Those of you who remember me saying all that time ago I was going to do a Cryptography project: I lied. I'm doing Daisyworld.
It's not looking too bad, but after analysing the steady states (which is even in the paper and just has to be reworded and explained), I have to do a proper analysis in terms of it as a dynamical system. I have some idea of how to do it (my supervisor gave me a prod and I did a module on it last term) but it's a bit confusing as apparently I need to analyse 8 equations or so to find the fixed points of the system.
The "steady state analysis" seems to do this for d/dt(a_{w})= 0 and d/dt(a_{b})=0, for x and B constant. What I don't get is how I include all the other equations for when x and B are variables (x = p - a_{w} - a_{b}, B = growth rate).
No, wikipedia is no use. In fact, none of the pages I've found are of any use. Neither is the library, it seems. It's all so confusing
(no bets as to whether MrL_JaKiri will post on this thread :P)