Hyperbolic toral automorphisms (viz. the cat map and its generalizations) are the fundamental examples of Anosov diffeomorphisms, and their suspensions are the fundamental examples of Anosov flows. This is because they are "structurally stable", i.e. small perturbations preserve the Anosov property and any Anosov diffeomorphism on a torus is topologically conjugate to a hyperbolic toral automorphism. I am actually not even aware of any other concrete examples of Anosov dynamics other than those derived from geodesic flows on hyperbolic spaces.
Answered by Steve Huntsman
