Study of the Wada fractal boundary and indeterminate crisis

By using the generalized cell mapping digraph (GCMD)method,we study bifurcations governing the escape of periodically forced oscillators in a potential well,in which a chaotic saddle plays an extremely important role.Int this paper,we find the chaotic saddle,and we demonstrate that the chaotic saddle is embedded in a strange fractal boundary which has the Wada property,that any point on the boundary of that basin is also simultaneously on the boundary of at least two other basins.The chaotic saddle in the Wada fractal boundary,by colliding with a chaotic attractor,leads to a chaotic boundary crisis with a global indeterminate outcome which presents an extreme form of indeterminacy in a dynamical system.We also investigate the origin and evolution of the chaotic saddle in the Wada fractal boundary particularly concentrating on its discontinuous bifurcations(metamorphoses),We demonstrate that the chaotic saddle in the Wada fractal boundary is created by the collision between two chaotic saddles in different fractal boundaries.After a final escape bifurcation,there only exists the attractor at infinity;a chaotic saddle with a beautiful pattern is left behind in phase space.     

A new type of global bifurcation in Hénon map

A simple branch of solution on a bifurcation diagram, which begins at static bifurcation and ends at boundary crisis (or interior crisis in a periodic window), is generally a period-doubling cascade. A domain of solution in parameter space, enclosed by curves of static bifurcation and that of boundary crisis (or the interior of a periodic window), is the trace of branches of solution. A P-n branch of solution refers to the one starting from a period-n (n≥1) solution, and the corresponding domain in parameter space is named the P-n domain of solution. Because of the co-existence of attractors, there may be several branches within one interval on a bifurcation diagram, and different domains of solution may overlap each other in some areas of the parameter space. A complex phenomenon, concerned both with the co-existence of attractors and the crises of chaotic attractors, was observed in the course of constructing domains of steady state solutions of the Hénon map in parameter space by numerical methods. A narrow domain of period-m solutions firstly co-exists with (lies on) a big period-n (m≥3n) domain. Then it enters the chaotic area of the big domain and becomes period-m windows. The co-existence of attractors disappears and is called the landing phenomenon. There is an interaction between the two domains in the course of landing: the chaotic area in the big domain is enlarged, and there is a crisis step near the landing area.     

A collocation reliability analysis method for probabilistic and fuzzy mixed variables

The main bottleneck of the reliability analysis of structures with aleatory and epistemic uncertainties is the contradiction between the accuracy requirement and computational efforts.Existing methods are either computationally unaffordable or with limited application scope.Accordingly,a new technique for capturing the minimal and maximal point vectors instead of the extremum of the function is developed and thus a novel reliability analysis method for probabilistic and fuzzy mixed variables is proposed.The fuzziness propagation in the random reliability,which is the focus of the present study,is performed by the proposed method,in which the minimal and maximal point vectors of the structural random reliability with respect to fuzzy variables are calculated dimension by dimension based on the Chebyshev orthogonal polynomial approximation.First-Order,Second-Moment(FOSM)method which can be replaced by its counterparts is utilized to calculate the structural random reliability.Both the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method are validated by numerical examples and engineering applications introduced in the paper.     

Detection of Mechanism of Noise-Induced Synchronization between Two Identical Uncoupled Neurons

We investigate the noise-induced synchronization between two identical uncoupled Hodgkin-Huxley neurons with sinusoidal stimulations. The numerical results confirm that the value of critical noise intensity for synchronizing two systems is much less than the magnitude of mean size of the attractor in the original system, and the deterministic feature of the attractor in the original system remains unchanged. This finding is significantly different from the previous work [Phys. Rev. E 67 （2003） 027201] in which the value of the critical noise intensity for synchronizing two systems was found to be roughly equal to the magnitude of mean size of the attractor in the original system, and at this intensity, the noise swamps the qualitative structure of the attractor in the original deterministic systems to synchronize to their stochastic dynamics. Further investigation shows that the critical noise intensity for synchronizing two neurons induced by noise may be related to the structure of interspike intervals of the original systems.     

Discontinuous bifurcation and coexistence of attractors in a piecewise linear map with a gap

Coexistence of attractors with striking characteristics is observed in this work, where a stable period-5 attractor coexists successively with chaotic band-ll, period-6, chaotic band-12 and band-6 attractors. They are induced by dif- ferent mechanisms due to the interaction between the discontinuity and the non-invertibility. A characteristic boundary collision bifurcation, is observed. The critical conditions are obtained both analytically and numerically.     

Escape from a Riddled-Like Basin

We investigate a system described by a conservative and a dissipative map concatenation. A fat fractal forbidden net, induced by interaction between discontinuous and noninvertible properties, introduces rippled-like attraction basins of two periodic attractors. Small areas, which serve as escaping holes of a new type of crisis, are dominated by conventional strong dissipation and are bounded by the forbidden region, but only in the vicinity of each periodic point. Based on this understanding, the scaling behaviour of the averaged lifetime of the crisis is analytically and numerically determined to be （τ） ∝ （b-b0）^γ, where b denotes the control parameter, bo denotes its critical threshold, and γ≌-1.5.     

Stochastic resonance in a bistable system with coloured correlation between additive and multiplicative noise

The phenomenon of stochastic resonance (SR) in a bistable nonlinear system with coupling between additive and multiplicative noises is investigated when the correlation between two noise terms is coloured. It is found that the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the system is affected not only by the coupling strength λ between two noise terms, but also by the noise correlation time τ. The SNR is changed from a single peak, to two peaks with a dip, and then to a monotonically decreasing function with noise strength. The dependence of the SR on the initial conditions is entirely caused by the coupling strength λ between two noise terms.     

Bistability in Coupled Oscillators Exhibiting Synchronized Dynamics

We report some new results associated with the synchronization behavior of two coupled double-well Duffing oscillators （DDOs）. Some sufficient algebraic criteria for global chaos synchronization of the drive and response DDOs via linear state error feedback control are obtained by means of Lyapunov stability theory. The synchronization is achieved through a bistable state in which a periodic attractor co-exists with a chaotic attractor. Using the linear perturbation analysis, the prevalence of attractors in parameter space and the associated bifurcations are examined. Subcritical and supercritical Hopf bifurcations and abundance of Arnold tongues -- a signature of mode locking phenomenon are found.     

Impulsive control for Takagi--Sugeno fuzzy model with time-delay and its application to chaotic system

A control approach where the fuzzy logic methodology is combined with impulsive control is developed for controlling some time-delay chaotic systems in this paper. We first introduce impulses into each subsystem with delay of the Takagi--Sugeno (TS) fuzzy IF--THEN rules and then present a unified TS impulsive fuzzy model with delay for chaos control. Based on the new model, a simple and unified set of conditions for controlling chaotic systems is derived by the Lyapunov--Razumikhin method, and a design procedure for estimating bounds on control matrices is also given. Several numerical examples are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of this method.     

An experiment of dynamical behaviours in an erbium-doped fibre-ring laser with loss modulation

This paper reports a systematic experimental investigation on the dynamics in the low-frequency region in an erbium-doped fibre-ring laser with loss modulation. A rich variety of bifurcation is analyzed through the bifurcation diagram and structured with the concept of the winding numbers. The coexistence of multiple attractors and the crisis that appear in the saddle-node bifurcations, and an interesting structure of bifurcation which is similar to the bifurcations in high-frequency range, have been observed.     

Homoclinic tangency and chaotic attractor disappearance in a dripping faucet experiment

A sequence of attractors, reconstructed from interdrops time series data of a leaky faucet experiment, is analyzed as a function of the mean dripping rate. We established the presence of a saddle point and its manifolds in the attractors and we explained the dynamical changes in the system using the evolution of the manifolds of the saddle point, as suggested by the orbits traced in first return maps. The sequence starts at a fixed point and evolves to an invariant torus of increasing diameter (a Hopf bifurcation) that pushes the unstable manifold towards the stable one. The torus breaks up and the system shows a chaotic attractor bounded by the unstable manifold of the saddle. With the attractor expansion the unstable manifold becomes tangential to the stable one, giving rise to the sudden disappearance of the chaotic attractor, which is an experimental observation of a so called chaotic blue sky catastrophe.     

Boundary crisis and transient in a dissipative relativistic standard map

Some dynamical properties for a problem concerning the acceleration of particles in a wave packet are studied. The model is described in terms of a two-dimensional nonlinear map obtained from a Hamiltonian which describes the motion of a relativistic standard map. The phase space is mixed in the sense that there are regular and chaotic regions coexisting. When dissipation is introduced, the property of area preservation is broken and attractors emerge. We have shown that a tiny increase of the dissipation causes a change in the phase space. A chaotic attractor as well as its basin of attraction are destroyed thereby leading the system to experience a boundary crisis. We have characterized such a boundary crisis via a collision of the chaotic attractor with the stable manifold of a saddle fixed point. Once the chaotic attractor is destroyed, a chaotic transient described by a power law with exponent −1 is observed.     

一类新的边界激变现象:混沌的边界激变

混沌吸引子的激变是一类普遍现象.借助于广义胞映射图论(generalized cell mapping digraph)方法发现了嵌入在分形吸引域边界内的混沌鞍,这个混沌鞍由于碰撞混沌吸引子导致混沌吸引子完全突然消失,是一类新的边界激变现象,称为混沌的边界激变.可以证明混沌的边界激变是由于混沌吸引子与分形吸引域边界上的混沌鞍相碰撞产生的,在这种情况下,当系统参数通过激变临界值时,混沌吸引子连同它的吸引域突然消失,同时这个混沌鞍也突然增大 关键词： 广义胞映射 有向图 激变 混沌鞍     

Duffing单边碰撞系统的混沌鞍合并激变

以典型的Duffing单边碰撞系统为研究对象,对系统中的混沌鞍进行了细致的分析.研究表明,系统的混沌鞍同样存在合并激变,合并激变是由连接两个混沌鞍的周期鞍的稳定流形与不稳定流形相切所诱发,相切使得边界上的混沌鞍与内部的混沌鞍发生碰撞而突然合并为一个较大的边界混沌鞍.混沌鞍的合并激变行为最终会诱导混沌吸引子的合并激变发生. 关键词： Duffing碰撞系统 混沌鞍 周期鞍 稳定与不稳定流形     

常微分方程系统中内部激变现象的研究

应用广义胞映射图论方法研究常微分方程系统的激变.揭示了边界激变是由于混沌吸引子与 在其吸引域边界上的周期鞍碰撞产生的,在这种情况下,当系统参数通过激变临界值时,混 沌吸引子连同它的吸引域突然消失,在相空间原混沌吸引子的位置上留下了一个混沌鞍.研 究混沌吸引子大小(尺寸和形状)的突然变化,即内部激变.发现这种混沌吸引子大小的突然 变化是由于混沌吸引子与在其吸引域内部的混沌鞍碰撞产生的,这个混沌鞍是相空间非吸引 的不变集,代表内部激变后混沌吸引子新增的一部分.同时研究了这个混沌鞍的形成与演化. 给出了对永久自循环胞集和瞬态自循环胞集进行局部细化的方法. 关键词： 广义胞映射 有向图 激变 混沌鞍     

一个强、弱耗散功能可分隔系统中的特征激变

报道一个由保守映象和耗散映象不连续、不可逆地分段描述的系统，以及在其中发生的一例特征激变.激变的独特之处在于逃逸孔洞.由映象的不连续、不可逆性而导致相平面中出现一个胖分形迭代禁区网，它使得一个混沌吸引子突然失稳而发生激变后出现的两个周期吸引子的吸引域边界成为点滴状.仅仅在每个周期点邻近存在这样的一个作为逃逸孔洞的、受到强耗散性支配和禁区边界限制的规则边界吸引域. 关键词： 激变 保守映象 耗散映象 逃逸孔洞     

非线性动力系统分岔点邻域内随机共振的特性

研究了叉形分岔系统和FitzHugh Nagumo(FHN)细胞模型两种非线性动力系统分岔点邻域内 随机共振的特性.研究结果表明：这两种系统在分岔发生时具有由一个吸引子变为两个吸引 子或者由两个吸引子变为一个吸引子共同的分岔特性，即在分岔点的邻域内, 系统在分岔点 的两侧有分岔前吸引子和分岔后吸引子存在，在噪声的作用下，系统的运动除了像传统随机 共振的机理那样在分岔点一侧共存的吸引子之间跃迁，还在分岔点两侧三个吸引子（分岔前 一个吸引子和分岔后两个吸引子）之间跃迁，并且这种跃迁单独诱发了随机共振 ；在两种 跃迁都发生的情况下, 在其分岔点的邻域内，由第二种跃迁诱发的随机共振在引起第一种跃 迁噪声的强度很大的范围内变化仍可维持, 而第一种跃迁诱发的随机共振在引起第二种跃迁 噪声的强度很小的范围内变化即迅速消失. 关键词： 随机共振 吸引子 分岔点 跃迁     

一类含非黏滞阻尼的Duffing单边碰撞系统的激变研究

以一类含非黏滞阻尼的Duffing单边碰撞系统为研究对象, 运用复合胞坐标系方法, 分析了该系统的全局分岔特性. 对于非黏滞阻尼模型而言, 它与物体运动速度的时间历程相关, 能更真实地反映出结构材料的能量耗散现象. 研究发现, 随着阻尼系数、松弛参数及恢复系数的变化, 系统发生两类激变现象: 一种是混沌吸引子与其吸引域内的混沌鞍发生碰撞而产生的内部激变, 另一种是混沌吸引子与吸引域边界上的周期鞍(混沌鞍)发生碰撞而产生的常规边界激变(混沌边界激变), 这两类激变都使得混沌吸引子的形状发生突然改变. 关键词： 非黏滞阻尼 Duffing碰撞振动系统 激变 复合胞坐标系方法     

Emergence of chaotic attractor and anti-synchronization for two coupled monostable neurons

The dynamics of two coupled piece-wise linear one-dimensional monostable maps is investigated. The single map is associated with Poincare section of the FitzHugh-Nagumo neuron model. It is found that a diffusive coupling leads to the appearance of chaotic attractor. The attractor exists in an invariant region of phase space bounded by the manifolds of the saddle fixed point and the saddle periodic point. The oscillations from the chaotic attractor have a spike-burst shape with anti-phase synchronized spiking.