreak of susceptible, zombie, and removed compartments
zombie_outbreak: The outbreak of zombies of Munz et al., where the dead rise again and humans are eventually overrun.
jump process
- Asymmetric exclusion process with open boundaries
asep: The asymmetric simple exclusion process on an open line, in continuous time. - Binary ant decision
binary_ant_decision: Ants that choose between two equal branches to a food source, following the marks of earlier ants. - Birth-death process and M/M/1 queue
birth_death_queue: Independent M/M/1 queues, birth-death processes with constant arrival and service rates. - Calm and nervous rats
rats: A colony of calm and nervous rats, in which nervousness spreads by contact and fades on its own. - Dissipative zero-range process on a tree
dissipative_zero_range: The dissipative zero-range process on a tree, with energy injected at the root and lost at the leaves. - Fully connected Ising system with Glauber dynamics
curie_weiss: The fully connected Ising system with Glauber dynamics, ordered below the critical temperatureT_c = J. - Fully connected branching and annihilation
absorbing_birth_death: The fully connected branching and annihilation process, active abovekappa = nuuntil it dies out. - Generalized stochastic predator-prey
stochastic_predator_prey: Prey and predators born and killed one at a time, with crowding of the prey and saturating predation. - Genetic toggle switch
toggle_switch: The genetic toggle switch of Gardner, Cantor, and Collins, two genes that repress each other. - Maki-Thompson rumours
maki_thompson: The Maki-Thompson rumour system started by one spreader, which leaves about 20% of people ignorant. - Michaelis-Menten as ODEs and as a jump process
michaelis_menten: The enzyme reactionE + S <-> C -> E + Pof Michaelis and Menten, as rate equations or as jumps. - Negative autoregulation and bursty gene expression
negative_autoregulation: A gene that represses its own transcription and makes its protein in bursts. - Neutral birth-death with hopping between boxes
neutral_clustering: Organisms that divide, die, and hop between patches on a periodic lattice, and gather in clusters. - Neutral macroecology
neutral_macroecology: Many species under neutral birth, death, and immigration, whose abundances follow a gamma-like law. - Poisson process
poisson_process: Independent Poisson processes, counters that grow by one at exponentially distributed waiting times. - Pólya urn
polya_urn: Independent Pólya urns, whose share of red balls converges to a random limit with a beta distribution. - Random walks
random_walk: Independent walkers on the integers that step at random times, a continuous-time random walk. - Repressilator
repressilator: The repressilator of Elowitz and Leibler, three genes in a ring that each repress the next. - Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass
sherrington_kirkpatrick: The Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass with Glauber dynamics, frozen below the temperatureT_c = J. - Strong-selection weak-mutation walk on fitness landscapes
origin_fixation_walk: A monomorphic population that climbs a fitness landscape as mutants arise and fix one at a time. - TAP growth with random catalysis and autocatalytic sets
tap_catalysis: The TAP growth of goods from combinations of goods, with random catalysis of their production functions. - Two-phase zone exchange
two_phase_zone_exchange: Independent zones of a two-phase apparatus, each exchanging particles with the rest of the apparatus. - Zero-range process
zero_range_process: The zero-range process on a ring, which condenses above the critical density1 / (b - 2)forb > 2.
jumps
- Adaptive SIS with rewiring
adaptive_sis: The SIS epidemic on a network whose susceptible nodes cut their edges to infected neighbours. - Generalised multi-valued logical networks
generalized_logical_network: A generalised logical network of Thomas, whose variables step asynchronously towards focal levels. - SIS on partnerships that dissolve and re-form
pair_formation_sis: The SIS epidemic on partnerships that dissolve and are replaced at once, withkpartners each. - Stochastic and continuous Petri nets
petri_net: A Petri net, places that hold tokens and transitions that consume and produce them when they fire.
kam
- Conservative Hénon map
conservative_henon_map: Hénon's area-preserving quadratic map, a rotation by2π nuwith a quadratic kick. - Nosé-Hoover oscillator
nose_hoover: The Nosé-Hoover oscillatorx' = y,y' = y z - x,z' = 1 - y², with tori next to a chaotic sea. - Standard
standard_map: The Chirikov standard mapp' = p + K sin θ,θ' = θ + p', with global chaos above K ≈ 0.9716.
kinetic
- BGK
bgk_equation: The BGK equation of the Sod shock tube over one position and one velocity axis. - Bertin-Droz-Grégoire kinetic flocking
bertin_droz_gregoire: The kinetic theory of flocking, whose polar order grows above a transition density. - Boltzmann
boltzmann_equation: The Boltzmann equation of Maxwell molecules over one position and two velocity axes. - Criminality and security
criminality: The kinetic system of criminality in a society and the security forces that act against it. - Enskog equations
enskog: The local Enskog equation, the Boltzmann equation with the contact value of the pair correlation of disks. - Exchange with debt limit and with saving propensity
kinetic_wealth_exchange: A kinetic wealth exchange system with a saving propensity or a debt limit. - Immune competition
immune_competition: The kinetic system of the competition between tumour cells and immune cells. - Kinetic evacuation of a network of rooms
evacuation: The kinetic system of the evacuation of a building whose rooms form a network. - Kinetic opinion formation
kinetic_opinion: The kinetic system of opinion formation over a discrete grid of opinions. - Kinetic wealth and welfare dynamics
kinetic_wealth_welfare: The kinetic theory of wealth classes, with a welfare policy when the tax is positive. - Vlasov
vlasov_equation: The Vlasov-Poisson equation of electrons over a neutralizing background, on a periodic position axis.
kinetic theory
- Bellomo's kinetic crowd in a street with walls and panic
kinetic_crowd: Bellomo's kinetic crowd of two groups walking in opposite directions along a street with walls. - Discrete-velocity Boltzmann gas of Carleman
discrete_velocity_boltzmann: The Carleman discrete-velocity Boltzmann equation on a periodic line, from a pulse of right movers. - Hyperbolic chemotaxis of cells and a chemical
hyperbolic_chemotaxis: Cells and a chemical moving with finite speed, whose two bumps of cells spread and attract each other.
kirchhoff
- Vessel conductances adapting to Kirchhoff flows
adaptive_flow_network: A square grid of vessels fed at one corner and drained at every other node, whose conductances adapt.
kleiber law
- West-Brown-Enquist distribution network and Kleiber scaling
west_brown_enquist: The distribution network of West, Brown, and Enquist, a space-filling tree of invariant capillaries.
knock-out
- Boolean system of the mammalian cell cycle
mammalian_cell_cycle: The Boolean system of the mammalian cell cycle of Faure et al., ten proteins updated synchronously.
kolkata paise restaurant
- Kolkata Paise Restaurant
kolkata_restaurant: The Kolkata Paise Restaurant problem, where diners spread over restaurants that serve one meal each.
koopman
- Model predictive control of Duffing, Van der Pol, and a bilinear DC motor through Koopman surrogates
koopman_model_predictive_control: A plant that a discrete-time controller steers with model predictive control on a fitted surrogate.
kronecker product
- Kronecker graphs
kronecker_graph: The Kronecker graph of two graphs, whose adjacency matrix is the Kronecker product of theirs.
labour
- Car wash queue
car_wash: Chesney's Clean and Wax hand car wash, a shadow account of the revenue of its workers' labour. - Labour market
labour_market: Hamill and Gilbert's labour market of firms posting wage offers and unemployed workers searching.
labour exploitation
- Ajani's Choice
ajanis_choice: Chesney's Ajani's Choice, migrant farm workers and employers among whom underpayment emerges.
labour standards
- Fair Food Program
fair_food_program: Chesney's Fair Food Program, in which pressure on tomato buyers draws farms into fair wages. - Namrata's Family, diffusion of working conditions in supply chains
supply_chain_diffusion: Chesney's Namrata's Family, buyers who push good working conditions down their supply network.
lagrangian
- Double pendulum
double_pendulum: A double pendulum, a pendulum hanging from the bob of another, written as its two Lagrange equations. - Gyroscope in a gimbal
gimballed_gyroscope: A gyroscope in a gimbal: a rotor in an inner ring that turns in an outer ring about a fixed axis. - Keplerian dumbbell and spin-orbit coupling
keplerian_dumbbell: The Keplerian dumbbell: two masses on a rigid massless arm that orbit a primary under gravity. - Pendulum on a sliding cart
cart_pendulum: A pendulum hanging from a cart that slides without friction along a horizontal track. - Rotating swing
rotating_swing: A rotating swing: chairs on chains hanging from the rods of a stand that turns about a vertical axis.
lags
- Next-generation reservoir computer
next_generation_reservoir: A next-generation reservoir computer whose variables follow the ridge readout of their monomials.
lamplighter
- Lamplighter
lamplighter_automaton: The parity automaton on a ball of the lamplighter group, a linear rule over the field of two elements.
land surface
- Coupled soil and deep temperature maps
soil_temperature: The coupled maps of the soil surface temperature and the deeper soil temperature.
land use
- Rice land, population, and food security
rice_food_balance: Bala's food security model, rice land that grows towards the land available against a growing population. - Von Thünen land use
von_thunen: A square plain around one market at its centre, whose every cell grows the crop of highest bid rent.
landscape
- Three-way fate decision on the compactified elliptic umbilic
three_way_fate_decision: Cells that choose among three fates on the compactified elliptic umbilic landscape of Rand et al.
lanes
- Bellomo's kinetic crowd in a street with walls and panic
kinetic_crowd: Bellomo's kinetic crowd of two groups walking in opposite directions along a street with walls. - Social force pedestrians
social_force: Two crowds walking in opposite directions along a periodic corridor, which form lanes.
langevin
- Langevin car-following toward a density-dependent speed
langevin_traffic: Cars on a ring road whose speeds relax with noise towards a desired speed set by the local density.
langevin equation
- Langevin equation with colored noise
colored_noise_langevin: Particles whose velocitydv/dt = -gamma v + xiis driven by Ornstein-Uhlenbeck noisexi.
language
- Miller's random typewriting
random_typewriting: Miller's random typewriting, monkeys whose random keystrokes give Zipf's law of word frequencies. - Naming game
naming_game: The minimal naming game, where agents with empty inventories agree on one word. - Simon-Yule growth
simon_yule: The Simon system of a text that grows from one word, whose word counts follow a power law.
large deviations
- Complex agents with internal states and standardization
standardized_agents: Complex agents whose interactions make them standardized, all showing one characteristic, and ordered.
lateral inhibition
- Bristle patterning by lateral inhibition on a ring
bristle_lateral_inhibition: A ring of cells that inhibit the neural fate of their neighbours, leaving sparse, evenly spaced bristles.
lattice
- Bak-Sneppen
bak_sneppen: The Bak-Sneppen system, whose fitnesses self-organise above a critical value in avalanches of extinction. - Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld sandpile
sandpile: The Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld sandpile on a lattice with open edges, started from random stable heights. - COMETS: dynamic flux balance on a lattice with diffusion
comets: An expanding colony of the E. coli core system on a lattice, which needs the extrametabolism. - Cellular Potts model of cell sorting on square, triangular, and disordered lattices
cellular_potts: The cellular Potts model of a confluent tissue whose cells of several kinds sort by differential adhesion. - Contact process
contact_process: The contact process on a periodic lattice, which survives above a critical infection rate near 1.65. - Cyclic cellular automaton
cyclic_cellular_automaton: Griffeath's cyclic cellular automaton, whose random levels organize into spiral waves. - Diffusion automaton
diffusion_automaton: A cellular automaton of diffusion,c' = c + r Σ (c_neighbour - c), started from a square of ones. - Discrete master equation
discrete_master_equation: The discrete-time master equation of states on a ring, which relaxes to the Boltzmann distribution. - Drossel-Schwabl forest fire
forest_fire: The Drossel-Schwabl forest fire, where slow growth and rare lightning give fires of every size. - Edwards-Anderson spin glass
edwards_anderson: The Edwards-Anderson spin glass on a periodic square lattice, with quenched random bonds. - Elementary automata
elementary_automaton: An elementary cellular automaton by its Wolfram number, started from a single live cell by default. - Employment takeover
employment_takeover: The employment takeover system on a periodic checkerboard, with half of each kind coloured at random. - FHP lattice gas
fhp_lattice_gas: The FHP-I lattice gas on a periodic triangular lattice, with a dense disc that spreads into the gas. - Fixed-energy sandpile
fixed_energy_sandpile: The fixed-energy sandpile, a Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld pile with no drive and no loss on a periodic lattice. - Forest fire on hexagonal lattices and graphs
hexagonal_forest_fire: The Drossel-Schwabl forest fire on a triangular lattice of hexagonal cells, or on the nodes of a graph. - Fredkin's self-replicating parity automaton
fredkin_replicator: Fredkin's parity automaton, whose local law copies any initial pattern into translated replicas. - Fully biased walk among quenched broad traps
biased_trap_walk: Walkers that hop always to the right through quenched traps with broadly distributed trapping times. - Game of Life
game_of_life: Conway's Game of Life, or another life-like rule, on a torus. - Group-valued difference automaton
group_difference_automaton: The automatonτ(x)(n) = x(n)^-1 x(n + 1)whose alphabet is a finite group, on a ring. - HPP lattice gas
hpp_lattice_gas: The HPP lattice gas on a periodic square lattice, whose particles move along four directions and collide. - Highlife and the planar automaton zoo
highlife: HighLife,B36/S23, or any other life-like automaton of the planar zoo by its rule, on a torus. - Hodgepodge machine
hodgepodge: The hodgepodge machine, a system of a chemical reaction whose waves form spirals. - Involutive automaton
involutive_automaton: A binary automaton on a ring that is its own inverse, with the minimal memory set{-1, 0, ..., n}. - Ising
ising: The two-dimensional Ising system on a torus, ordered below the critical temperature2 / ln(1 + sqrt 2). - Iterated prisoner's dilemma on a lattice with strategies of cooperation rounds
iterated_lattice_dilemma: Argun's evolutionary iterated prisoner's dilemma on a lattice, with strategies ofncooperation rounds. - Julia sets
julia: The filled Julia set ofz -> z^2 + c, the starting points whose orbit stays bounded (Dilão 2023 §5.5). - LEGION oscillators
legion: A LEGION network, a lattice of relaxation oscillators that segments a stimulus into its objects. - Langton's ant
langtons_ant: Langton's ant, which wanders chaotically for about 10,000 steps before it builds a periodic highway. - Lattice Maxwell and gauge link fields
lattice_gauge_fields: Link variables on the cell complex of a periodic lattice, sampled or evolved in real time. - Lattice Yang-Mills and pure lattice QCD
lattice_yang_mills: SU(2) or SU(3) matrices on the links of a periodic lattice, sampled by the Wilson action. - Lenia and its expanded universe
lenia: Lenia, a continuous automaton whose ring-kernel convolutions grow gliding, lifelike solitons. - Majority rule automaton
majority_rule: Voters that take the majority opinion of their neighbourhood, which coarsens into domains. - Mandelbrot set
mandelbrot: The Mandelbrot set, the pointscwhose orbit ofz -> z^2 + cfrom 0 stays bounded (Dilão 2023 §5.5). - Manna sandpile
manna_sandpile: The Manna sandpile, a stochastic sandpile of another universality class than Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld. - Mattis spin glass
mattis_spin_glass: The Mattis spin glass on a periodic square lattice, with couplingsJ_ij = J xi_i xi_jof a patternxi. - Nagel-Schreckenberg
nagel_schreckenberg: The Nagel-Schreckenberg traffic system on a ring road, where jams emerge above a critical density. - Neutral birth-death with hopping between boxes
neutral_clustering: Organisms that divide, die, and hop between patches on a periodic lattice, and gather in clusters. - Nilpotent automaton of class n
nilpotent_automaton: A binary automaton on a ring that is nilpotent of classn:nsteps send every configuration to 0. - Noisy automata
noisy_automata: An elementary cellular automaton whose outputs are flipped at random with a small probability. - Olami-Feder-Christensen
earthquakes: The Olami-Feder-Christensen earthquake system with open edges, started from random forces. - Potts
potts: The q-state Potts system on a torus, ordered below the critical temperature1 / ln(1 + sqrt q). - Power-series automaton
power_series_automaton: The automatonτ(x)(n) = x(n) - t x(n + 1)over the ringK[[t]]of formal power series on a ring. - Public goods game
public_goods_game: The spatial public goods game in groups of five neighbours, with Fermi imitation. - Q2R reversible Ising automaton
q2r: The Q2R automaton, a reversible, energy-conserving Ising dynamics on a periodic lattice of even sides. - Quantum Heisenberg system
quantum_heisenberg: A chain of spins one half with the XXZ Hamiltonian, a field, and optional dephasing. - Real quadratic automaton
real_quadratic_automaton: The automatonτ(x)(n) = x(n + 1) - x(n)^2over the reals on a ring. - Rock-paper-scissors
rock_paper_scissors: Rock, paper, and scissors on a lattice, whose cyclic invasions keep the three strategies coexisting. - Site percolation
site_percolation: Site percolation probed by a fire lit along the top row, which spans the lattice abovep_c = 0.5927. - Spatial prisoner's dilemma with best-neighbour and Fermi imitation
spatial_prisoners_dilemma: The spatial prisoner's dilemma of Nowak and May, with best-neighbour or Fermi imitation. - Subtraction automaton over the naturals
subtraction_automaton: The automatonτ(x)(n) = max(0, x(n) - x(n + 1))over the naturals, whose image is not closed. - TASEP
tasep: The totally asymmetric simple exclusion process with parallel update, on an open line or a ring. - Traders and exchange rates coupled through arbitrage as lattice electrodynamics
gauge_arbitrage_market: Exchange-rate potentials on links as lattice Maxwell fields, sourced by traders who move a good on sites. - Turing machine (three-state busy beaver)
turing_machine: A Turing machine, a head with an internal state that reads, writes, and moves on a tape of symbols. - Unbounded-alphabet automaton
unbounded_alphabet_automaton: An additive automaton over the nonnegative integers,x'(n) = x(n - 1) + x(n), from a single 1. - Von Thünen land use
von_thunen: A square plain around one market at its centre, whose every cell grows the crop of highest bid rent. - XY
xy: The XY system of planar spins on a torus, with vortices that bind below the Kosterlitz-Thouless point. - Zhang sandpile
zhang_sandpile: The Zhang sandpile, a continuous sandpile whose unstable sites give away all their energy.
lattice gas
- FHP lattice gas
fhp_lattice_gas: The FHP-I lattice gas on a periodic triangular lattice, with a dense disc that spreads into the gas. - HPP lattice gas
hpp_lattice_gas: The HPP lattice gas on a periodic square lattice, whose particles move along four directions and collide.
leadership
- Couzin shoal with repulsion, alignment, and informed leaders
couzin_leadership: The Couzin shoal, in which a small informed minority leads a group that does not know who is informed.
learning
- Adaptrode synapse
adaptrode: An Adaptrode synapse driven by a train of input pulses that stops after a while. - Elman recurrent network trained by backpropagation
elman_network: Elman's simple recurrent network, which learns to predict the next bit of a temporal XOR stream.
learning curve
- NK technology system
nk_technology: McNerney's system of technological improvement, whose cost falls as a power of the cumulative production.
least effort
- Mandelbrot least-effort word frequencies
mandelbrot_least_effort: The word frequencies that minimise the mean cost of a language over its entropy, a power law of rank.
leukaemia
- Bone-marrow and blood cells with blasts and cancer stem cells
bone_marrow_blood_leukaemia: The bone marrow and blood system of leukaemia, in which blasts crowd out the normal cells. - Normal and leukaemic stem cells with feedback regulation
leukaemia_stem_cells: Normal and leukaemic stem cells that compete for one niche through the feedback of their progeny. - Red-cell production under 6-mercaptopurine
erythropoiesis_mercaptopurine: The production of red cells under a constant level of 6-mercaptopurine, starting from health.
levitation
- Magnetic levitation under alternating impulses
magnetic_levitation: A conductive ball levitated in a vacuum by a field that pushes and pulls it with alternating impulses.
life
- Game of Life
game_of_life: Conway's Game of Life, or another life-like rule, on a torus. - Game of Life on a rewired small-world network
small_world_life: Conway's Game of Life on a small-world network rewired from the Moore lattice of a torus. - Highlife and the planar automaton zoo
highlife: HighLife,B36/S23, or any other life-like automaton of the planar zoo by its rule, on a torus. - Life in a tree
life_in_a_tree: The Game of Life on the free group F4, a tree of degree 8, surjective but not pre-injective.
life cycle
- Hilsa fishery
hilsa_fishery: A hilsa fishery, the life cycle of a migratory fish that the catch of juveniles and spawners depletes.
light
- Bending of light by a mass
light_bending: A light ray that passes a static mass and is deflected towards it.
limit cycle
- Brusselator ODE
brusselator_ode: The well-mixed Brusselator, which oscillates on a limit cycle whenb > 1 + a**2. - Forced Van der Pol
forced_van_der_pol: The Van der Pol oscillator driven by a periodic force,x'' = μ (1 - x²) x' - x + A cos(ω t). - Fractional Van der Pol
fractional_van_der_pol: The fractional Van der Pol oscillatorD^alpha x = y,D^alpha y = mu (1 - x^2) y - x. - Hopf
hopf_form: The Hopf normal form, whose focus gives birth to a limit cycle of radius√(-μ / a)as μ crosses 0. - Huygens clocks and pendulums on coupled supports
huygens_clocks: Pendulum clocks on supports joined by springs, which synchronize through the motion of the supports. - Saltzman-Maasch glaciation
saltzman_glaciation: The glacial cycles of Saltzman and Maasch, a self-sustained oscillation of ice, carbon, and ocean. - Stuart-Landau
stuart_landau: The Stuart-Landau oscillatorz' = (μ + i ω) z - (1 + i β) |z|² z, the normal form of a Hopf bifurcation. - Subcritical Hopf normal form
subcritical_hopf_form: The subcritical Hopf normal form, where a stable focus coexists with a stable limit cycle. - Tunnel-diode oscillator
tunnel_diode_oscillator: A tunnel-diode oscillator: an inductor and a capacitor in parallel with a negative-resistance diode. - Van der Pol
van_der_pol: The Van der Pol oscillatorx'' = μ (1 - x²) x' - x, which settles on a limit cycle forμ > 0. - Van der Pol ice ages
van_der_pol_ice_ages: Glacial cycles as a Van der Pol relaxation oscillator, optionally paced by orbital forcing.
linear
- Fredkin's self-replicating parity automaton
fredkin_replicator: Fredkin's parity automaton, whose local law copies any initial pattern into translated replicas. - Lamplighter
lamplighter_automaton: The parity automaton on a ball of the lamplighter group, a linear rule over the field of two elements. - Linear automata over rings
linear_ring_automaton: The discrete Laplacian as a linear automaton on a ring, over the field ofmoduluselements. - Surjective non-pre-injective linear automaton on F2
surjective_linear_automaton: A linear automaton overK^2on the free group F2, surjective but not pre-injective.
linear dynamics
- Sequentially linear ecosystem
sequentially_linear_ecosystem: An ecosystem whose abundances follow linear dynamics between extinctions that rewrite its network.
linear map
- Linear network herding
network_herding: Agents whose linear choices herd on the past choices of the agents they are linked to.
linear program
- COMETS: dynamic flux balance on a lattice with diffusion
comets: An expanding colony of the E. coli core system on a lattice, which needs the extrametabolism. - Dynamic flux balance analysis of a batch culture
dynamic_fba: A batch culture of the E. coli core system, which needs the extrametabolism. - Dynamic multi-species metabolic system
dynamic_multispecies_fba: Two E. coli core strains that differ in maximal glucose uptake on one medium, which needs the extra. - Elementary flux modes and extreme pathways
elementary_flux_modes: The toy network of Raman whose steady-state coneElementaryModeAnalysisenumerates. - Flux balance, flux variability, and parsimonious FBA
flux_balance: Flux balance analysis of a metabolic network, which sets its fluxes to maximise growth. - Joint, community, and SteadyCom flux balance
community_fba: Two members of the E. coli core system that share a medium, which needs the extrametabolism. - Knock-outs, MoMA, ROOM, OptKnock, and synthetic lethals
metabolic_perturbations: The E. coli core system with some genes knocked out, which needs the extrametabolism. - Regulatory flux balance analysis
regulatory_fba: A batch culture on glucose and acetate with Boolean catabolite repression, which needs the extra.
linear system
- Three-sector purchasing power decoupled by feedback
categorized_purchasing_power: Forrest's categorized purchasing power of money, three sectors that feedback can steer one by one.
linear-quadratic
- Linear-quadratic impulsive irradiation with a radiosensitizer
lq_radiosensitizer: A xenograft tumour irradiated in fractions scored by the linear-quadratic system, with a radiosensitizer.
linear-quadratic regulator
- Linear-quadratic regulated oscillator
lqr_oscillator: A harmonic oscillator that a linear-quadratic regulator brings to rest.
liquid crystal
- Dry active nematics
dry_active_nematics: A dry active nematic, a conserved density coupled to a symmetric traceless alignment tensor.
livelihood
- Crop livestock household
crop_livestock_household: Bala's crop livestock model, a farming household that adds livestock rearing to its crop income.
livestock
- Crop livestock household
crop_livestock_household: Bala's crop livestock model, a farming household that adds livestock rearing to its crop income.
lockdown
- Agent-based SIR with mortality, waning immunity, incubation, and lockdown
agent_based_sir: People who walk on a grid and infect those in their cell, with optional extensions of the SIR system.
log kill
- Norton-Simon Gompertzian cell kill
norton_simon: The Norton-Simon system, a Gompertzian tumour killed in proportion to its size by a dose schedule. - Skipper-Schabel-Wilcox log-kill
skipper_log_kill: The log-kill system, an exponentially growing tumour of which every dose kills a fixed fraction.
logical network
- Generalised multi-valued logical networks
generalized_logical_network: A generalised logical network of Thomas, whose variables step asynchronously towards focal levels.
logistic
- Generalized logistic (Richards) growth
generalized_logistic: A tumour that saturates at a carrying capacity,dn/dt = r n (1 - (n / K)^p), logistic forp = 1. - Substance exchange between logistic cells in a closed contour
closed_contour_cell_exchange: The exchange of signalling molecules between logistic cells arranged in a closed contour.
logistic map
- Aggregate-averaging synchronization of logistic and delay-coupled Bernoulli maps
aggregate_averaging_synchronization: Two chaotic maps coupled by aggregate averaging, which synchronize their chaos for strong coupling.
lognormal
- Gibrat
gibrat_process: Firms that grow by Gibrat's law of proportionate effect, which makes their sizes lognormal.
long memory
- Fractional Brownian motion
fractional_brownian_motion: Fractional Brownian motion,dx = sqrt(2 D) dB_H, with<x^2> = 2 D t^(2 H)along every axis.
lookup tables
- Population and pollution
population_pollution: The pollution model of Bala, Arshad, and Noh, a population that degrades its environment.
lumped system
- Lumped cardiovascular system
cardiovascular: A closed lumped system of the systemic circulation driven by a left ventricle of varying elastance.
macroecology
- Neutral macroecology
neutral_macroecology: Many species under neutral birth, death, and immigration, whose abundances follow a gamma-like law.
macroeconomics
- Mark-0 economy with a Covid shock and policies
mark0: The Mark-0 economy of Sharma, Bouchaud, and co-authors, with a Covid shock to supply and demand.
magnetism
- Quantum Heisenberg system
quantum_heisenberg: A chain of spins one half with the XXZ Hamiltonian, a field, and optional dephasing. - Störmer charge in a dipole field
stormer_problem: A charged particle moving in the magnetic dipole field of a planet, the Störmer problem.
majority
- Automata on the Grigorchuk group
grigorchuk_automaton: The majority automaton on a ball of the Grigorchuk group, a group of intermediate growth. - Automata on the free group
free_group_automaton: The majority automaton on a ball of the free group, a tree in which every cell follows its neighbours. - Baumslag-Solitar groups
baumslag_solitar_automaton: The majority automaton on a ball of the Baumslag-Solitar groupBS(m, n), of exponential growth. - Galam majority
galam_majority: The Galam majority system, where random groups adopt their majority until one opinion wins. - Heisenberg
heisenberg_automaton: The majority automaton on a ball of the discrete Heisenberg group, of polynomial growth of degree 4. - Majority rule with willingness and zealots
willing_majority: The majority rule with willingness, where zealots of willingness 0 never change their opinion.
map
- Aggregate-averaging synchronization of logistic and delay-coupled Bernoulli maps
aggregate_averaging_synchronization: Two chaotic maps coupled by aggregate averaging, which synchronize their chaos for strong coupling. - Coupled map lattices on networks
coupled_map_lattices_on_networks: Chaotic logistic maps on the nodes of a network, each pulled towards the mean of its neighbours. - Julia sets
julia: The filled Julia set ofz -> z^2 + c, the starting points whose orbit stays bounded (Dilão 2023 §5.5). - Mandelbrot set
mandelbrot: The Mandelbrot set, the pointscwhose orbit ofz -> z^2 + cfrom 0 stays bounded (Dilão 2023 §5.5). - Substance exchange between logistic cells in a closed contour
closed_contour_cell_exchange: The exchange of signalling molecules between logistic cells arranged in a closed contour.
market
- Bilateral barter of two or three goods
goods_traders: Traders who wander a grid and barter two or three goods with their neighbours. - Cobweb
cobweb: A market whose price converges to or oscillates around equilibrium as supply lags the price. - Cournot duopoly with beliefs
cournot_duopoly: Two Cournot duopolists that adjust their output to their beliefs about each other. - Edgeworth and Red Cross barter
barter: Barter of chocolate and cigarettes, in an Edgeworth box of two barterers or among many prisoners. - Firm and bank credit networks
credit_networks: A credit market where firms sample banks and switch to cheaper lenders, and defaults hit the lenders. - Labour market
labour_market: Hamill and Gilbert's labour market of firms posting wage offers and unemployed workers searching. - Produce market
produce_market: Hamill and Gilbert's produce market, where shoppers with lists of produce visit stalls at random. - Riccati price adjustment
riccati_prices: A price that moves with excess demand under linear demand and saturating quadratic supply. - Shops and digital markets
shops: Shops on a grid that compete for the shoppers on every cell, in person or in a digital market. - Zero-intelligence double auction
double_auction: Gode and Sunder's double auction of zero-intelligence traders, a step per trading period.
market impact
- Fire sales of overlapping portfolios
overlapping_portfolio_fire_sales: Banks with overlapping portfolios whose fire sales of common assets spread their losses to one another.
market sight
- Toy Trader and Three-Goods Trader with money
toy_trader: Gooding's Toy Trader, traders with money and toys who buy the cheapest toy they can see.
marketing
- Bass diffusion
bass_diffusion: The Bass diffusion system, people who adopt a new product through advertising and word of mouth.
markov chain
- Brock-Mirman stochastic growth
brock_mirman_growth: The Brock-Mirman economy, the optimal growth of a representative agent whose productivity is Markov. - Ehrenfest urn system of two boxes
ehrenfest_urn: The Ehrenfest urn system, balls moved one at a time between two boxes, which relaxes to equal counts. - Hidden Markov source
hidden_markov_source: A hidden Markov source, whose symbols are emitted at random from the states of a hidden Markov chain. - Markov source
markov_source: A Markov source, a sequence of symbols in which each symbol depends on the one before it.
mass action
- Protein corona binding on a nanoparticle
nanoparticle_corona: The corona that albumin, high-density lipoprotein, and fibrinogen form on a nanoparticle in plasma.
mass conserving
- Min-protein skeleton system as mass-conserving reaction-diffusion
min_protein_skeleton: The skeleton system of the Min proteins on a periodic line, a mass-conserving reaction-diffusion system.
mass extinctions
- Rothman excitable carbon cycle
carbon_cycle: Rothman's excitable carbon cycle, where a large enough perturbation of the ocean sets off an excursion.
mass spring damper
- Quarter-car suspension
quarter_car: A quarter-car suspension driving over a road step.
master equation
- Discrete master equation
discrete_master_equation: The discrete-time master equation of states on a ring, which relaxes to the Boltzmann distribution. - Size-biased random walk on hypergraphs
hypergraph_random_walk: The size-biased random walk on a hypergraph,p_j' = sum_i p_i T_ij - p_j, from one node.
master stability function
- Coupled Rössler and the master stability function
coupled_rossler: Chaotic Rössler oscillators on a ring, diffusively coupled through their second variable.
matching
- Labour market
labour_market: Hamill and Gilbert's labour market of firms posting wage offers and unemployed workers searching. - Ridesharing
ridesharing: Riders who request trips on a city grid and cabs that a stable matching sends to them.
maxwell
- Lattice Maxwell and gauge link fields
lattice_gauge_fields: Link variables on the cell complex of a periodic lattice, sampled or evolved in real time. - Traders and exchange rates coupled through arbitrage as lattice electrodynamics
gauge_arbitrage_market: Exchange-rate potentials on links as lattice Maxwell fields, sourced by traders who move a good on sites.
mean field
- Complex agents with internal states and standardization
standardized_agents: Complex agents whose interactions make them standardized, all showing one characteristic, and ordered. - Degree-class SIR on uncorrelated networks
heterogeneous_mean_field_sir: The SIR epidemic on an uncorrelated network of power-law degrees, in heterogeneous mean field. - Fully connected Ising system with Glauber dynamics
curie_weiss: The fully connected Ising system with Glauber dynamics, ordered below the critical temperatureT_c = J. - Globally coupled Stuart-Landau oscillators with frequency spread
oscillator_death: Globally coupled Stuart-Landau oscillators, whose oscillations all die for strong coupling and spread. - Globally coupled systems with heterogeneous time scales
heterogeneous_global_coupling: Globally coupled oscillators with heterogeneous time scales, whose fixed point the coupling restabilizes. - Heterogeneous mean-field SIS
heterogeneous_mean_field_sis: The SIS epidemic on a network with a power-law degree distribution, in heterogeneous mean field. - Huepe-Aldana noisy majority Boolean network
noisy_boolean_network: The Boolean network of Huepe and Aldana-González, nodes that follow the noisy majority ofkinputs. - Kuramoto
kuramoto: Kuramoto oscillators coupled all to all,theta_i' = omega_i + (K / N) sum_j sin(theta_j - theta_i). - Landau mean-field relaxation
landau_relaxation: The relaxation of a Landau order parameter, tosqrt(a (Tc - T) / b)belowTcand to 0 above it. - Mean-field flows of undecided agents
undecided_flows: The mean-field flows between agents against,A, undecided,C, and for,B. - Ott-Antonsen reduction
ott_antonsen: The Ott-Antonsen equation for the order parameter of infinitely many Kuramoto oscillators. - Self-organized branching process
self_organized_branching: The self-organized branching process of Zapperi, Lauritsen, and Stanley, a mean-field sandpile. - Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass
sherrington_kirkpatrick: The Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass with Glauber dynamics, frozen below the temperatureT_c = J. - Theta neurons and QIF networks
theta_neurons: A network of theta neurons, equivalently quadratic integrate-and-fire neurons, coupled all to all.
measurement error
- Fishery with measurement errors
fishery_measurement_errors: Independent fisheries whose quota is set from a measurement of the stock with a Gaussian error.
mechanics
- Ballistic pendulum
ballistic_pendulum: A bullet that sticks in the block of a pendulum at rest, which then swings up. - Bouncing ball
bouncing_ball: A ball that falls under gravity and bounces off the floor, losing speed by a coefficient of restitution. - Circular billiard
circular_billiard: A particle moving freely inside a circle and reflecting specularly off its wall. - Coupled pendulums
coupled_pendulums: Two pendulums whose bobs are joined by a spring, which pass their energy back and forth. - Double pendulum
double_pendulum: A double pendulum, a pendulum hanging from the bob of another, written as its two Lagrange equations. - Driven damped oscillator
driven_damped_oscillator: A mass on a spring with damping and a periodic force,m x'' = -k x - c x' + F cos(ω t). - Gyroscope in a gimbal
gimballed_gyroscope: A gyroscope in a gimbal: a rotor in an inner ring that turns in an outer ring about a fixed axis. - Harmonic oscillator
harmonic_oscillator: A particle on a spring, optionally damped. - Huygens clocks and pendulums on coupled supports
huygens_clocks: Pendulum clocks on supports joined by springs, which synchronize through the motion of the supports. - Keplerian dumbbell and spin-orbit coupling
keplerian_dumbbell: The Keplerian dumbbell: two masses on a rigid massless arm that orbit a primary under gravity. - Magnetic pendulum
magnetic_pendulum: A magnetic bob on a string swinging above magnets on a circle, which comes to rest at one of them. - Mass-spring oscillator with static and Coulomb friction
friction_oscillator: A mass on a linear spring with static, Coulomb, and viscous friction,m x'' + c x' + k x + f = 0. - N-body and solar system
n_body: Bodies in the plane that attract each other pairwise by Newtonian gravity. - Newton's cradle
newtons_cradle: Newton's cradle: pendulum balls in a row that pass momentum along by elastic collisions. - Particle in the well
k x^2 e^-xparticle_in_a_well: A particle moving without friction in the potentialU(x) = k x² e^-x. - Pendulum
pendulum: A pendulum, whose angle follows Newton's second lawm l θ'' = -m g sin θ. - Pendulum on a sliding cart
cart_pendulum: A pendulum hanging from a cart that slides without friction along a horizontal track. - Pendulum with a vertically or horizontally oscillating pivot
parametric_pendulum: A pendulum whose suspension point oscillates vertically or horizontally, with accelerationε g cos Ω t. - Projectile
projectile: A particle launched under uniform gravity, optionally slowed by linear drag. - Relativistic orbit equation
relativistic_orbit: Einstein's orbit equationu'' + u = alpha + epsilon u²of a planet, whose perihelion precesses. - Restricted three-body problem
restricted_three_body: A light body moving in the plane of two primaries on circular orbits, in the frame that rotates with them. - Rotating balls on rods
rotating_balls_on_rods: Two balls on rods that turn about a vertical axis and conserve their angular momentum. - Rotating swing
rotating_swing: A rotating swing: chairs on chains hanging from the rods of a stand that turns about a vertical axis. - Sitnikov problem
sitnikov: A light body moving on the axis through the centre of mass of two equal primaries, normal to their orbit. - Spring chains and guitar string
spring_chain: Masses joined in a row by springs of zero rest length between two anchors, a discrete string. - Störmer charge in a dipole field
stormer_problem: A charged particle moving in the magnetic dipole field of a planet, the Störmer problem. - Two-body orbit
two_body_orbit: A light planet orbiting a heavy star under Newtonian gravity, as the Kepler problem of their separation. - Two-mass spring-damper between walls
two_mass_spring_damper: Two masses between two walls, tied to the walls and to each other by springs, with dampers and forces.
mechatronics
- DC motor with an inertia
dc_motor: A DC motor whose armature circuit of components drives an inertia on a Lagrangian coordinate. - Electromagnetic vibrating table
vibrating_table: An electromagnetic vibrating table, a shaker driven by a sinusoidal supply after its switch closes. - Magnetic levitation under alternating impulses
magnetic_levitation: A conductive ball levitated in a vacuum by a field that pushes and pulls it with alternating impulses. - Quarter-car suspension
quarter_car: A quarter-car suspension driving over a road step.
memory
- Adaptrode synapse
adaptrode: An Adaptrode synapse driven by a train of input pulses that stops after a while. - Fractional Lorenz
fractional_lorenz: The fractional Lorenz flow of Grigorenko and Grigorenko, chaotic for orders close enough to 1. - Fractional Van der Pol
fractional_van_der_pol: The fractional Van der Pol oscillatorD^alpha x = y,D^alpha y = mu (1 - x^2) y - x. - Fractional damped oscillator
fractional_oscillator: The fractional damped oscillatorD^alpha x = v,D^alpha v = -omega^2 x - 2 gamma v. - Fractional relaxation
fractional_relaxation: Fractional relaxationD^alpha x = -lambda x, which decays as the Mittag-Leffler functionE_alpha. - Random walk with autoregressive velocity
random_walk_with_memory: Random walks whose velocity is an autoregressive process,x ← x + vandv ← alpha v + xi.
memristor
- Memristive mixed-mode oscillator
memristive_mixed_mode_oscillator: A slow-fast circuit with a cubic flux-controlled memristor, whose oscillations mix two amplitudes. - Memristor oscillator
memristor_oscillator: The simplest memristor oscillator: a capacitor, an inductor, and a memristor in series.
merging
- Node-merging network of Kim et al.
node_merging: The node-merging network of Kim et al., whose merging of linked nodes builds hubs without growth.
mesh
- Heat on an L-shaped domain
heat_l_shape: Heat on the L-shaped domain with fixed boundary temperatures, discretised by linear finite elements.
metabolic oscillations
- Yeast glycolysis oscillations in a flow reactor
glycolysis_oscillations: The glycolysis of a yeast extract in a flow reactor, whose NADH oscillates with a period of minutes.
metabolic scaling
- West-Brown-Enquist distribution network and Kleiber scaling
west_brown_enquist: The distribution network of West, Brown, and Enquist, a space-filling tree of invariant capillaries.
metabolism
- COMETS: dynamic flux balance on a lattice with diffusion
comets: An expanding colony of the E. coli core system on a lattice, which needs the extrametabolism. - Carbon-13 metabolic flux analysis
carbon_13_mfa: A metabolic network thatLabellingAnalysisfits to labelling data, the TCA example by default. - Dynamic flux balance analysis of a batch culture
dynamic_fba: A batch culture of the E. coli core system, which needs the extrametabolism. - Dynamic multi-species metabolic system
dynamic_multispecies_fba: Two E. coli core strains that differ in maximal glucose uptake on one medium, which needs the extra. - Elementary flux modes and extreme pathways
elementary_flux_modes: The toy network of Raman whose steady-state coneElementaryModeAnalysisenumerates. - Flux balance, flux variability, and parsimonious FBA
flux_balance: Flux balance analysis of a metabolic network, which sets its fluxes to maximise growth. - Joint, community, and SteadyCom flux balance
community_fba: Two members of the E. coli core system that share a medium, which needs the extrametabolism. - Knock-outs, MoMA, ROOM, OptKnock, and synthetic lethals
metabolic_perturbations: The E. coli core system with some genes knocked out, which needs the extrametabolism. - Regulatory flux balance analysis
regulatory_fba: A batch culture on glucose and acetate with Boolean catabolite repression, which needs the extra.
metapopulation
- Metapopulation reaction-diffusion
metapopulation: SIR epidemics in subpopulations at the nodes of a network, linked by individuals who travel.
metastability
- Fully connected branching and annihilation
absorbing_birth_death: The fully connected branching and annihilation process, active abovekappa = nuuntil it dies out.
metastasis
- Primary and secondary sites with a migration delay under chemotherapy
delayed_metastasis: Normal and tumour cells at a primary and a secondary site, with a delayed migration of tumour cells.
microbial community
- Generalized Lotka-Volterra microbial community
generalized_lotka_volterra: The generalized Lotka-Volterra system of a microbial community,dx_i/dt = x_i (b_i + sum_j a_ij x_j).
microphase separation
- Active System B+ of motility-induced phase separation
active_system_b: Active System B+, the conserved field theory of the density of active particles.
microswimmers
- Squirmers
squirmers: Spherical squirmers that swim at2 B1 / 3and stir each other as pushers or pullers.
milling
- Rice milling system
rice_milling: A rice milling system, a mill that buys paddy, mills it into rice and by-products, and sells them.
min proteins
- Min-protein skeleton system as mass-conserving reaction-diffusion
min_protein_skeleton: The skeleton system of the Min proteins on a periodic line, a mass-conserving reaction-diffusion system.
minimal
- Morse subshift
morse_subshift: The Thue-Morse substitution0 → 01,1 → 10, whose words make the language of the Morse subshift.
minority game
- Kolkata Paise Restaurant
kolkata_restaurant: The Kolkata Paise Restaurant problem, where diners spread over restaurants that serve one meal each. - Minority game and its evolutionary version
minority_game: The minority game of an odd number of agents with two random strategies each.
mixed phase space
- Dynamical billiards of Sinai, mushroom, and open three-disk shapes
billiards: A particle moving freely on a billiard table and reflecting specularly off its walls.
mixed-mode oscillations
- Memristive mixed-mode oscillator
memristive_mixed_mode_oscillator: A slow-fast circuit with a cubic flux-controlled memristor, whose oscillations mix two amplitudes. - Modified Chua with mixed-mode oscillations
mixed_mode_chua: A modified Chua circuit on three time scales, whose oscillations mix small and large amplitudes.
mixing
- Baker
baker_map: The generalized baker map, which stretches the unit square alongxand stacks the two pieces iny. - Cat map
cat_map: Arnold's cat map(x, y) → (2x + y, x + y) (mod 1), an area-preserving hyperbolic map of the torus.
mode locking
- Circle
circle_map: The sine circle mapθ' = θ + Ω - K / (2π) sin 2πθ (mod 1), which locks into Arnold tongues.
model predictive control
- Model predictive control of Duffing, Van der Pol, and a bilinear DC motor through Koopman surrogates
koopman_model_predictive_control: A plant that a discrete-time controller steers with model predictive control on a fitted surrogate.
modern slavery
- Fair Food Program
fair_food_program: Chesney's Fair Food Program, in which pressure on tomato buyers draws farms into fair wages.
molecular computation
- Adleman DNA computation of a Hamiltonian path
dna_computation: Adleman's DNA computation of a Hamiltonian path, by random ligation of edge oligos in a test tube.
molecular dynamics
- Lennard-Jones fluid
lennard_jones_fluid: Lennard-Jones particles in a periodic square box, optionally held at a temperature by a thermostat.
momentum
- Ballistic pendulum
ballistic_pendulum: A bullet that sticks in the block of a pendulum at rest, which then swings up. - Newton's cradle
newtons_cradle: Newton's cradle: pendulum balls in a row that pass momentum along by elastic collisions. - Pendulum on a sliding cart
cart_pendulum: A pendulum hanging from a cart that slides without friction along a horizontal track.
monetary policy
- Three-sector purchasing power decoupled by feedback
categorized_purchasing_power: Forrest's categorized purchasing power of money, three sectors that feedback can steer one by one.
money
- Fractional-reserve banking
fractional_reserve_banking: Customers and banks whose lending of excess reserves multiplies the base money by1 / ratio. - Metaphoria mortal hunter-gatherer and monetary economies
metaphoria: Gooding's Metaphoria, a mortal population of hunter-gatherers or of a monetary economy. - Stock-flow consistent monetary economy
stock_flow_consistent_economy: A stock-flow consistent economy, a closed circuit of money between households, firms, and a bank. - Toy Trader and Three-Goods Trader with money
toy_trader: Gooding's Toy Trader, traders with money and toys who buy the cheapest toy they can see.
monte carlo
- Bellomo's kinetic crowd in a street with walls and panic
kinetic_crowd: Bellomo's kinetic crowd of two groups walking in opposite directions along a street with walls. - Cellular Potts model of cell sorting on square, triangular, and disordered lattices
cellular_potts: The cellular Potts model of a confluent tissue whose cells of several kinds sort by differential adhesion. - Early-stage protein folding intermediate
early_stage_folding_intermediate: The residues of a protein sampling the cells of an ellipse path of the Ramachandran map by heat bath. - Fuzzy oil drop system of protein structure
fuzzy_oil_drop: The fuzzy oil drop of a protein, an ensemble replayed one member per frame or a chain folded by moves. - Genotype spaces and neutral networks of RNA folds
rna_neutral_networks: Walkers of RNA sequences that take one proposed point mutation per unit of time at temperature zero. - Lattice Maxwell and gauge link fields
lattice_gauge_fields: Link variables on the cell complex of a periodic lattice, sampled or evolved in real time. - Lattice Yang-Mills and pure lattice QCD
lattice_yang_mills: SU(2) or SU(3) matrices on the links of a periodic lattice, sampled by the Wilson action.
morse-smale
- Three-way fate decision on the compactified elliptic umbilic
three_way_fate_decision: Cells that choose among three fates on the compactified elliptic umbilic landscape of Rand et al.
mortality
- Agent-based SIR with mortality, waning immunity, incubation, and lockdown
agent_based_sir: People who walk on a grid and infect those in their cell, with optional extensions of the SIR system. - Metaphoria mortal hunter-gatherer and monetary economies
metaphoria: Gooding's Metaphoria, a mortal population of hunter-gatherers or of a monetary economy.
motifs
- Centralities, assortativity, communities, and motifs
network_structure_analysis: A network recorded with its centralities, degree mixing, communities, and triangle z-score.
multi-valued
- Generalised multi-valued logical networks
generalized_logical_network: A generalised logical network of Thomas, whose variables step asynchronously towards focal levels.
multilayer
- Cascades of failures in interdependent networks
interdependent_network_cascade: The cascade of failures of Buldyrev et al. between two networks whose nodes depend on each other.
multilevel selection
- Finite two-level birth-death process of defectors and punishers
two_level_birth_death: The finite two-level birth-death process of defectors and altruistic punishers in competing groups. - Multilevel selection of cooperators, defectors, and punishers on the simplex
trimorphic_multilevel_selection: The density of groups of cooperators, defectors, and altruistic punishers on the 2-simplex. - Multilevel selection with non-additive pairwise group conflict
nonlinear_pairwise_group_conflict: The density of groups of defectors and altruistic punishers under pairwise group conflict. - Two-level replicator equation of additive pairwise group conflict
two_level_replicator: The two-level replicator equation of defectors and altruistic punishers, additive pairwise group conflict.
multiplex
- Two-layer adaptive oscillator model of sepsis
two_layer_sepsis: The two-layer model of tumour disease and sepsis, parenchymal and immune cells as adaptive oscillators.
multiplicative noise
- Brownian particle near a wall
brownian_near_wall: A Brownian particle whose diffusion slows near a wall,D(z) = D0 z² / (z² + a²), as it settles on it. - Langevin field theory of absorbing-state transitions with a conserved energy field
directed_percolation_langevin: The Langevin field theory of an absorbing-state transition, an active density fed by an energy field. - Multiplicative noise conventions
multiplicative_noise: Free particles in a box with position-dependent noise, read in the Itô, Stratonovich, or anti-Itô sense. - Stochastic on-off intermittency
on_off_intermittency: Stochastic on-off intermittency,dx/dt = (epsilon + xi) x - x^3with Stratonovich white noisexi.
multiplicative process
- Gibrat
gibrat_process: Firms that grow by Gibrat's law of proportionate effect, which makes their sizes lognormal. - Kesten processes
kesten_process: Firms whose sizes follow Kesten's process, a random multiplicative factor plus a random positive term. - Multiplicative
multiplicative_process: Levy and Solomon's multiplicative process, whose floor at a fraction of the mean makes a power-law tail.
multiscale
- Multiscale tumour angiogenesis
tumour_angiogenesis: A tumour that outgrows its oxygen supply and recruits new blood vessels from a parent vessel.
multistability
- Magnetic pendulum
magnetic_pendulum: A magnetic bob on a string swinging above magnets on a circle, which comes to rest at one of them.
mutation
- Eigen quasispecies
eigen_quasispecies: The shares of a population at every number of mutations from the master sequence, the linear chain system. - Iterated prisoner's dilemma on a lattice with strategies of cooperation rounds
iterated_lattice_dilemma: Argun's evolutionary iterated prisoner's dilemma on a lattice, with strategies ofncooperation rounds. - Moran process
moran_process: The Moran process, a population of constant size where fitter traits fix by selection and drift.
mutualism
- Mutualism
mutualism: Two species that grow logistically and feed each other, above their carrying capacities.
myelination
- Phase units with activity-dependent conduction delays
adaptive_delay_network: Phase units coupled all to all through conduction delays that adapt to their activity, as myelination.
nadh
- Yeast glycolysis oscillations in a flow reactor
glycolysis_oscillations: The glycolysis of a yeast extract in a flow reactor, whose NADH oscillates with a period of minutes.
nanomedicine
- Protein corona binding on a nanoparticle
nanoparticle_corona: The corona that albumin, high-density lipoprotein, and fibrinogen form on a nanoparticle in plasma.
nanotubes
- Intercellular exchange through gap junctions and tunnelling nanotubes on a cell network
nanotube_gap_junction_exchange: The intercellular exchange of a substance through gap junctions and tunnelling nanotubes on a network.
naturals
- Subtraction automaton over the naturals
subtraction_automaton: The automatonτ(x)(n) = max(0, x(n) - x(n + 1))over the naturals, whose image is not closed.
necrosis
- Core and periphery vasculature under anti-angiogenic therapy
vascular_core_periphery: A tumour with a live core, a live periphery, and a necrotic core, each fed by its own vasculature.
negative feedback
- Blood glucose stabilised by antagonistic insulin and glucagon loops
glucose_dual_hormone_control: Blood glucose stabilised by antagonistic hormone loops, insulin against highs and glucagon against lows. - Goodwin oscillator
goodwin_oscillator: The Goodwin oscillator, a chain of stages whose last one represses the synthesis of the first. - Steerable receptor-effector negative feedback loop
steerable_feedback_loop: A receptor-effector loop that holds a product at its set point until a steering signal shifts it. - Three-enzyme adaptation circuits of Ma et al.
enzyme_adaptation_circuit: A circuit of three enzymes A, B, and C of Ma et al., whose output C may adapt to a step of the input. - Three-node phosphorylation oscillator
phosphorylation_oscillator: Three proteins whose phosphorylation cycles regulate each other in a loop that oscillates.
neighborhood
- Ginelli nematic particles
ginelli_nematics: Polar particles with nematic alignment, which order along a common axis but move both ways along it. - Grégoire-Chaté cohesive flocks
gregoire_chate: The Grégoire-Chaté system: aligning particles that also attract and repel, forming cohesive flocks. - Vicsek system with metric, topological, vision-cone, and delayed alignment
vicsek: The Vicsek system: particles that move at a constant speed along the mean heading of their neighbours.
neighbours
- Szabó cell system
szabo_cells: The cells of Szabó et al. (2006) in a periodic box, which move together above a critical density.
nematic
- Active nematic and polar gels
active_gels: An active gel, a nematic tensor or a polarisation transported in the Stokes flow of its own stresses. - Dry active nematics
dry_active_nematics: A dry active nematic, a conserved density coupled to a symmetric traceless alignment tensor. - Ginelli nematic particles
ginelli_nematics: Polar particles with nematic alignment, which order along a common axis but move both ways along it.
net energy
- Declining energy return on investment
energy_return: The extraction of a finite energy reserve whose energy return on investment declines as it depletes.
network
- Adaptive SIS with rewiring
adaptive_sis: The SIS epidemic on a network whose susceptible nodes cut their edges to infected neighbours. - Bak-Sneppen
bak_sneppen: The Bak-Sneppen system, whose fitnesses self-organise above a critical value in avalanches of extinction. - Barabási-Albert growth, with Bianconi-Barabási fitness
barabasi_albert: Barabási-Albert growth, whose degrees follow a power lawP(k) ~ k^-3by preferential attachment. - Bilateral two-good trade on complete, isolated, and small-world networks
wilhite_trade_networks: Wilhite's bilateral barter of two goods among traders on one of four trade networks. - Bouchaud-Mézard wealth
bouchaud_mezard_wealth: Bouchaud and Mezard's wealth dynamics, random multiplicative returns with exchange between neighbours. - Cascades of failures in interdependent networks
interdependent_network_cascade: The cascade of failures of Buldyrev et al. between two networks whose nodes depend on each other. - Centralities, assortativity, communities, and motifs
network_structure_analysis: A network recorded with its centralities, degree mixing, communities, and triangle z-score. - Cognitive consistency agents
cognitive_consistency: Agents whose attitudes spread by conversation and settle in a belief network that seeks consistency. - Configuration model with stub matching and rewiring
configuration_model: The configuration model, the maximally random network of a given degree sequence. - Coupled map lattices on networks
coupled_map_lattices_on_networks: Chaotic logistic maps on the nodes of a network, each pulled towards the mean of its neighbours. - Davidsen-Ebel-Bornholdt network of triadic closure and node turnover
davidsen_ebel_bornholdt: The Davidsen-Ebel-Bornholdt network, whose triadic closure and node turnover give high clustering. - DebtRank cascades
debtrank: The DebtRank cascade of distress from a set of banks through their interbank loans. - Default cascades with thresholds and recovery
default_cascade: A cascade of defaults through interbank exposures, from a shock to the external assets of some banks. - Degree-class SIR on uncorrelated networks
heterogeneous_mean_field_sir: The SIR epidemic on an uncorrelated network of power-law degrees, in heterogeneous mean field. - Diffusion
network_diffusion: Diffusion on a network,du_i/dt = D Σ_j A_ij (u_j - u_i), which spreads a unit mass to every node. - Eisenberg-Noe clearing of interbank payments
eisenberg_noe_clearing: The clearing of interbank payments of Eisenberg and Noe, a fixed point of proportional payments. - Erdos-Renyi and Watts-Strogatz graphs
random_graph_ensembles: The construction of an Erdős-Rényi or a Watts-Strogatz random graph, one step of new edges at a time. - Evolutionary dynamics with game transitions
game_transitions: Evolutionary dynamics with game transitions on a random regular graph, after Su, McAvoy, Wang, and Nowak. - Explosive percolation by the Achlioptas product rule
explosive_percolation: Explosive percolation, where the Achlioptas product rule delays and sharpens the giant component. - Firm and bank credit networks
credit_networks: A credit market where firms sample banks and switch to cheaper lenders, and defaults hit the lenders. - Forest fire on hexagonal lattices and graphs
hexagonal_forest_fire: The Drossel-Schwabl forest fire on a triangular lattice of hexagonal cells, or on the nodes of a graph. - Game of Life on a rewired small-world network
small_world_life: Conway's Game of Life on a small-world network rewired from the Moore lattice of a torus. - Gauge theory of agents on a network
gauge_network_agents: Agent phases on the nodes of a network that relax towards the transported phases of their neighbours. - Graphlet arrival growth
graphlet_arrival: Growth by the arrival of three-node graphlets, a tree whose degree exponent rises withalpha. - Hegselmann-Krause
hegselmann_krause: The Hegselmann-Krause system, whose opinions freeze within a few steps into clusters about2 εapart. - Heterogeneous mean-field SIS
heterogeneous_mean_field_sis: The SIS epidemic on a network with a power-law degree distribution, in heterogeneous mean field. - Holme-Kim growth
holme_kim: Holme-Kim growth, scale-free like Barabási-Albert growth but with clustering that stays high. - Interacting urns with triggering on a network
interacting_urns_network: One urn with triggering per node of a network, which draws from its own urn and those of its neighbours. - Intercellular exchange through gap junctions and tunnelling nanotubes on a cell network
nanotube_gap_junction_exchange: The intercellular exchange of a substance through gap junctions and tunnelling nanotubes on a network. - Ising on a graph
graph_ising: The Ising system on a graph, ordered below a critical temperature set by the degrees of the nodes. - Kinetic evacuation of a network of rooms
evacuation: The kinetic system of the evacuation of a building whose rooms form a network. - Kinouchi-Copelli excitable network
kinouchi_copelli: The Kinouchi-Copelli network of excitable elements, whose dynamic range peaks at the critical point. - Kronecker graphs
kronecker_graph: The Kronecker graph of two graphs, whose adjacency matrix is the Kronecker product of theirs. - Kuramoto on networks
kuramoto_on_networks: Kuramoto oscillators coupled along the edges of a network,theta_i' = omega_i + K sum_j A_ij sin(...). - Linear network herding
network_herding: Agents whose linear choices herd on the past choices of the agents they are linked to. - Metapopulation reaction-diffusion
metapopulation: SIR epidemics in subpopulations at the nodes of a network, linked by individuals who travel. - Motter-Lai cascades of betweenness overload
motter_lai_overload: The cascade of overload failures of Motter and Lai after one node is removed. - Namrata's Family, diffusion of working conditions in supply chains
supply_chain_diffusion: Chesney's Namrata's Family, buyers who push good working conditions down their supply network. - Network of interacting tipping elements
tipping_cascade_network: A network of tipping elements, where one element pushed past its tipping point can tip its neighbours. - Network superposition model of Erdős-Rényi subgraphs
network_superposition: The network superposition model, a union of Erdős-Rényi graphs whose linking probabilities are drawn. - Networks of leaky integrate-and-fire neurons with delays
delayed_lif_network: A random network of leaky integrate-and-fire neurons whose spikes reach their targets after a delay. - Node-merging network of Kim et al.
node_merging: The node-merging network of Kim et al., whose merging of linked nodes builds hubs without growth. - Order book with a guru communication network
guru_order_book: The order-driven market of Grilli and Tedeschi, whose noise traders imitate gurus they choose by wealth. - PageRank iterations on networks
pagerank: The PageRank iterationr_i' = (1 - d) / n + d Σ_j A_ij r_j / k_jon an undirected network. - Popularity-similarity network
popularity_similarity_network: Popularity-similarity growth, scale-free and clustered, whose nodes attach by hyperbolic distance. - Quenched mean-field SIS
quenched_mean_field_sis: The SIS epidemic on a fixed network in quenched mean field, one infection probability per node. - Random failures and targeted attacks on networks
network_attack: Failures or attacks on a scale-free network, robust to random failures but fragile to attacks on hubs. - Random walks
network_random_walk: Random walkers on a network, which visit every node of a connected graph in proportion to its degree. - Random-walker epidemics on a grid and on a small world
random_walker_epidemics: Random walkers among whom one sick walker starts a deadly epidemic, on a grid or on a network. - SIR on a network as an agent system
network_sir: SIR epidemics in cities at the nodes of a network, carried between cities by travellers. - Simplicial contagion
simplicial_contagion: The simplicial contagion of Iacopini et al., an SIS process on the links and triangles of a complex. - Spatial triadic percolation on a torus
spatial_triadic_percolation: Spatial triadic percolation, where nearby signed regulators make the giant component form moving patterns. - Steady-state duplication-deletion network
duplication_deletion: The steady-state duplication-deletion network of Jensen, whose connectance settles at Eq. 8.84. - Swing-equation power grid with Braess paradox
power_grid: A ring power grid in the swing-equation system, where more transmission capacity can break synchrony. - Sznajd
sznajd: The Sznajd system, where agreeing pairs of agents convince their neighbours. - Theta neurons and QIF networks
theta_neurons: A network of theta neurons, equivalently quadratic integrate-and-fire neurons, coupled all to all. - Three-state opinion with undecided agents
three_state_opinion: The three-state opinion system of agents against, undecided, and for, on a random regular network. - Triadic percolation
triadic_percolation: Triadic percolation, where regulating nodes switch links on and off from the giant component. - Urban scaling of interactions
urban_scaling_interactions: A city that grows by residents and internal links, so its meetings grow faster than its population. - Vertex-copying network growth
vertex_copying: Vertex-copying growth, whose new nodes copy the edges of existing nodes and make a heavy-tailed degree. - Voter system
voter_system: A voter system with one voter per node of a network. - Voter variants
voter_variants: Voter system variants on a network, with threshold voters and a share of contrarians. - Watts threshold cascades
watts_cascades: The Watts threshold system of global cascades started by a few random seeds.
network effect
- Fixed-line phone adoption
phone_adoption: Hamill and Gilbert's adoption of fixed-line phones by British households from 1951.
network geometry
- Growing simplicial complex by triangle attachment
growing_simplicial_complex: A simplicial complex that grows by gluing one triangle per step along an edge drawn uniformly.
network motifs
- Three-enzyme adaptation circuits of Ma et al.
enzyme_adaptation_circuit: A circuit of three enzymes A, B, and C of Ma et al., whose output C may adapt to a step of the input.
networks
- Coupled Rössler and the master stability function
coupled_rossler: Chaotic Rössler oscillators on a ring, diffusively coupled through their second variable.
neural field
- Amari neural field
amari_neural_field: The Amari neural field, whose lateral inhibition holds a stationary bump of activity.
neural mass
- Next-generation neural mass with theta forcing
next_generation_neural_mass: The exact neural mass of quadratic integrate-and-fire neurons whose gamma rhythm nests in a theta drive. - Wilson-Cowan
wilson_cowan: The Wilson-Cowan system of interacting excitatory and inhibitory populations of neurons.
neural network
- Asymmetric diluted Hopfield network
diluted_hopfield: The asymmetric diluted Hopfield network, which recalls a stored pattern below its memory capacity. - Echo state network
echo_state_network: An echo state network, a reservoir of leaky tanh units with random recurrent weights driven by a sine. - Elman recurrent network trained by backpropagation
elman_network: Elman's simple recurrent network, which learns to predict the next bit of a temporal XOR stream. - Fukai-Tanaka winner-take-all network
winners_take_all: A winner-take-all network of units with self-limited growth and mutual inhibition. - Hopfield network
hopfield: A Hopfield network that stores patterns with Hebb's rule and recalls the first from a corrupted copy. - Next-generation reservoir computer
next_generation_reservoir: A next-generation reservoir computer whose variables follow the ridge readout of their monomials.
neuron
- FitzHugh-Nagumo ODE
fitzhugh_nagumo_ode: The FitzHugh-Nagumo neuron, the two-variable reduction of Hodgkin and Huxley's excitable membrane. - Hodgkin-Huxley
hodgkin_huxley: The Hodgkin-Huxley neuron, whose sodium and potassium channels produce action potentials. - Integrate-and-fire
integrate_and_fire: The leaky integrate-and-fire neuron,tau v' = -(v - rest) + R I, which spikes and resets at a threshold. - Izhikevich
izhikevich: The Izhikevich neuron, whose four parameters give regular spiking, bursting, chattering, and more. - Networks of leaky integrate-and-fire neurons with delays
delayed_lif_network: A random network of leaky integrate-and-fire neurons whose spikes reach their targets after a delay. - Polyhomeostatic neuron
polyhomeostatic_neuron: A neuron that adapts its gain and threshold so its firing rate approaches an exponential distribution. - Theta neurons and QIF networks
theta_neurons: A network of theta neurons, equivalently quadratic integrate-and-fire neurons, coupled all to all.
neurons
- Glioma, glia, and neurons under temozolomide and virus
glioma_chemovirotherapy: Glia, neurons, and a glioma under a constant temozolomide infusion and an oncolytic virus.
neutral networks
- Genotype spaces and neutral networks of RNA folds
rna_neutral_networks: Walkers of RNA sequences that take one proposed point mutation per unit of time at temperature zero.
neutral theory
- Neutral Moran system with speciation
neutral_biodiversity: A neutral community of constant size, where species arise by speciation and vanish by drift. - Neutral birth-death with hopping between boxes
neutral_clustering: Organisms that divide, die, and hop between patches on a periodic lattice, and gather in clusters. - Neutral macroecology
neutral_macroecology: Many species under neutral birth, death, and immigration, whose abundances follow a gamma-like law.
next generation
- Next-generation neural mass with theta forcing
next_generation_neural_mass: The exact neural mass of quadratic integrate-and-fire neurons whose gamma rhythm nests in a theta drive. - Next-generation reservoir computer
next_generation_reservoir: A next-generation reservoir computer whose variables follow the ridge readout of their monomials.
niche theory
- Consumer-resource models of substitutable and essential resources
consumer_resource: Consumer species that compete only through the resources they take up, by MacArthur's niche theory.
nilpotent
- Heisenberg
heisenberg_automaton: The majority automaton on a ball of the discrete Heisenberg group, of polynomial growth of degree 4. - Nilpotent automaton of class n
nilpotent_automaton: A binary automaton on a ring that is nilpotent of classn:nsteps send every configuration to 0.
node turnover
- Davidsen-Ebel-Bornholdt network of triadic closure and node turnover
davidsen_ebel_bornholdt: The Davidsen-Ebel-Bornholdt network, whose triadic closure and node turnover give high clustering.
noise
- Chemical Langevin equation of the Schlögl reaction
chemical_langevin_equation: The chemical Langevin equation of Schlögl's bistable reaction, whose noise switches between two states. - Chemical Langevin equation of the enzyme network
chemical_langevin_network: The chemical Langevin equation of the enzyme reactionE + S <-> C -> E + P. - Huepe-Aldana noisy majority Boolean network
noisy_boolean_network: The Boolean network of Huepe and Aldana-González, nodes that follow the noisy majority ofkinputs. - Kramers escape
kramers_escape: Particles that escape over the barrier ofU = x^4 / 4 - x^2 / 2by thermal noise of intensityD. - Langevin equation with colored noise
colored_noise_langevin: Particles whose velocitydv/dt = -gamma v + xiis driven by Ornstein-Uhlenbeck noisexi. - Multiplicative noise conventions
multiplicative_noise: Free particles in a box with position-dependent noise, read in the Itô, Stratonovich, or anti-Itô sense. - Negative autoregulation and bursty gene expression
negative_autoregulation: A gene that represses its own transcription and makes its protein in bursts. - Noisy automata
noisy_automata: An elementary cellular automaton whose outputs are flipped at random with a small probability. - Stochastic on-off intermittency
on_off_intermittency: Stochastic on-off intermittency,dx/dt = (epsilon + xi) x - x^3with Stratonovich white noisexi. - Stochastic resonance
stochastic_resonance: A particle in a double well,dx = (x - x^3 + A cos(2 pi f t)) dt + sqrt(2 D) dW.
noise traders
- Order book with a guru communication network
guru_order_book: The order-driven market of Grilli and Tedeschi, whose noise traders imitate gurus they choose by wealth.
non-closed image
- Subtraction automaton over the naturals
subtraction_automaton: The automatonτ(x)(n) = max(0, x(n) - x(n + 1))over the naturals, whose image is not closed.
non-ergodic
- Scaled Brownian motion
scaled_brownian_motion: Scaled Brownian motion,dx = sqrt(2 K alpha (t + t0)^(alpha - 1)) dW, with<x^2> ~ 2 K t^alpha.
non-growing network
- Davidsen-Ebel-Bornholdt network of triadic closure and node turnover
davidsen_ebel_bornholdt: The Davidsen-Ebel-Bornholdt network, whose triadic closure and node turnover give high clustering. - Node-merging network of Kim et al.
node_merging: The node-merging network of Kim et al., whose merging of linked nodes builds hubs without growth.
non-local
- GKT non-local traffic
gkt_traffic: The gas-kinetic-based traffic system, where drivers brake on the traffic at an interaction point ahead.
nonequilibrium
- Asymmetric exclusion process with open boundaries
asep: The asymmetric simple exclusion process on an open line, in continuous time. - Dissipative zero-range process on a tree
dissipative_zero_range: The dissipative zero-range process on a tree, with energy injected at the root and lost at the leaves. - TASEP
tasep: The totally asymmetric simple exclusion process with parallel update, on an open line or a ring. - Zero-range process
zero_range_process: The zero-range process on a ring, which condenses above the critical density1 / (b - 2)forb > 2.
nonequilibrium steady state
- On-off flashing ratchet
flashing_ratchet: The on-off flashing ratchet, Brownian particles in a sawtooth potential switched on and off at random. - Overdamped particle in a tilted periodic potential
tilted_periodic_potential: Overdamped particles in the tilted periodic potentialV(x) = U0 cos(2 pi x / L) - f x.
nonlocal coupling
- Nonlocal ring chimera
nonlocal_ring_chimera: Identical phase oscillators on a ring, each coupled to itsRnearest neighbours on both sides.
nonreciprocal
- Nonreciprocal Cahn-Hilliard
nonreciprocal_cahn_hilliard: The nonreciprocal Cahn-Hilliard equations, a demixing field coupled to a diffusing one. - Nonreciprocal Vicsek system
nonreciprocal_vicsek: Two species of Vicsek movers in a periodic box whose alignment with each other is nonreciprocal.
nonrenewable resource
- Oil economy
oil_economy: Meadows' oil economy, capital that grows on a nonrenewable resource and collapses as it runs out.
nonstationary
- Rössler with an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck control parameter
ou_driven_rossler: The Rössler flow driven through its bifurcations by a slow Ornstein-Uhlenbeck control parameter.
normal form
- Cusp normal forms
cusp_form: The cusp normal formx' = β1 + β2 x - x³, bistable inside the cusp27 β1² < 4 β2³. - Hopf
hopf_form: The Hopf normal form, whose focus gives birth to a limit cycle of radius√(-μ / a)as μ crosses 0. - Saddle-node
saddle_node_form: The saddle-node normal formx' = μ - x², whose two equilibria±√μmeet and vanish at μ = 0. - Subcritical Hopf normal form
subcritical_hopf_form: The subcritical Hopf normal form, where a stable focus coexists with a stable limit cycle. - Takens-Bogdanov
takens_bogdanov_form: The Takens-Bogdanov normal formx' = y,y' = β1 + β2 x + x² + s x y, where a saddle-node meets a Hopf.
normal modes
- Coupled pendulums
coupled_pendulums: Two pendulums whose bobs are joined by a spring, which pass their energy back and forth. - Spring chains and guitar string
spring_chain: Masses joined in a row by springs of zero rest length between two anchors, a discrete string. - Standing waves on a string
standing_waves: A string with fixed ends on[-length / 2, length / 2]that vibrates as a standing wave. - Two-mass spring-damper between walls
two_mass_spring_damper: Two masses between two walls, tied to the walls and to each other by springs, with dampers and forces.
not sofic
- Context-free subshift
context_free_subshift: A Markov chain on the context-free subshift, ternary rings where every block0 1^h 2^k 0hash = k.
notch-delta
- Bristle patterning by lateral inhibition on a ring
bristle_lateral_inhibition: A ring of cells that inhibit the neural fate of their neighbours, leaving sparse, evenly spaced bristles.
nuclear physics
- Nuclear quadrupole vibrations
nuclear_quadrupole: The quadrupole vibrations of a nuclear surface, a Hamiltonian system of two degrees of freedom.
nutrient
- Droop cell-quota growth
droop_cell_quota: The Droop system, a phytoplankton whose growth rate follows the nutrient stored in its cells.
obesity
- Obesity system
obesity: The obesity system of adults who eat near home and work, one step per day.
ode
- Acquired and induced resistance with phenotype switching
drug_resistance_switching: Sensitive cells and cells resistant by mutation or by a reversible phenotype switch under a dose. - Adaptive Kuramoto-Sakaguchi oscillators with frequency clusters
adaptive_kuramoto: Globally coupled phase oscillators whose coupling weights adapt to their phase differences. - Adenylate cyclase kinase cascade amplifier with G-protein timer inactivation
hormone_cascade_amplifier: The adenylate cyclase cascade, which amplifies a hormone pulse and ends it by the G-protein timer. - Adler equation
adler_equation: The Adler equationΔφ' = Δω + ε sin Δφfor the phase difference of an oscillator and its drive. - Assembly growth along the assembly index
assembly_growth: The numbers of objects at successive assembly indices, each discovered from the level below. - Bass diffusion
bass_diffusion: The Bass diffusion system, people who adopt a new product through advertising and word of mouth. - Bathtub
bathtub: A bathtub, one stock of water with an inflow from the faucet and an outflow through the drain. - Beer distribution game
beer_game: Sterman's beer distribution game, a supply chain whose orders swing wider at every echelon upstream. - Bending of light by a mass
light_bending: A light ray that passes a static mass and is deflected towards it. - Bistability on a catalyst pellet
catalyst_pellet: The surface concentration of a catalyst pellet, bistable through Langmuir-Hinshelwood kinetics. - Blood glucose stabilised by antagonistic insulin and glucagon loops
glucose_dual_hormone_control: Blood glucose stabilised by antagonistic hormone loops, insulin against highs and glucagon against lows. - Bristle patterning by lateral inhibition on a ring
bristle_lateral_inhibition: A ring of cells that inhibit the neural fate of their neighbours, leaving sparse, evenly spaced bristles. - Brusselator ODE
brusselator_ode: The well-mixed Brusselator, which oscillates on a limit cycle whenb > 1 + a**2. - Capital stock
capital_stock: Meadows' capital stock, grown by reinvested output and drained by depreciation. - Car-dealer inventory with delays
car_dealer: Meadows' car dealership, whose inventory oscillates after a step in demand because of its delays. - Cascade classifier
cascade_classifier: A cascade classifier, a column of stages that separates a narrow size class of particles by an air flow. - Cell-cycle compartments with killing, blocking, and recruiting agents
cell_cycle_chemotherapy: Tumour cells in cell-cycle compartments under killing, blocking, and recruiting agents. - Chua double and multiple scrolls
chua: Chua's circuit, whose double-scroll or multiscroll attractor is chaotic. - Coagulation cascade amplified by positive feedback and bounded by fibrinolysis
coagulation_positive_feedback: The coagulation cascade, an all-or-nothing burst of thrombin bounded by protein C and fibrinolysis. - Cocoa
cocoa: A cocoa production system, plantations that boom with their profit and bust with the insects they invite. - Commodity cycle with capacity delay
commodity_cycle: A commodity market whose price and capacity cycle because new capacity arrives after a delay. - Competition
competition: Two species that compete for the same resources, which coexist or exclude each other. - Consumer-resource models of substitutable and essential resources
consumer_resource: Consumer species that compete only through the resources they take up, by MacArthur's niche theory. - Cooling coffee
cooling_coffee: A cup of coffee whose temperature relaxes to that of the room,T' = -k (T - T_room). - Core and periphery vasculature under anti-angiogenic therapy
vascular_core_periphery: A tumour with a live core, a live periphery, and a necrotic core, each fed by its own vasculature. - Coupled Colpitts oscillators
coupled_colpitts: Two detuned chaotic Colpitts oscillators coupled through the difference of their second variables. - Coupled Rössler and the master stability function
coupled_rossler: Chaotic Rössler oscillators on a ring, diffusively coupled through their second variable. - Coupled pendulums
coupled_pendulums: Two pendulums whose bobs are joined by a spring, which pass their energy back and forth. - Cubic autocatalysis
cubic_autocatalysis: Cubic autocatalysisA + 2B -> 3Bwith the decayB -> Cin a continuously fed reactor. - Cucker-Smale flocking
cucker_smale_flocking: Cucker-Smale flocking, where every agent aligns its velocity with all others, weighted by distance. - Cumulative drug toxicity
drug_toxicity: The toxicity a weekly drug accumulates in the body, which the metabolism clears once the doses stop. - Cusp normal forms
cusp_form: The cusp normal formx' = β1 + β2 x - x³, bistable inside the cusp27 β1² < 4 β2³. - DC motor with an inertia
dc_motor: A DC motor whose armature circuit of components drives an inertia on a Lagrangian coordinate. - Daisyworld
daisyworld: Daisyworld, where white and black daisies regulate the temperature of their planet through its albedo. - Declining energy return on investment
energy_return: The extraction of a finite energy reserve whose energy return on investment declines as it depletes. - Degree-class SIR on uncorrelated networks
heterogeneous_mean_field_sir: The SIR epidemic on an uncorrelated network of power-law degrees, in heterogeneous mean field. - Dense homogeneous associative network of transient attractors
associative_thought_process: The dense homogeneous associative network of Gros, whose memories become active one after the other. - Diffusion
network_diffusion: Diffusion on a network,du_i/dt = D Σ_j A_ij (u_j - u_i), which spreads a unit mass to every node. - Double pendulum
double_pendulum: A double pendulum, a pendulum hanging from the bob of another, written as its two Lagrange equations. - Drift to low performance
drift_to_low_performance: Meadows' drift to low performance trap, eroding goals that follow a pessimistic view of the performance. - Driven damped oscillator
driven_damped_oscillator: A mass on a spring with damping and a periodic force,m x'' = -k x - c x' + F cos(ω t). - Droop cell-quota growth
droop_cell_quota: The Droop system, a phytoplankton whose growth rate follows the nutrient stored in its cells. - Duffing
duffing: The forced Duffing oscillatorx'' = -delta x' - alpha x - beta x^3 + gamma cos(omega t), chaotic here. - Effector cells, tumour, and IL-2 under adoptive therapy
kirschner_panetta: The Kirschner-Panetta system of effector cells, tumour cells, and IL-2 under adoptive therapy and IL-2. - Electromagnetic vibrating table
vibrating_table: An electromagnetic vibrating table, a shaker driven by a sinusoidal supply after its switch closes. - Escalation
escalation: Meadows' escalation trap, two parties that each want to exceed the other's stock by a margin. - Exponential growth
exponential_growth: A population that grows or declines at a constant per-capita rate. - Exponential-linear tumour growth
exponential_linear_growth: A tumour that grows exponentially while small and linearly once its growth reaches a limiting rate. - FLRW cosmology from the Einstein equations
flrw_cosmology: A homogeneous universe whose expansion follows from the Einstein equations of the Robertson-Walker metric. - Faraday-disk charger
faraday_disk: A battery charger driven by a Faraday disk generator whose own current strengthens its field. - Finite-time blow-up
finite_time_blow_up: Hyperbolic growthx' = a x^p, which diverges at the finite timex0^(1 - p) / (a (p - 1))for p > 1. - Food relief system
food_relief: A food relief system, a pipeline that ships food to a warehouse and distributes it to people in need. - Food security systems
food_security: A food security system, the rice self-sufficiency of a country under subsidy, research, and extension. - Food webs
food_webs: A food web where basal species grow logistically and consumers live on Lotka-Volterra predation. - Forced Toda oscillator
forced_toda: The forced Toda oscillatorx'' + d x' + e^x - 1 = a sin(omega t), a passive asymmetric oscillator. - Forced Van der Pol
forced_van_der_pol: The Van der Pol oscillator driven by a periodic force,x'' = μ (1 - x²) x' - x + A cos(ω t). - Forest dieback
forest_dieback: The forest dieback model of the Amazon, whose cover tips to bare soil when the ambient temperature rises. - Frame dragging around a spinning mass
kerr_frame_dragging: A particle without angular momentum that falls into a spinning mass and is dragged around it. - Friedmann expansion
friedmann_expansion: The scale factor of a homogeneous universe of matter and dark energy, after Friedmann and Lemaître. - Generalized Lotka-Volterra microbial community
generalized_lotka_volterra: The generalized Lotka-Volterra system of a microbial community,dx_i/dt = x_i (b_i + sum_j a_ij x_j). - Generalized logistic (Richards) growth
generalized_logistic: A tumour that saturates at a carrying capacity,dn/dt = r n (1 - (n / K)^p), logistic forp = 1. - Generalized mass action and S-system power-law systems
biochemical_systems_theory: A biochemical system of power-law rates, in the S-system or the generalized mass action form. - Gissinger geodynamo
geodynamo: Gissinger's geodynamo, whose dipole field reverses at irregular times. - Glioma, glia, and neurons under temozolomide and virus
glioma_chemovirotherapy: Glia, neurons, and a glioma under a constant temozolomide infusion and an oncolytic virus. - Globally coupled Stuart-Landau oscillators with frequency spread
oscillator_death: Globally coupled Stuart-Landau oscillators, whose oscillations all die for strong coupling and spread. - Globally coupled systems with heterogeneous time scales
heterogeneous_global_coupling: Globally coupled oscillators with heterogeneous time scales, whose fixed point the coupling restabilizes. - Gompertz growth
gompertz: A tumour whose growth slows as the logarithm of the room left,dn/dt = r n log(K / n). - Gompertz growth with a vascular carrying capacity
dynamic_carrying_capacity: Gompertz growth under a carrying capacity that the vessels on the tumour surface keep raising. - Gompertzian cell-cycle phases under tamoxifen
tamoxifen_cell_cycle: A breast tumour in Gompertzian cell-cycle phases under daily tamoxifen and its active metabolite. - Goodwin oscillator
goodwin_oscillator: The Goodwin oscillator, a chain of stages whose last one represses the synthesis of the first. - Grain storage system
grain_storage: A retail grain store, whose orders through a supply line make its stock oscillate. - Gyroscope in a gimbal
gimballed_gyroscope: A gyroscope in a gimbal: a rotor in an inner ring that turns in an outer ring about a fixed axis. - Hahnfeldt system with effector cells, pharmacokinetics, resistance, and toxicity
angiogenesis_immunotherapy: The Hahnfeldt tumour with effector cells under bevacizumab and atezolizumab every three weeks. - Harmonic oscillator
harmonic_oscillator: A particle on a spring, optionally damped. - Harvesting farmers
harvesting: A socio-ecological system of farmer agents harvesting a logistically regrowing resource. - Heated room with a thermostat
heated_room: A room assembled from thermal and electrical components, heated under a thermostat with hysteresis. - Heterogeneous mean-field SIS
heterogeneous_mean_field_sis: The SIS epidemic on a network with a power-law degree distribution, in heterogeneous mean field. - Hilsa fishery
hilsa_fishery: A hilsa fishery, the life cycle of a migratory fish that the catch of juveniles and spawners depletes. - Hopf
hopf_form: The Hopf normal form, whose focus gives birth to a limit cycle of radius√(-μ / a)as μ crosses 0. - Huygens clocks and pendulums on coupled supports
huygens_clocks: Pendulum clocks on supports joined by springs, which synchronize through the motion of the supports. - Hyperchaotic four-dimensional Rössler flow
hyperchaotic_rossler: Rössler's four-dimensional flow, hyperchaotic with two positive Lyapunov exponents for its defaults. - Hypercycles
hypercycles: A network of self-replicating molecules whose catalysis keeps a set of them alive, a hypercycle. - Hénon-Heiles
henon_heiles: The Hénon-Heiles system of a star in a galactic potential, whose motion is chaotic at higher energies. - Ideal gas
ideal_gas: An ideal gas of non-interacting molecules in a reflecting box. - Intelligent driver system
intelligent_driver_system: The intelligent driver system of cars on a ring road. - Intercellular exchange through gap junctions and tunnelling nanotubes on a cell network
nanotube_gap_junction_exchange: The intercellular exchange of a substance through gap junctions and tunnelling nanotubes on a network. - Intermittent androgen suppression switched by PSA thresholds
ideta_intermittent_androgen: The Ideta system of intermittent androgen suppression, switched on and off by PSA thresholds. - Irrigation system
irrigation: An irrigation system, a reservoir and an aquifer that keep the root zone of the crops supplied. - Keplerian dumbbell and spin-orbit coupling
keplerian_dumbbell: The Keplerian dumbbell: two masses on a rigid massless arm that orbit a primary under gravity. - Kirschner-Panetta system with TGF-beta and siRNA
sirna_tgf_beta: The Kirschner-Panetta system with TGF-beta, which lets the tumour evade the immune system, and siRNA. - Landau mean-field relaxation
landau_relaxation: The relaxation of a Landau order parameter, tosqrt(a (Tc - T) / b)belowTcand to 0 above it. - Langford attractor
langford: The Langford flow, a rotation whose torus breaks into a strange attractor for the defaults of Dilão. - Lennard-Jones fluid
lennard_jones_fluid: Lennard-Jones particles in a periodic square box, optionally held at a temperature by a thermostat. - Linear-quadratic impulsive irradiation with a radiosensitizer
lq_radiosensitizer: A xenograft tumour irradiated in fractions scored by the linear-quadratic system, with a radiosensitizer. - Linear-quadratic regulated oscillator
lqr_oscillator: A harmonic oscillator that a linear-quadratic regulator brings to rest. - Logistic growth
logistic_growth: A population that grows logistically towards its carrying capacity. - Logistic growth with a varying capacity
varying_capacity_logistic: Logistic growth under a seasonal carrying capacity, which settles on a cycle of the season's period. - Lorenz
lorenz: The Lorenz-63 system of convection, chaotic on a butterfly-shaped attractor for its standard parameters. - Lorenz-84
lorenz_84: Lorenz-84, the general circulation reduced to a westerly jet and a travelling wave, chaotic forF = 8. - Lorenz-96
lorenz_96: Lorenz-96,dx_i/dt = (x_{i+1} - x_{i-2}) x_{i-1} - x_i + Fon a ring of sites around a latitude circle. - Lotka-Volterra
lotka_volterra: Prey and predators whose populations oscillate through predation. - Lotka-Volterra with harvesting
lotka_volterra_with_harvesting: Lotka-Volterra predation where both species are harvested with a constant effort. - Magnetic levitation under alternating impulses
magnetic_levitation: A conductive ball levitated in a vacuum by a field that pushes and pulls it with alternating impulses. - Magnetic pendulum
magnetic_pendulum: A magnetic bob on a string swinging above magnets on a circle, which comes to rest at one of them. - Mangrove succession
mangrove_succession: The regrowth of a mangrove forest of the Sundarbans after a clear cut, from pioneers to climax trees. - Mass-spring oscillator with static and Coulomb friction
friction_oscillator: A mass on a linear spring with static, Coulomb, and viscous friction,m x'' + c x' + k x + f = 0. - Mean-field flows of undecided agents
undecided_flows: The mean-field flows between agents against,A, undecided,C, and for,B. - Memristive mixed-mode oscillator
memristive_mixed_mode_oscillator: A slow-fast circuit with a cubic flux-controlled memristor, whose oscillations mix two amplitudes. - Memristor oscillator
memristor_oscillator: The simplest memristor oscillator: a capacitor, an inductor, and a memristor in series. - Metapopulation reaction-diffusion
metapopulation: SIR epidemics in subpopulations at the nodes of a network, linked by individuals who travel. - Michaelis-Menten as ODEs and as a jump process
michaelis_menten: The enzyme reactionE + S <-> C -> E + Pof Michaelis and Menten, as rate equations or as jumps. - Minimum-time control of a free particle, a harmonic oscillator, and a saddle
minimum_time_control: A linear plant steered to the origin of its phase space in minimum time by a sampled bang-bang control. - Modified Chua with mixed-mode oscillations
mixed_mode_chua: A modified Chua circuit on three time scales, whose oscillations mix small and large amplitudes. - Mutualism
mutualism: Two species that grow logistically and feed each other, above their carrying capacities. - N-body and solar system
n_body: Bodies in the plane that attract each other pairwise by Newtonian gravity. - Network of interacting tipping elements
tipping_cascade_network: A network of tipping elements, where one element pushed past its tipping point can tip its neighbours. - Next-generation neural mass with theta forcing
next_generation_neural_mass: The exact neural mass of quadratic integrate-and-fire neurons whose gamma rhythm nests in a theta drive. - Normal and leukaemic stem cells with feedback regulation
leukaemia_stem_cells: Normal and leukaemic stem cells that compete for one niche through the feedback of their progeny. - Normal and malignant stem-cell compartments with feedback and therapy
stem_cell_differentiation: The eight-compartment system of normal and malignant stem-cell lineages with feedback and therapy. - Normal and tumour competition under radiation
radiotherapy_competition: Normal and tumour cells in Lotka-Volterra competition, the tumour irradiated periodically. - Normal, tumour, and immune cells under chemotherapy
de_pillis_radunskaya: The de Pillis-Radunskaya system of immune, tumour, and normal cells under a constant drug infusion. - Norton-Simon Gompertzian cell kill
norton_simon: The Norton-Simon system, a Gompertzian tumour killed in proportion to its size by a dose schedule. - Nosé-Hoover oscillator
nose_hoover: The Nosé-Hoover oscillatorx' = y,y' = y z - x,z' = 1 - y², with tori next to a chaotic sea. - Nuclear quadrupole vibrations
nuclear_quadrupole: The quadrupole vibrations of a nuclear surface, a Hamiltonian system of two degrees of freedom. - Oil economy
oil_economy: Meadows' oil economy, capital that grows on a nonrenewable resource and collapses as it runs out. - Oncolytic adenovirus with T cells and dendritic-cell injection
oncolytic_virus_dendritic: A tumour treated with an oncolytic adenovirus that expresses immune signals and with dendritic cells. - Optimal adoptive therapy and IL-2 dosing
optimal_immunotherapy: A tumour under the adoptive therapy and IL-2 injection that minimise its burden and their cost. - Optimal chemotherapy dosing
optimal_chemotherapy: A patient under the chemotherapy that minimises the tumour burden and the toxicity of the drug. - Optimal harvesting
optimal_harvesting: A logistic resource harvested with the effort that maximises its discounted profit. - Optimal velocity
optimal_velocity: The optimal velocity system of cars on a ring road, where uniform flow breaks into stop-and-go waves. - Oregonator
oregonator: The scaled Oregonator, the reduction of the FKN mechanism of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction. - Ott-Antonsen reduction
ott_antonsen: The Ott-Antonsen equation for the order parameter of infinitely many Kuramoto oscillators. - PID governance loop
pid_loop: A work process whose output a PID controller keeps at a set point against a disturbance. - PID-stabilised inverted pendulum
pid_inverted_pendulum: An inverted pendulum on a cart that a PID controller of its angle keeps upright. - Paclitaxel and trastuzumab with antibody binding
her2_targeted_therapy: HER2+ breast cancer cells under trastuzumab and paclitaxel, with antibody binding and drug uptake. - Particle in the well
k x^2 e^-xparticle_in_a_well: A particle moving without friction in the potentialU(x) = k x² e^-x. - Penaeid shrimp growth
penaeid_shrimp: The growth of one penaeid shrimp from the juvenile stage, forced by the food and the water temperature. - Pendulum
pendulum: A pendulum, whose angle follows Newton's second lawm l θ'' = -m g sin θ. - Pendulum on a sliding cart
cart_pendulum: A pendulum hanging from a cart that slides without friction along a horizontal track. - Pendulum swing-up
pendulum_swing_up: A pendulum swung up to its inverted position by a bang-bang acceleration of its pivot. - Pendulum with a vertically or horizontally oscillating pivot
parametric_pendulum: A pendulum whose suspension point oscillates vertically or horizontally, with accelerationε g cos Ω t. - Perihelion precession in the Schwarzschild spacetime
schwarzschild_precession: A massive particle on a bound orbit around a static mass, whose perihelion advances every turn. - Piecewise-linear intermittent androgen suppression
piecewise_linear_ias: The Hirata piecewise-linear system of intermittent androgen suppression for one of three patient types. - Policy resistance
policy_resistance: Meadows' policy resistance trap, one stock pulled by three actors toward inconsistent goals. - Pontryagin capital and consumption
optimal_consumption: The Ramsey economy that chooses the consumption path maximising its discounted utility. - Population and pollution
population_pollution: The pollution model of Bala, Arshad, and Noh, a population that degrades its environment. - Power-law tumour growth
power_law_growth: A tumour whose proliferating part scales as a power of its size,dn/dt = r n^p. - Predator-prey tumour-immune system of TCR gene therapy
tcr_gene_therapy: The predator-prey system of a gene therapy that lets the T cells recognise the tumour. - Projectile
projectile: A particle launched under uniform gravity, optionally slowed by linear drag. - Prostate cancer driven by activated androgen receptors
prostate_androgen_receptor: The Jain system of prostate epithelium and cancer driven by activated androgen receptors, with PSA. - Prostate cancer under continuous androgen suppression
continuous_androgen_suppression: Prostate cancer under continuous androgen suppression, which androgen-independent cells survive. - Prostate cancer with an androgen cell quota and PSA
prostate_cell_quota: The Portz cell-quota system of prostate cancer, whose cells grow on their internal androgen. - Protein corona binding on a nanoparticle
nanoparticle_corona: The corona that albumin, high-density lipoprotein, and fibrinogen form on a nanoparticle in plasma. - Pulsed electrochemical reactor
pulsed_electrochemical_reactor: A stirred electrochemical reactor whose electrode is driven by a train of current pulses. - Quadratic system with a slow manifold and a finite Koopman embedding
koopman_slow_manifold: The quadratic flowx1' = mu x1,x2' = lam (x2 - x1^2), with a slow manifold and a linear embedding. - Quarter-car suspension
quarter_car: A quarter-car suspension driving over a road step. - Quenched mean-field SIS
quenched_mean_field_sis: The SIS epidemic on a fixed network in quenched mean field, one infection probability per node. - RLC circuit
rlc_circuit: A series RLC circuit written as Kirchhoff's voltage law,L q'' + R q' + q / C = V cos(ω t). - Random Lotka-Volterra with higher-order interactions
higher_order_random_lotka_volterra: A random Lotka-Volterra community with third-order interactions. - Regenerative braking
regenerative_braking: A car braked by a Faraday disk generator on its wheel, which charges a supercapacitor. - Relativistic orbit equation
relativistic_orbit: Einstein's orbit equationu'' + u = alpha + epsilon u²of a planet, whose perihelion precesses. - Renewable fishery with capital
fishery_capital: Meadows' fishing fleet, capital that grows on a renewable resource and can overshoot it. - Replicator dynamics and hawks and doves
replicator_dynamics: The replicator dynamics of a game, by default hawks and doves, which settle at a shareV / Cof hawks. - Resistance subpopulations under three drugs
multidrug_resistance: A tumour of eight populations resistant to subsets of three drugs, given by constant infusions. - Restricted three-body problem
restricted_three_body: A light body moving in the plane of two primaries on circular orbits, in the frame that rotates with them. - Riccati price adjustment
riccati_prices: A price that moves with excess demand under linear demand and saturating quadratic supply. - Rice land, population, and food security
rice_food_balance: Bala's food security model, rice land that grows towards the land available against a growing population. - Rice milling system
rice_milling: A rice milling system, a mill that buys paddy, mills it into rice and by-products, and sells them. - Rosenzweig-MacArthur and rate tipping
rosenzweig_macarthur: Fast prey and slow predators whose carrying capacity shrinks at a rate, which tips them when it is fast. - Rotating balls on rods
rotating_balls_on_rods: Two balls on rods that turn about a vertical axis and conserve their angular momentum. - Rotating swing
rotating_swing: A rotating swing: chairs on chains hanging from the rods of a stand that turns about a vertical axis. - Rothman excitable carbon cycle
carbon_cycle: Rothman's excitable carbon cycle, where a large enough perturbation of the ocean sets off an excursion. - Rössler
rossler: The Rössler system, a chaotic flow with one folded band for its standard parameters. - Rössler-driven Lorenz and generalized synchronization
rossler_driven_lorenz: A chaotic Rössler system that drives a Lorenz-63 system through its second variable. - SIR
sir: An epidemic that moves individuals from susceptible to infected to recovered. - SIR with optimal vaccination
sir_vaccination: An SIR epidemic with the vaccination rate that minimises the burden of infections and vaccines. - SIRS
sirs: An epidemic whose immunity wanes, which returns in damped waves to an endemic equilibrium. - SIS
sis: An infection without immunity, where the recovered become susceptible again and the disease is endemic. - Saddle-node
saddle_node_form: The saddle-node normal formx' = μ - x², whose two equilibria±√μmeet and vanish at μ = 0. - Saltzman-Maasch glaciation
saltzman_glaciation: The glacial cycles of Saltzman and Maasch, a self-sustained oscillation of ice, carbon, and ocean. - Satellite transfer
satellite_transfer: A satellite moved between Kepler orbits of equal angular momentum by radial thrust. - Shifting the burden
shifting_the_burden: Meadows' shifting the burden trap, a quick fix that relieves a symptom and erodes the system's capability. - Sitnikov problem
sitnikov: A light body moving on the axis through the centre of mass of two equal primaries, normal to their orbit. - Size-biased random walk on hypergraphs
hypergraph_random_walk: The size-biased random walk on a hypergraph,p_j' = sum_i p_i T_ij - p_j, from one node. - Skipper-Schabel-Wilcox log-kill
skipper_log_kill: The log-kill system, an exponentially growing tumour of which every dose kills a fixed fraction. - Solid waste system
solid_waste: A solid waste system, the waste of a growing city collected, recycled, composted, and landfilled. - Solow
solow: An economy whose capital per worker approaches its steady state through saving and depreciation. - Spring chains and guitar string
spring_chain: Masses joined in a row by springs of zero rest length between two anchors, a discrete string. - Sprott flow with a conservative torus and a chaotic attractor
sprott_mixed_flow: Sprott's flow with a conservative torus and a dissipative chaotic attractor side by side. - Sprott jerk
sprott_jerk: Sprott's jerk equationx''' = -A x'' - x' + |x| - 1, chaotic near A = 0.6. - Stimulus-response, adaptive response, and anticipation with response, restore, repair, and preparedness costs
adaptive_response_costs: A system that meets recurring demands by stimulus-response, adaptive response, or anticipation. - Stommel thermohaline boxes
stommel: Stommel's two-box thermohaline circulation, bistable between a thermal and a haline mode. - Strongly nonlinear oscillator under periodic impulses
impulsive_oscillator: An oscillator kicked by a periodic train of impulses of alternating sign. - Stuart-Landau
stuart_landau: The Stuart-Landau oscillatorz' = (μ + i ω) z - (1 + i β) |z|² z, the normal form of a Hopf bifurcation. - Störmer charge in a dipole field
stormer_problem: A charged particle moving in the magnetic dipole field of a planet, the Störmer problem. - Subcritical Hopf normal form
subcritical_hopf_form: The subcritical Hopf normal form, where a stable focus coexists with a stable limit cycle. - Success to the successful
success_to_the_successful: Meadows' success to the successful trap, two competitors that share a budget by their past success. - Swarmalators
swarmalators: Swarmalators, identical oscillators whose phases set their attraction and whose positions their coupling. - Swing-equation power grid with Braess paradox
power_grid: A ring power grid in the swing-equation system, where more transmission capacity can break synchrony. - T cells, tumour, and anti-PD-1 checkpoint inhibitor
anti_pd1_checkpoint: Activated T cells, a tumour, and an anti-PD-1 drug that frees the T cells from checkpoint inhibition. - T cells, tumour, dendritic cells, and IL-2 under dendritic-cell vaccination
dendritic_cell_vaccine: Helper and cytotoxic T cells, a tumour, dendritic cells, and IL-2 under a dendritic-cell vaccine. - Takens-Bogdanov
takens_bogdanov_form: The Takens-Bogdanov normal formx' = y,y' = β1 + β2 x + x² + s x y, where a saddle-node meets a Hopf. - Thermostat
thermostat: A room heated by a furnace under a thermostat while heat leaks to the outside. - Theta neurons with spike-timing-dependent plasticity
stdp_network: Theta neurons on a random directed network whose synapses learn by spike-timing-dependent plasticity. - Thomas cyclically symmetric attractor
thomas: The Thomas flowx' = -a x + sin ywith its cyclic permutations, chaotic fora = 0.18. - Three-enzyme adaptation circuits of Ma et al.
enzyme_adaptation_circuit: A circuit of three enzymes A, B, and C of Ma et al., whose output C may adapt to a step of the input. - Three-node phosphorylation oscillator
phosphorylation_oscillator: Three proteins whose phosphorylation cycles regulate each other in a loop that oscillates. - Three-sector purchasing power decoupled by feedback
categorized_purchasing_power: Forrest's categorized purchasing power of money, three sectors that feedback can steer one by one. - Three-way fate decision on the compactified elliptic umbilic
three_way_fate_decision: Cells that choose among three fates on the compactified elliptic umbilic landscape of Rand et al. - Tumour and vascular volume under an angiogenesis inhibitor
hahnfeldt: The Hahnfeldt system, a tumour whose carrying capacity is the vasculature it stimulates and inhibits. - Tumour, NK cells, CD8 T cells, and lymphocytes under chemoimmunotherapy
chemoimmunotherapy: A tumour with NK cells, CD8 T cells, and lymphocytes under chemotherapy, IL-2, and TIL injection. - Tumour-immune system with dendritic licensing, IL-2, IL-10, and TGF-beta
tumour_immune_suppression: A tumour against dendritic, cytotoxic, helper, and regulatory T cells with IL-2, IL-10, and TGF-beta. - Tunnel-diode oscillator
tunnel_diode_oscillator: A tunnel-diode oscillator: an inductor and a capacitor in parallel with a negative-resistance diode. - Two tumour clones under chemotherapy and dendritic-cell vaccine
clonal_chemoimmunotherapy: Two competing tumour clones, sensitive and resistant to chemotherapy, under a drug and a vaccine. - Two-body orbit
two_body_orbit: A light planet orbiting a heavy star under Newtonian gravity, as the Kepler problem of their separation. - Two-compartment pharmacokinetics
two_compartment_pharmacokinetics: The two-compartment pharmacokinetics of a bolus dose given into the central compartment. - Two-layer adaptive oscillator model of sepsis
two_layer_sepsis: The two-layer model of tumour disease and sepsis, parenchymal and immune cells as adaptive oscillators. - Two-mass spring-damper between walls
two_mass_spring_damper: Two masses between two walls, tied to the walls and to each other by springs, with dampers and forces. - Uninfected and infected cells, virus, and chemotherapy
chemovirotherapy: Uninfected and infected tumour cells, an oncolytic virus, and a chemotherapeutic drug. - Uninfected and infected tumour cells under an oncolytic virus
oncolytic_virus: Uninfected and infected tumour cells that share a carrying capacity, with infection by mass action. - Van der Pol
van_der_pol: The Van der Pol oscillatorx'' = μ (1 - x²) x' - x, which settles on a limit cycle forμ > 0. - Van der Pol ice ages
van_der_pol_ice_ages: Glacial cycles as a Van der Pol relaxation oscillator, optionally paced by orbital forcing. - Vessel conductances adapting to Kirchhoff flows
adaptive_flow_network: A square grid of vessels fed at one corner and drained at every other node, whose conductances adapt. - Vibration energy harvester
vibration_energy_harvester: A dual-mass piezoelectric harvester in a car suspension, driven by the roughness of the road. - Von Bertalanffy growth
von_bertalanffy: A tumour that grows by the balance of anabolism and catabolism,dn/dt = r n^p - d n. - Wheel and rail contact
wheel_rail_contact: A rail segment on a sleeper, loaded by the wheels of passing bogies. - Yeast glycolysis oscillations in a flow reactor
glycolysis_oscillations: The glycolysis of a yeast extract in a flow reactor, whose NADH oscillates with a period of minutes. - Zero-dimensional energy balance with ice albedo
energy_balance: The zero-dimensional energy balance of the Earth, bistable through the ice-albedo feedback. - Zombie outbreak of susceptible, zombie, and removed compartments
zombie_outbreak: The outbreak of zombies of Munz et al., where the dead rise again and humans are eventually overrun.
odometer
- Adding machine (odometer)
adding_machine: The adding machiner → r + 1on the q-adic integers, the odometer acting on the q-ary tree.
oligopoly
- Cournot duopoly with beliefs
cournot_duopoly: Two Cournot duopolists that adjust their output to their beliefs about each other. - Static oligopoly equilibria
oligopoly_equilibria: The equilibria of a Cournot duopoly and of a pricing game of firms with loyal customers and switchers.
oncolytic virus
- Uninfected and infected cells, virus, and chemotherapy
chemovirotherapy: Uninfected and infected tumour cells, an oncolytic virus, and a chemotherapeutic drug.
open system
- Quantum Heisenberg system
quantum_heisenberg: A chain of spins one half with the XXZ Hamiltonian, a field, and optional dephasing.
open-ended evolution
- Assembly growth along the assembly index
assembly_growth: The numbers of objects at successive assembly indices, each discovered from the level below.
opinion
- Belief diffusion with influentials
influentials: The belief diffusion system with influentials who care passionately and weigh more with their neighbours. - Coevolving voter
coevolving_voter: The coevolving voter system, which fragments into consensual components when rewiring is fast. - Cognitive consistency agents
cognitive_consistency: Agents whose attitudes spread by conversation and settle in a belief network that seeks consistency. - Deffuant bounded confidence
deffuant: The Deffuant bounded confidence system, whose opinions settle into about1 / (2 * confidence)clusters. - Echo chambers and radicalization on an activity-driven network
echo_chamber_radicalization: The radicalization model of echo chambers of Baumann and coauthors on an activity-driven network. - Galam majority
galam_majority: The Galam majority system, where random groups adopt their majority until one opinion wins. - Hegselmann-Krause
hegselmann_krause: The Hegselmann-Krause system, whose opinions freeze within a few steps into clusters about2 εapart. - Join-a-club spins
join_a_club: Join-a-club spins, agents who join a club with their acquaintances while acquaintances follow the club. - Kinetic opinion formation
kinetic_opinion: The kinetic system of opinion formation over a discrete grid of opinions. - Majority rule automaton
majority_rule: Voters that take the majority opinion of their neighbourhood, which coarsens into domains. - Majority rule with willingness and zealots
willing_majority: The majority rule with willingness, where zealots of willingness 0 never change their opinion. - Mean-field flows of undecided agents
undecided_flows: The mean-field flows between agents against,A, undecided,C, and for,B. - Naming game
naming_game: The minimal naming game, where agents with empty inventories agree on one word. - Nonlinear three-body consensus on temporal hypergraphs
hypergraph_consensus: The nonlinear three-body consensus system on a random hypergraph of triangles that switch on and off. - Social impact theory
social_impact: The social impact system on a full grid, with random persuasiveness and supportiveness. - Sznajd
sznajd: The Sznajd system, where agreeing pairs of agents convince their neighbours. - Three-state opinion with undecided agents
three_state_opinion: The three-state opinion system of agents against, undecided, and for, on a random regular network. - Threshold adoption
threshold_adoption: The threshold adoption system in social circles, started by the 2.5% of agents with the lowest thresholds. - Voter system
voter_system: A voter system with one voter per node of a network. - Voter variants
voter_variants: Voter system variants on a network, with threshold voters and a share of contrarians.
opinions
- Gauge theory of agents on a network
gauge_network_agents: Agent phases on the nodes of a network that relax towards the transported phases of their neighbours.
optical forces
- Diffusion in a speckle field
diffusion_in_a_speckle_field: Brownian particles in a random speckle field, trapped at hotspots for longer as the field grows stronger.
optical tweezers
- Hydrodynamically coupled particles in blinking traps
hydrodynamically_coupled_traps: Two Brownian spheres in blinking optical traps, whose free motion is correlated through the fluid. - Optical trap including oscillating and blinking traps
optical_trap: Overdamped particles in a harmonic optical trap, still, oscillating, or blinking.
optimal control
- Minimum-time control of a free particle, a harmonic oscillator, and a saddle
minimum_time_control: A linear plant steered to the origin of its phase space in minimum time by a sampled bang-bang control. - Optimal adoptive therapy and IL-2 dosing
optimal_immunotherapy: A tumour under the adoptive therapy and IL-2 injection that minimise its burden and their cost. - Optimal chemotherapy dosing
optimal_chemotherapy: A patient under the chemotherapy that minimises the tumour burden and the toxicity of the drug. - Optimal harvesting
optimal_harvesting: A logistic resource harvested with the effort that maximises its discounted profit. - Pontryagin capital and consumption
optimal_consumption: The Ramsey economy that chooses the consumption path maximising its discounted utility. - SIR with optimal vaccination
sir_vaccination: An SIR epidemic with the vaccination rate that minimises the burden of infections and vaccines.
optimal growth
- Brock-Mirman stochastic growth
brock_mirman_growth: The Brock-Mirman economy, the optimal growth of a representative agent whose productivity is Markov.
optimisation
- Simulated annealing, genetic algorithms, and differential evolution
evolutionary_optimisers: A population of candidates that searches a two-dimensional landscape, one generation per step.
orbits
- Satellite transfer
satellite_transfer: A satellite moved between Kepler orbits of equal angular momentum by radial thrust.
order book
- Fundamentalists and chartists in an order book
order_book: A stock market of fundamentalists and chartists on a grid who trade in a limit order book and imitate. - Order book with a guru communication network
guru_order_book: The order-driven market of Grilli and Tedeschi, whose noise traders imitate gurus they choose by wealth.
organizations
- Insider sabotage
insider_sabotage: The insider sabotage system of employees whose risk of sabotage builds up over the days of a year.
origin of life
- Jain-Krishna autocatalytic networks
jain_krishna: The system of Jain and Krishna, where selection of the fittest builds autocatalytic sets of molecules.
oscillation
- Adler equation
adler_equation: The Adler equationΔφ' = Δω + ε sin Δφfor the phase difference of an oscillator and its drive. - Agent-based Lotka-Volterra
agent_based_lotka_volterra: Prey and predators that walk on a grid, whose numbers cycle like the Lotka-Volterra equations. - Brusselator ODE
brusselator_ode: The well-mixed Brusselator, which oscillates on a limit cycle whenb > 1 + a**2. - Brusselator fields
brusselator: The Brusselator reaction-diffusion system from small noise around its steady state(a, b / a). - Coupled pendulums
coupled_pendulums: Two pendulums whose bobs are joined by a spring, which pass their energy back and forth. - Driven damped oscillator
driven_damped_oscillator: A mass on a spring with damping and a periodic force,m x'' = -k x - c x' + F cos(ω t). - ENSO delay oscillator
enso: The delayed oscillator of El Niño of Suarez and Schopf,dT/dt = T - T^3 - alpha T(t - delta). - Grain storage system
grain_storage: A retail grain store, whose orders through a supply line make its stock oscillate. - Harmonic oscillator
harmonic_oscillator: A particle on a spring, optionally damped. - Hutchinson
hutchinson: Hutchinson's delayed logistic equation, which oscillates aroundKwhenr * tauexceeds π/2. - Ikeda delay equation
ikeda: The Ikeda delay equationx' = a sin x(t - tau)in the form of Dilão (2023, Exercise 6.4). - Lotka-Volterra
lotka_volterra: Prey and predators whose populations oscillate through predation. - Lotka-Volterra with harvesting
lotka_volterra_with_harvesting: Lotka-Volterra predation where both species are harvested with a constant effort. - Nicholson-Bailey
nicholson_bailey: Hosts and parasitoids in discrete generations, whose equilibrium is unstable to growing oscillations. - Oregonator
oregonator: The scaled Oregonator, the reduction of the FKN mechanism of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction. - Pendulum
pendulum: A pendulum, whose angle follows Newton's second lawm l θ'' = -m g sin θ. - Stuart-Landau
stuart_landau: The Stuart-Landau oscillatorz' = (μ + i ω) z - (1 + i β) |z|² z, the normal form of a Hopf bifurcation. - Tunnel-diode oscillator
tunnel_diode_oscillator: A tunnel-diode oscillator: an inductor and a capacitor in parallel with a negative-resistance diode. - Two-mass spring-damper between walls
two_mass_spring_damper: Two masses between two walls, tied to the walls and to each other by springs, with dampers and forces. - Van der Pol
van_der_pol: The Van der Pol oscillatorx'' = μ (1 - x²) x' - x, which settles on a limit cycle forμ > 0.
oscillations
- Car-dealer inventory with delays
car_dealer: Meadows' car dealership, whose inventory oscillates after a step in demand because of its delays. - Commodity cycle with capacity delay
commodity_cycle: A commodity market whose price and capacity cycle because new capacity arrives after a delay. - Drosophila circadian clock
circadian_clock: Goldbeter's system of the Drosophila circadian clock, PER that represses its own transcription. - Effector cells, tumour, and IL-2 under adoptive therapy
kirschner_panetta: The Kirschner-Panetta system of effector cells, tumour cells, and IL-2 under adoptive therapy and IL-2. - Repressilator
repressilator: The repressilator of Elowitz and Leibler, three genes in a ring that each repress the next. - Wilson-Cowan
wilson_cowan: The Wilson-Cowan system of interacting excitatory and inhibitory populations of neurons.
oscillator
- Boolean repressilator
boolean_repressilator: The Boolean repressilator, where LacI represses TetR, TetR represses cI, and cI represses LacI. - Fractional damped oscillator
fractional_oscillator: The fractional damped oscillatorD^alpha x = v,D^alpha v = -omega^2 x - 2 gamma v. - Goodwin oscillator
goodwin_oscillator: The Goodwin oscillator, a chain of stages whose last one represses the synthesis of the first. - Linear-quadratic regulated oscillator
lqr_oscillator: A harmonic oscillator that a linear-quadratic regulator brings to rest. - Three-node phosphorylation oscillator
phosphorylation_oscillator: Three proteins whose phosphorylation cycles regulate each other in a loop that oscillates.
oscillator death
- Winfree system
winfree: The Winfree system,theta_i' = omega_i + (K / N) sum_j P(theta_j) R(theta_i), with the sum over allj.
oscillators
- Delayed Kuramoto
delayed_kuramoto: Kuramoto phase oscillators coupled all to all through signals that arrive after a delay. - Explosive topological Kuramoto of node and link phases on a simplicial complex, with the Nodes-Links-Triangles variant
topological_kuramoto: Phases on the nodes and links of a clique complex, coupled through its incidence by order parameters. - Globally coupled Stuart-Landau oscillators with frequency spread
oscillator_death: Globally coupled Stuart-Landau oscillators, whose oscillations all die for strong coupling and spread. - Globally coupled systems with heterogeneous time scales
heterogeneous_global_coupling: Globally coupled oscillators with heterogeneous time scales, whose fixed point the coupling restabilizes. - Kuramoto
kuramoto: Kuramoto oscillators coupled all to all,theta_i' = omega_i + (K / N) sum_j sin(theta_j - theta_i). - Kuramoto on networks
kuramoto_on_networks: Kuramoto oscillators coupled along the edges of a network,theta_i' = omega_i + K sum_j A_ij sin(...). - Kuramoto oscillators with three-body coupling
hypergraph_kuramoto: Kuramoto oscillators coupled in pairs and by three-body interactions on the triangles of a hypergraph. - Kuramoto-Sakaguchi chimera
kuramoto_sakaguchi_chimera: Two populations of identical phase oscillators with phase lag, where one synchronizes and one drifts. - LEGION oscillators
legion: A LEGION network, a lattice of relaxation oscillators that segments a stimulus into its objects. - Nonlocal ring chimera
nonlocal_ring_chimera: Identical phase oscillators on a ring, each coupled to itsRnearest neighbours on both sides. - Winfree system
winfree: The Winfree system,theta_i' = omega_i + (K / N) sum_j P(theta_j) R(theta_i), with the sum over allj.
outbreak
- Zombie outbreak of susceptible, zombie, and removed compartments
zombie_outbreak: The outbreak of zombies of Munz et al., where the dead rise again and humans are eventually overrun.
overgrazing
- Tragedy of the meadow commons
tragedy_of_the_commons: Herders whose cows graze a shared meadow, each adding cows while a cow pays, until the grass collapses.
overlapping portfolios
- Fire sales of overlapping portfolios
overlapping_portfolio_fire_sales: Banks with overlapping portfolios whose fire sales of common assets spread their losses to one another.
overload
- Motter-Lai cascades of betweenness overload
motter_lai_overload: The cascade of overload failures of Motter and Lai after one node is removed.
pagerank
- PageRank iterations on networks
pagerank: The PageRank iterationr_i' = (1 - d) / n + d Σ_j A_ij r_j / k_jon an undirected network.
pair interaction
- Active Brownian particles with local alignment
aligning_active_brownian_particles: Active Brownian particles in a periodic box whose headings align with the neighbours withind0. - Cucker-Smale flocking
cucker_smale_flocking: Cucker-Smale flocking, where every agent aligns its velocity with all others, weighted by distance. - Flocking with active and passive agents
active_passive_flocking: The active and passive agents of Charbonneau (2017, section 10.4) in a periodic box. - Living crystals
living_crystals: Active colloids of radius 1 with phoretic attraction, which gather into clusters that slowly coarsen. - Motility-induced phase separation
motility_induced_phase_separation: Repulsive active Brownian disks of unit diameter, which phase separate into clusters at high speed. - Swarmalators
swarmalators: Swarmalators, identical oscillators whose phases set their attraction and whose positions their coupling.
pair potential
- Lennard-Jones fluid
lennard_jones_fluid: Lennard-Jones particles in a periodic square box, optionally held at a temperature by a thermostat.
paleoclimate
- Saltzman-Maasch glaciation
saltzman_glaciation: The glacial cycles of Saltzman and Maasch, a self-sustained oscillation of ice, carbon, and ocean. - Van der Pol ice ages
van_der_pol_ice_ages: Glacial cycles as a Van der Pol relaxation oscillator, optionally paced by orbital forcing.
panic
- Bellomo's kinetic crowd in a street with walls and panic
kinetic_crowd: Bellomo's kinetic crowd of two groups walking in opposite directions along a street with walls.
paradox of enrichment
- Generalized stochastic predator-prey
stochastic_predator_prey: Prey and predators born and killed one at a time, with crowding of the prey and saturating predation.
parametric resonance
- Pendulum with a vertically or horizontally oscillating pivot
parametric_pendulum: A pendulum whose suspension point oscillates vertically or horizontally, with accelerationε g cos Ω t.
pareto
- Bouchaud-Mézard wealth
bouchaud_mezard_wealth: Bouchaud and Mezard's wealth dynamics, random multiplicative returns with exchange between neighbours.
parity
- Fredkin's self-replicating parity automaton
fredkin_replicator: Fredkin's parity automaton, whose local law copies any initial pattern into translated replicas.
particles
- Bird swarm with pair potentials
bird_swarm: A swarm of self-propelled birds held together by a pair potential that attracts far and repels near. - Social force pedestrians
social_force: Two crowds walking in opposite directions along a periodic corridor, which form lanes.
partnerships
- SIS on partnerships that dissolve and re-form
pair_formation_sis: The SIS epidemic on partnerships that dissolve and are replaced at once, withkpartners each. - Watts-May SEIR with lasting partnerships
watts_may_concurrency: The SEIR epidemic of Watts and May, where partnerships that last longer spread the infection faster.
pascal triangle
- Unbounded-alphabet automaton
unbounded_alphabet_automaton: An additive automaton over the nonnegative integers,x'(n) = x(n - 1) + x(n), from a single 1.
pattern formation
- Bristle patterning by lateral inhibition on a ring
bristle_lateral_inhibition: A ring of cells that inhibit the neural fate of their neighbours, leaving sparse, evenly spaced bristles. - One-dimensional active viscoelastic and poroelastic gel with contractile cells
active_viscoelastic_gel: A one-dimensional active viscoelastic gel, where contractile cells concentrate by dragging the gel. - Spatial triadic percolation on a torus
spatial_triadic_percolation: Spatial triadic percolation, where nearby signed regulators make the giant component form moving patterns.
payments
- Eisenberg-Noe clearing of interbank payments
eisenberg_noe_clearing: The clearing of interbank payments of Eisenberg and Noe, a fixed point of proportional payments.
pde
- Active nematic and polar gels
active_gels: An active gel, a nematic tensor or a polarisation transported in the Stokes flow of its own stresses. - Aliev-Panfilov cardiac tissue
aliev_panfilov: The Aliev-Panfilov system of cardiac tissue, started from a broken wave that curls into a spiral. - Allen-Cahn non-conserved relaxation (System A)
allen_cahn: The Allen-Cahn equation, System A, the non-conserved relaxation of an order parameter in a double well. - Amari neural field
amari_neural_field: The Amari neural field, whose lateral inhibition holds a stationary bump of activity. - BGK
bgk_equation: The BGK equation of the Sod shock tube over one position and one velocity axis. - Barkley excitable medium with spirals and breakup
barkley: Barkley's excitable medium, started from orthogonal stripes whose crossing curls into a spiral wave. - Bertin-Droz-Grégoire kinetic flocking
bertin_droz_gregoire: The kinetic theory of flocking, whose polar order grows above a transition density. - Boltzmann
boltzmann_equation: The Boltzmann equation of Maxwell molecules over one position and two velocity axes. - Brusselator fields
brusselator: The Brusselator reaction-diffusion system from small noise around its steady state(a, b / a). - Budyko-Sellers latitude system
budyko_sellers: The Budyko-Sellers energy balance of one hemisphere, resolved in the sine of latitude. - Burgers
burgers: The inviscid Burgers equation on a periodic interval of length 2 pi, whose sine steepens into a shock. - Bénard-Marangoni convection with a free, thermocapillary surface
benard_marangoni: The order-parameter equation of Bénard-Marangoni convection, which forms hexagonal cells. - Cahn-Hilliard phase separation (System B)
cahn_hilliard: The Cahn-Hilliard equation, System B, the conserved relaxation of an order parameter in a double well. - Complex Ginzburg-Landau
complex_ginzburg_landau: The complex Ginzburg-Landau equationA_t = A + (1 + i b) laplacian(A) - (1 + i c) |A|^2 A. - Decaying turbulence
decaying_turbulence: Decaying two-dimensional turbulence from a random vorticity field on a periodic square of side 2 pi. - Discrete-velocity Boltzmann gas of Carleman
discrete_velocity_boltzmann: The Carleman discrete-velocity Boltzmann equation on a periodic line, from a pulse of right movers. - Dry active nematics
dry_active_nematics: A dry active nematic, a conserved density coupled to a symmetric traceless alignment tensor. - Enskog equations
enskog: The local Enskog equation, the Boltzmann equation with the contact value of the pair correlation of disks. - Fisher-KPP
fisher_kpp: The Fisher-KPP equation, whose step invades the empty line as a front of speed2 sqrt(r D). - FitzHugh-Nagumo spirals
fitzhugh_nagumo: The FitzHugh-Nagumo excitable medium, started from a broken wave that curls into a spiral. - GKT non-local traffic
gkt_traffic: The gas-kinetic-based traffic system, where drivers brake on the traffic at an interaction point ahead. - Gray-Scott
gray_scott: The Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion system, seeded in its middle, which grows spots that replicate. - Heat diffusion
heat_diffusion: Heat diffusing on a plate from a hot square in its middle,du/dt = D laplacian(u). - Heat on an L-shaped domain
heat_l_shape: Heat on the L-shaped domain with fixed boundary temperatures, discretised by linear finite elements. - Hyperbolic chemotaxis of cells and a chemical
hyperbolic_chemotaxis: Cells and a chemical moving with finite speed, whose two bumps of cells spread and attract each other. - Keller-Segel chemotaxis
keller_segel: The Keller-Segel system of cells that diffuse and climb the gradient of a chemical they secrete. - Kerner-Konhäuser system
kerner_konhauser: The Kerner-Konhäuser system, where viscous traffic flow forms dense moving clusters. - Kuramoto-Sivashinsky
kuramoto_sivashinsky: The Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equationu_t = -u u_x - u_xx - u_xxxx, spatiotemporally chaotic. - Lighthill-Whitham-Richards
lighthill_whitham_richards: The Lighthill-Whitham-Richards system, the conservation of cars with the Greenshields speed law. - Min-protein skeleton system as mass-conserving reaction-diffusion
min_protein_skeleton: The skeleton system of the Min proteins on a periodic line, a mass-conserving reaction-diffusion system. - Moment equations of Langevin traffic with a jam instability
traffic_density_equation: The density and flux equations of Langevin traffic on a ring road, whose uniform flow breaks into jams. - Multilevel selection of cooperators, defectors, and punishers on the simplex
trimorphic_multilevel_selection: The density of groups of cooperators, defectors, and altruistic punishers on the 2-simplex. - Multilevel selection with non-additive pairwise group conflict
nonlinear_pairwise_group_conflict: The density of groups of defectors and altruistic punishers under pairwise group conflict. - Nonreciprocal Cahn-Hilliard
nonreciprocal_cahn_hilliard: The nonreciprocal Cahn-Hilliard equations, a demixing field coupled to a diffusing one. - One-dimensional active viscoelastic and poroelastic gel with contractile cells
active_viscoelastic_gel: A one-dimensional active viscoelastic gel, where contractile cells concentrate by dragging the gel. - Oppenheimer-Snyder collapse of a dust ball
oppenheimer_snyder_collapse: A ball of dust at rest that collapses under its own gravity into a black hole, as Oppenheimer and Snyder. - Payne system
payne: The Payne system, where the speed of traffic relaxes to the Greenshields speed and anticipates density. - Quasi-geostrophic double gyre
double_gyre: The quasi-geostrophic double gyre, the wind-driven circulation of a closed ocean basin. - Random-walk traders with arbitrage
arbitrage_traders: Schwichtenberg's diffusion of a good by random-walk traders, minimally coupled to exchange rates. - Rayleigh-Bénard
rayleigh_benard: Rayleigh-Bénard convection between free-slip walls, from a small perturbation of the critical mode. - Schnakenberg
schnakenberg: The Schnakenberg reaction-diffusion system, which forms Turing patterns from noise whenDv >> Du. - Schrödinger equation as real and imaginary fields
schrodinger: A Gaussian wave packet that follows the Schrödinger equation, as its real and imaginary parts. - Schrödinger equation minimally coupled to an electromagnetic potential
charged_schrodinger: A Gaussian wave packet of a charge in a prescribed electromagnetic potential, after Schwichtenberg 4.3. - Shallow-water dam break
shallow_water: The shallow-water dam break: still water at two depths that a removed dam separated at the middle. - Size-structured forest with shading and seed dispersal
forest_size_structure: The McKendrick-von Foerster density of trees over position across a strip and height. - Standing waves on a string
standing_waves: A string with fixed ends on[-length / 2, length / 2]that vibrates as a standing wave. - Swift-Hohenberg
swift_hohenberg: The Swift-Hohenberg equationu_t = r u - (1 + laplacian)^2 u - u^3, which forms rolls of length 2 pi. - Toner-Tu hydrodynamics
toner_tu: The Toner-Tu hydrodynamics of a polar flock on a periodic lattice, from a disordered velocity field. - Two-level replicator equation of additive pairwise group conflict
two_level_replicator: The two-level replicator equation of defectors and altruistic punishers, additive pairwise group conflict. - Vlasov
vlasov_equation: The Vlasov-Poisson equation of electrons over a neutralizing background, on a periodic position axis. - Wave-number conservation and wave breaking
wave_breaking: The kinematic wave equation of deep-water wave trains on a periodic interval of length 2 pi.
pedestrians
- Bellomo's kinetic crowd in a street with walls and panic
kinetic_crowd: Bellomo's kinetic crowd of two groups walking in opposite directions along a street with walls. - Social force pedestrians
social_force: Two crowds walking in opposite directions along a periodic corridor, which form lanes.
pendulum
- Pendulum swing-up
pendulum_swing_up: A pendulum swung up to its inverted position by a bang-bang acceleration of its pivot.
perceptron
- Binary perceptron and random K-SAT
perceptron_satisfiability: A binary perceptron that must store random patterns, revealed one per step, as cardinality constraints.
percolation
- Cascades of failures in interdependent networks
interdependent_network_cascade: The cascade of failures of Buldyrev et al. between two networks whose nodes depend on each other. - Continuum percolation
continuum_percolation: Overlapping disks at uniform positions in a square, whose clusters percolate near a filling of 1.13. - Explosive percolation by the Achlioptas product rule
explosive_percolation: Explosive percolation, where the Achlioptas product rule delays and sharpens the giant component. - Random failures and targeted attacks on networks
network_attack: Failures or attacks on a scale-free network, robust to random failures but fragile to attacks on hubs. - Random-walker epidemics on a grid and on a small world
random_walker_epidemics: Random walkers among whom one sick walker starts a deadly epidemic, on a grid or on a network. - Site percolation
site_percolation: Site percolation probed by a fire lit along the top row, which spans the lattice abovep_c = 0.5927. - Spatial triadic percolation on a torus
spatial_triadic_percolation: Spatial triadic percolation, where nearby signed regulators make the giant component form moving patterns. - Triadic percolation
triadic_percolation: Triadic percolation, where regulating nodes switch links on and off from the giant component.
period doubling
- Cascais-Dilão-Noronha Gaussian map
cdn_map: The Cascais-Dilão-Noronha Gaussian mapx' = exp(-alpha² x²) + βof an interval. - Logistic map
logistic_map: The logistic mapx_{t+1} = r x_t (1 - x_t), which reaches chaos through period doubling asrgrows. - Ricker map of overcompensating generations
ricker: Ricker's map of a population in discrete generations,n' = r n exp(-n), chaotic for larger. - Triadic percolation
triadic_percolation: Triadic percolation, where regulating nodes switch links on and off from the giant component.
periodic
- Logistic growth with a varying capacity
varying_capacity_logistic: Logistic growth under a seasonal carrying capacity, which settles on a cycle of the season's period.
persistence
- Persistent random walk
persistent_random_walk: Walkers on the integers that keep the direction of their last step with a probability.
petri net
- Stochastic and continuous Petri nets
petri_net: A Petri net, places that hold tokens and transitions that consume and produce them when they fire.
pharmacokinetics
- Gompertzian cell-cycle phases under tamoxifen
tamoxifen_cell_cycle: A breast tumour in Gompertzian cell-cycle phases under daily tamoxifen and its active metabolite. - Hahnfeldt system with effector cells, pharmacokinetics, resistance, and toxicity
angiogenesis_immunotherapy: The Hahnfeldt tumour with effector cells under bevacizumab and atezolizumab every three weeks. - Two-compartment pharmacokinetics
two_compartment_pharmacokinetics: The two-compartment pharmacokinetics of a bolus dose given into the central compartment.
pharmacology
- Cumulative drug toxicity
drug_toxicity: The toxicity a weekly drug accumulates in the body, which the metabolism clears once the doses stop. - Two-compartment pharmacokinetics
two_compartment_pharmacokinetics: The two-compartment pharmacokinetics of a bolus dose given into the central compartment.
phase
- Adaptive Kuramoto-Sakaguchi oscillators with frequency clusters
adaptive_kuramoto: Globally coupled phase oscillators whose coupling weights adapt to their phase differences. - Adler equation
adler_equation: The Adler equationΔφ' = Δω + ε sin Δφfor the phase difference of an oscillator and its drive. - Explosive topological Kuramoto of node and link phases on a simplicial complex, with the Nodes-Links-Triangles variant
topological_kuramoto: Phases on the nodes and links of a clique complex, coupled through its incidence by order parameters. - Kuramoto
kuramoto: Kuramoto oscillators coupled all to all,theta_i' = omega_i + (K / N) sum_j sin(theta_j - theta_i). - Kuramoto on networks
kuramoto_on_networks: Kuramoto oscillators coupled along the edges of a network,theta_i' = omega_i + K sum_j A_ij sin(...). - Kuramoto oscillators with three-body coupling
hypergraph_kuramoto: Kuramoto oscillators coupled in pairs and by three-body interactions on the triangles of a hypergraph. - Kuramoto-Sakaguchi chimera
kuramoto_sakaguchi_chimera: Two populations of identical phase oscillators with phase lag, where one synchronizes and one drifts. - Nonlocal ring chimera
nonlocal_ring_chimera: Identical phase oscillators on a ring, each coupled to itsRnearest neighbours on both sides. - Winfree system
winfree: The Winfree system,theta_i' = omega_i + (K / N) sum_j P(theta_j) R(theta_i), with the sum over allj.
phase ordering
- Allen-Cahn non-conserved relaxation (System A)
allen_cahn: The Allen-Cahn equation, System A, the non-conserved relaxation of an order parameter in a double well.
phase oscillators
- Phase units with activity-dependent conduction delays
adaptive_delay_network: Phase units coupled all to all through conduction delays that adapt to their activity, as myelination. - Theta neurons and QIF networks
theta_neurons: A network of theta neurons, equivalently quadratic integrate-and-fire neurons, coupled all to all. - Two-layer adaptive oscillator model of sepsis
two_layer_sepsis: The two-layer model of tumour disease and sepsis, parenchymal and immune cells as adaptive oscillators.
phase separation
- Active System B+ of motility-induced phase separation
active_system_b: Active System B+, the conserved field theory of the density of active particles. - Cahn-Hilliard phase separation (System B)
cahn_hilliard: The Cahn-Hilliard equation, System B, the conserved relaxation of an order parameter in a double well. - Flocking with active and passive agents
active_passive_flocking: The active and passive agents of Charbonneau (2017, section 10.4) in a periodic box. - Motility-induced phase separation
motility_induced_phase_separation: Repulsive active Brownian disks of unit diameter, which phase separate into clusters at high speed. - Nonreciprocal Cahn-Hilliard
nonreciprocal_cahn_hilliard: The nonreciprocal Cahn-Hilliard equations, a demixing field coupled to a diffusing one.
phase space
- BGK
bgk_equation: The BGK equation of the Sod shock tube over one position and one velocity axis. - Bertin-Droz-Grégoire kinetic flocking
bertin_droz_gregoire: The kinetic theory of flocking, whose polar order grows above a transition density. - Boltzmann
boltzmann_equation: The Boltzmann equation of Maxwell molecules over one position and two velocity axes. - Enskog equations
enskog: The local Enskog equation, the Boltzmann equation with the contact value of the pair correlation of disks. - Vlasov
vlasov_equation: The Vlasov-Poisson equation of electrons over a neutralizing background, on a periodic position axis.
phase transition
- Asymmetric exclusion process with open boundaries
asep: The asymmetric simple exclusion process on an open line, in continuous time. - Axelrod culture dissemination
axelrod: Axelrod's culture dissemination system on a full grid with von Neumann neighbourhoods. - Bonabeau hierarchies
bonabeau_hierarchies: The Bonabeau system, where a hierarchy of strengths emerges above a critical density of agents. - Calm and nervous rats
rats: A colony of calm and nervous rats, in which nervousness spreads by contact and fades on its own. - Combinatorial creative phase transition
creative_phase_transition: The diversity of a combinatorial system, which jumps from sparse to full above a critical rule density. - Complex agents with internal states and standardization
standardized_agents: Complex agents whose interactions make them standardized, all showing one characteristic, and ordered. - Contact process
contact_process: The contact process on a periodic lattice, which survives above a critical infection rate near 1.65. - Customers choosing between two shops of perishable goods
perishable_goods_duopoly: Customers who choose between two shops of perishable goods, preferring the one that sold fresher goods. - Fixed-energy sandpile
fixed_energy_sandpile: The fixed-energy sandpile, a Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld pile with no drive and no loss on a periodic lattice. - Fully connected Ising system with Glauber dynamics
curie_weiss: The fully connected Ising system with Glauber dynamics, ordered below the critical temperatureT_c = J. - Fully connected branching and annihilation
absorbing_birth_death: The fully connected branching and annihilation process, active abovekappa = nuuntil it dies out. - Huepe-Aldana noisy majority Boolean network
noisy_boolean_network: The Boolean network of Huepe and Aldana-González, nodes that follow the noisy majority ofkinputs. - Ising
ising: The two-dimensional Ising system on a torus, ordered below the critical temperature2 / ln(1 + sqrt 2). - Ising on a graph
graph_ising: The Ising system on a graph, ordered below a critical temperature set by the degrees of the nodes. - Landau mean-field relaxation
landau_relaxation: The relaxation of a Landau order parameter, tosqrt(a (Tc - T) / b)belowTcand to 0 above it. - Potts
potts: The q-state Potts system on a torus, ordered below the critical temperature1 / ln(1 + sqrt q). - Site percolation
site_percolation: Site percolation probed by a fire lit along the top row, which spans the lattice abovep_c = 0.5927.
phenotype switching
- Acquired and induced resistance with phenotype switching
drug_resistance_switching: Sensitive cells and cells resistant by mutation or by a reversible phenotype switch under a dose.
phoresis
- Living crystals
living_crystals: Active colloids of radius 1 with phoretic attraction, which gather into clusters that slowly coarsen.
phosphorylation
- Three-node phosphorylation oscillator
phosphorylation_oscillator: Three proteins whose phosphorylation cycles regulate each other in a loop that oscillates.
physiology
- Mackey-Glass
mackey_glass: The Mackey-Glass equationx' = beta x(t - tau) / (1 + x(t - tau)^n) - gamma xof blood cell production.
phytoplankton
- Droop cell-quota growth
droop_cell_quota: The Droop system, a phytoplankton whose growth rate follows the nutrient stored in its cells.
pid
- PID governance loop
pid_loop: A work process whose output a PID controller keeps at a set point against a disturbance. - PID-stabilised inverted pendulum
pid_inverted_pendulum: An inverted pendulum on a cart that a PID controller of its angle keeps upright.
piecewise
- Exponential-linear tumour growth
exponential_linear_growth: A tumour that grows exponentially while small and linearly once its growth reaches a limiting rate.
piecewise linear
- Generalized tent map
skew_tent_map: An ensemble of the skew tent map, whose density relaxes to the uniform invariant density for anya. - Lozi map
lozi_map: The Lozi mapx' = 1 + y - a |x|,y' = b x, the piecewise linear Hénon map with a strange attractor. - Mass-spring oscillator with static and Coulomb friction
friction_oscillator: A mass on a linear spring with static, Coulomb, and viscous friction,m x'' + c x' + k x + f = 0. - Piecewise-linear intermittent androgen suppression
piecewise_linear_ias: The Hirata piecewise-linear system of intermittent androgen suppression for one of three patient types. - Tent
tent_map: The tent mapx' = μ min(x, 1 - x), chaotic with Lyapunov exponentln μfor μ above 1.
piezoelectric
- Vibration energy harvester
vibration_energy_harvester: A dual-mass piezoelectric harvester in a car suspension, driven by the roughness of the road.
plasma
- Vlasov
vlasov_equation: The Vlasov-Poisson equation of electrons over a neutralizing background, on a periodic position axis.
plasticity
- Theta neurons with spike-timing-dependent plasticity
stdp_network: Theta neurons on a random directed network whose synapses learn by spike-timing-dependent plasticity.
polar
- Active nematic and polar gels
active_gels: An active gel, a nematic tensor or a polarisation transported in the Stokes flow of its own stresses.
polarization
- Echo chambers and radicalization on an activity-driven network
echo_chamber_radicalization: The radicalization model of echo chambers of Baumann and coauthors on an activity-driven network. - Kinetic opinion formation
kinetic_opinion: The kinetic system of opinion formation over a discrete grid of opinions.
policy
- Mark-0 economy with a Covid shock and policies
mark0: The Mark-0 economy of Sharma, Bouchaud, and co-authors, with a Covid shock to supply and demand.
policy resistance
- Policy resistance
policy_resistance: Meadows' policy resistance trap, one stock pulled by three actors toward inconsistent goals.
pollution
- Population and pollution
population_pollution: The pollution model of Bala, Arshad, and Noh, a population that degrades its environment.
polymer
- Active polymers
active_polymer: An active polymer, a Rouse chain of active Brownian beads that each swim along their own orientation.
polymers
- Undirected and directed polymer assembly pool
polymer_assembly_pool: An assembly pool of linear polymers grown from one monomer by joining pairs of its polymers.
pontryagin
- Minimum-time control of a free particle, a harmonic oscillator, and a saddle
minimum_time_control: A linear plant steered to the origin of its phase space in minimum time by a sampled bang-bang control. - Optimal adoptive therapy and IL-2 dosing
optimal_immunotherapy: A tumour under the adoptive therapy and IL-2 injection that minimise its burden and their cost. - Optimal chemotherapy dosing
optimal_chemotherapy: A patient under the chemotherapy that minimises the tumour burden and the toxicity of the drug. - SIR with optimal vaccination
sir_vaccination: An SIR epidemic with the vaccination rate that minimises the burden of infections and vaccines.
popularity-similarity
- Popularity-similarity network
popularity_similarity_network: Popularity-similarity growth, scale-free and clustered, whose nodes attach by hyperbolic distance.
population
- Exponential growth
exponential_growth: A population that grows or declines at a constant per-capita rate. - Fibonacci rabbits
fibonacci_rabbits: Fibonacci's rabbits,N_{t+1} = N_t + N_{t-1}, where every pair older than one month breeds a new pair. - Hutchinson
hutchinson: Hutchinson's delayed logistic equation, which oscillates aroundKwhenr * tauexceeds π/2. - Logistic growth
logistic_growth: A population that grows logistically towards its carrying capacity. - Logistic growth with a varying capacity
varying_capacity_logistic: Logistic growth under a seasonal carrying capacity, which settles on a cycle of the season's period. - Population and pollution
population_pollution: The pollution model of Bala, Arshad, and Noh, a population that degrades its environment. - Ricker map of overcompensating generations
ricker: Ricker's map of a population in discrete generations,n' = r n exp(-n), chaotic for larger.
population genetics
- Kimura diffusion of allele frequencies
kimura_diffusion: Replicate populations whose allele frequencies diffuse by drift until the allele is lost or fixed. - Moran process
moran_process: The Moran process, a population of constant size where fitter traits fix by selection and drift. - Strong-selection weak-mutation walk on fitness landscapes
origin_fixation_walk: A monomorphic population that climbs a fitness landscape as mutants arise and fix one at a time.
population growth
- Droop cell-quota growth
droop_cell_quota: The Droop system, a phytoplankton whose growth rate follows the nutrient stored in its cells.
positive feedback
- Coagulation cascade amplified by positive feedback and bounded by fibrinolysis
coagulation_positive_feedback: The coagulation cascade, an all-or-nothing burst of thrombin bounded by protein C and fibrinolysis.
potential
- Particle in the well
k x^2 e^-xparticle_in_a_well: A particle moving without friction in the potentialU(x) = k x² e^-x.
power grid
- Swing-equation power grid with Braess paradox
power_grid: A ring power grid in the swing-equation system, where more transmission capacity can break synchrony.
power law
- Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld sandpile
sandpile: The Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld sandpile on a lattice with open edges, started from random stable heights. - Barabási priority queues
priority_queues: The Barabási priority queue, whose waiting times follow a power law as the choice becomes greedy. - Cascading sample-space-reducing process
cascading_sample_space_reducing: Cascading sample-space-reducing processes, whose visits follow the power lawi^(-mu)for anymu. - Drossel-Schwabl forest fire
forest_fire: The Drossel-Schwabl forest fire, where slow growth and rare lightning give fires of every size. - Exponential growth observed at exponential random times
exponential_growth_at_random_times: Exponential growth observed at exponentially distributed times, whose observed values follow a power law. - Forest fire on hexagonal lattices and graphs
hexagonal_forest_fire: The Drossel-Schwabl forest fire on a triangular lattice of hexagonal cells, or on the nodes of a graph. - Generalized mass action and S-system power-law systems
biochemical_systems_theory: A biochemical system of power-law rates, in the S-system or the generalized mass action form. - Kesten processes
kesten_process: Firms whose sizes follow Kesten's process, a random multiplicative factor plus a random positive term. - Mandelbrot least-effort word frequencies
mandelbrot_least_effort: The word frequencies that minimise the mean cost of a language over its entropy, a power law of rank. - Manna sandpile
manna_sandpile: The Manna sandpile, a stochastic sandpile of another universality class than Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld. - Miller's random typewriting
random_typewriting: Miller's random typewriting, monkeys whose random keystrokes give Zipf's law of word frequencies. - Multiplicative
multiplicative_process: Levy and Solomon's multiplicative process, whose floor at a fraction of the mean makes a power-law tail. - Olami-Feder-Christensen
earthquakes: The Olami-Feder-Christensen earthquake system with open edges, started from random forces. - Ornstein-Uhlenbeck with weakening restoring force
weakening_ornstein_uhlenbeck: Brownian particles held by a restoring force that weakens with distance. - Power-law tumour growth
power_law_growth: A tumour whose proliferating part scales as a power of its size,dn/dt = r n^p. - Sample-space-reducing process
sample_space_reducing: Sample-space-reducing processes, whose state visits follow Zipf's law1 / iforlam = 1. - Simon-Yule growth
simon_yule: The Simon system of a text that grows from one word, whose word counts follow a power law. - Zhang sandpile
zhang_sandpile: The Zhang sandpile, a continuous sandpile whose unstable sites give away all their energy.
power series
- Power-series automaton
power_series_automaton: The automatonτ(x)(n) = x(n) - t x(n + 1)over the ringK[[t]]of formal power series on a ring.
pre-injective
- Real quadratic automaton
real_quadratic_automaton: The automatonτ(x)(n) = x(n + 1) - x(n)^2over the reals on a ring.
prebiotic
- Hypercycles
hypercycles: A network of self-replicating molecules whose catalysis keeps a set of them alive, a hypercycle.
precession
- Relativistic orbit equation
relativistic_orbit: Einstein's orbit equationu'' + u = alpha + epsilon u²of a planet, whose perihelion precesses.
predator-prey
- Agent-based Lotka-Volterra
agent_based_lotka_volterra: Prey and predators that walk on a grid, whose numbers cycle like the Lotka-Volterra equations. - Food webs
food_webs: A food web where basal species grow logistically and consumers live on Lotka-Volterra predation. - Generalized stochastic predator-prey
stochastic_predator_prey: Prey and predators born and killed one at a time, with crowding of the prey and saturating predation. - Lotka-Volterra
lotka_volterra: Prey and predators whose populations oscillate through predation. - Lotka-Volterra with harvesting
lotka_volterra_with_harvesting: Lotka-Volterra predation where both species are harvested with a constant effort. - Predator-prey tumour-immune system of TCR gene therapy
tcr_gene_therapy: The predator-prey system of a gene therapy that lets the T cells recognise the tumour. - Rosenzweig-MacArthur and rate tipping
rosenzweig_macarthur: Fast prey and slow predators whose carrying capacity shrinks at a rate, which tips them when it is fast. - Stigmergic predator-prey automaton
stigmergic_predator_prey: Plants, prey, and predators on a grid, whose animals share emotions through decaying marks. - Wolf and sheep
wolf_sheep: The wolf and sheep predation system with one grass patch per cell.
preferential attachment
- Barabási-Albert growth, with Bianconi-Barabási fitness
barabasi_albert: Barabási-Albert growth, whose degrees follow a power lawP(k) ~ k^-3by preferential attachment. - Graphlet arrival growth
graphlet_arrival: Growth by the arrival of three-node graphlets, a tree whose degree exponent rises withalpha. - Holme-Kim growth
holme_kim: Holme-Kim growth, scale-free like Barabási-Albert growth but with clustering that stays high.
preferential return
- Exploration and preferential return
exploration_preferential_return: The exploration and preferential return model of human mobility of Song and coauthors.
price convergence
- Bilateral barter of two or three goods
goods_traders: Traders who wander a grid and barter two or three goods with their neighbours.
price discovery
- Gooding double auction with adaptive quotes
gooding_double_auction: Gooding's double auction, whose buyers and sellers move their quotes towards trade and then apart.
price elasticity
- Heterogeneous household demand by utility and by elasticities
household_demand: Hamill and Gilbert's heterogeneous households, whose demand for food traces a curve as its price rises.
prices
- Toy Trader and Three-Goods Trader with money
toy_trader: Gooding's Toy Trader, traders with money and toys who buy the cheapest toy they can see.
probability
- Discrete master equation
discrete_master_equation: The discrete-time master equation of states on a ring, which relaxes to the Boltzmann distribution.
productivity shocks
- Brock-Mirman stochastic growth
brock_mirman_growth: The Brock-Mirman economy, the optimal growth of a representative agent whose productivity is Markov.
prostate cancer
- Intermittent androgen suppression switched by PSA thresholds
ideta_intermittent_androgen: The Ideta system of intermittent androgen suppression, switched on and off by PSA thresholds. - Piecewise-linear intermittent androgen suppression
piecewise_linear_ias: The Hirata piecewise-linear system of intermittent androgen suppression for one of three patient types. - Prostate cancer driven by activated androgen receptors
prostate_androgen_receptor: The Jain system of prostate epithelium and cancer driven by activated androgen receptors, with PSA. - Prostate cancer under continuous androgen suppression
continuous_androgen_suppression: Prostate cancer under continuous androgen suppression, which androgen-independent cells survive. - Prostate cancer with an androgen cell quota and PSA
prostate_cell_quota: The Portz cell-quota system of prostate cancer, whose cells grow on their internal androgen.
protein
- Early-stage protein folding intermediate
early_stage_folding_intermediate: The residues of a protein sampling the cells of an ellipse path of the Ramachandran map by heat bath. - Fuzzy oil drop system of protein structure
fuzzy_oil_drop: The fuzzy oil drop of a protein, an ensemble replayed one member per frame or a chain folded by moves.
protein corona
- Protein corona binding on a nanoparticle
nanoparticle_corona: The corona that albumin, high-density lipoprotein, and fibrinogen form on a nanoparticle in plasma.
protein interaction network
- Steady-state duplication-deletion network
duplication_deletion: The steady-state duplication-deletion network of Jensen, whose connectance settles at Eq. 8.84.
public goods
- Public goods game
public_goods_game: The spatial public goods game in groups of five neighbours, with Fermi imitation. - Public goods game on hypergraphs
hypergraph_public_goods: The public goods game on a hypergraph, played in every hyperedge, with Fermi imitation.
pullers
- Squirmers
squirmers: Spherical squirmers that swim at2 B1 / 3and stir each other as pushers or pullers.
pulse coupling
- Mirollo-Strogatz pulse-coupled oscillators
mirollo_strogatz: Integrate-and-fire oscillators coupled by pulses, which end up firing in unison.
pulses
- Pulsed electrochemical reactor
pulsed_electrochemical_reactor: A stirred electrochemical reactor whose electrode is driven by a train of current pulses. - Wheel and rail contact
wheel_rail_contact: A rail segment on a sleeper, loaded by the wheels of passing bogies.
punctuated equilibria
- Co-evolving combinatorial critical model
ccc_model: The co-evolving combinatorial critical model, whose diversity shows punctuated equilibria.
punctuated equilibrium
- Competitive Jain-Krishna model with signed couplings
competitive_jain_krishna: The Jain-Krishna model with signed interactions, whose surviving species come to cooperate. - Tangled Nature
tangled_nature: The Tangled Nature system, where organisms whose types interact through random couplings coevolve.
punishment
- Finite two-level birth-death process of defectors and punishers
two_level_birth_death: The finite two-level birth-death process of defectors and altruistic punishers in competing groups. - Multilevel selection of cooperators, defectors, and punishers on the simplex
trimorphic_multilevel_selection: The density of groups of cooperators, defectors, and altruistic punishers on the 2-simplex. - Multilevel selection with non-additive pairwise group conflict
nonlinear_pairwise_group_conflict: The density of groups of defectors and altruistic punishers under pairwise group conflict. - Two-level replicator equation of additive pairwise group conflict
two_level_replicator: The two-level replicator equation of defectors and altruistic punishers, additive pairwise group conflict.
purchasing power
- Three-sector purchasing power decoupled by feedback
categorized_purchasing_power: Forrest's categorized purchasing power of money, three sectors that feedback can steer one by one.
pushers
- Squirmers
squirmers: Spherical squirmers that swim at2 B1 / 3and stir each other as pushers or pullers.
q-adic integers
- Adding machine (odometer)
adding_machine: The adding machiner → r + 1on the q-adic integers, the odometer acting on the q-ary tree.
qcd
- Lattice Yang-Mills and pure lattice QCD
lattice_yang_mills: SU(2) or SU(3) matrices on the links of a periodic lattice, sampled by the Wilson action.
quantum
- Quantum Heisenberg system
quantum_heisenberg: A chain of spins one half with the XXZ Hamiltonian, a field, and optional dephasing. - Schrödinger equation as real and imaginary fields
schrodinger: A Gaussian wave packet that follows the Schrödinger equation, as its real and imaginary parts. - Schrödinger equation minimally coupled to an electromagnetic potential
charged_schrodinger: A Gaussian wave packet of a charge in a prescribed electromagnetic potential, after Schwichtenberg 4.3.
quasi-geostrophic
- Quasi-geostrophic double gyre
double_gyre: The quasi-geostrophic double gyre, the wind-driven circulation of a closed ocean basin.
quasispecies
- Eigen quasispecies
eigen_quasispecies: The shares of a population at every number of mutations from the master sequence, the linear chain system.
quenched mean field
- Quenched mean-field SIS
quenched_mean_field_sis: The SIS epidemic on a fixed network in quenched mean field, one infection probability per node.
queue
- Car wash queue
car_wash: Chesney's Clean and Wax hand car wash, a shadow account of the revenue of its workers' labour.
queueing
- Birth-death process and M/M/1 queue
birth_death_queue: Independent M/M/1 queues, birth-death processes with constant arrival and service rates.
queues
- Barabási priority queues
priority_queues: The Barabási priority queue, whose waiting times follow a power law as the choice becomes greedy. - Ridesharing
ridesharing: Riders who request trips on a city grid and cabs that a stable matching sends to them.
radiotherapy
- Linear-quadratic cell survival and biologically effective dose
lq_cell_survival: The linear-quadratic survival of cells after a total dose, with its biologically effective dose. - Linear-quadratic impulsive irradiation with a radiosensitizer
lq_radiosensitizer: A xenograft tumour irradiated in fractions scored by the linear-quadratic system, with a radiosensitizer. - Normal and tumour competition under radiation
radiotherapy_competition: Normal and tumour cells in Lotka-Volterra competition, the tumour irradiated periodically.
railways
- Wheel and rail contact
wheel_rail_contact: A rail segment on a sleeper, loaded by the wheels of passing bogies.
ramachandran
- Early-stage protein folding intermediate
early_stage_folding_intermediate: The residues of a protein sampling the cells of an ellipse path of the Ramachandran map by heat bath.
ramp
- Leading-following tipping cascade
leading_following_cascade: A cascade of two tipping elements, a leading fold driven by a ramp and a follower forced by the leader. - Stochastic fold with a ramped control parameter
ramped_stochastic_fold: A stochastic fold whose control is ramped through the tipping point of its lower branch.
random
- Normal and malignant stem-cell compartments with feedback and therapy
stem_cell_differentiation: The eight-compartment system of normal and malignant stem-cell lineages with feedback and therapy.
random community
- Random Lotka-Volterra with higher-order interactions
higher_order_random_lotka_volterra: A random Lotka-Volterra community with third-order interactions.
random energy system
- Adaptive climbing in finite populations
adaptive_climbing: A finite population that climbs a random fitness landscape by mutation and strong selection.
random graph
- Configuration model with stub matching and rewiring
configuration_model: The configuration model, the maximally random network of a given degree sequence. - Erdos-Renyi and Watts-Strogatz graphs
random_graph_ensembles: The construction of an Erdős-Rényi or a Watts-Strogatz random graph, one step of new edges at a time. - Kronecker graphs
kronecker_graph: The Kronecker graph of two graphs, whose adjacency matrix is the Kronecker product of theirs. - Network superposition model of Erdős-Rényi subgraphs
network_superposition: The network superposition model, a union of Erdős-Rényi graphs whose linking probabilities are drawn.
random map
- Random complex square-root function system
inverse_julia: The random function systemz -> ±√(z - omega), whose points settle on the Julia set ofz² + omega. - Random two-branch interval map
random_branch_map: Orbits of a random map of[0, 1]with the two branches(1 + x) / 2andmu x².
random observation
- Exponential growth observed at exponential random times
exponential_growth_at_random_times: Exponential growth observed at exponentially distributed times, whose observed values follow a power law.
random walk
- Ageing random walk
ageing_random_walk: Ageing random walks, whose up steps become rarer the more of them a walker has taken. - Continuous-time random walk
continuous_time_random_walk: The continuous-time random walk, Gaussian jumps after waiting times with the tailtau^(-1 - alpha). - Cubic chaotic map and its chaotic walk
cubic_chaotic_map: Bertin's cubic chaotic map and the chaotic walk it drives, which spreads like a random walk. - Diffusion-limited aggregation
diffusion_limited_aggregation: Diffusion-limited aggregation on a periodic grid, where random walkers stick to a seed at the center. - Lévy walk
levy_walk: The Lévy walk, flights at constant speed in random directions for times with the tailtau^(-1 - sigma). - Ornstein-Uhlenbeck with weakening restoring force
weakening_ornstein_uhlenbeck: Brownian particles held by a restoring force that weakens with distance. - Persistent random walk
persistent_random_walk: Walkers on the integers that keep the direction of their last step with a probability. - Random walk with autoregressive velocity
random_walk_with_memory: Random walks whose velocity is an autoregressive process,x ← x + vandv ← alpha v + xi. - Random walks
network_random_walk: Random walkers on a network, which visit every node of a connected graph in proportion to its degree. - Random walks
random_walk: Independent walkers on the integers that step at random times, a continuous-time random walk. - Random-walker epidemics on a grid and on a small world
random_walker_epidemics: Random walkers among whom one sick walker starts a deadly epidemic, on a grid or on a network. - Size-biased random walk on hypergraphs
hypergraph_random_walk: The size-biased random walk on a hypergraph,p_j' = sum_i p_i T_ij - p_j, from one node. - Superdiffusive Levy flight
levy_flight: The Lévy flight, a walk whose jumps have lengths with the taill^(-1 - mu)in random directions.
ratchet
- On-off flashing ratchet
flashing_ratchet: The on-off flashing ratchet, Brownian particles in a sawtooth potential switched on and off at random.
rate-induced tipping
- Rosenzweig-MacArthur and rate tipping
rosenzweig_macarthur: Fast prey and slow predators whose carrying capacity shrinks at a rate, which tips them when it is fast.
rates
- Kramers escape
kramers_escape: Particles that escape over the barrier ofU = x^4 / 4 - x^2 / 2by thermal noise of intensityD.
reaction-diffusion
- Brusselator fields
brusselator: The Brusselator reaction-diffusion system from small noise around its steady state(a, b / a). - Fisher-KPP
fisher_kpp: The Fisher-KPP equation, whose step invades the empty line as a front of speed2 sqrt(r D). - Gray-Scott
gray_scott: The Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion system, seeded in its middle, which grows spots that replicate. - Metapopulation reaction-diffusion
metapopulation: SIR epidemics in subpopulations at the nodes of a network, linked by individuals who travel. - Min-protein skeleton system as mass-conserving reaction-diffusion
min_protein_skeleton: The skeleton system of the Min proteins on a periodic line, a mass-conserving reaction-diffusion system. - Schnakenberg
schnakenberg: The Schnakenberg reaction-diffusion system, which forms Turing patterns from noise whenDv >> Du.
reactor
- Cubic autocatalysis
cubic_autocatalysis: Cubic autocatalysisA + 2B -> 3Bwith the decayB -> Cin a continuously fed reactor.
reals
- Real quadratic automaton
real_quadratic_automaton: The automatonτ(x)(n) = x(n + 1) - x(n)^2over the reals on a ring.
record dynamics
- Record-dynamics epidemic of resistant residents
record_dynamics_epidemic: Yearly strains that infect every resident less resistant than their strength, who become immune.
recurrent network
- Elman recurrent network trained by backpropagation
elman_network: Elman's simple recurrent network, which learns to predict the next bit of a temporal XOR stream.
red noise
- Hasselmann stochastic climate
hasselmann: Hasselmann's stochastic climate, where fast weather noise drives a slow, damped temperature anomaly.
region layers
- The Kauai population system on region layers
kauai_population: One agent per resident of the census regions of a map, moving between home, work, and favourite places.
regulation
- Daisyworld
daisyworld: Daisyworld, where white and black daisies regulate the temperature of their planet through its albedo. - Tragedy of the meadow commons
tragedy_of_the_commons: Herders whose cows graze a shared meadow, each adding cows while a cow pays, until the grass collapses.
regulatory T cells
- Tumour-immune populations with division delays under dendritic-cell vaccination
delayed_dc_vaccine: A tumour and eight innate and adaptive immune populations, with division delays, under a vaccine.
regulatory flux balance
- Regulatory flux balance analysis
regulatory_fba: A batch culture on glucose and acetate with Boolean catabolite repression, which needs the extra.
reinforcement
- Pólya urn
polya_urn: Independent Pólya urns, whose share of red balls converges to a random limit with a beta distribution.
reinforcement learning
- Evolutionary Sherrington-Kirkpatrick game
evolutionary_sk_game: The evolutionary Sherrington-Kirkpatrick game, which self-organises to the edge of ergodicity breaking. - SK game of reinforcement learners
sk_game: The SK game, reinforcement learners whose rewards come from quenched Sherrington-Kirkpatrick couplings.
relaxation oscillation
- Discrete-time SIRS with a recovery delay
delayed_sirs: Two cities with recurrent outbreaks of a disease of fixed infection and immunity periods. - Oregonator
oregonator: The scaled Oregonator, the reduction of the FKN mechanism of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction.
relaxation oscillations
- FitzHugh-Nagumo ODE
fitzhugh_nagumo_ode: The FitzHugh-Nagumo neuron, the two-variable reduction of Hodgkin and Huxley's excitable membrane.
relaxation oscillator
- Van der Pol ice ages
van_der_pol_ice_ages: Glacial cycles as a Van der Pol relaxation oscillator, optionally paced by orbital forcing.
remodelling
- Vessel conductances adapting to Kirchhoff flows
adaptive_flow_network: A square grid of vessels fed at one corner and drained at every other node, whose conductances adapt.
renewable resource
- Renewable fishery with capital
fishery_capital: Meadows' fishing fleet, capital that grows on a renewable resource and can overshoot it.
renewal
- Even and S-gap subshifts
gap_subshift: The shift on the S-gap subshift, the binary sequences whose runs of zeros between ones lie inS. - Exponential growth observed at exponential random times
exponential_growth_at_random_times: Exponential growth observed at exponentially distributed times, whose observed values follow a power law.
renewal process
- Annealed transient time motion
annealed_transient_time_motion: Annealed transient time motion, Brownian walkers whose diffusion coefficient changes at random times. - Bouchaud trap system
trap_system: The Bouchaud trap system, walkers that escape from traps of exponentially distributed depths. - Continuous-time random walk
continuous_time_random_walk: The continuous-time random walk, Gaussian jumps after waiting times with the tailtau^(-1 - alpha). - Lévy walk
levy_walk: The Lévy walk, flights at constant speed in random directions for times with the tailtau^(-1 - sigma).
replicator
- Forest dieback with replicator dynamics of mitigators
social_forest_dieback: The forest dieback model coupled with the replicator dynamics of mitigators who perceive its warming. - Fredkin's self-replicating parity automaton
fredkin_replicator: Fredkin's parity automaton, whose local law copies any initial pattern into translated replicas. - Highlife and the planar automaton zoo
highlife: HighLife,B36/S23, or any other life-like automaton of the planar zoo by its rule, on a torus. - Replicator dynamics and hawks and doves
replicator_dynamics: The replicator dynamics of a game, by default hawks and doves, which settle at a shareV / Cof hawks.
representative agent
- Brock-Mirman stochastic growth
brock_mirman_growth: The Brock-Mirman economy, the optimal growth of a representative agent whose productivity is Markov.
repressilator
- Boolean repressilator
boolean_repressilator: The Boolean repressilator, where LacI represses TetR, TetR represses cI, and cI represses LacI.
reservoir computing
- Echo state network
echo_state_network: An echo state network, a reservoir of leaky tanh units with random recurrent weights driven by a sine. - Next-generation reservoir computer
next_generation_reservoir: A next-generation reservoir computer whose variables follow the ridge readout of their monomials.
resistance
- Hahnfeldt system with effector cells, pharmacokinetics, resistance, and toxicity
angiogenesis_immunotherapy: The Hahnfeldt tumour with effector cells under bevacizumab and atezolizumab every three weeks. - Two tumour clones under chemotherapy and dendritic-cell vaccine
clonal_chemoimmunotherapy: Two competing tumour clones, sensitive and resistant to chemotherapy, under a drug and a vaccine.
resonance
- Forced Toda oscillator
forced_toda: The forced Toda oscillatorx'' + d x' + e^x - 1 = a sin(omega t), a passive asymmetric oscillator. - Stochastic resonance
stochastic_resonance: A particle in a double well,dx = (x - x^3 + A cos(2 pi f t)) dt + sqrt(2 D) dW.
resource allocation
- Kolkata Paise Restaurant
kolkata_restaurant: The Kolkata Paise Restaurant problem, where diners spread over restaurants that serve one meal each.
retail
- Customers choosing between two shops of perishable goods
perishable_goods_duopoly: Customers who choose between two shops of perishable goods, preferring the one that sold fresher goods. - Shops and digital markets
shops: Shops on a grid that compete for the shoppers on every cell, in person or in a digital market.
reversals
- Gissinger geodynamo
geodynamo: Gissinger's geodynamo, whose dipole field reverses at irregular times.
reverse bifurcations
- Cascais-Dilão-Noronha Gaussian map
cdn_map: The Cascais-Dilão-Noronha Gaussian mapx' = exp(-alpha² x²) + βof an interval.
reversible
- HPP lattice gas
hpp_lattice_gas: The HPP lattice gas on a periodic square lattice, whose particles move along four directions and collide. - Q2R reversible Ising automaton
q2r: The Q2R automaton, a reversible, energy-conserving Ising dynamics on a periodic lattice of even sides.
rewiring
- Adaptive SIS with rewiring
adaptive_sis: The SIS epidemic on a network whose susceptible nodes cut their edges to infected neighbours. - Coevolving voter
coevolving_voter: The coevolving voter system, which fragments into consensual components when rewiring is fast.
rewriting system
- Cantor
cantor_set: The Cantor set as the substitution of every interval by its two outer parts. - Koch
koch_curve: The Koch curve as the L-systemF → F+F--F+Fdrawn by a turtle. - Morse subshift
morse_subshift: The Thue-Morse substitution0 → 01,1 → 10, whose words make the language of the Morse subshift. - Sierpiński substitutions
sierpinski_substitution: The Sierpiński triangle or carpet as the substitution of a polygon by scaled copies of itself.
riccati
- Riccati price adjustment
riccati_prices: A price that moves with excess demand under linear demand and saturating quadratic supply.
ridesharing
- Ridesharing
ridesharing: Riders who request trips on a city grid and cabs that a stable matching sends to them.
ring
- Substance exchange between logistic cells in a closed contour
closed_contour_cell_exchange: The exchange of signalling molecules between logistic cells arranged in a closed contour.
rna
- Genotype spaces and neutral networks of RNA folds
rna_neutral_networks: Walkers of RNA sequences that take one proposed point mutation per unit of time at temperature zero.
robot
- RobbyGA can collector and evolution by circumstance
robby_ga: Mitchell's genetic algorithm that evolves strategies for Robby, a robot that collects cans in a room.
robotics
- Light-emitting robots with sensory delay
light_emitting_robots: Light-emitting robots, which cluster when they sense the light of the others late and spread when early. - Light-sensitive robots with sensory delay
light_seeking_robots: Light-sensitive robots in a circular well, whose sensory delay decides whether they gather in the light. - Swarmtaxis
swarmtaxis: The swarmtaxis algorithm, which moves a swarm of robots towards a beacon that only some of them see.
robustness
- Genotype spaces and neutral networks of RNA folds
rna_neutral_networks: Walkers of RNA sequences that take one proposed point mutation per unit of time at temperature zero. - Motter-Lai cascades of betweenness overload
motter_lai_overload: The cascade of overload failures of Motter and Lai after one node is removed. - Random failures and targeted attacks on networks
network_attack: Failures or attacks on a scale-free network, robust to random failures but fragile to attacks on hubs.
rolls
- Swift-Hohenberg
swift_hohenberg: The Swift-Hohenberg equationu_t = r u - (1 + laplacian)^2 u - u^3, which forms rolls of length 2 pi.
rotating frame
- Restricted three-body problem
restricted_three_body: A light body moving in the plane of two primaries on circular orbits, in the frame that rotates with them.
rotation
- Gyroscope in a gimbal
gimballed_gyroscope: A gyroscope in a gimbal: a rotor in an inner ring that turns in an outer ring about a fixed axis. - Rotating balls on rods
rotating_balls_on_rods: Two balls on rods that turn about a vertical axis and conserve their angular momentum. - Rotating swing
rotating_swing: A rotating swing: chairs on chains hanging from the rods of a stand that turns about a vertical axis.
rotational diffusion
- Brownian motion of Janus, ellipsoidal, and chiral particles in three dimensions
anisotropic_brownian_particles: Overdamped axisymmetric Brownian particles in three dimensions that translate and rotate. - Rigid Brownian and active dimers
rigid_dimers: Colloidal molecules: pairs of Brownian or active spheres joined by rigid rods, free in the plane.
rouse chain
- Active polymers
active_polymer: An active polymer, a Rouse chain of active Brownian beads that each swim along their own orientation.
ruggedness
- NK fitness landscapes
nk_landscape: Agents that climb Kauffman's NK fitness landscape from random genomes until they reach local peaks.
rumours
- Maki-Thompson rumours
maki_thompson: The Maki-Thompson rumour system started by one spreader, which leaves about 20% of people ignorant.
sample space reduction
- Cascading sample-space-reducing process
cascading_sample_space_reducing: Cascading sample-space-reducing processes, whose visits follow the power lawi^(-mu)for anymu. - Fragmentation
fragmentation: The random fragmentation of an object of integer size, whose fragments keep breaking into smaller ones. - Sample-space-reducing process
sample_space_reducing: Sample-space-reducing processes, whose state visits follow Zipf's law1 / iforlam = 1.
sandpile
- Fixed-energy sandpile
fixed_energy_sandpile: The fixed-energy sandpile, a Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld pile with no drive and no loss on a periodic lattice. - Zhang sandpile
zhang_sandpile: The Zhang sandpile, a continuous sandpile whose unstable sites give away all their energy.
satisfiability
- Binary perceptron and random K-SAT
perceptron_satisfiability: A binary perceptron that must store random patterns, revealed one per step, as cardinality constraints.
scale-free
- Barabási-Albert growth, with Bianconi-Barabási fitness
barabasi_albert: Barabási-Albert growth, whose degrees follow a power lawP(k) ~ k^-3by preferential attachment. - Degree-class SIR on uncorrelated networks
heterogeneous_mean_field_sir: The SIR epidemic on an uncorrelated network of power-law degrees, in heterogeneous mean field. - Growing simplicial complex by triangle attachment
growing_simplicial_complex: A simplicial complex that grows by gluing one triangle per step along an edge drawn uniformly. - Heterogeneous mean-field SIS
heterogeneous_mean_field_sis: The SIS epidemic on a network with a power-law degree distribution, in heterogeneous mean field. - Node-merging network of Kim et al.
node_merging: The node-merging network of Kim et al., whose merging of linked nodes builds hubs without growth. - Popularity-similarity network
popularity_similarity_network: Popularity-similarity growth, scale-free and clustered, whose nodes attach by hyperbolic distance. - Random failures and targeted attacks on networks
network_attack: Failures or attacks on a scale-free network, robust to random failures but fragile to attacks on hubs. - Vertex-copying network growth
vertex_copying: Vertex-copying growth, whose new nodes copy the edges of existing nodes and make a heavy-tailed degree.
scales
- Container model of human mobility
container_mobility: The container model of human mobility of Alessandretti, Aslak, and Lehmann, trajectories across scales.
schooling
- Couzin shoal with repulsion, alignment, and informed leaders
couzin_leadership: The Couzin shoal, in which a small informed minority leads a group that does not know who is informed.
sde
- Active Brownian particles
active_brownian_particles: Active Brownian particles in the plane, which swim at a constant speed in a diffusing direction. - Active Brownian particles with local alignment
aligning_active_brownian_particles: Active Brownian particles in a periodic box whose headings align with the neighbours withind0. - Active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles
active_ornstein_uhlenbeck_particles: Active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles in the plane, driven by exponentially correlated propulsion. - Active polymers
active_polymer: An active polymer, a Rouse chain of active Brownian beads that each swim along their own orientation. - Annealed transient time motion
annealed_transient_time_motion: Annealed transient time motion, Brownian walkers whose diffusion coefficient changes at random times. - Bouchaud-Mézard wealth
bouchaud_mezard_wealth: Bouchaud and Mezard's wealth dynamics, random multiplicative returns with exchange between neighbours. - Brownian motion of Janus, ellipsoidal, and chiral particles in three dimensions
anisotropic_brownian_particles: Overdamped axisymmetric Brownian particles in three dimensions that translate and rotate. - Brownian particle near a wall
brownian_near_wall: A Brownian particle whose diffusion slows near a wall,D(z) = D0 z² / (z² + a²), as it settles on it. - Chemical Langevin equation of the Schlögl reaction
chemical_langevin_equation: The chemical Langevin equation of Schlögl's bistable reaction, whose noise switches between two states. - Chemical Langevin equation of the enzyme network
chemical_langevin_network: The chemical Langevin equation of the enzyme reactionE + S <-> C -> E + P. - Chiral active particles
chiral_active_particles: Chiral active particles, which swim along circles of radiusv / omegathat drift by diffusion. - Correlated geometric Brownian motions
correlated_geometric_brownian_motion: Two assets whose prices follow geometric Brownian motions driven by correlated Wiener processes. - Depot-pumped Brownian particles
depot_brownian_particles: Brownian particles with energy depots, which start at rest and take up the speedsqrt(q/gamma - c/d). - Diffusion in a speckle field
diffusion_in_a_speckle_field: Brownian particles in a random speckle field, trapped at hotspots for longer as the field grows stronger. - Fishery with measurement errors
fishery_measurement_errors: Independent fisheries whose quota is set from a measurement of the stock with a Gaussian error. - Flocking with active and passive agents
active_passive_flocking: The active and passive agents of Charbonneau (2017, section 10.4) in a periodic box. - Fractional Brownian motion
fractional_brownian_motion: Fractional Brownian motion,dx = sqrt(2 D) dB_H, with<x^2> = 2 D t^(2 H)along every axis. - Geometric Brownian motion
geometric_brownian_motion: An asset whose price follows geometric Brownian motion. - Hasselmann stochastic climate
hasselmann: Hasselmann's stochastic climate, where fast weather noise drives a slow, damped temperature anomaly. - Inertial active Brownian particles
inertial_active_brownian_particles: Active Brownian particles with inertia, which lag behind their orientation as they speed up and turn. - Inertial and overdamped Brownian motion
brownian_motion: Free Brownian particles with inertia,m x'' = -gamma x' + sqrt(2 kT gamma) W, or without it. - Kimura diffusion of allele frequencies
kimura_diffusion: Replicate populations whose allele frequencies diffuse by drift until the allele is lost or fixed. - Kramers escape
kramers_escape: Particles that escape over the barrier ofU = x^4 / 4 - x^2 / 2by thermal noise of intensityD. - Langevin car-following toward a density-dependent speed
langevin_traffic: Cars on a ring road whose speeds relax with noise towards a desired speed set by the local density. - Langevin equation with colored noise
colored_noise_langevin: Particles whose velocitydv/dt = -gamma v + xiis driven by Ornstein-Uhlenbeck noisexi. - Leading-following tipping cascade
leading_following_cascade: A cascade of two tipping elements, a leading fold driven by a ramp and a follower forced by the leader. - Light-sensitive robots with sensory delay
light_seeking_robots: Light-sensitive robots in a circular well, whose sensory delay decides whether they gather in the light. - Living crystals
living_crystals: Active colloids of radius 1 with phoretic attraction, which gather into clusters that slowly coarsen. - Motility-induced phase separation
motility_induced_phase_separation: Repulsive active Brownian disks of unit diameter, which phase separate into clusters at high speed. - Multiplicative noise conventions
multiplicative_noise: Free particles in a box with position-dependent noise, read in the Itô, Stratonovich, or anti-Itô sense. - On-off flashing ratchet
flashing_ratchet: The on-off flashing ratchet, Brownian particles in a sawtooth potential switched on and off at random. - Optical trap including oscillating and blinking traps
optical_trap: Overdamped particles in a harmonic optical trap, still, oscillating, or blinking. - Ornstein-Uhlenbeck with weakening restoring force
weakening_ornstein_uhlenbeck: Brownian particles held by a restoring force that weakens with distance. - Overdamped particle in a tilted periodic potential
tilted_periodic_potential: Overdamped particles in the tilted periodic potentialV(x) = U0 cos(2 pi x / L) - f x. - Rigid Brownian and active dimers
rigid_dimers: Colloidal molecules: pairs of Brownian or active spheres joined by rigid rods, free in the plane. - Rössler with an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck control parameter
ou_driven_rossler: The Rössler flow driven through its bifurcations by a slow Ornstein-Uhlenbeck control parameter. - Scaled Brownian motion
scaled_brownian_motion: Scaled Brownian motion,dx = sqrt(2 K alpha (t + t0)^(alpha - 1)) dW, with<x^2> ~ 2 K t^alpha. - Shaken frictional spring-block chain
shaken_spring_block: A chain of blocks joined by springs on a frictional substrate, shaken and relaxed in turn. - Stochastic energy balance with bifurcation-, noise-, and rate-induced tipping
sutera_fraedrich_tipping: The Sutera-Fraedrich stochastic energy balance set up for bifurcation-, noise-, or rate-induced tipping. - Stochastic fold with a ramped control parameter
ramped_stochastic_fold: A stochastic fold whose control is ramped through the tipping point of its lower branch. - Stochastic on-off intermittency
on_off_intermittency: Stochastic on-off intermittency,dx/dt = (epsilon + xi) x - x^3with Stratonovich white noisexi. - Stochastic resonance
stochastic_resonance: A particle in a double well,dx = (x - x^3 + A cos(2 pi f t)) dt + sqrt(2 D) dW. - Szabó cell system
szabo_cells: The cells of Szabó et al. (2006) in a periodic box, which move together above a critical density.
second order
- Bending of light by a mass
light_bending: A light ray that passes a static mass and is deflected towards it. - Coupled pendulums
coupled_pendulums: Two pendulums whose bobs are joined by a spring, which pass their energy back and forth. - Double pendulum
double_pendulum: A double pendulum, a pendulum hanging from the bob of another, written as its two Lagrange equations. - Driven damped oscillator
driven_damped_oscillator: A mass on a spring with damping and a periodic force,m x'' = -k x - c x' + F cos(ω t). - Duffing
duffing: The forced Duffing oscillatorx'' = -delta x' - alpha x - beta x^3 + gamma cos(omega t), chaotic here. - FLRW cosmology from the Einstein equations
flrw_cosmology: A homogeneous universe whose expansion follows from the Einstein equations of the Robertson-Walker metric. - Fibonacci rabbits
fibonacci_rabbits: Fibonacci's rabbits,N_{t+1} = N_t + N_{t-1}, where every pair older than one month breeds a new pair. - Forced Toda oscillator
forced_toda: The forced Toda oscillatorx'' + d x' + e^x - 1 = a sin(omega t), a passive asymmetric oscillator. - Forced Van der Pol
forced_van_der_pol: The Van der Pol oscillator driven by a periodic force,x'' = μ (1 - x²) x' - x + A cos(ω t). - Frame dragging around a spinning mass
kerr_frame_dragging: A particle without angular momentum that falls into a spinning mass and is dragged around it. - Friedmann expansion
friedmann_expansion: The scale factor of a homogeneous universe of matter and dark energy, after Friedmann and Lemaître. - Gyroscope in a gimbal
gimballed_gyroscope: A gyroscope in a gimbal: a rotor in an inner ring that turns in an outer ring about a fixed axis. - Huygens clocks and pendulums on coupled supports
huygens_clocks: Pendulum clocks on supports joined by springs, which synchronize through the motion of the supports. - Inertial active Brownian particles
inertial_active_brownian_particles: Active Brownian particles with inertia, which lag behind their orientation as they speed up and turn. - Keplerian dumbbell and spin-orbit coupling
keplerian_dumbbell: The Keplerian dumbbell: two masses on a rigid massless arm that orbit a primary under gravity. - Multiplier-accelerator
multiplier_accelerator: Samuelson's multiplier-accelerator,Y_{t+1} = c (1 + v) Y_t - c v Y_{t-1} + G. - Oppenheimer-Snyder collapse of a dust ball
oppenheimer_snyder_collapse: A ball of dust at rest that collapses under its own gravity into a black hole, as Oppenheimer and Snyder. - Pendulum
pendulum: A pendulum, whose angle follows Newton's second lawm l θ'' = -m g sin θ. - Pendulum on a sliding cart
cart_pendulum: A pendulum hanging from a cart that slides without friction along a horizontal track. - Pendulum with a vertically or horizontally oscillating pivot
parametric_pendulum: A pendulum whose suspension point oscillates vertically or horizontally, with accelerationε g cos Ω t. - Perihelion precession in the Schwarzschild spacetime
schwarzschild_precession: A massive particle on a bound orbit around a static mass, whose perihelion advances every turn. - Quarter-car suspension
quarter_car: A quarter-car suspension driving over a road step. - RLC circuit
rlc_circuit: A series RLC circuit written as Kirchhoff's voltage law,L q'' + R q' + q / C = V cos(ω t). - Relativistic orbit equation
relativistic_orbit: Einstein's orbit equationu'' + u = alpha + epsilon u²of a planet, whose perihelion precesses. - Rotating swing
rotating_swing: A rotating swing: chairs on chains hanging from the rods of a stand that turns about a vertical axis. - Sitnikov problem
sitnikov: A light body moving on the axis through the centre of mass of two equal primaries, normal to their orbit. - Strongly nonlinear oscillator under periodic impulses
impulsive_oscillator: An oscillator kicked by a periodic train of impulses of alternating sign. - Störmer charge in a dipole field
stormer_problem: A charged particle moving in the magnetic dipole field of a planet, the Störmer problem. - Van der Pol
van_der_pol: The Van der Pol oscillatorx'' = μ (1 - x²) x' - x, which settles on a limit cycle forμ > 0.
security
- Criminality and security
criminality: The kinetic system of criminality in a society and the security forces that act against it.
segmentation
- LEGION oscillators
legion: A LEGION network, a lattice of relaxation oscillators that segments a stimulus into its objects.
segregation
- Schelling
schelling: A Schelling segregation system on a grid with at most one resident per cell. - Stochastic Schelling
stochastic_schelling: The stochastic Schelling system of agents moving between blocks, which segregates abovebeta = 2.
seir
- Watts-May SEIR with lasting partnerships
watts_may_concurrency: The SEIR epidemic of Watts and May, where partnerships that last longer spread the infection faster.
selection
- Assembly growth along the assembly index
assembly_growth: The numbers of objects at successive assembly indices, each discovered from the level below. - Eigen quasispecies
eigen_quasispecies: The shares of a population at every number of mutations from the master sequence, the linear chain system. - Undirected and directed polymer assembly pool
polymer_assembly_pool: An assembly pool of linear polymers grown from one monomer by joining pairs of its polymers.
self-organization
- Boids in three dimensions
boids_3d: Boids in three dimensions, birds that flock by local rules in a periodic cube. - Boids in two dimensions
boids: Reynolds' boids in two dimensions, birds that flock by local rules without a leader. - Social force pedestrians
social_force: Two crowds walking in opposite directions along a periodic corridor, which form lanes.
self-organized criticality
- Bak-Sneppen
bak_sneppen: The Bak-Sneppen system, whose fitnesses self-organise above a critical value in avalanches of extinction. - Co-evolving combinatorial critical model
ccc_model: The co-evolving combinatorial critical model, whose diversity shows punctuated equilibria. - Evolutionary Sherrington-Kirkpatrick game
evolutionary_sk_game: The evolutionary Sherrington-Kirkpatrick game, which self-organises to the edge of ergodicity breaking. - Self-organized branching process
self_organized_branching: The self-organized branching process of Zapperi, Lauritsen, and Stanley, a mean-field sandpile.
self-propulsion
- Active Brownian particles
active_brownian_particles: Active Brownian particles in the plane, which swim at a constant speed in a diffusing direction. - Active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles
active_ornstein_uhlenbeck_particles: Active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles in the plane, driven by exponentially correlated propulsion. - Active polymers
active_polymer: An active polymer, a Rouse chain of active Brownian beads that each swim along their own orientation. - Bird swarm with pair potentials
bird_swarm: A swarm of self-propelled birds held together by a pair potential that attracts far and repels near. - Chiral active particles
chiral_active_particles: Chiral active particles, which swim along circles of radiusv / omegathat drift by diffusion. - Depot-pumped Brownian particles
depot_brownian_particles: Brownian particles with energy depots, which start at rest and take up the speedsqrt(q/gamma - c/d). - Inertial active Brownian particles
inertial_active_brownian_particles: Active Brownian particles with inertia, which lag behind their orientation as they speed up and turn. - Run-and-tumble
run_and_tumble: Run-and-tumble agents in a periodic square, which diffuse withv^2 (1 + q) / (4 (1 - q))per step.
self-replication
- Gray-Scott
gray_scott: The Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion system, seeded in its middle, which grows spots that replicate.
self-similar group
- Adding machine (odometer)
adding_machine: The adding machiner → r + 1on the q-adic integers, the odometer acting on the q-ary tree.
sentiment
- The Kauai population system on region layers
kauai_population: One agent per resident of the census regions of a map, moving between home, work, and favourite places.
separation
- Cascade classifier
cascade_classifier: A cascade classifier, a column of stages that separates a narrow size class of particles by an air flow.
sepsis
- Two-layer adaptive oscillator model of sepsis
two_layer_sepsis: The two-layer model of tumour disease and sepsis, parenchymal and immune cells as adaptive oscillators.
set point
- Steerable receptor-effector negative feedback loop
steerable_feedback_loop: A receptor-effector loop that holds a product at its set point until a steering signal shifts it.
shepherding
- Strömbom shepherding of a flock
shepherding: A shepherd that collects a scattered flock and drives it to a goal, the heuristic of Strömbom et al.
shocks
- BGK
bgk_equation: The BGK equation of the Sod shock tube over one position and one velocity axis. - Burgers
burgers: The inviscid Burgers equation on a periodic interval of length 2 pi, whose sine steepens into a shock. - Lighthill-Whitham-Richards
lighthill_whitham_richards: The Lighthill-Whitham-Richards system, the conservation of cars with the Greenshields speed law. - Shallow-water dam break
shallow_water: The shallow-water dam break: still water at two depths that a removed dam separated at the middle.
shortest path
- Ant colony optimization on a road network
ant_colony_optimization: Ants that find the shortest path between two points of a Delaunay road network, round after round.
sigmoid
- Gompertz growth
gompertz: A tumour whose growth slows as the logarithm of the room left,dn/dt = r n log(K / n). - Gompertz growth with a vascular carrying capacity
dynamic_carrying_capacity: Gompertz growth under a carrying capacity that the vessels on the tumour surface keep raising.
signalling
- Adenylate cyclase kinase cascade amplifier with G-protein timer inactivation
hormone_cascade_amplifier: The adenylate cyclase cascade, which amplifies a hormone pulse and ends it by the G-protein timer.
simplex
- Multilevel selection of cooperators, defectors, and punishers on the simplex
trimorphic_multilevel_selection: The density of groups of cooperators, defectors, and altruistic punishers on the 2-simplex.
simplicial complex
- Explosive topological Kuramoto of node and link phases on a simplicial complex, with the Nodes-Links-Triangles variant
topological_kuramoto: Phases on the nodes and links of a clique complex, coupled through its incidence by order parameters. - Growing simplicial complex by triangle attachment
growing_simplicial_complex: A simplicial complex that grows by gluing one triangle per step along an edge drawn uniformly. - Simplicial contagion
simplicial_contagion: The simplicial contagion of Iacopini et al., an SIS process on the links and triangles of a complex. - Two-player games on links and three-body games on 2-simplices
simplicial_social_dilemmas: The social dilemmas of Guo et al. on the links and the 2-simplices of a simplicial complex.
singular arc
- Optimal harvesting
optimal_harvesting: A logistic resource harvested with the effort that maximises its discounted profit.
singularity
- Finite-time blow-up
finite_time_blow_up: Hyperbolic growthx' = a x^p, which diverges at the finite timex0^(1 - p) / (a (p - 1))for p > 1.
sir
- SIR with optimal vaccination
sir_vaccination: An SIR epidemic with the vaccination rate that minimises the burden of infections and vaccines.
sis
- SIS on partnerships that dissolve and re-form
pair_formation_sis: The SIS epidemic on partnerships that dissolve and are replaced at once, withkpartners each.
size structure
- Size-structured forest with shading and seed dispersal
forest_size_structure: The McKendrick-von Foerster density of trees over position across a strip and height.
slow manifold
- Quadratic system with a slow manifold and a finite Koopman embedding
koopman_slow_manifold: The quadratic flowx1' = mu x1,x2' = lam (x2 - x1^2), with a slow manifold and a linear embedding.
slow-fast
- Memristive mixed-mode oscillator
memristive_mixed_mode_oscillator: A slow-fast circuit with a cubic flux-controlled memristor, whose oscillations mix two amplitudes. - Modified Chua with mixed-mode oscillations
mixed_mode_chua: A modified Chua circuit on three time scales, whose oscillations mix small and large amplitudes. - Rosenzweig-MacArthur and rate tipping
rosenzweig_macarthur: Fast prey and slow predators whose carrying capacity shrinks at a rate, which tips them when it is fast.
small world
- Bilateral two-good trade on complete, isolated, and small-world networks
wilhite_trade_networks: Wilhite's bilateral barter of two goods among traders on one of four trade networks. - Erdos-Renyi and Watts-Strogatz graphs
random_graph_ensembles: The construction of an Erdős-Rényi or a Watts-Strogatz random graph, one step of new edges at a time. - Game of Life on a rewired small-world network
small_world_life: Conway's Game of Life on a small-world network rewired from the Moore lattice of a torus.
snowball
- Budyko-Sellers latitude system
budyko_sellers: The Budyko-Sellers energy balance of one hemisphere, resolved in the sine of latitude.
social dilemmas
- Two-player games on links and three-body games on 2-simplices
simplicial_social_dilemmas: The social dilemmas of Guo et al. on the links and the 2-simplices of a simplicial complex.
social dynamics
- Forest dieback with replicator dynamics of mitigators
social_forest_dieback: The forest dieback model coupled with the replicator dynamics of mitigators who perceive its warming.
social influence
- Axelrod culture dissemination
axelrod: Axelrod's culture dissemination system on a full grid with von Neumann neighbourhoods. - Fair-trade food choice with peer influence
fair_food: The choice between fair-trade and regular food of consumers who influence their neighbours.
socio-ecological
- Harvesting farmers
harvesting: A socio-ecological system of farmer agents harvesting a logistically regrowing resource.
sofic
- Even and S-gap subshifts
gap_subshift: The shift on the S-gap subshift, the binary sequences whose runs of zeros between ones lie inS.
soliton
- Lenia and its expanded universe
lenia: Lenia, a continuous automaton whose ring-kernel convolutions grow gliding, lifelike solitons.
solvable
- Baumslag-Solitar groups
baumslag_solitar_automaton: The majority automaton on a ball of the Baumslag-Solitar groupBS(m, n), of exponential growth.
spatial network
- Spatial triadic percolation on a torus
spatial_triadic_percolation: Spatial triadic percolation, where nearby signed regulators make the giant component form moving patterns.
spatiotemporal chaos
- Barkley excitable medium with spirals and breakup
barkley: Barkley's excitable medium, started from orthogonal stripes whose crossing curls into a spiral wave. - Lorenz-96
lorenz_96: Lorenz-96,dx_i/dt = (x_{i+1} - x_{i-2}) x_{i-1} - x_i + Fon a ring of sites around a latitude circle.
spde
- Active System B+ of motility-induced phase separation
active_system_b: Active System B+, the conserved field theory of the density of active particles. - Langevin field theory of absorbing-state transitions with a conserved energy field
directed_percolation_langevin: The Langevin field theory of an absorbing-state transition, an active density fed by an energy field.
speciation
- Neutral Moran system with speciation
neutral_biodiversity: A neutral community of constant size, where species arise by speciation and vanish by drift.
species abundance
- Neutral Moran system with speciation
neutral_biodiversity: A neutral community of constant size, where species arise by speciation and vanish by drift. - Neutral macroecology
neutral_macroecology: Many species under neutral birth, death, and immigration, whose abundances follow a gamma-like law.
spectral
- Allen-Cahn non-conserved relaxation (System A)
allen_cahn: The Allen-Cahn equation, System A, the non-conserved relaxation of an order parameter in a double well. - Bénard-Marangoni convection with a free, thermocapillary surface
benard_marangoni: The order-parameter equation of Bénard-Marangoni convection, which forms hexagonal cells. - Cahn-Hilliard phase separation (System B)
cahn_hilliard: The Cahn-Hilliard equation, System B, the conserved relaxation of an order parameter in a double well. - Complex Ginzburg-Landau
complex_ginzburg_landau: The complex Ginzburg-Landau equationA_t = A + (1 + i b) laplacian(A) - (1 + i c) |A|^2 A. - Decaying turbulence
decaying_turbulence: Decaying two-dimensional turbulence from a random vorticity field on a periodic square of side 2 pi. - Kuramoto-Sivashinsky
kuramoto_sivashinsky: The Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equationu_t = -u u_x - u_xx - u_xxxx, spatiotemporally chaotic. - Rayleigh-Bénard
rayleigh_benard: Rayleigh-Bénard convection between free-slip walls, from a small perturbation of the critical mode. - Schrödinger equation as real and imaginary fields
schrodinger: A Gaussian wave packet that follows the Schrödinger equation, as its real and imaginary parts. - Schrödinger equation minimally coupled to an electromagnetic potential
charged_schrodinger: A Gaussian wave packet of a charge in a prescribed electromagnetic potential, after Schwichtenberg 4.3. - Swift-Hohenberg
swift_hohenberg: The Swift-Hohenberg equationu_t = r u - (1 + laplacian)^2 u - u^3, which forms rolls of length 2 pi.
spectral radius
- Quenched mean-field SIS
quenched_mean_field_sis: The SIS epidemic on a fixed network in quenched mean field, one infection probability per node.
spiking
- Hodgkin-Huxley
hodgkin_huxley: The Hodgkin-Huxley neuron, whose sodium and potassium channels produce action potentials. - Integrate-and-fire
integrate_and_fire: The leaky integrate-and-fire neuron,tau v' = -(v - rest) + R I, which spikes and resets at a threshold. - Izhikevich
izhikevich: The Izhikevich neuron, whose four parameters give regular spiking, bursting, chattering, and more. - Networks of leaky integrate-and-fire neurons with delays
delayed_lif_network: A random network of leaky integrate-and-fire neurons whose spikes reach their targets after a delay.
spin glass
- Asymmetric diluted Hopfield network
diluted_hopfield: The asymmetric diluted Hopfield network, which recalls a stored pattern below its memory capacity. - Edwards-Anderson spin glass
edwards_anderson: The Edwards-Anderson spin glass on a periodic square lattice, with quenched random bonds. - Evolutionary Sherrington-Kirkpatrick game
evolutionary_sk_game: The evolutionary Sherrington-Kirkpatrick game, which self-organises to the edge of ergodicity breaking. - Mattis spin glass
mattis_spin_glass: The Mattis spin glass on a periodic square lattice, with couplingsJ_ij = J xi_i xi_jof a patternxi. - SK game of reinforcement learners
sk_game: The SK game, reinforcement learners whose rewards come from quenched Sherrington-Kirkpatrick couplings. - Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass
sherrington_kirkpatrick: The Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass with Glauber dynamics, frozen below the temperatureT_c = J.
spin-orbit coupling
- Keplerian dumbbell and spin-orbit coupling
keplerian_dumbbell: The Keplerian dumbbell: two masses on a rigid massless arm that orbit a primary under gravity.
spins
- Edwards-Anderson spin glass
edwards_anderson: The Edwards-Anderson spin glass on a periodic square lattice, with quenched random bonds. - Fully connected Ising system with Glauber dynamics
curie_weiss: The fully connected Ising system with Glauber dynamics, ordered below the critical temperatureT_c = J. - Ising
ising: The two-dimensional Ising system on a torus, ordered below the critical temperature2 / ln(1 + sqrt 2). - Ising on a graph
graph_ising: The Ising system on a graph, ordered below a critical temperature set by the degrees of the nodes. - Join-a-club spins
join_a_club: Join-a-club spins, agents who join a club with their acquaintances while acquaintances follow the club. - Mattis spin glass
mattis_spin_glass: The Mattis spin glass on a periodic square lattice, with couplingsJ_ij = J xi_i xi_jof a patternxi. - Potts
potts: The q-state Potts system on a torus, ordered below the critical temperature1 / ln(1 + sqrt q). - Q2R reversible Ising automaton
q2r: The Q2R automaton, a reversible, energy-conserving Ising dynamics on a periodic lattice of even sides. - Quantum Heisenberg system
quantum_heisenberg: A chain of spins one half with the XXZ Hamiltonian, a field, and optional dephasing. - Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass
sherrington_kirkpatrick: The Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass with Glauber dynamics, frozen below the temperatureT_c = J. - XY
xy: The XY system of planar spins on a torus, with vortices that bind below the Kosterlitz-Thouless point.
spirals
- Aliev-Panfilov cardiac tissue
aliev_panfilov: The Aliev-Panfilov system of cardiac tissue, started from a broken wave that curls into a spiral. - Barkley excitable medium with spirals and breakup
barkley: Barkley's excitable medium, started from orthogonal stripes whose crossing curls into a spiral wave. - Complex Ginzburg-Landau
complex_ginzburg_landau: The complex Ginzburg-Landau equationA_t = A + (1 + i b) laplacian(A) - (1 + i c) |A|^2 A. - Cyclic cellular automaton
cyclic_cellular_automaton: Griffeath's cyclic cellular automaton, whose random levels organize into spiral waves. - FitzHugh-Nagumo spirals
fitzhugh_nagumo: The FitzHugh-Nagumo excitable medium, started from a broken wave that curls into a spiral. - Hodgepodge machine
hodgepodge: The hodgepodge machine, a system of a chemical reaction whose waves form spirals. - Rock-paper-scissors
rock_paper_scissors: Rock, paper, and scissors on a lattice, whose cyclic invasions keep the three strategies coexisting.
springs
- Spring chains and guitar string
spring_chain: Masses joined in a row by springs of zero rest length between two anchors, a discrete string.
spurious drift
- Multiplicative noise conventions
multiplicative_noise: Free particles in a box with position-dependent noise, read in the Itô, Stratonovich, or anti-Itô sense.
squirmers
- Squirmers
squirmers: Spherical squirmers that swim at2 B1 / 3and stir each other as pushers or pullers.
stability
- Intercellular exchange through gap junctions and tunnelling nanotubes on a cell network
nanotube_gap_junction_exchange: The intercellular exchange of a substance through gap junctions and tunnelling nanotubes on a network.
stable intermediate forms
- Hora and Tempus watchmakers
watchmakers: Simon's fable of the watchmakers Hora and Tempus, told by Meadows, with and without stable subassemblies.
standardization
- Complex agents with internal states and standardization
standardized_agents: Complex agents whose interactions make them standardized, all showing one characteristic, and ordered.
static
- Carbon-13 metabolic flux analysis
carbon_13_mfa: A metabolic network thatLabellingAnalysisfits to labelling data, the TCA example by default. - Continuum percolation
continuum_percolation: Overlapping disks at uniform positions in a square, whose clusters percolate near a filling of 1.13. - Elementary flux modes and extreme pathways
elementary_flux_modes: The toy network of Raman whose steady-state coneElementaryModeAnalysisenumerates. - Flux balance, flux variability, and parsimonious FBA
flux_balance: Flux balance analysis of a metabolic network, which sets its fluxes to maximise growth. - Gravity interaction system of urban scaling
gravity_urban_scaling: The residents of a city at uniform positions in a disc, each interacting with the others asr^-gamma. - Joint, community, and SteadyCom flux balance
community_fba: Two members of the E. coli core system that share a medium, which needs the extrametabolism. - Knock-outs, MoMA, ROOM, OptKnock, and synthetic lethals
metabolic_perturbations: The E. coli core system with some genes knocked out, which needs the extrametabolism. - Linear-quadratic cell survival and biologically effective dose
lq_cell_survival: The linear-quadratic survival of cells after a total dose, with its biologically effective dose. - Mandelbrot least-effort word frequencies
mandelbrot_least_effort: The word frequencies that minimise the mean cost of a language over its entropy, a power law of rank. - Random energy system
random_energy_system: The random energy system,2^Nquenched Gaussian energies of varianceN / 2at a temperature. - Static oligopoly equilibria
oligopoly_equilibria: The equilibria of a Cournot duopoly and of a pricing game of firms with loyal customers and switchers. - Von Thünen land use
von_thunen: A square plain around one market at its centre, whose every cell grows the crop of highest bid rent. - West-Brown-Enquist distribution network and Kleiber scaling
west_brown_enquist: The distribution network of West, Brown, and Enquist, a space-filling tree of invariant capillaries.
stationary distribution
- Random two-branch interval map
random_branch_map: Orbits of a random map of[0, 1]with the two branches(1 + x) / 2andmu x².
stdp
- Theta neurons with spike-timing-dependent plasticity
stdp_network: Theta neurons on a random directed network whose synapses learn by spike-timing-dependent plasticity.
stem cells
- Bone-marrow and blood cells with blasts and cancer stem cells
bone_marrow_blood_leukaemia: The bone marrow and blood system of leukaemia, in which blasts crowd out the normal cells. - Normal and leukaemic stem cells with feedback regulation
leukaemia_stem_cells: Normal and leukaemic stem cells that compete for one niche through the feedback of their progeny. - Normal and malignant stem-cell compartments with feedback and therapy
stem_cell_differentiation: The eight-compartment system of normal and malignant stem-cell lineages with feedback and therapy.
stick-slip
- Burridge-Knopoff spring-block fault
burridge_knopoff: The Burridge-Knopoff fault, a chain of blocks pulled by a moving plate that sticks and slips. - Mass-spring oscillator with static and Coulomb friction
friction_oscillator: A mass on a linear spring with static, Coulomb, and viscous friction,m x'' + c x' + k x + f = 0.
stiff
- Kuramoto-Sivashinsky
kuramoto_sivashinsky: The Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equationu_t = -u u_x - u_xx - u_xxxx, spatiotemporally chaotic. - Oregonator
oregonator: The scaled Oregonator, the reduction of the FKN mechanism of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction.
stigmergy
- Ant colony optimization on a road network
ant_colony_optimization: Ants that find the shortest path between two points of a Delaunay road network, round after round. - Binary ant decision
binary_ant_decision: Ants that choose between two equal branches to a food source, following the marks of earlier ants. - Pheromone foraging
pheromone_foraging: Ants that find food and lay a pheromone trail home, which other ants follow: stigmergy. - Stigmergic predator-prey automaton
stigmergic_predator_prey: Plants, prey, and predators on a grid, whose animals share emotions through decaying marks.
stochastic
- Adleman DNA computation of a Hamiltonian path
dna_computation: Adleman's DNA computation of a Hamiltonian path, by random ligation of edge oligos in a test tube. - Bak-Sneppen
bak_sneppen: The Bak-Sneppen system, whose fitnesses self-organise above a critical value in avalanches of extinction. - Charbonneau traffic
charbonneau_traffic: Charbonneau's traffic system, where random braking of single drivers sets off traffic jams. - Contact process
contact_process: The contact process on a periodic lattice, which survives above a critical infection rate near 1.65. - Drossel-Schwabl forest fire
forest_fire: The Drossel-Schwabl forest fire, where slow growth and rare lightning give fires of every size. - FHP lattice gas
fhp_lattice_gas: The FHP-I lattice gas on a periodic triangular lattice, with a dense disc that spreads into the gas. - Forest fire on hexagonal lattices and graphs
hexagonal_forest_fire: The Drossel-Schwabl forest fire on a triangular lattice of hexagonal cells, or on the nodes of a graph. - Intrinsic-instability populations
intrinsic_instability: Jensen's coupled populations, whose steady state becomes unstable without a change of the surroundings. - Kinouchi-Copelli excitable network
kinouchi_copelli: The Kinouchi-Copelli network of excitable elements, whose dynamic range peaks at the critical point. - Maki-Thompson rumours
maki_thompson: The Maki-Thompson rumour system started by one spreader, which leaves about 20% of people ignorant. - Manna sandpile
manna_sandpile: The Manna sandpile, a stochastic sandpile of another universality class than Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld. - Nagel-Schreckenberg
nagel_schreckenberg: The Nagel-Schreckenberg traffic system on a ring road, where jams emerge above a critical density. - Noisy automata
noisy_automata: An elementary cellular automaton whose outputs are flipped at random with a small probability. - Probabilistic Boolean network
probabilistic_boolean_network: A probabilistic Boolean network, whose nodes draw one of their candidate functions at every step. - Ring-road driver agents
ring_road_drivers: Drivers on a circular highway, where small random errors of speed set off traffic jams. - Rock-paper-scissors
rock_paper_scissors: Rock, paper, and scissors on a lattice, whose cyclic invasions keep the three strategies coexisting. - Self-organized branching process
self_organized_branching: The self-organized branching process of Zapperi, Lauritsen, and Stanley, a mean-field sandpile. - Stochastic Schelling
stochastic_schelling: The stochastic Schelling system of agents moving between blocks, which segregates abovebeta = 2. - TASEP
tasep: The totally asymmetric simple exclusion process with parallel update, on an open line or a ring.
stochastic climate
- Hasselmann stochastic climate
hasselmann: Hasselmann's stochastic climate, where fast weather noise drives a slow, damped temperature anomaly.
stochastic escape
- Adaptive climbing in finite populations
adaptive_climbing: A finite population that climbs a random fitness landscape by mutation and strong selection.
stochastic map
- Activity-driven temporal networks
activity_driven_epidemics: SIS spreading on an activity-driven temporal network, whose edges last one step. - Huepe-Aldana noisy majority Boolean network
noisy_boolean_network: The Boolean network of Huepe and Aldana-González, nodes that follow the noisy majority ofkinputs. - Jain-Krishna autocatalytic networks
jain_krishna: The system of Jain and Krishna, where selection of the fittest builds autocatalytic sets of molecules. - Record-dynamics epidemic of resistant residents
record_dynamics_epidemic: Yearly strains that infect every resident less resistant than their strength, who become immune. - Sequentially linear ecosystem
sequentially_linear_ecosystem: An ecosystem whose abundances follow linear dynamics between extinctions that rewrite its network. - Solé-Manrubia extinctions
sole_manrubia: The ecosystem of Solé and Manrubia, whose species go extinct when their dependencies turn against them. - Superdiffusive Levy flight
levy_flight: The Lévy flight, a walk whose jumps have lengths with the taill^(-1 - mu)in random directions.
stochastic simulation
- Stochastic and continuous Petri nets
petri_net: A Petri net, places that hold tokens and transitions that consume and produce them when they fire.
stock market
- Fundamentalists and chartists in an order book
order_book: A stock market of fundamentalists and chartists on a grid who trade in a limit order book and imitate. - Order book with a guru communication network
guru_order_book: The order-driven market of Grilli and Tedeschi, whose noise traders imitate gurus they choose by wealth.
stock-flow consistent
- Mark-0 economy with a Covid shock and policies
mark0: The Mark-0 economy of Sharma, Bouchaud, and co-authors, with a Covid shock to supply and demand. - Metaphoria mortal hunter-gatherer and monetary economies
metaphoria: Gooding's Metaphoria, a mortal population of hunter-gatherers or of a monetary economy. - Stock-flow consistent monetary economy
stock_flow_consistent_economy: A stock-flow consistent economy, a closed circuit of money between households, firms, and a bank.
stocks and flows
- Bass diffusion
bass_diffusion: The Bass diffusion system, people who adopt a new product through advertising and word of mouth. - Bathtub
bathtub: A bathtub, one stock of water with an inflow from the faucet and an outflow through the drain. - Beer distribution game
beer_game: Sterman's beer distribution game, a supply chain whose orders swing wider at every echelon upstream. - Car-dealer inventory with delays
car_dealer: Meadows' car dealership, whose inventory oscillates after a step in demand because of its delays. - Cascade classifier
cascade_classifier: A cascade classifier, a column of stages that separates a narrow size class of particles by an air flow. - Cocoa
cocoa: A cocoa production system, plantations that boom with their profit and bust with the insects they invite. - Commodity cycle with capacity delay
commodity_cycle: A commodity market whose price and capacity cycle because new capacity arrives after a delay. - Cooling coffee
cooling_coffee: A cup of coffee whose temperature relaxes to that of the room,T' = -k (T - T_room). - Crop livestock household
crop_livestock_household: Bala's crop livestock model, a farming household that adds livestock rearing to its crop income. - Declining energy return on investment
energy_return: The extraction of a finite energy reserve whose energy return on investment declines as it depletes. - Drift to low performance
drift_to_low_performance: Meadows' drift to low performance trap, eroding goals that follow a pessimistic view of the performance. - Escalation
escalation: Meadows' escalation trap, two parties that each want to exceed the other's stock by a margin. - Food relief system
food_relief: A food relief system, a pipeline that ships food to a warehouse and distributes it to people in need. - Food security systems
food_security: A food security system, the rice self-sufficiency of a country under subsidy, research, and extension. - Grain storage system
grain_storage: A retail grain store, whose orders through a supply line make its stock oscillate. - Hilsa fishery
hilsa_fishery: A hilsa fishery, the life cycle of a migratory fish that the catch of juveniles and spawners depletes. - Irrigation system
irrigation: An irrigation system, a reservoir and an aquifer that keep the root zone of the crops supplied. - Mean-field flows of undecided agents
undecided_flows: The mean-field flows between agents against,A, undecided,C, and for,B. - Penaeid shrimp growth
penaeid_shrimp: The growth of one penaeid shrimp from the juvenile stage, forced by the food and the water temperature. - Policy resistance
policy_resistance: Meadows' policy resistance trap, one stock pulled by three actors toward inconsistent goals. - Population and pollution
population_pollution: The pollution model of Bala, Arshad, and Noh, a population that degrades its environment. - Rice land, population, and food security
rice_food_balance: Bala's food security model, rice land that grows towards the land available against a growing population. - Rice milling system
rice_milling: A rice milling system, a mill that buys paddy, mills it into rice and by-products, and sells them. - Shifting the burden
shifting_the_burden: Meadows' shifting the burden trap, a quick fix that relieves a symptom and erodes the system's capability. - Solid waste system
solid_waste: A solid waste system, the waste of a growing city collected, recycled, composted, and landfilled. - Stimulus-response, adaptive response, and anticipation with response, restore, repair, and preparedness costs
adaptive_response_costs: A system that meets recurring demands by stimulus-response, adaptive response, or anticipation. - Stock-flow consistent monetary economy
stock_flow_consistent_economy: A stock-flow consistent economy, a closed circuit of money between households, firms, and a bank. - Success to the successful
success_to_the_successful: Meadows' success to the successful trap, two competitors that share a budget by their past success. - Thermostat
thermostat: A room heated by a furnace under a thermostat while heat leaks to the outside.
stokes flow
- Active nematic and polar gels
active_gels: An active gel, a nematic tensor or a polarisation transported in the Stokes flow of its own stresses. - Squirmers
squirmers: Spherical squirmers that swim at2 B1 / 3and stir each other as pushers or pullers.
stop-and-go
- GKT non-local traffic
gkt_traffic: The gas-kinetic-based traffic system, where drivers brake on the traffic at an interaction point ahead.
storage
- Grain storage system
grain_storage: A retail grain store, whose orders through a supply line make its stock oscillate.
strange attractor
- Fractional Lorenz
fractional_lorenz: The fractional Lorenz flow of Grigorenko and Grigorenko, chaotic for orders close enough to 1. - Hyperchaotic four-dimensional Rössler flow
hyperchaotic_rossler: Rössler's four-dimensional flow, hyperchaotic with two positive Lyapunov exponents for its defaults. - Hénon map
henon_map: The Hénon mapx' = 1 - a x² + y,y' = b x, with a fractal strange attractor for its defaults. - Langford attractor
langford: The Langford flow, a rotation whose torus breaks into a strange attractor for the defaults of Dilão. - Lorenz
lorenz: The Lorenz-63 system of convection, chaotic on a butterfly-shaped attractor for its standard parameters. - Lozi map
lozi_map: The Lozi mapx' = 1 + y - a |x|,y' = b x, the piecewise linear Hénon map with a strange attractor. - Rössler
rossler: The Rössler system, a chaotic flow with one folded band for its standard parameters. - Sprott flow with a conservative torus and a chaotic attractor
sprott_mixed_flow: Sprott's flow with a conservative torus and a dissipative chaotic attractor side by side. - Thomas cyclically symmetric attractor
thomas: The Thomas flowx' = -a x + sin ywith its cyclic permutations, chaotic fora = 0.18.
strong selection weak mutation
- Strong-selection weak-mutation walk on fitness landscapes
origin_fixation_walk: A monomorphic population that climbs a fitness landscape as mutants arise and fix one at a time.
structures
- Fuzzy oil drop system of protein structure
fuzzy_oil_drop: The fuzzy oil drop of a protein, an ensemble replayed one member per frame or a chain folded by moves.
subdiffusion
- Continuous-time random walk
continuous_time_random_walk: The continuous-time random walk, Gaussian jumps after waiting times with the tailtau^(-1 - alpha). - Fully biased walk among quenched broad traps
biased_trap_walk: Walkers that hop always to the right through quenched traps with broadly distributed trapping times.
subshift
- Context-free subshift
context_free_subshift: A Markov chain on the context-free subshift, ternary rings where every block0 1^h 2^k 0hash = k. - Even and S-gap subshifts
gap_subshift: The shift on the S-gap subshift, the binary sequences whose runs of zeros between ones lie inS. - Morse subshift
morse_subshift: The Thue-Morse substitution0 → 01,1 → 10, whose words make the language of the Morse subshift. - Subshifts
subshifts: A Markov chain on the golden mean shift, the configurations of a ring that never hold two adjacent ones.
substitution
- Cantor
cantor_set: The Cantor set as the substitution of every interval by its two outer parts. - Morse subshift
morse_subshift: The Thue-Morse substitution0 → 01,1 → 10, whose words make the language of the Morse subshift. - Sierpiński substitutions
sierpinski_substitution: The Sierpiński triangle or carpet as the substitution of a polygon by scaled copies of itself.
succession
- Mangrove succession
mangrove_succession: The regrowth of a mangrove forest of the Sundarbans after a clear cut, from pioneers to climax trees.
sugarscape
- Sugarscape
sugarscape: The Sugarscape of Epstein and Axtell, foragers of random vision and metabolism on two sugar peaks.
superdiffusion
- Lévy walk
levy_walk: The Lévy walk, flights at constant speed in random directions for times with the tailtau^(-1 - sigma). - Superdiffusive Levy flight
levy_flight: The Lévy flight, a walk whose jumps have lengths with the taill^(-1 - mu)in random directions.
superposition
- Network superposition model of Erdős-Rényi subgraphs
network_superposition: The network superposition model, a union of Erdős-Rényi graphs whose linking probabilities are drawn.
superstatistics
- Network superposition model of Erdős-Rényi subgraphs
network_superposition: The network superposition model, a union of Erdős-Rényi graphs whose linking probabilities are drawn.
supply chain
- Beer distribution game
beer_game: Sterman's beer distribution game, a supply chain whose orders swing wider at every echelon upstream. - Fair Food Program
fair_food_program: Chesney's Fair Food Program, in which pressure on tomato buyers draws farms into fair wages. - Food relief system
food_relief: A food relief system, a pipeline that ships food to a warehouse and distributes it to people in need.
supply chains
- Namrata's Family, diffusion of working conditions in supply chains
supply_chain_diffusion: Chesney's Namrata's Family, buyers who push good working conditions down their supply network.
surface tension
- Bénard-Marangoni convection with a free, thermocapillary surface
benard_marangoni: The order-parameter equation of Bénard-Marangoni convection, which forms hexagonal cells.
surjective
- Group-valued difference automaton
group_difference_automaton: The automatonτ(x)(n) = x(n)^-1 x(n + 1)whose alphabet is a finite group, on a ring.
surrogate
- Model predictive control of Duffing, Van der Pol, and a bilinear DC motor through Koopman surrogates
koopman_model_predictive_control: A plant that a discrete-time controller steers with model predictive control on a fitted surrogate.
suspension
- Quarter-car suspension
quarter_car: A quarter-car suspension driving over a road step.
swarm control
- Strömbom shepherding of a flock
shepherding: A shepherd that collects a scattered flock and drives it to a goal, the heuristic of Strömbom et al.
swarmalators
- Swarmalators
swarmalators: Swarmalators, identical oscillators whose phases set their attraction and whose positions their coupling.
swarming
- Swarmalators
swarmalators: Swarmalators, identical oscillators whose phases set their attraction and whose positions their coupling.
swarms
- Bird swarm with pair potentials
bird_swarm: A swarm of self-propelled birds held together by a pair potential that attracts far and repels near. - Light-emitting robots with sensory delay
light_emitting_robots: Light-emitting robots, which cluster when they sense the light of the others late and spread when early. - Swarmtaxis
swarmtaxis: The swarmtaxis algorithm, which moves a swarm of robots towards a beacon that only some of them see.
symmetric group
- Group-valued difference automaton
group_difference_automaton: The automatonτ(x)(n) = x(n)^-1 x(n + 1)whose alphabet is a finite group, on a ring.
symmetry breaking
- Binary ant decision
binary_ant_decision: Ants that choose between two equal branches to a food source, following the marks of earlier ants. - Customers choosing between two shops of perishable goods
perishable_goods_duopoly: Customers who choose between two shops of perishable goods, preferring the one that sold fresher goods.
synapse
- Adaptrode synapse
adaptrode: An Adaptrode synapse driven by a train of input pulses that stops after a while.
synchronization
- Adaptive Kuramoto-Sakaguchi oscillators with frequency clusters
adaptive_kuramoto: Globally coupled phase oscillators whose coupling weights adapt to their phase differences. - Adler equation
adler_equation: The Adler equationΔφ' = Δω + ε sin Δφfor the phase difference of an oscillator and its drive. - Aggregate-averaging synchronization of logistic and delay-coupled Bernoulli maps
aggregate_averaging_synchronization: Two chaotic maps coupled by aggregate averaging, which synchronize their chaos for strong coupling. - Coupled Colpitts oscillators
coupled_colpitts: Two detuned chaotic Colpitts oscillators coupled through the difference of their second variables. - Coupled Rössler and the master stability function
coupled_rossler: Chaotic Rössler oscillators on a ring, diffusively coupled through their second variable. - Coupled map lattices on networks
coupled_map_lattices_on_networks: Chaotic logistic maps on the nodes of a network, each pulled towards the mean of its neighbours. - Delayed Kuramoto
delayed_kuramoto: Kuramoto phase oscillators coupled all to all through signals that arrive after a delay. - Discrete-time SIRS with a recovery delay
delayed_sirs: Two cities with recurrent outbreaks of a disease of fixed infection and immunity periods. - Explosive topological Kuramoto of node and link phases on a simplicial complex, with the Nodes-Links-Triangles variant
topological_kuramoto: Phases on the nodes and links of a clique complex, coupled through its incidence by order parameters. - Forced Van der Pol
forced_van_der_pol: The Van der Pol oscillator driven by a periodic force,x'' = μ (1 - x²) x' - x + A cos(ω t). - Globally coupled Stuart-Landau oscillators with frequency spread
oscillator_death: Globally coupled Stuart-Landau oscillators, whose oscillations all die for strong coupling and spread. - Globally coupled systems with heterogeneous time scales
heterogeneous_global_coupling: Globally coupled oscillators with heterogeneous time scales, whose fixed point the coupling restabilizes. - Huygens clocks and pendulums on coupled supports
huygens_clocks: Pendulum clocks on supports joined by springs, which synchronize through the motion of the supports. - Kuramoto
kuramoto: Kuramoto oscillators coupled all to all,theta_i' = omega_i + (K / N) sum_j sin(theta_j - theta_i). - Kuramoto on networks
kuramoto_on_networks: Kuramoto oscillators coupled along the edges of a network,theta_i' = omega_i + K sum_j A_ij sin(...). - Kuramoto oscillators with three-body coupling
hypergraph_kuramoto: Kuramoto oscillators coupled in pairs and by three-body interactions on the triangles of a hypergraph. - Kuramoto-Sakaguchi chimera
kuramoto_sakaguchi_chimera: Two populations of identical phase oscillators with phase lag, where one synchronizes and one drifts. - LEGION oscillators
legion: A LEGION network, a lattice of relaxation oscillators that segments a stimulus into its objects. - Mirollo-Strogatz pulse-coupled oscillators
mirollo_strogatz: Integrate-and-fire oscillators coupled by pulses, which end up firing in unison. - Nonlocal ring chimera
nonlocal_ring_chimera: Identical phase oscillators on a ring, each coupled to itsRnearest neighbours on both sides. - Ott-Antonsen reduction
ott_antonsen: The Ott-Antonsen equation for the order parameter of infinitely many Kuramoto oscillators. - Substance exchange between logistic cells in a closed contour
closed_contour_cell_exchange: The exchange of signalling molecules between logistic cells arranged in a closed contour. - Swarmalators
swarmalators: Swarmalators, identical oscillators whose phases set their attraction and whose positions their coupling. - Swing-equation power grid with Braess paradox
power_grid: A ring power grid in the swing-equation system, where more transmission capacity can break synchrony. - Winfree system
winfree: The Winfree system,theta_i' = omega_i + (K / N) sum_j P(theta_j) R(theta_i), with the sum over allj.
synchronous
- Hegselmann-Krause
hegselmann_krause: The Hegselmann-Krause system, whose opinions freeze within a few steps into clusters about2 εapart.
synthetic biology
- Genetic toggle switch
toggle_switch: The genetic toggle switch of Gardner, Cantor, and Collins, two genes that repress each other. - Repressilator
repressilator: The repressilator of Elowitz and Leibler, three genes in a ring that each repress the next.
system a
- Allen-Cahn non-conserved relaxation (System A)
allen_cahn: The Allen-Cahn equation, System A, the non-conserved relaxation of an order parameter in a double well.
system b
- Active System B+ of motility-induced phase separation
active_system_b: Active System B+, the conserved field theory of the density of active particles. - Cahn-Hilliard phase separation (System B)
cahn_hilliard: The Cahn-Hilliard equation, System B, the conserved relaxation of an order parameter in a double well.
system dynamics
- Bass diffusion
bass_diffusion: The Bass diffusion system, people who adopt a new product through advertising and word of mouth. - Bathtub
bathtub: A bathtub, one stock of water with an inflow from the faucet and an outflow through the drain. - Beer distribution game
beer_game: Sterman's beer distribution game, a supply chain whose orders swing wider at every echelon upstream. - Capital stock
capital_stock: Meadows' capital stock, grown by reinvested output and drained by depreciation. - Car-dealer inventory with delays
car_dealer: Meadows' car dealership, whose inventory oscillates after a step in demand because of its delays. - Cocoa
cocoa: A cocoa production system, plantations that boom with their profit and bust with the insects they invite. - Commodity cycle with capacity delay
commodity_cycle: A commodity market whose price and capacity cycle because new capacity arrives after a delay. - Crop livestock household
crop_livestock_household: Bala's crop livestock model, a farming household that adds livestock rearing to its crop income. - Declining energy return on investment
energy_return: The extraction of a finite energy reserve whose energy return on investment declines as it depletes. - Drift to low performance
drift_to_low_performance: Meadows' drift to low performance trap, eroding goals that follow a pessimistic view of the performance. - Escalation
escalation: Meadows' escalation trap, two parties that each want to exceed the other's stock by a margin. - Food relief system
food_relief: A food relief system, a pipeline that ships food to a warehouse and distributes it to people in need. - Food security systems
food_security: A food security system, the rice self-sufficiency of a country under subsidy, research, and extension. - Grain storage system
grain_storage: A retail grain store, whose orders through a supply line make its stock oscillate. - Hilsa fishery
hilsa_fishery: A hilsa fishery, the life cycle of a migratory fish that the catch of juveniles and spawners depletes. - Irrigation system
irrigation: An irrigation system, a reservoir and an aquifer that keep the root zone of the crops supplied. - Mangrove succession
mangrove_succession: The regrowth of a mangrove forest of the Sundarbans after a clear cut, from pioneers to climax trees. - Oil economy
oil_economy: Meadows' oil economy, capital that grows on a nonrenewable resource and collapses as it runs out. - Policy resistance
policy_resistance: Meadows' policy resistance trap, one stock pulled by three actors toward inconsistent goals. - Population and pollution
population_pollution: The pollution model of Bala, Arshad, and Noh, a population that degrades its environment. - Renewable fishery with capital
fishery_capital: Meadows' fishing fleet, capital that grows on a renewable resource and can overshoot it. - Rice land, population, and food security
rice_food_balance: Bala's food security model, rice land that grows towards the land available against a growing population. - Rice milling system
rice_milling: A rice milling system, a mill that buys paddy, mills it into rice and by-products, and sells them. - Shifting the burden
shifting_the_burden: Meadows' shifting the burden trap, a quick fix that relieves a symptom and erodes the system's capability. - Solid waste system
solid_waste: A solid waste system, the waste of a growing city collected, recycled, composted, and landfilled. - Success to the successful
success_to_the_successful: Meadows' success to the successful trap, two competitors that share a budget by their past success.
system traps
- Drift to low performance
drift_to_low_performance: Meadows' drift to low performance trap, eroding goals that follow a pessimistic view of the performance. - Escalation
escalation: Meadows' escalation trap, two parties that each want to exceed the other's stock by a margin. - Policy resistance
policy_resistance: Meadows' policy resistance trap, one stock pulled by three actors toward inconsistent goals. - Shifting the burden
shifting_the_burden: Meadows' shifting the burden trap, a quick fix that relieves a symptom and erodes the system's capability. - Success to the successful
success_to_the_successful: Meadows' success to the successful trap, two competitors that share a budget by their past success.
systemic risk
- DebtRank cascades
debtrank: The DebtRank cascade of distress from a set of banks through their interbank loans. - Default cascades with thresholds and recovery
default_cascade: A cascade of defaults through interbank exposures, from a shock to the external assets of some banks. - Eisenberg-Noe clearing of interbank payments
eisenberg_noe_clearing: The clearing of interbank payments of Eisenberg and Noe, a fixed point of proportional payments. - Fire sales of overlapping portfolios
overlapping_portfolio_fire_sales: Banks with overlapping portfolios whose fire sales of common assets spread their losses to one another.
takeover
- Employment takeover
employment_takeover: The employment takeover system on a periodic checkerboard, with half of each kind coloured at random.
targeted therapy
- Paclitaxel and trastuzumab with antibody binding
her2_targeted_therapy: HER2+ breast cancer cells under trastuzumab and paclitaxel, with antibody binding and drug uptake.
taxis
- Swarmtaxis
swarmtaxis: The swarmtaxis algorithm, which moves a swarm of robots towards a beacon that only some of them see.
technology
- Arthur-Polak technology evolution
arthur_polak: Arthur and Polak's evolution of technology, which builds logic functions from NAND gates. - NK technology system
nk_technology: McNerney's system of technological improvement, whose cost falls as a power of the cumulative production.
temporal network
- Activity-driven temporal networks
activity_driven_epidemics: SIS spreading on an activity-driven temporal network, whose edges last one step. - Echo chambers and radicalization on an activity-driven network
echo_chamber_radicalization: The radicalization model of echo chambers of Baumann and coauthors on an activity-driven network. - Nonlinear three-body consensus on temporal hypergraphs
hypergraph_consensus: The nonlinear three-body consensus system on a random hypergraph of triangles that switch on and off. - SIS on partnerships that dissolve and re-form
pair_formation_sis: The SIS epidemic on partnerships that dissolve and are replaced at once, withkpartners each.
tensor
- Active nematic and polar gels
active_gels: An active gel, a nematic tensor or a polarisation transported in the Stokes flow of its own stresses. - Deformable active particles of Ohta and Ohkuma
deformable_active_particles: Deformable self-propelled particles of Ohta and Ohkuma, which move straight or along circles. - Dry active nematics
dry_active_nematics: A dry active nematic, a conserved density coupled to a symmetric traceless alignment tensor.
thermal
- Heated room with a thermostat
heated_room: A room assembled from thermal and electrical components, heated under a thermostat with hysteresis.
thermohaline circulation
- Stommel thermohaline boxes
stommel: Stommel's two-box thermohaline circulation, bistable between a thermal and a haline mode.
thermostat
- Nosé-Hoover oscillator
nose_hoover: The Nosé-Hoover oscillatorx' = y,y' = y z - x,z' = 1 - y², with tori next to a chaotic sea.
theta neurons
- Theta neurons with spike-timing-dependent plasticity
stdp_network: Theta neurons on a random directed network whose synapses learn by spike-timing-dependent plasticity.
theta-gamma
- Next-generation neural mass with theta forcing
next_generation_neural_mass: The exact neural mass of quadratic integrate-and-fire neurons whose gamma rhythm nests in a theta drive.
third order
- Sprott jerk
sprott_jerk: Sprott's jerk equationx''' = -A x'' - x' + |x| - 1, chaotic near A = 0.6.
thomas
- Generalised multi-valued logical networks
generalized_logical_network: A generalised logical network of Thomas, whose variables step asynchronously towards focal levels.
three dimensions
- Boids in three dimensions
boids_3d: Boids in three dimensions, birds that flock by local rules in a periodic cube. - Brownian motion of Janus, ellipsoidal, and chiral particles in three dimensions
anisotropic_brownian_particles: Overdamped axisymmetric Brownian particles in three dimensions that translate and rotate.
threshold
- Coagulation cascade amplified by positive feedback and bounded by fibrinolysis
coagulation_positive_feedback: The coagulation cascade, an all-or-nothing burst of thrombin bounded by protein C and fibrinolysis. - Threshold adoption
threshold_adoption: The threshold adoption system in social circles, started by the 2.5% of agents with the lowest thresholds. - Watts threshold cascades
watts_cascades: The Watts threshold system of global cascades started by a few random seeds.
tipping
- Rosenzweig-MacArthur and rate tipping
rosenzweig_macarthur: Fast prey and slow predators whose carrying capacity shrinks at a rate, which tips them when it is fast. - Stommel thermohaline boxes
stommel: Stommel's two-box thermohaline circulation, bistable between a thermal and a haline mode.
tipping point
- Fair Food Program
fair_food_program: Chesney's Fair Food Program, in which pressure on tomato buyers draws farms into fair wages. - Intrinsic-instability populations
intrinsic_instability: Jensen's coupled populations, whose steady state becomes unstable without a change of the surroundings.
tipping points
- Forest dieback
forest_dieback: The forest dieback model of the Amazon, whose cover tips to bare soil when the ambient temperature rises. - Forest dieback with replicator dynamics of mitigators
social_forest_dieback: The forest dieback model coupled with the replicator dynamics of mitigators who perceive its warming. - Leading-following tipping cascade
leading_following_cascade: A cascade of two tipping elements, a leading fold driven by a ramp and a follower forced by the leader. - Network of interacting tipping elements
tipping_cascade_network: A network of tipping elements, where one element pushed past its tipping point can tip its neighbours. - Stochastic energy balance with bifurcation-, noise-, and rate-induced tipping
sutera_fraedrich_tipping: The Sutera-Fraedrich stochastic energy balance set up for bifurcation-, noise-, or rate-induced tipping. - Stochastic fold with a ramped control parameter
ramped_stochastic_fold: A stochastic fold whose control is ramped through the tipping point of its lower branch.
tissue
- Cellular Potts model of cell sorting on square, triangular, and disordered lattices
cellular_potts: The cellular Potts model of a confluent tissue whose cells of several kinds sort by differential adhesion. - Szabó cell system
szabo_cells: The cells of Szabó et al. (2006) in a periodic box, which move together above a critical density.
torus
- Langford attractor
langford: The Langford flow, a rotation whose torus breaks into a strange attractor for the defaults of Dilão. - Sprott flow with a conservative torus and a chaotic attractor
sprott_mixed_flow: Sprott's flow with a conservative torus and a dissipative chaotic attractor side by side.
toxicity
- Cumulative drug toxicity
drug_toxicity: The toxicity a weekly drug accumulates in the body, which the metabolism clears once the doses stop. - Resistance subpopulations under three drugs
multidrug_resistance: A tumour of eight populations resistant to subsets of three drugs, given by constant infusions.
trade
- Bilateral two-good trade on complete, isolated, and small-world networks
wilhite_trade_networks: Wilhite's bilateral barter of two goods among traders on one of four trade networks.
traffic
- Asymmetric exclusion process with open boundaries
asep: The asymmetric simple exclusion process on an open line, in continuous time. - Car following with delay
delayed_car_following: A chain of cars that react to the speed difference to the car ahead after a reaction time. - Charbonneau traffic
charbonneau_traffic: Charbonneau's traffic system, where random braking of single drivers sets off traffic jams. - GKT non-local traffic
gkt_traffic: The gas-kinetic-based traffic system, where drivers brake on the traffic at an interaction point ahead. - Intelligent driver system
intelligent_driver_system: The intelligent driver system of cars on a ring road. - Kerner-Konhäuser system
kerner_konhauser: The Kerner-Konhäuser system, where viscous traffic flow forms dense moving clusters. - Langevin car-following toward a density-dependent speed
langevin_traffic: Cars on a ring road whose speeds relax with noise towards a desired speed set by the local density. - Lighthill-Whitham-Richards
lighthill_whitham_richards: The Lighthill-Whitham-Richards system, the conservation of cars with the Greenshields speed law. - Moment equations of Langevin traffic with a jam instability
traffic_density_equation: The density and flux equations of Langevin traffic on a ring road, whose uniform flow breaks into jams. - Nagel-Schreckenberg
nagel_schreckenberg: The Nagel-Schreckenberg traffic system on a ring road, where jams emerge above a critical density. - Optimal velocity
optimal_velocity: The optimal velocity system of cars on a ring road, where uniform flow breaks into stop-and-go waves. - Payne system
payne: The Payne system, where the speed of traffic relaxes to the Greenshields speed and anticipates density. - Ring-road driver agents
ring_road_drivers: Drivers on a circular highway, where small random errors of speed set off traffic jams. - TASEP
tasep: The totally asymmetric simple exclusion process with parallel update, on an open line or a ring.
trafficking
- Brothel movement system
trafficking: The brothel movement system, where victims moved between brothels leave traces in bills and train trips.
trail formation
- Active walkers and trail formation
active_walkers: Active walkers who walk between the corners of a green and wear a system of trails into it.
transient attractors
- Dense homogeneous associative network of transient attractors
associative_thought_process: The dense homogeneous associative network of Gros, whose memories become active one after the other.
transport
- SIR on a network as an agent system
network_sir: SIR epidemics in cities at the nodes of a network, carried between cities by travellers.
trap system
- Bouchaud trap system
trap_system: The Bouchaud trap system, walkers that escape from traps of exponentially distributed depths.
traps
- Fully biased walk among quenched broad traps
biased_trap_walk: Walkers that hop always to the right through quenched traps with broadly distributed trapping times.
traveling waves
- Min-protein skeleton system as mass-conserving reaction-diffusion
min_protein_skeleton: The skeleton system of the Min proteins on a periodic line, a mass-conserving reaction-diffusion system. - Nonreciprocal Cahn-Hilliard
nonreciprocal_cahn_hilliard: The nonreciprocal Cahn-Hilliard equations, a demixing field coupled to a diffusing one.
tree
- Dissipative zero-range process on a tree
dissipative_zero_range: The dissipative zero-range process on a tree, with energy injected at the root and lost at the leaves. - Graphlet arrival growth
graphlet_arrival: Growth by the arrival of three-node graphlets, a tree whose degree exponent rises withalpha.
tree automorphism
- Adding machine (odometer)
adding_machine: The adding machiner → r + 1on the q-adic integers, the odometer acting on the q-ary tree.
triad formation
- Holme-Kim growth
holme_kim: Holme-Kim growth, scale-free like Barabási-Albert growth but with clustering that stays high.
triadic closure
- Davidsen-Ebel-Bornholdt network of triadic closure and node turnover
davidsen_ebel_bornholdt: The Davidsen-Ebel-Bornholdt network, whose triadic closure and node turnover give high clustering.
triadic interactions
- Spatial triadic percolation on a torus
spatial_triadic_percolation: Spatial triadic percolation, where nearby signed regulators make the giant component form moving patterns. - Triadic percolation
triadic_percolation: Triadic percolation, where regulating nodes switch links on and off from the giant component.
tumour
- Immune competition
immune_competition: The kinetic system of the competition between tumour cells and immune cells.
tumour growth
- Exponential-linear tumour growth
exponential_linear_growth: A tumour that grows exponentially while small and linearly once its growth reaches a limiting rate. - Generalized logistic (Richards) growth
generalized_logistic: A tumour that saturates at a carrying capacity,dn/dt = r n (1 - (n / K)^p), logistic forp = 1. - Gompertz growth
gompertz: A tumour whose growth slows as the logarithm of the room left,dn/dt = r n log(K / n). - Gompertz growth with a vascular carrying capacity
dynamic_carrying_capacity: Gompertz growth under a carrying capacity that the vessels on the tumour surface keep raising. - Power-law tumour growth
power_law_growth: A tumour whose proliferating part scales as a power of its size,dn/dt = r n^p. - Von Bertalanffy growth
von_bertalanffy: A tumour that grows by the balance of anabolism and catabolism,dn/dt = r n^p - d n.
tumour-immune
- Normal, tumour, and immune cells under chemotherapy
de_pillis_radunskaya: The de Pillis-Radunskaya system of immune, tumour, and normal cells under a constant drug infusion. - Resting and hunting immune cells with a conversion delay under chemotherapy
delayed_resting_hunting_chemotherapy: The tumour-immune system of resting and hunting cells with a conversion delay, under a drug infusion.
turbulence
- Decaying turbulence
decaying_turbulence: Decaying two-dimensional turbulence from a random vorticity field on a periodic square of side 2 pi.
turing machine
- Turing machine (three-state busy beaver)
turing_machine: A Turing machine, a head with an internal state that reads, writes, and moves on a tape of symbols.
turtle
- Koch
koch_curve: The Koch curve as the L-systemF → F+F--F+Fdrawn by a turtle.
two-level replicator
- Two-level replicator equation of additive pairwise group conflict
two_level_replicator: The two-level replicator equation of defectors and altruistic punishers, additive pairwise group conflict.
two-phase flow
- Two-phase zone exchange
two_phase_zone_exchange: Independent zones of a two-phase apparatus, each exchanging particles with the rest of the apparatus.
undecided
- Mean-field flows of undecided agents
undecided_flows: The mean-field flows between agents against,A, undecided,C, and for,B. - Three-state opinion with undecided agents
three_state_opinion: The three-state opinion system of agents against, undecided, and for, on a random regular network.
unemployment
- Mark-0 economy with a Covid shock and policies
mark0: The Mark-0 economy of Sharma, Bouchaud, and co-authors, with a Covid shock to supply and demand.
unstable equilibrium
- PID-stabilised inverted pendulum
pid_inverted_pendulum: An inverted pendulum on a cart that a PID controller of its angle keeps upright.
urban
- Solid waste system
solid_waste: A solid waste system, the waste of a growing city collected, recycled, composted, and landfilled.
urban scaling
- Gravity interaction system of urban scaling
gravity_urban_scaling: The residents of a city at uniform positions in a disc, each interacting with the others asr^-gamma. - Urban scaling of interactions
urban_scaling_interactions: A city that grows by residents and internal links, so its meetings grow faster than its population.
urn
- Interacting urns with triggering on a network
interacting_urns_network: One urn with triggering per node of a network, which draws from its own urn and those of its neighbours. - Pólya urn
polya_urn: Independent Pólya urns, whose share of red balls converges to a random limit with a beta distribution.
vaccination
- SIR with optimal vaccination
sir_vaccination: An SIR epidemic with the vaccination rate that minimises the burden of infections and vaccines.
vaccine
- T cells, tumour, dendritic cells, and IL-2 under dendritic-cell vaccination
dendritic_cell_vaccine: Helper and cytotoxic T cells, a tumour, dendritic cells, and IL-2 under a dendritic-cell vaccine. - Tumour-immune populations with division delays under dendritic-cell vaccination
delayed_dc_vaccine: A tumour and eight innate and adaptive immune populations, with division delays, under a vaccine.
vasculature
- Vessel conductances adapting to Kirchhoff flows
adaptive_flow_network: A square grid of vessels fed at one corner and drained at every other node, whose conductances adapt.
vegetation
- Daisyworld
daisyworld: Daisyworld, where white and black daisies regulate the temperature of their planet through its albedo. - Forest dieback
forest_dieback: The forest dieback model of the Amazon, whose cover tips to bare soil when the ambient temperature rises. - Forest dieback with replicator dynamics of mitigators
social_forest_dieback: The forest dieback model coupled with the replicator dynamics of mitigators who perceive its warming.
vehicles
- Regenerative braking
regenerative_braking: A car braked by a Faraday disk generator on its wheel, which charges a supercapacitor. - Vibration energy harvester
vibration_energy_harvester: A dual-mass piezoelectric harvester in a car suspension, driven by the roughness of the road.
vibration
- Electromagnetic vibrating table
vibrating_table: An electromagnetic vibrating table, a shaker driven by a sinusoidal supply after its switch closes. - Vibration energy harvester
vibration_energy_harvester: A dual-mass piezoelectric harvester in a car suspension, driven by the roughness of the road. - Wheel and rail contact
wheel_rail_contact: A rail segment on a sleeper, loaded by the wheels of passing bogies.
vicsek
- Nonreciprocal Vicsek system
nonreciprocal_vicsek: Two species of Vicsek movers in a periodic box whose alignment with each other is nonreciprocal.
virotherapy
- Glioma, glia, and neurons under temozolomide and virus
glioma_chemovirotherapy: Glia, neurons, and a glioma under a constant temozolomide infusion and an oncolytic virus. - Oncolytic adenovirus with T cells and dendritic-cell injection
oncolytic_virus_dendritic: A tumour treated with an oncolytic adenovirus that expresses immune signals and with dendritic cells. - Uninfected and infected cells, virus, and chemotherapy
chemovirotherapy: Uninfected and infected tumour cells, an oncolytic virus, and a chemotherapeutic drug. - Uninfected and infected tumour cells under an oncolytic virus
oncolytic_virus: Uninfected and infected tumour cells that share a carrying capacity, with infection by mass action.
viscoelastic
- One-dimensional active viscoelastic and poroelastic gel with contractile cells
active_viscoelastic_gel: A one-dimensional active viscoelastic gel, where contractile cells concentrate by dragging the gel.
vortices
- XY
xy: The XY system of planar spins on a torus, with vortices that bind below the Kosterlitz-Thouless point.
voter
- Coevolving voter
coevolving_voter: The coevolving voter system, which fragments into consensual components when rewiring is fast.
voting
- Majority rule automaton
majority_rule: Voters that take the majority opinion of their neighbourhood, which coarsens into domains. - Voter variants
voter_variants: Voter system variants on a network, with threshold voters and a share of contrarians.
wages
- Ajani's Choice
ajanis_choice: Chesney's Ajani's Choice, migrant farm workers and employers among whom underpayment emerges.
waiting times
- Poisson process
poisson_process: Independent Poisson processes, counters that grow by one at exponentially distributed waiting times.
waning immunity
- SIRS
sirs: An epidemic whose immunity wanes, which returns in damped waves to an endemic equilibrium.
waste management
- Solid waste system
solid_waste: A solid waste system, the waste of a growing city collected, recycled, composted, and landfilled.
water resources
- Irrigation system
irrigation: An irrigation system, a reservoir and an aquifer that keep the root zone of the crops supplied.
wave packet
- Schrödinger equation minimally coupled to an electromagnetic potential
charged_schrodinger: A Gaussian wave packet of a charge in a prescribed electromagnetic potential, after Schwichtenberg 4.3.
waves
- Schrödinger equation as real and imaginary fields
schrodinger: A Gaussian wave packet that follows the Schrödinger equation, as its real and imaginary parts. - Shallow-water dam break
shallow_water: The shallow-water dam break: still water at two depths that a removed dam separated at the middle. - Spring chains and guitar string
spring_chain: Masses joined in a row by springs of zero rest length between two anchors, a discrete string. - Standing waves on a string
standing_waves: A string with fixed ends on[-length / 2, length / 2]that vibrates as a standing wave. - Wave-number conservation and wave breaking
wave_breaking: The kinematic wave equation of deep-water wave trains on a periodic interval of length 2 pi.
wealth
- Boltzmann wealth exchange
boltzmann_wealth: A Boltzmann wealth exchange system where every agent starts with one unit. - Bouchaud-Mézard wealth
bouchaud_mezard_wealth: Bouchaud and Mezard's wealth dynamics, random multiplicative returns with exchange between neighbours. - Exchange with debt limit and with saving propensity
kinetic_wealth_exchange: A kinetic wealth exchange system with a saving propensity or a debt limit. - Kinetic wealth and welfare dynamics
kinetic_wealth_welfare: The kinetic theory of wealth classes, with a welfare policy when the tax is positive. - Sugarscape
sugarscape: The Sugarscape of Epstein and Axtell, foragers of random vision and metabolism on two sugar peaks.
welfare
- Kinetic wealth and welfare dynamics
kinetic_wealth_welfare: The kinetic theory of wealth classes, with a welfare policy when the tax is positive.
western boundary current
- Quasi-geostrophic double gyre
double_gyre: The quasi-geostrophic double gyre, the wind-driven circulation of a closed ocean basin.
winner-take-all
- Fukai-Tanaka winner-take-all network
winners_take_all: A winner-take-all network of units with self-limited growth and mutual inhibition.
winners-take-all
- Dense homogeneous associative network of transient attractors
associative_thought_process: The dense homogeneous associative network of Gros, whose memories become active one after the other.
working memory
- Amari neural field
amari_neural_field: The Amari neural field, whose lateral inhibition holds a stationary bump of activity.
yang-mills
- Lattice Yang-Mills and pure lattice QCD
lattice_yang_mills: SU(2) or SU(3) matrices on the links of a periodic lattice, sampled by the Wilson action.
zealots
- Majority rule with willingness and zealots
willing_majority: The majority rule with willingness, where zealots of willingness 0 never change their opinion.
zero intelligence
- Zero-intelligence double auction
double_auction: Gode and Sunder's double auction of zero-intelligence traders, a step per trading period.
zero-range process
- Dissipative zero-range process on a tree
dissipative_zero_range: The dissipative zero-range process on a tree, with energy injected at the root and lost at the leaves. - Zero-range process
zero_range_process: The zero-range process on a ring, which condenses above the critical density1 / (b - 2)forb > 2.
zipf
- Miller's random typewriting
random_typewriting: Miller's random typewriting, monkeys whose random keystrokes give Zipf's law of word frequencies. - Sample-space-reducing process
sample_space_reducing: Sample-space-reducing processes, whose state visits follow Zipf's law1 / iforlam = 1.
zombies
- Zombie outbreak of susceptible, zombie, and removed compartments
zombie_outbreak: The outbreak of zombies of Munz et al., where the dead rise again and humans are eventually overrun.