Grazing bifurcations in an elastic structure excited by harmonic impactor motions

In this article, non-smooth dynamics of an elastic structure excited by a harmonic impactor motion is studied through a combination of experimental, numerical, and analytical efforts. The test apparatus consists of a stainless steel cantilever structure with a tip mass that is impacted by a shaker. Soft impact between the impactor and the structure is considered, and bifurcations with respect to quasi-static variation of the shaker excitation frequency are examined. In the experiments, qualitative changes that can be associated with grazing and corner-collision bifurcations are observed. Aperiodic motions are also observed in the vicinity of the non-smooth bifurcation points. Assuming the system response to be dominated by the structure’s fundamental mode, a non-autonomous, single degree-of-freedom model is developed and used for local analysis and numerical simulations. The predicted grazing and corner-collision bifurcations are in agreement with the experimental results. To study the local bifurcation behavior at the corner-collision point and explore the mechanism responsible for the aperiodic motions, a derivation is carried out to construct local Poincaré maps of periodic orbits at a corner-collision point such as the one observed in the soft-impact oscillator.     

The effect of Lagrangian chaos on locking bifurcations in shear flows

The effect of an externally imposed perturbation on an unstable or weakly stable shear flow is investigated, with a focus on the role of Lagrangian chaos in the bifurcations that occur. The external perturbation is at rest in the laboratory frame and can form a chain of resonances or cat's eyes where the initial velocity v(x0)(y) vanishes. If in addition the shear profile is unstable or weakly stable to a Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, for a certain amplitude of the external perturbation there can be an unlocking bifurcation to a nonlinear wave resonant around a different value of y, with nonzero phase velocity. The interaction of the propagating nonlinear wave with the external perturbation leads to Lagrangian chaos. We discuss results based on numerical simulations for different amplitudes of the external perturbation. The response to the external perturbation is strong, apparently because of non-normality of the linear operator, and the unlocking bifurcation is hysteretic. The results indicate that the observed Lagrangian chaos is responsible for a second bifurcation occurring at larger external perturbation, locking the wave to the wall. This bifurcation is nonhysteretic. The mechanism by which the chaos leads to locking in this second bifurcation is by means of chaotic advective transport of momentum from one chain of resonances to the other (Reynolds stress) and momentum transport to the vicinity of the wall via chaotic scattering. These results suggest that locking of waves in rotating tank experiments in the presence of two unstable modes is due to a similar process. (c) 2002 American Institute of Physics.     

Odd periodic window and bifurcations on 2D parameter space of low frequency oscillations

Low frequency current oscillations have been usually investigated under the influence of the external applied voltage, temperature and illumination. A parallel applied magnetic field has been used in the present work in order to obtain odd periodic windows and bifurcations inside them in a two dimension parameter space for a semi-insulating GaAs sample grown by molecular beam epitaxy. Two kinds of parameter spaces have been used in order to stabilize the odd periodic windows and the bifurcations, namely, the external applied voltage versus the parallel magnetic field and the illumination versus the parallel magnetic field. We report on a successful observation of stable cycles of periodicity 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 inside a period-3 window. An example of bifurcation route is presented following the sequence from chaos to 4, 3, 6, 3, 5, 7, 5, and back to chaos in the parameter space of voltage versus magnetic field. For this bifurcation route we will show which branch of the cycle is bifurcating and which are coalescing with the control parameters.     

脉冲作用下Chen系统的非光滑分岔分析

研究了脉冲作用下Chen系统的复杂动力学行为. 对脉冲作用下的Chen系统进行了非光滑分岔分析. 该系统可经级联倍周期分岔到达混沌, 也可由周期解经鞍结分岔直接到达混沌. 最后通过Floquet理论揭示了该系统周期解的非光滑分岔机理.     

Hyperchaos--chaos--Hyperchaos Transition in a Class of On--Off Intermittent Systems Driven by a Family of Generalized Lorenz Systems

Blowout bifurcation in nonlinear systems occurs when a chaotic attractor lying in some symmetric subspace becomes transversely unstable. A class of five-dimensional continuous autonomous systems is considered, in which a two-dimensional subsystem is driven by a family of generalized Lorenz systems. The systems have some common dynamical characters. As the coupling parameter changes, blowout bifurcations occur in these systems and brings on change of the systems＇ dynamics. After the bifurcation the phenomenon of on-off intermittency appears. It is observed that the systems undergo a symmetric hyperchaos-chaos-hyperchaos transition via or after blowout bifurcations. An example of the systems is given, in which the drive system is the Chen system. We investigate the dynamical behaviour before and after the blowout bifurcation in the systems and make an analysis of the transition process. It is shown that in such coupled chaotic continuous systems, blowout bifurcation leads to a transition from chaos to hyperchaos for the whole systems, which provides a route to hyperchaos.     

Qualitatively different bifurcation scenarios observed in the firing of identical nerve fibers

This Letter reports various bifurcation scenarios, including period-adding bifurcations with chaos and those with stochastic firing patterns, generated by identical neural pacemakers. The scenarios are studied by properly adjusting two physiological parameters, one is 4-aminopyridine sensitive potassium conductance and the other is extracellular calcium concentration, in both experimentation and simulation.     

Experimental bifurcation diagram of a solid state laser with optical injection

A method is presented for the automatic construction of an experimental bifurcation diagram of an optically injected solid state laser. From measured time series of laser output intensity, different identifiers of aspects of the dynamics are derived. Combinations of these identifiers are then used to characterize different possible bifurcations. The resulting experimental bifurcation diagram in the plane of injection strength versus detuning includes saddle-node, Hopf, period-doubling and torus bifurcations. It is shown to agree well with a theoretical bifurcation analysis of a corresponding rate equation model.     

Bifurcations near homoclinic orbits with symmetry

The effect of symmetry on bifurcations associated with homoclinic orbits to saddle-foci is analysed. With symmetry each homoclinic bifurcation contributes three periodic orbits to the global bifurcation picture as opposed to a single orbit in the general case. Bifurcations on these orbits are studied: there are sequences of saddle-node and period-doubling bifurcations, chaos and more complicated homoclinic orbits.     

强迫布鲁塞尔振子中的阵发混沌

用数值计算证实了在周期外力作用下的三分子反应模型(布鲁塞尔振子)中存在着走向混沌状态的阵发道路。研究了阵发混沌的发展过程。讨论了数值研究中区分阵发混沌和暂态过程的方法。我们的工作进一步说明,原来在参数空间中发现的嵌在混乱带中的大片周期为3的区域(以及周期为4,5,6,7等的较小区域),对应于一维非线性映象相像的切分岔)每个切分岔开始前均可看到阵发混沌。因此,走向混沌的倍周期分岔道路和阵发道路乃是孪生现象,应在更多的由非线性微分方程描述的系统中观察到。 关键词：     

Border collision bifurcations in a two-dimensional piecewise smooth map from a simple switching circuit

In recent years, the study of chaotic and complex phenomena in electronic circuits has been widely developed due to the increasing number of applications. In these studies, associated with the use of chaotic sequences, chaos is required to be robust (not occurring only in a set of zero measure and persistent to perturbations of the system). These properties are not easy to be proved, and numerical simulations are often used. In this work, we consider a simple electronic switching circuit, proposed as chaos generator. The object of our study is to determine the ranges of the parameters at which the dynamics are chaotic, rigorously proving that chaos is robust. This is obtained showing that the model can be studied via a two-dimensional piecewise smooth map in triangular form and associated with a one-dimensional piecewise linear map. The bifurcations in the parameter space are determined analytically. These are the border collision bifurcation curves, the degenerate flip bifurcations, which only are allowed to occur to destabilize the stable cycles, and the homoclinic bifurcations occurring in cyclical chaotic regions leading to chaos in 1-piece.     

Torus destruction via global bifurcations in a piecewise-smooth, continuous map with square-root nonlinearity

It has been shown recently that torus formation in piecewise-smooth maps can occur through a special type of border collision bifurcation in which a pair of complex conjugate Floquet multipliers “jump” from the inside to the outside of the unit circle. It has also been shown that a large class of impacting mechanical systems yield piecewise-smooth maps with square-root singularity. In this Letter we investigate the dynamics of a two-dimensional piecewise-smooth map with square-root type nonlinearity, and describe two new routes to chaos through the destruction of two-frequency torus. In the first scenario, we identify the transition to chaos through the destruction of a loop torus via homoclinic bifurcation. In the other scenario, a change of structure in the torus occurs via heteroclinic saddle connections. Further parameter changes lead to a homoclinic bifurcation resulting in the creation of a chaotic attractor. However, this scenario is much more complex, with the appearance of a sequence of heteroclinic and homoclinic bifurcations.     

Stability of periodic motion, bifurcations and chaos of a two-degree-of-freedom vibratory system with symmertical rigid stops

A two-degree-of-freedom system having symmetrically placed rigid stops and subjected to periodic excitation is considered. Such models play an important role in the studies of mechanical systems with clearances or gaps. The period-one double-impact symmetrical motion and its Poincaré map are derived analytically. Stability and local bifurcations of the period-one double-impact symmetrical motion are analyzed by the equation of Poincaré map. The routes from period-one double-impact symmetrical motion to chaos, via pitchfork bifurcations and period-doubling bifurcation, are studied by numerical simulation. Some non-typical routes to chaos, caused by grazing the stops and Hopf bifurcation of period two four-impact motion, are analyzed. Hopf bifurcations of period-one double-impact symmetrical and antisymmetrical motions are shown to exist in the two-degree-of-freedom vibratory system with two-sided stops. Interesting feature like the period-one four-impact symmetrical motion is also found, and its route to chaos is analyzed. It is of special interest to acquire an overall picture of the system dynamics for some extreme values of parameters, especially those which relate to the degenerated case of a single-degree-of-freedom system, and these analyses are presented here.     

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.     

Experimental evidence of a chaotic region in a neural pacemaker

In this Letter, we report the finding of period-adding scenarios with chaos in firing patterns, observed in biological experiments on a neural pacemaker, with fixed extra-cellular potassium concentration at different levels and taken extra-cellular calcium concentration as the bifurcation parameter. The experimental bifurcations in the two-dimensional parameter space demonstrate the existence of a chaotic region interwoven with the periodic region thereby forming a period-adding sequence with chaos. The behavior of the pacemaker in this region is qualitatively similar to that of the Hindmarsh–Rose neuron model in a well-known comb-shaped chaotic region in two-dimensional parameter spaces.     

振动筛系统的两类余维三分岔与非常规混沌演化

建立了振动筛系统的动力学模型,推导出了其周期运动的Poincaré 映射,基于Poincaré 映射方法着重研究了系统Flip-Hopf-Hopf余维三分岔、三次强共振条件下的Hopf-Hopf余维三分岔以及三种非常规的混沌演化过程.研究结果表明,此两类余维三分岔点附近的动力学行为变得更加复杂和新颖,在分岔点附近出现了三角形吸引子、3T²环面分岔以及“五角星型”、“轮胎型”概周期吸引子,揭示了环面爆破、环面倍化以及T²环面分岔向混沌演化的过程,这些结果对于振动筛系统的动力学优化设计提供了理论参考. 关键词： 余维三分岔 非常规混沌演化 T²环面分岔')" href="#">T²环面分岔     

周期切换下Chen系统的振荡行为与非光滑分岔分析

研究了不同参数Chen系统之间进行周期切换时的分岔和混沌行为.基于平衡态分析,考虑Chen系统在不同稳态解时通过周期切换连接生成的复合系统的分岔特性,得到系统的不同周期振荡行为.在演化过程中,由于切换导致的非光滑性,复合系统不仅仅表现为两子系统动力特性的简单连接,而且会产生各种分岔,导致诸如混沌等复杂振荡行为.通过Poincaré映射方法,讨论了如何求周期切换系统的不动点和Floquet特征乘子.基于Floquet理论,判定系统的周期解是渐近稳定的.同时得到,随着参数变化,系统既可以由倍周期分岔序列进入混沌,也可以由周期解经过鞍结分岔直接到达混沌.研究结果揭示了周期切换系统的非光滑分岔机理.     

Effect of various periodic forces on duffing oscillator

Bifurcations and chaos in the ubiquitous Duffing oscillator equation with different external periodic forces are studied numerically. The external periodic forces considered are sine wave, square wave, rectified since wave, symmetric saw-tooth wave, asymmetric saw-tooth wave, rectangular wave with amplitude-dependent width and modulus of sine wave. Period doubling bifurcations, chaos, intermittency, periodic windows and reverse period doubling bifurcations are found to occur due to the applied forces. A comparative study of the effect of various forces is performed.     

竖直振动颗粒床中的倍周期运动

实验研究了竖直振动颗粒床中颗粒对容器底部的压力随振动强度的变化情况.发现压力随振动加速度的增加经历倍周期分岔，典型的分岔序列为：2P，4P，混沌，3P，6P，混沌，4P，8P，混沌.观察表明，伴随倍周期分岔现象，在颗粒床底部出现颗粒的聚集态.聚集态内颗粒密堆积在一起并作整体的上下运动.采用完全非弹性蹦球模型分析了颗粒对容器底的冲击力，并给出了倍周期分岔现象的一种解释. 关键词： 颗粒物质 混沌 倍周期分岔 非弹性碰撞     

On bifurcations in a chaotically stirred excitable medium

We study a one-dimensional filamental model of a chaotically stirred excitable medium. In a numerical simulation we systematically explore its rich bifurcation scenarios involving saddle-nodes, Hopf bifurcations and hysteresis loops. The bifurcations are described in terms of two parameters signifying the excitability of the reacting medium and the strength of the chaotic stirring, respectively. The solution behaviour, in particular at the bifurcation points, is analytically described by means of a nonperturbative variational method. Using this method we reduce the partial differential equations to either algebraic equations for stationary solutions and bifurcations, or to ordinary differential equations in the case of non-stationary solutions and bifurcations. We present numerical simulations corroborating our analytical results.     

Truncated horseshoes and formal languages in chaotic scattering

In this paper we study parameter families of truncated horseshoes as models of multiscattering systems which show a transition to chaos without losing hyperbolicity, so that the topological features of the transition are completely describable by a parametrized family of symbolic dynamics. At a fixed parameter value the corresponding horseshoe represents the set of orbits trapped in the scattering region. The bifurcations are a pure boundary effect and no other bifurcations such as saddle center bifurcations occur in this transition scenario. Truncated horseshoes actually arise in concrete potential scattering under suitable conditions. It is shown that a simple scattering model introduced earlier can realize this scenario in a certain parameter range (the "truncated sawshoe"). For this purpose, we solve the inverse scattering problem of finding the central potential associated to the sawshoe model. Furthermore, we review classification schemes for the transition to chaos of truncated horseshoes originating from symbolic dynamics and formal language theory and apply them to the truncated double horseshoe and the truncated sawshoe.