Bifurcations in a predator-prey model with discrete and distributed time delay

In this paper, a class of predator-prey model with discrete and distributed time delay is considered. Its dynamics are studied in terms of local analysis and Hopf bifurcation analysis. By using the normal form theory and center manifold theory, we derive some explicit formulae for determining the stability and the direction of the Hopf bifurcation periodic solutions bifurcating from Hopf bifurcations. Some numerical simulations for justifying the theoretical analysis are also provided. Finally, main conclusions are included.     

One-to-three resonant Hopf bifurcations of a maglev system

This paper studies the dynamics of a maglev system around 1:3 resonant Hopf–Hopf bifurcations. When two pairs of purely imaginary roots exist for the corresponding characteristic equation, the maglev system has an interaction of Hopf–Hopf bifurcations at the intersection of two bifurcation curves in the feedback control parameter and time delay space. The method of multiple time scales is employed to drive the bifurcation equations for the maglev system by expressing complex amplitudes in a combined polar-Cartesian representation. The dynamics behavior in the vicinity of 1:3 resonant Hopf–Hopf bifurcations is studied in terms of the controller’s parameters (time delay and two feedback control gains). Finally, numerical simulations are presented to support the analytical results and demonstrate some interesting phenomena for the maglev system.     

Group delay induced instabilities and Hopf bifurcations, of a controlled double pendulum

Digital filters, frequently used in active control of mechanical systems, enable one to improve the signal-to-noise ratio and the control performance, but introduce group delays into the control loops simultaneously. In order to gain an insight into the effects of a digital filter on a controlled mechanical system, this paper presents the stability switches and the corresponding Hopf bifurcations of a double pendulum system with the linear quadratic control having a digital filter via theoretical analysis, numerical simulations and experiments. In this study, the digital filters are used to remove the undesired noise of high frequency, which is embedded in the control signal, and are modeled as the components of pure time delay during the theoretical analysis and numerical simulations. The study shows that a digital filter with moderate specifications can not only improve the vibration reduction effectively, but also save the energy consumption of the servo-motor remarkably. However, over demanding specifications will make the group delay of the filter exceed a critical value and cause either a divergent motion or a self-excited vibration through a Hopf bifurcation, the occurrence of which depends on both the stability and the size of the basin of attraction of the bifurcating periodic motion. The experimental results well coincide with the theoretical and numerical ones, and strongly support the simplification of the digital filters as the components of pure time delay. Finally, some suggestions are made to avoid the group delay induced instability.     

Stability and Hopf bifurcation of a delayed ratio-dependent predator-prey system

Since the ratio-dependent theory reflects the fact that predators must share and compete for food, it is suitable for describing the relationship between predators and their preys and has recently become a very important theory put forward by biologists. In order to investigate the dynamical relationship between predators and their preys, a so-called Michaelis-Menten ratio-dependent predator-prey model is studied in this paper with gestation time delays of predators and preys taken into consideration. The stability of the positive equilibrium is investigated by the Nyquist criteria, and the existence of the local Hopf bifurcation is analyzed by employing the theory of Hopf bifurcation. By means of the center manifold and the normal form theories, explicit formulae are derived to determine the stability, direction and other properties of bifurcating periodic solutions. The above theoretical results are validated by numerical simulations with the help of dynamical software WinPP. The results show that if both the gestation delays are small enough, their sizes will keep stable in the long run, but if the gestation delays of predators are big enough, their sizes will periodically fluc-tuate in the long term. In order to reveal the effects of time delays on the ratio-dependent predator-prey model, a ratiodependent predator-prey model without time delays is considered. By Hurwitz criteria, the local stability of positive equilibrium of this model is investigated. The conditions under which the positive equilibrium is locally asymptotically stable are obtained. By comparing the results with those of the model with time delays, it shows that the dynamical behaviors of ratio-dependent predator-prey model with time delays are more complicated. Under the same conditions, namely, with the same parameters, the stability of positive equilibrium of ratio-dependent predator-prey model would change due to the introduction of gestation time delays for predators and preys. Moreover, with the variation of time delays, the positive equilibrium of the ratio-dependent predator-prey model subjects to Hopf bifurcation.     

Piezoelectric control of Hopf bifurcations: A non-linear discrete case study

Linear and non-linear analyses of a piezoelectric controlled non-linear Ziegler column are carried out in this paper. The aim is to evaluate the effects of a linear piezoelectric element on the Hopf bifurcations of the non-linear mechanical system, triggered by the non-conservative follower force. To this end a linear stability analysis, showing the performances of the controller in shifting forward the critical load of the uncontrolled system, is carried out and the role of the electro-mechanical coupling parameter and of the mechanical damping is investigated. The beneficial effects of the controller on the amplitude of the limit cycle occurring in the post-critical field are also discussed.     

On the two bifurcations of a white-noise excited Hopf bifurcation system

I.IntroductionNonlinearanalysiseffortsmainlyincluderesearchesonthestablemotionofasystem.investigationsonitsstabilityfeaturesandtheinstantaneousmotionofadynamicalsystemwhenchangesoccurtoitsgoverningparameters.Theso-calledstochasticbifurcationimpliesthetran…     

Fractional-order PD control at Hopf bifurcations in a fractional-order congestion control system

In this paper, we address the problem of the bifurcation control of a delayed fractional-order dual model of congestion control algorithms. A fractional-order proportional–derivative (PD) feedback controller is designed to control the bifurcation generated by the delayed fractional-order congestion control model. By choosing the communication delay as the bifurcation parameter, the issues of the stability and bifurcations for the controlled fractional-order model are studied. Applying the stability theorem of fractional-order systems, we obtain some conditions for the stability of the equilibrium and the Hopf bifurcation. Additionally, the critical value of time delay is figured out, where a Hopf bifurcation occurs and a family of oscillations bifurcate from the equilibrium. It is also shown that the onset of the bifurcation can be postponed or advanced by selecting proper control parameters in the fractional-order PD controller. Finally, numerical simulations are given to validate the main results and the effectiveness of the control strategy.

     

Local stability and Hopf bifurcations analysis of the Muthuswamy-Chua-Ginoux system

The three-dimensional Muthuswamy–Chua–Ginoux (MCG, for short) circuit system based on a thermistor is a generalization of the classical Muthuswamy–Chua circuit differential system. At present, there are only partial numerical simulations for the qualitative analysis of the MCG circuit system. In this work, we study local stability and Hopf bifurcations of the MCG circuit system depending on 8 parameters. The emerging of limit cycles under zero-Hopf bifurcation and Hopf bifurcation is investigated in detail by using the averaging method and the center manifolds theory, respectively. We provide sufficient conditions for a class of the circuit systems to have a prescribed number of limit cycles bifurcating from the zero-Hopf equilibria by making use of the third-order averaging method, as well as the methods of Gröbner basis and real solution classification from symbolic computation. Such algebraic analysis allows one to study the zero-Hopf bifurcation for any other differential system in dimension 3 or higher. After, the classical Hopf bifurcation of the circuit system is analyzed by computing the first three focus quantities near the Hopf equilibria. Some examples and numerical simulations are presented to verify the established theoretical results.

     

Stability and Hopf bifurcations of an optoelectronic time-delay feedback system

The local dynamics around the trivial solution of an optoelectronic time-delay feedback system is investigated in the paper, and the effect of the feedback strength on the stability is addressed. The linear stability analysis shows that as the feedback strength varies, the system undergoes exactly two times of stability switch from a stable status to an unstable status or vice versa, and at each of the two end points of the stable interval, a Hopf bifurcation occurs. To gain insight of the bifurcated periodic solution, the Lindstedt–Poincaré method that involves easy computation, rather than the center manifold reduction that involves a great deal of tedious computation as done in the literature, is used to calculate the bifurcated periodic solution, and to determine the direction of the bifurcation. Two case studies are made to demonstrate the efficiency of the method.     

Analysis of a spatial predator-prey model with delay

In this paper, we present a Holling–Tanner model combined with diffusion and time delay. We found that, when time delay is small, there is no the synchronization of prey and the predator. However, when it is larger, there is antiphase synchronization. Furthermore, a transition from anti-phase synchronization to in-phase synchronization emerges as time delay further increases. Since synchronization of populations could lead them to be extinct, the results obtained may indicate that time delay plays an important role on the persistence of the populations.     

The simplest parametrized normal forms of Hopf and generalized Hopf bifurcations

This paper considers the computation of the simplest parameterized normal forms (SPNF) of Hopf and generalized Hopf bifurcations. Although the notion of the simplest normal form has been studied for more than two decades, most of the efforts have been spent on the systems that do not involve perturbation parameters due to the restriction of the computational complexity. Very recently, two singularities – single zero and Hopf bifurcation – have been investigated, and the SPNFs for these two cases have been obtained. This paper extends a recently developed method for Hopf bifurcation to compute the SPNF of generalized Hopf bifurcations. The attention is focused on a codimension-2 generalized Hopf bifurcation. It is shown that the SPNF cannot be obtained by using only a near-identity transformation. Additional transformations such as time and parameter rescaling are further introduced. Moreover, an efficient recursive formula is presented for computing the SPNF. Examples are given to demonstrate the applicability of the new method.     

Correction to: Local stability and Hopf bifurcations analysis of the Muthuswamy-Chua-Ginoux system

Nonlinear Dynamics - A Correction to this paper has been published: 10.1007/s11071-022-07409-3     

Localization of Hopf bifurcations in fluid flow problems

This paper is concerned with the precise localization of Hopf bifurcations in various fluid flow problems. This is when a stationary solution loses stability and often becomes periodic in time. The difficulty is to determine the critical Reynolds number where a pair of eigenvalues of the Jacobian matrix crosses the imaginary axis. This requires the computation of the eigenvalues (or at least some of them) of a large matrix resulting from the discretization of the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations. We thus present a method allowing the computation of the smallest eigenvalues, from which we can extract the one with the smallest real part. From the imaginary part of the critical eigenvalue we can deduce the fundamental frequency of the time-periodic solution. These computations are then confirmed by direct simulation of the time-dependent Navier–Stokes equations. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Forecasting supercritical and subcritical Hopf bifurcations in aeroelastic systems

A novel method of forecasting bifurcations based on only the observation of the pre-bifurcation regime is proposed. The method is an extension of previous approaches with a focus on oscillatory systems. The method also enables the use of much less measurement data. Numerical results are presented to demonstrate that this new approach predicts the post-bifurcation regime accurately and to explore the robustness of this method to process noise.     

Super-critical and sub-critical Hopf bifurcations in two and three dimensions

Hopf bifurcations have been studied perturbatively under two broad headings, viz., super-critical and sub-critical. The criteria for occurrences of such bifurcations have been investigated using the renormalization group. The procedure has been described in detail for both two and three dimensions and has been applied to several important models, including those by Lorenz and Rossler.     

Stability and Hopf bifurcation in a three-neuron unidirectional ring with distributed delays

In this paper, we consider the effect of distributed delays in a three-neuron unidirectional ring. Sufficient conditions for existence of unique equilibrium, multiple equilibria and their local stability are derived. Taking the average delay as a bifurcation parameter, we find two critical values at which the system undergoes Hopf bifurcations. The orbital asymptotic stability of the Hopf bifurcating periodic solutions is investigated by using the method of multiple scales. The global Hopf bifurcation is also studied. Finally, the theoretical results are illustrated by some numerical simulations.     

Global stability and Hopf bifurcation of a predator-prey model with stage structure and delayed predator response

A Holling type predator-prey model with stage structure for the predator and a time delay due to the gestation of the mature predator is investigated. By analyzing the characteristic equations, the local stability of a predator-extinction equilibrium and a coexistence equilibrium of the model is addressed and the existence of Hopf bifurcations at the coexistence equilibrium is established. By means of the persistence theory on infinite dimensional systems, it is proven that the system is permanent if the coexistence equilibrium is feasible. By using Lyapunov functionals and the LaSalle invariance principle, it is shown that the predator-extinction equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable when the coexistence equilibrium is not feasible, and sufficient conditions are derived for the global stability of the coexistence equilibrium. Numerical simulations are carried out to illustrate the main theoretical results.