Bifurcation and stability analysis of an anaerobic digestion model

This paper presents the dynamic behaviour of the anaerobic digestion process, based on a simplified model. The hydraulic, biological and physicochemical processes such as those which underpin anaerobic digestion have more than one stable stationary solution and they compete with each other. Further, the attractive domains of the stable solutions vary with the key parameters. Thus, some initial transient process moving toward one stable solution could suddenly move towards another solution, at which a so-call catastrophe takes places (e.g. washout). The paper systematically analyses the stationary solutions with their associated stability, which provides insight and guidance for anaerobic digestion reactor design, operation and control.     

Bifurcation and stability analysis for a non-smooth friction oscillator

Summary Friction-induced self-sustained oscillations, also known as stick-slip vibrations, occur in mechanical systems as well as in everyday life. On the basis of a one-dimensional map, the bifurcation behaviour including unstable branches is investigated for a friction oscillator with simultaneous self-and external excitation. The chosen way of mapping also allows a simple determination of Lyapunov exponents.Dedicated to Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. E.h. Dr. h.c. mult. Erwin Stein on the occasion of his 65th birthday.     

Bifurcation analysis of a piecewise-linear impact oscillator with drift

We investigate the complex bifurcation scenarios occurring in the dynamic response of a piecewise-linear impact oscillator with drift, which is able to describe qualitatively the behaviour of impact drilling systems. This system has been extensively studied by numerical and analytical methods in the past, but its intricate bifurcation structure has largely remained unknown. For the bifurcation analysis, we use the computational package TC-HAT, a toolbox of AUTO 97 for numerical continuation and bifurcation detection of periodic orbits of non-smooth dynamical systems (Thota and Dankowicz, SIAM J Appl Dyn Syst 7(4):1283–322, 2008) The study reveals the presence of co-dimension-1 and -2 bifurcations, including fold, period-doubling, grazing, flip-grazing, fold-grazing and double grazing bifurcations of limit cycles, as well as hysteretic effects and chaotic behaviour. Special attention is given to the study of the rate of drift, and how it is affected by the control parameters.     

Adaptive control designs for control-based continuation of periodic orbits in a class of uncertain linear systems

Nonlinear Dynamics - This paper proposes two novel adaptive control designs for the feedback signals used in the control-based continuation paradigm to track families of periodic orbits of...     

Double impact periodic orbits for an inverted pendulum

There exist many types of possible periodic orbits that impact at the walls for the inverted pendulum impacting between two rigid walls. Previous studies only focused on single impact periodic orbits and symmetric periodic orbits that bounce back and forth between the two walls. They respectively correspond to Types I and II orbits in the Chow, Shaw and Rand classification. In this paper we discuss two types of double impact periodic orbits that have not been studied before. The equations need to be solved for double impact orbits are transcendental and it is very hard to see the structure of the solutions. Consequently the analysis of double impact orbits is much more difficult than that of Types I and II orbits. A combination of analytical and numerical methods is employed to investigate the existence, stability and bifurcations of these orbits. Grazing bifurcations, which do not present for Types I and II orbits, are also observed.     

Bifurcation and chaos in discrete-time BVP oscillator

In this paper, we investigate the discrete-time Bohöffer-Van der Pol (BVP) oscillator obtained by Euler method. We provide the sufficient conditions of existence, asymptotic stability of the fixed points, then give theoretical analysis for local bifurcations of the fixed points, and derive the conditions under which the local bifurcations such as pitchfork, saddle-node, flip and Hopf occur at the fixed points. Furthermore, we prove that the fixed point eventually evolves into a snap-back repeller which generates chaotic behavior in the sense of Marotto's chaos when certain conditions are satisfied. Finally, several numerical simulations are provided to demonstrate the theoretical results of the previous and to show the new complex dynamical behaviors of the system.     

Detecting unstable periodic orbits and unstable quasiperiodic orbits in vibro-impact systems

In this paper, unstable dynamics is considered for the models of vibro-impact systems with linear differential equations coupled to an impact map. To provide a skeleton for the organization of chaotic attractors, we propose a method for detecting unstable periodic orbits embedded in chaotic attractors through a combination of unconstrained optimization technique and Poincaré map. Three numerical examples from different vibro-impact models demonstrate that the strategy can efficiently detect unstable periodic orbits in chaotic attractors. In order to explore the mechanism responsible for the creation of multi-dimensional tori attractors, we also present another method to detect unstable quasiperiodic orbits embedded multi-dimensional tori attractors by examining a specially transient time series. The upper bound and lower bound of the transient time series (in the Poincaré map) can be obtained by analyzing transient Lyapunov exponent and transient Lyapunov dimension. Some examples verify the effectiveness of the numerical algorithm.     

Bifurcation sequences of a Coulomb friction oscillator

In some parameter ranges, the dynamics of a forced oscillator with Coulomb friction dependent on both displacement and velocity is reducible to the dynamics of a one-dimensional map. In numerical simulations, period-doubling bifurcations are observed for the oscillator. In this bifurcation procedure, the map arising from the Coulomb model may not have standard form. The bifurcation sequence of the Coulomb model is compared to that of the standard one-dimensional maps to see if it exhibits universal behavior. All observed components of the bifurcation sequence fit the universal sequence, although some universal events are not witnessed.     

Bifurcations of periodic orbits in Duffing equation with periodic damping and external excitations

The complex behaviors of Duffing equation with periodic damping and external excitations are investigated. The existence conditions and bifurcations of periodic orbits with three different frequencies resonant conditions are concerned by the second-order averaging method and the Melnikov method. The rich dynamical behaviors are so distinct when different periodic damping excitations are added, including more complicated averaged equations, bifurcation curves, bifurcation conditions, and even chaos. The numerical simulations show the consistence with the theoretical analysis and reveal new complex phenomena which cannot be given by theoretical analysis.     

Bifurcation analysis of a smoothed model of a forced impacting beam and comparison with an experiment

A piecewise-linear model with a single degree of freedom is derived from first principles for a driven vertical cantilever beam with a localized mass and symmetric stops. The aim is to show that this model constitutes a considerable step toward developing a vibro-impact model that is able to make qualitative and quantitative predictions of the observed dynamics. The resulting piecewise-linear dynamical system is smoothed by a switching function (nonlinear homotopy). For the chosen smoothing function, it is shown that the smoothing can induce bifurcations in certain parameter regimes. These induced bifurcations disappear when the transition of the switching is sufficiently and increasingly localized as the impact becomes harder. The bifurcation structure of the impact oscillator response is investigated via the one- and two-parameter continuation of periodic orbits in the driving frequency and/or forcing amplitude. The results are in good agreement with experimental measurements.     

Bifurcation scenarios of the noisy duffing-van der pol oscillator

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