2 papers
math-ph2007
On the Stopping Time of a Bouncing Ball
Anna Maria Cherubini, Giorgio Metafune, Francesco Paparella
We study a simple model of a bouncing ball that takes explicitely into account the elastic deformability of the body and the energy dissipation due to internal friction. We show th…
nlin.CD2005
Filling Gaps in Chaotic Time Series
Francesco Paparella
We propose a method for filling arbitrarily wide gaps in deterministic time series. Crucial to the method is the ability to apply Takens' theorem in order to reconstruct the dynami…