Position and Velocity Time Delay for Suppression Vibrations of a Hybrid Rayleigh-Van der Pol-Duffing Oscillator

In this paper, we used time delay feedback to minimize the vibrations of a hybrid Rayleigh–van der Pol–Duffing oscillator. This system is a one-degree-offreedom containing the cubic and fifth nonlinear terms and an external force. We applied the multiple scales method to get the solution from first approximation. Graphically and numerically, we studied the system before and after adding time delay feedback at the primary resonance case (Ω ≌ ω). We used MATLAB program to simulate the efficacy of different parameters and the time delay on the main system.     

耦合的van der Pol振子的极限环幅值控制

设计反馈控制器，对一类耦合的van der Pol振子的极限环幅值进行控制. 用近似解析方法求出了控制系统的幅值的控制方程, 得到了控制参数与极限环幅值的函数关系, 使系统的振幅能按需求得到有效地调整. 通过数值计算绘制了在不同控制参数下, 系统响应的时间历程曲线和极限环. 近似解析方法计算得到的结果与数值计算进行了比较，两者是符合的. 这一方法也可以推广应用到其他耦合的van der Pol振子.     

Phase-flip transition in nonlinear oscillators coupled by dynamic environment

We study the dynamics of nonlinear oscillators indirectly coupled through a dynamical environment or a common medium. We observed that this form of indirect coupling leads to synchronization and phase-flip transition in periodic as well as chaotic regime of oscillators. The phase-flip transition from in- to anti-phase synchronization or vise-versa is analyzed in the parameter plane with examples of Landau-Stuart and Ro?ssler oscillators. The dynamical transitions are characterized using various indices such as average phase difference, frequency, and Lyapunov exponents. Experimental evidence of the phase-flip transition is shown using an electronic version of the van der Pol oscillators.     

Phase synchronization and synchronization frequency of two-coupled van der Pol oscillators with delayed coupling

In this paper, phase synchronization and the frequency of two synchronized van der Pol oscillators with delay coupling are studied. The dynamics of such a system are obtained using the describing function method, and the necessary conditions for phase synchronization are also achieved. Finding the vicinity of the synchronization frequency is the major advantage of the describing function method over other traditional methods. The equations obtained based on this method justify the phenomenon of the synchronization of coupled oscillators on a frequency either higher, between, or lower than the highest, in between, or lowest natural frequency of the aggregate oscillators. Several numerical examples simulate the different cases versus the various synchronization frequency delays.     

Equivalent linearization finds nonzero frequency corrections beyond first order

We show that the equivalent linearization technique, when used properly, enables us to calculate frequency corrections of weakly nonlinear oscillators beyond the first order in nonlinearity. We illustrate the method by applying it to the conservative anharmonic oscillators and the nonconservative van der Pol oscillator that are respectively paradigmatic systems for modeling center-type oscillatory states and limit cycle type oscillatory states. The choice of these systems is also prompted by the fact that first order frequency corrections may vanish for both these types of oscillators, thereby rendering the calculation of the higher order corrections rather important. The method presented herein is very general in nature and, hence, in principle applicable to any arbitrary periodic oscillator.     

Experimental chaotic map generated by picosecond laser pulse-seeded electro-optic nonlinear delay dynamics

We describe experimental studies of the dynamical behavior of a recently proposed electro-optic discrete time nonlinear delay oscillator. With appropriate choice of the oscillator loop parameters and external forcing of the dynamics using a pulsed laser source, the system allows for the physical realization of a high dimensional mathematical nonlinear mapping. The dynamical features observed with this new class of discrete time delay oscillator differ significantly from those observed with similar continuous time nonlinear delay feedback oscillators and reveal the intrinsic discrete time nature of the dynamics. We also discuss specific applications to chaos communications using regularly clocked binary data.     

分数阶van der Pol振子的超谐共振

以含分数阶微分项的van der Pol振子为对象,研究其超谐共振时的动力学特性.首先,通过平均法得到了系统的一阶近似解,提出了超谐共振时等效线性阻尼和等效线性刚度的概念,研究了分数阶微分项的系数和阶次以等效线性阻尼和等效线性刚度的形式对系统动力学特性的影响.随后,建立了超谐共振时定常解的幅频曲线的解析表达式,得到了超谐共振周期响应的稳定性判断准则并提出等效非线性阻尼和非线性稳定性条件参数的概念.最后,通过数值仿真比较了分数阶与整数阶系统的幅频曲线,分析了分数阶微分项的系数和阶次对响应幅值、幅频曲线以及系统稳定性的影响.     

Self-excited oscillation under nonlinear feedback with time-delay

Several important applications use nonlinear feedback methods for synthetically inducing self-excited oscillations in mechanical systems. The van der Pol and saturation function type feedback methods are widely used. The effects of time-delay on the self-excited oscillation of single and two degrees-of-freedom systems under nonlinear feedback have been studied in this paper. It is shown that a single degree-of-freedom oscillator with the van der Pol type nonlinear feedback can produce unbounded response in presence of time-delay. In general, an uncontrolled time-delay in the feedback changes the state of oscillations in an uncertain manner. Therefore, a bounded saturation type feedback with controllable time-delay is proposed for inducing self-excited oscillations. The feedback signal is essentially an infinite weighted sum of a nonlinear function of the state variables of the system measured at equal intervals in the past. More recent is the measurement, higher is the weight. Thus, the feedback signal uses a large amount of information about the past history of the dynamics. Such a control signal can be realized in practice by a recursive means. The control law allows three parameters to be varied namely, the time-delay, feedback and recursive gains. Multiple time scale analysis is used to plot amplitude vs. time-delay curves. Time-delay can be controlled to vary the amplitude of oscillation as well as to switch the oscillation from one mode to the other in a two degrees-of-freedom system. It is shown that a higher recursive gain can exercise a better and a more robust control on the amplitude of oscillation of the system. Analytical results are compared with the results of numerical simulations.     

Vibration control by recursive time-delayed acceleration feedback

This paper presents a theoretical basis of time-delayed acceleration feedback control of linear and nonlinear vibrations of mechanical oscillators. The control signal is synthesized by an infinite, weighted sum of the acceleration of the vibrating system measured at equal time intervals in the past. The proposed method is shown to have controlled linear resonant vibrations, low-frequency non-resonant vibrations, primary and 1/3 subharmonic resonances of a forced Duffing oscillator. The concept of an equivalent damping and natural frequency of the system is also introduced. It is shown that a large amount of damping can be produced by appropriately selecting the control parameters. For some combinations of the control parameters, the effective damping factor of the system is shown to be inversely related to the time-delay in the small delay limit. Selection of the optimum control parameters for controlling the forced and free vibrations is discussed. It is shown that forced vibration is best controlled by unity recursive gain and smaller values of the time-delay parameter. However, the transient response can be optimally controlled by suitably selecting the time delay depending upon the gain. The delay values for the optimal forced response may be different from that required for the optimum transient response. When both are important, a suboptimal choice of the delay parameters with unity recursive gain is recommended.     

Oscillation death in a coupled van der Pol–Mathieu system

We report an investigation of the oscillation death (OD) of a parametrically excited coupled van der Pol–Mathieu (vdPM) system. The system can be considered as a pair of harmonically forced van der Pol oscillators under a double-well potential. The two oscillators are coupled with a cubic nonlinearity. We have shown that the system arrives at an OD regime when coupling strength crosses a threshold value at which the system undergoes saddle-node bifurcation and two limit cycles coalesce onto a fixed point of the system. We have further shown that this nonautonomous system possesses a centre manifold corresponding to the OD regime.     

Phasing of three vircators simulated in terms of coupled van der Pol oscillators

Phase synchronization in a system of three virtual-cathode microwave oscillators (vircators) simulated by coupled van der Pol oscillators is studied. The phasing dynamics of the vircators is visualized with the phase portraits of the system in the triangular coordinates. Different phasing conditions are found.     

Structure of resonances and formation of stationary points in symmetrical chains of bilinear oscillators

Dynamics of strongly nonlinear systems can in many cases be modelled by bilinear oscillators, which are the oscillators whose springs have different stiffnesses in compression and tension. This underpins the analysis of a wide range of phenomena, from oscillations of fragmented structures, connections and mooring lines to deformation of geological media. Single bilinear oscillators were studied previously and the presence of multiple resonances both super- and sub-harmonic was found. Less attention was paid to systems of multiple bilinear oscillators that describe many natural and engineering processes such as for example the behaviour of fragmented solids. Here we fill this gap concentrating on the simplest case – 1D symmetrical chains of bilinear oscillators. We show that the presence and structure of resonances in a symmetric chain of bilinear oscillators with fixed ends depends upon the number of oscillating masses. Two elementary chains act as the basic ones: a single mass bilinear chain (a mass connected to the fixed points by two bilinear springs) that behaves as a linear oscillator with a single resonance and a two mass chain that is a coupled bilinear oscillator (two masses connected by three bilinear springs). The latter has multiple resonances. We demonstrate that longer chains either do not have resonances or get decomposed, in the resonance, into either the single mass or two mass elementary chains with stationary masses in between. The resonance frequencies are inherited from the basic chains of decomposition. We show that if the number of masses is odd the chain can be decomposed into the single mass bilinear chains separated by stationary masses. It then inherits the resonances of the single mass bilinear chain. The chains with the number of masses minus 2 divisible by 3 can be decomposed into the two mass bilinear chains separated by stationary masses and inherit the resonances of the two mass chains. The chains whose lengths satisfy both criteria (such as chains with 5, 11, 17 … masses) allow both types of resonances.     

Effect of noise and perturbations on limit cycle systems

This paper demonstrates that the influence of noise and of external perturbations on a nonlinear oscillator can vary strongly along the limit cycle and upon transition from limit cycle to stationary point behaviour. For this purpose we consider the role of noise on the Bonhoeffer-van der Pol model in a range of control parameters where the model exhibits a limit cycle, but the parameters are close to values corresponding to a stable stationary point. Our analysis is based on the van Kampen approximation for solutions of the Fokker-Planck equation in the limit of weak noise. We investigate first separately the effect of noise on motion tangential and normal to the limit cycle. The key result is that noise induces diffusion-like spread along the limit cycle, but quasistationary behaviour normal to the limit cycle. We then describe the coupled motion and show that noise acting in the normal direction can strongly enhance diffusion along the limit cycle. We finally argue that the variability of the system's response to noise can be exploited in populations of nonlinear oscillators in that weak coupling can induce synchronization as long as the single oscillators operate in a regime close to the transition between oscillatory and excitatory modes.     

A strange attractor of the Smale-Williams type in the chaotic dynamics of a physical system

A nonautonomous nonlinear system is constructed and implemented as an experimental device. As represented by a 4D stroboscopic Poincaré map, the system exhibits a Smale-Williams-type strange attractor. The system consists of two coupled van der Pol oscillators whose frequencies differ by a factor of two. The corresponding Hopf bifurcation parameters slowly vary as periodic functions of time in antiphase with one another; i.e., excitation is alternately transferred between the oscillators. The mechanisms underlying the system’s chaotic dynamics and onset of chaos are qualitatively explained. A governing system of differential equations is formulated. The existence of a chaotic attractor is confirmed by numerical results. Hyperbolicity is verified numerically by performing a statistical analysis of the distribution of the angle between the stable and unstable subspaces of manifolds of the chaotic invariant set. Experimental results are in qualitative agreement with numerical predictions.     

Quasi-periodic bifurcations of four-frequency tori in the ring of five coupled van der Pol oscillators with different types of dissipative coupling

Technical Physics - Five van der Pol oscillators connected into a ring have been investigated numerically. We have considered different types of coupling: dissipative and active, as well as...     

Bifurcation, amplitude death and oscillation patterns in a system of three coupled van der Pol oscillators with diffusively delayed velocity coupling

In this paper, we study a system of three coupled van der Pol oscillators that are coupled through the damping terms. Hopf bifurcations and amplitude death induced by the coupling time delay are first investigated by analyzing the related characteristic equation. Then the oscillation patterns of these bifurcating periodic oscillations are determined and we find that there are two kinds of critical values of the coupling time delay: one is related to the synchronous periodic oscillations, the other is related to eight branches of asynchronous periodic solutions bifurcating simultaneously from the zero solution. The stability of these bifurcating periodic solutions are also explicitly determined by calculating the normal forms on center manifolds, and the stable synchronous and stable phase-locked periodic solutions are found. Finally, some numerical simulations are employed to illustrate and extend our obtained theoretical results and numerical studies also describe the switches of stable synchronous and phase-locked periodic oscillations.     

Amplitude control of limit cycle in a van der Pol Duffing system

This paper applies washout filter technology to amplitude control of limit cycles emerging from Hopf bifurcation of the van der Pol--Duffing system. The controlling parameters for the appearance of Hopf bifurcation are given by the Routh--Hurwitz criteria. Noticeably, numerical simulation indicates that the controllers control the amplitude of limit cycles not only of the weakly nonlinear van der Pol--Duffing system but also of the strongly nonlinear van der Pol--Duffing system. In particular, the emergence of Hopf bifurcation can be controlled by a suitable choice of controlling parameters. Gain-amplitude curves of controlled systems are also drawn.     

Optical size resonances in nanostructures

The existence of optical size resonances in atomic nanostructures is proved. The properties of optical size resonances strongly depend on the interatomic distances and on the polarization of an external radiation field. The properties of linear and nonlinear size resonances are considered in the case of two-dimensional nanostructures. The linear optical size resonances are described based on a closed system of equations for dipole oscillators and nonlocal field equations taking into account the dipole-dipole interactions of atoms in the radiation field. Using a stationary solution to these equations, it is demonstrated that two isotropic atoms with definite intrinsic frequencies form an anisotropic system in the radiation field, possessing two or four size resonances depending on whether the component atoms are identical or different. The nanostructure composed of two different atoms possesses two size resonances with positive dispersion and two other resonances with negative dispersion. The frequencies of the size resonances significantly differ from the intrinsic frequencies of isolated atoms entering into the nanostructure. By changing the angle of incidence of the external wave, it is possible to excite various size resonances. The properties of nonlinear optical size resonances excited by an intense radiation field were theoretically and numerically studied using the modified Bloch equations and nonlocal field equations. Dispersion relationships for the nonlinear resonances were derived and the inversion properties of atoms in the nanostructure were studied for various polarizations of the external optical wave.     

Applications of a generalized Galerkin's method to non-linear oscillations of two-degree-of-freedom systems

A generalized Galerkin's method is formulated for multi-degree-of-freedom holonomic systems. Two autonomous non-linear two-d.o.f. oscillators are used as the examples for the applications of the method: (i) free oscillations of a non-linear mass-spring system with two d.o.f., (ii) two weakly non-linearly coupled identical van der Pol oscillators. The accuracy of the approximate solutions is discussed. The effect of different time intervals of integration on the results is also investigated.