Multi-pulse chaotic dynamics in non-planar motion of parametrically excited viscoelastic moving belt

This paper investigates the multi-pulse global bifurcations and chaotic dynamics for the nonlinear, non-planar oscillations of the parametrically excited viscoelastic moving belt using an extended Melnikov method in the resonant case. Using the Kelvin-type viscoelastic constitutive law and Hamilton's principle, the equations of motion are derived for the viscoelastic moving belt with the external damping and parametric excitation. Applying the method of multiple scales and Galerkin's approach to the partial differential governing equation, the four-dimensional averaged equation is obtained for the case of 1:1 internal resonance and primary parametric resonance. From the averaged equations obtained, the theory of normal form is used to derive the explicit expressions of normal form with a double zero and a pair of pure imaginary eigenvalues. Based on the explicit expressions of normal form, the extended Melnikov method is used for the first time to investigate the Shilnikov-type multi-pulse homoclinic bifurcations and chaotic dynamics. The paper demonstrates how to employ the extended Melnikov method to analyze the Shilnikov-type multi-pulse homoclinic bifurcations and chaotic dynamics of high-dimensional nonlinear systems in engineering applications. Numerical simulations show that for the nonlinear non-planar oscillations of the viscoelastic moving belt, the Shilnikov-type multi-pulse chaotic motions can occur. Overall, both theoretical and numerical studies suggest that the chaos for the Smale horseshoe sense in motion exists.     

Higher-dimensional chaotic dynamics of a composite laminated piezoelectric rectangular plate

The analysis on the chaotic dynamics of a six-dimensional nonlinear system which represents the averaged equation of a composite laminated piezoelectric rectangular plate is given for the first time. The theory of normal form and the energy-phase method are combined to investigate the higher-dimensional chaotic dynamics of the composite laminated piezoelectric rectangular plate. Firstly, the theory of normal form is used to reduce the six-dimensional averaged equation to the simpler normal form. Then, the energy-phase method is extended to analyze the global bifurcations and chaotic dynamics of a six-dimensional nonlinear system. The analysis results indicate that there exist the homoclinic bifurcation and Shilnikov type multi-pulse chaos for the composite laminated piezoelectric rectangular plate. Finally, numerical simulations are also used to investigate the nonlinear dynamic characteristics of the composite laminated piezoelectric rectangular plate. The results of numerical simulations also demonstrate that there exist the chaotic motions and the multi-pulse jumping orbits of the composite laminated piezoelectric rectangular plate.     

Multi-pulse homoclinic orbits and chaotic dynamics of a parametrically excited nonlinear nano-oscillator with coupled cubic nonlinearities

In this paper,the complicated dynamics and multi-pulse homoclinic orbits of a two-degree-of-freedom parametrically excited nonlinear nano-oscillator with coupled cubic nonlinearities are studied.The damping,parametrical excitation and the nonlinearities are regarded as weak.The averaged equation depicting the fast and slow dynamics is derived through the method of multiple scales.The dynamics near the resonance band is revealed by doing a singular perturbation analysis and combining the extended Melnikov method.We are able to determine the criterion for the existence of the multi-pulse homoclinic orbits which can form the Shilnikov orbits and give rise to chaos.At last,numerical results are also given to illustrate the nonlinear behaviors and chaotic motions in the nonlinear nano-oscillator.     

一类相对转动非线性动力系统的混沌运动

研究一类具有同宿轨道、异宿轨道的相对转动非线性动力系统的混沌运动. 建立具有非线性刚度、非线性阻尼和外扰激励作用的一类两质量相对转动非线性动力系统的动力学方程. 利用Melnikov方法讨论了系统的全局分岔和系统进入混沌状态的可能途径,给出了系统发生混沌的必要条件,并利用最大Lyapunov指数图,分岔图,Poincare截面图和相轨迹图进一步分析了系统的混沌行为. 关键词： 相对转动 非线性动力系统 混沌 Melnikov方法     

Phase space structure and chaotic scattering in near-integrable systems

We investigate the bifurcation phenomena and the change in phase space structure connected with the transition from regular to chaotic scattering in classical systems with unbounded dynamics. The regular systems discussed in this paper are integrable ones in the sense of Liouville, possessing a degenerated unstable periodic orbit at infinity. By means of a McGehee transformation the degeneracy can be removed and the usual Melnikov method is applied to predict homoclinic crossings of stable and unstable manifolds for the perturbed system. The chosen examples are the perturbed radial Kepler problem and two kinetically coupled Morse oscillators with different potential parameters which model the stretching dynamics in ABC molecules. The calculated subharmonic and homoclinic Melnikov functions can be used to prove the existence of chaotic scattering and of elliptic and hyperbolic periodic orbits, to calculate the width of the main stochastic layer and of the resonances, and to predict the range of initial conditions where singularities in the scattering function are found. In the second example the value of the perturbation parameter at which channel transitions set in is calculated. The theoretical results are supplemented by numerical experiments.     

From collective periodic running states to completely chaotic synchronised states in coupled particle dynamics

We consider the damped and driven dynamics of two interacting particles evolving in a symmetric and spatially periodic potential. The latter is exerted to a time-periodic modulation of its inclination. Our interest is twofold: First, we deal with the issue of chaotic motion in the higher-dimensional phase space. To this end, a homoclinic Melnikov analysis is utilised assuring the presence of transverse homoclinic orbits and homoclinic bifurcations for weak coupling allowing also for the emergence of hyperchaos. In contrast, we also prove that the time evolution of the two coupled particles attains a completely synchronised (chaotic) state for strong enough coupling between them. The resulting "freezing of dimensionality" rules out the occurrence of hyperchaos. Second, we address coherent collective particle transport provided by regular periodic motion. A subharmonic Melnikov analysis is utilised to investigate persistence of periodic orbits. For directed particle transport mediated by rotating periodic motion, we present exact results regarding the collective character of the running solutions entailing the emergence of a current. We show that coordinated energy exchange between the particles takes place in such a manner that they are enabled to overcome--one particle followed by the other--consecutive barriers of the periodic potential resulting in collective directed motion.     

Identification and control of chaos in nonlinear gear dynamic systems using Melnikov analysis

In this paper, the Melnikov analysis is extended to develop a practical model of gear system to control and eliminate the chaotic behavior. To this end, a nonlinear dynamic model of a spur gear pair with backlash, time-varying stiffness and static transmission error is established. Based on the Melnikov analysis the global homoclinic bifurcation and transition to chaos in this model are predicted. Then non-feedback control method is used to eliminate the chaos by applying an additional control excitation. The regions of the parameter space for the control excitation are obtained analytically. The accuracy of the theoretical predictions and also the performance of the proposed control system are verified by the comparison with the numerical simulations. The simulation results show effectiveness of the proposed control system and present some useful information to analyze and control the gear dynamical systems.     

Subharmonic and homoclinic bifurcations in a parametrically forced pendulum

Depending on the parameters of a parametrically forced pendulum system the boundaries of subharmonic and homoclinic bifurcations are calculated on the basis of the Melnikov method and of averaging methods. It is shown that, as a parameter is varied, repeated resonances of successively higher periods occur culminating in homoclinic orbits. According to the theorem of Smale homoclinic bifurcation is the source of the unstable chaotic motions observed. For some selected parameter sets the theoretical predictions are tested by numerical calculations. Very good agreement is found between analytical and numerical results.     

Atomic population oscillations between two coupled Bose——Einstein condensates with time-dependent nonlinear interaction

The atomic population oscillations between two Bose--Einstein condensates with time-dependent nonlinear interaction in a double-well potential are studied. We first analyse the stabilities of the system's steady-state solutions. And then in the perturbative regime, the Melnikov chaotic oscillation of atomic population imbalance is investigated and the Melnikov chaotic criterion is obtained. When the system is out of the perturbative regime, numerical calculations reveal that regulating the nonlinear parameter can lead the system to step into chaos via period doubling bifurcations. It is also numerically found that adjusting the nonlinear parameter and asymmetric trap potential can result in the running-phase macroscopic quantum self-trapping (MQST). In the presence of a weak asymmetric trap potential, there exists the parametric resonance in the system.     

Modeling nonlinear dissipative chemical dynamics by a forced modified Van der Pol-Duffing oscillator with asymmetric potential: Chaotic behaviors predictions

This paper addresses the issues of nonlinear chemical dynamics modeled by a modified Van der Pol-Duffing oscillator with asymmetric potential. The Melnikov method is utilized to analytically determine the domains boundaries where Melnikov’s chaos appears in chemical oscillations. Routes to chaos are investigated through bifurcations structures, Lyapunov exponent, phase portraits and Poincaré section. The effects of parameters in general and in particular the effect of the constraint parameter β which shows the difference between a nonlinear chemical dynamics order two differential equation and ordinary Van der Pol-Duffing equation are analyzed. Results of analytical investigations are validated and complemented by numerical simulations.     

Steady-state self-oscillations and chaotic behavior of a controlled electromechanical device by using the first Lyapunov value and the Melnikov theory

In this paper regular and chaotic oscillations in a controlled electromechanical transducer are investigated. The nonlinear control laws are defined by an electric tension excitation and an external force applied to the mobile piece of the transducer. The paper shows that an Andronov–Poincaré–Hopf bifurcation appears as long as adequate parameters are chosen for the nonlinear control laws. The stability of the weak focuses associated to such bifurcation is examined according to the sign of the first Lyapunov value, showing that chaotic behavior can arise when the first Lyapunov value is varied harmonically. The appearance of a homoclinic orbit is investigated assuming an approximated model for the device. On the basis of the parametric equations of the homoclinic orbit and the presence of harmonic disturbances on the platform, it is demonstrated that chaotic oscillations can also appear, and they have been examined by means of the Melnikov theory. Chaotic behavior is corroborated by means of the sensitive dependence, Lyapunov exponents and power spectral density, and it is applied to drive the transducer mobile piece to a predefined set point assuming that noise due to the measurement process can appear in the control signals. The steady-state error associated to such random noise is eliminated by adding a PI linear controller to the control force. Numerical simulations are used to corroborate the analytical results.     

Effect of metal oxide arrester on the chaotic oscillations in the voltage transformer with nonlinear core loss model using chaos theory

In this paper, controlling chaos when chaotic ferroresonant oscillations occur in a voltage transformer with nonlinear core loss model is performed. The effect of a parallel metal oxide surge arrester on the ferroresonance oscillations of voltage transformers is studied. The metal oxide arrester(MOA) is found to be effective in reducing ferroresonance chaotic oscillations. Also the multiple scales method is used to analyze the chaotic behavior and different types of fixed points in ferroresonance of voltage transformers considering core loss. This phenomenon has nonlinear chaotic dynamics and includes sub-harmonic, quasi-periodic, and also chaotic oscillations. In this paper, the chaotic behavior and various ferroresonant oscillation modes of the voltage transformer is studied. This phenomenon consists of different types of bifurcations such as period doubling bifurcation(PDB), saddle node bifurcation(SNB), Hopf bifurcation(HB), and chaos. The dynamic analysis of ferroresonant circuit is based on bifurcation theory. The bifurcation and phase plane diagrams are illustrated using a continuous method and linear and nonlinear models of core loss. To analyze ferroresonance phenomenon, the Lyapunov exponents are calculated via the multiple scales method to obtain Feigenbaum numbers. The bifurcation diagrams illustrate the variation of the control parameter. Therefore, the chaos is created and increased in the system.     

Secondary homoclinic bifurcation theorems

We develop criteria for detecting secondary intersections and tangencies of the stable and unstable manifolds of hyperbolic periodic orbits appearing in time-periodically perturbed one degree of freedom Hamiltonian systems. A function, called the "Secondary Melnikov Function" (SMF) is constructed, and it is proved that simple (resp. degenerate) zeros of this function correspond to transverse (resp. tangent) intersections of the manifolds. The theory identifies and predicts the rotary number of the intersection (the number of "humps" of the homoclinic orbit), the transition number of the homoclinic points (the number of periods between humps), the existence of tangencies, and the scaling of the intersection angles near tangent bifurcations perturbationally. The theory predicts the minimal transition number of the homoclinic points of a homoclinic tangle. This number determines the relevant time scale, the minimal stretching rate (which is related to the topological entropy) and the transport mechanism as described by the TAM, a transport theory for two-dimensional area-preserving chaotic maps. The implications of this theory on the study of dissipative systems have yet to be explored. (c) 1995 American Institute of Physics.     

待定固有频率法在分析系统混沌临界值问题中的应用

利用规范形理论与待定固有频率寻求改善Melnikov函数分析非线性振动系统混沌阈值的简单方法,着重讨论参数与周期激励联合作用下具有主参数共振的三阱势能系统,建立了其Melnikov函数积分式.引入由待定固有频率形成的时间尺度变换,从同宿及异宿分岔两个角度获取系统的混沌临界值,使得非线性扰动量对于基频的影响有效地体现于Melnikov函数表达式中,进而结合相应的分析过程提高所得结果的计算精度.作为算例,对解析解与数值积分结果进行了对比,以验证提出方法的有效性与可行性. 关键词： 规范形 Melnikov方法 混沌 同宿分岔     

Global dynamics of a pipe conveying pulsating fluid in primary parametrical resonance: Analytical and numerical results from the nonlinear wave equation

The chaotic dynamics of nonlinear waves in the harmonic-forced fluid-conveying pipe in primary parametrical resonance, is explored analytically and numerically. The multiple scale method is applied to obtain an equivalent nonlinear wave equation from the complicated nonlinear governing equation describing the fluid conveyed in a pipe. With the Melnikov method, the persistence of a heteroclinic structure is shown to be satisfied and its condition is given in functional form. Similarly, for the heteroclinic orbit, using geometric analysis, a condition function of the stable manifold is derived for the orbit to return to the stable manifold from the saddle point. The persistent homoclinic structures and threshold of chaos in the Smale-horseshoe sense are obtained for the fluid-conveying pipe under both conditions, indicating how the external excitation amplitude can change substantially the global dynamics of the fluid conveyed in the pipe. A numerical approach was used to test the prediction from theory. The impact of the external excitation amplitude on the nonlinear wave in the fluid-conveying pipe was also studied from numerical simulations. Both theoretical predications and numerical simulations attest to the complex chaotic motion of fluid-conveying pipes.     

Primary resonant optimal control for nested homoclinic and heteroclinic bifurcations in single-dof nonlinear oscillators

A unified control theorem is presented in this paper, whose aim is to suppress the transversal intersections of stable and unstable manifolds of homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits in the Poincarè map embedding in system dynamics. Based on the control theorem, a primary resonant optimal control technique (PROCT for short) is applied to a general single-dof nonlinear oscillator. The novelty of this technique is able to obtain the unified analytical expressions of the control gain and the control parameters for suppressing the homoclinic and heteroclinic bifurcations, where the control gain can guarantee that the control region where the homoclinic and heteroclinic bifurcations do not occur can be enlarged as much as possible at least cost. The technique is applied to a nonlinear oscillator with a pair of nested homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits. By the PROCT, the transversal intersections of homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits can be suppressed, respectively. The hopping phenomenon that there coexist two kinds of chaotic attractors of Duffing-type and pendulum-type can be suppressed. On the contrary, if the first amplitude coefficient is greater than the critical heteroclinic bifurcation value, then another degenerate hopping behavior of chaos will take place again. Therefore, the phenomenon of hopping is the dominant type of chaos in this oscillator, whose suppressing or inducing is admissible from the points of practical and theoretical view.     

周期参数扰动的T混沌系统同宿轨道分析

针对一类周期参数扰动的T混沌系统, 通过变换将系统转化为具有广义Hamilton结构的周期参数扰动的慢变系统, 运用Melnikov方法对系统的同宿轨道进行了分析计算, 并给出了系统的同宿轨道参数分支条件. 同时, 通过数值实验, 对周期参数扰动控制策略及同宿轨道进行了仿真, 验证了文中理论分析的正确性. 关键词： Hamilton系统 Melnikov方法 同宿轨道 周期参数扰动     

Chaotic breathers in delayed electro-optical systems

We show that in integro-differential delayed dynamical systems, a hybrid state of simultaneous fast-scale chaos and slow-scale periodicity can emerge subsequently to a sequence of Hopf bifurcations. The resulting time trace thereby consists in chaotic oscillations "breathing" periodically at a significantly lower frequency. Experimental evidence of this type of dynamics in delayed dynamical systems is achieved with a Mach-Zehnder modulator optically fed by a semiconductor laser and is subjected to a delayed nonlinear electro-optical feedback. We also propose a theoretical understanding of the phenomenon.     

Bifurcations and chaotic threshold for a nonlinear system with an irrational restoring force

Nonlinear dynamical systems with an irrational restoring force often occur in both science and engineering, and always lead to a barrier for conventional nonlinear techniques. In this paper, we have investigated the global bifurcations and the chaos directly for a nonlinear system with irrational nonlinearity avoiding the conventional Taylor's expansion to retain the natural characteristics of the system. A series of transformations are proposed to convert the homoclinic orbits of the unperturbed system to the heteroclinic orbits in the new coordinate, which can be transformed back to the analytical expressions of the homoclinic orbits. Melnikov's method is employed to obtain the criteria for chaotic motion, which implies that the existence of homoclinic orbits to chaos arose from the breaking of homoclinic orbits under the perturbation of damping and external forcing. The efficiency of the criteria for chaotic motion obtained in this paper is verified via bifurcation diagrams, Lyapunov exponents, and numerical simulations. It is worthwhile noting that our study is an attempt to make a step toward the solution of the problem proposed by Cao Q J et al. (Cao Q J, Wiercigroch M, Pavlovskaia E E, Thompson J M T and Grebogi C 2008 Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 366 635).     

Homoclinic bifurcations in radiating diffusion flames

We analyse the dynamics of a model describing a planar diffusion flame with radiative heat losses incorporating a single step kinetic using timestepping techniques for Lewis number equal to one. We construct the full bifurcation diagram with respect to the Damköhler number including the branches of oscillating solutions. Based on this analysis we found, for the first time, homoclinic bifurcations that mark the abrupt disappearance of the nonlinear oscillations near extinction as reported in experiments.