Stochastic oscillations in dissipative systems

The recent discovery of simple deterministic systems, the behaviour of which is intrinsically stochastic, has led to a new approach to the problem of turbulence. This paper is devoted to the discussion of some physical mechanisms for the appearance of chaos in simple dissipative systems. The authors show that stochastic behaviour is the result of the self-disorganization of such systems. Examples from electronics, chemistry, theory of nonlinear oscillations and waves are given as illustrations to the theoretical findings.