Stochastic analysis of a Hopf bifurcation: Master equation approach

The effect of inhomogeneous fluctuations in a reaction-diffusion system exhibiting a Hopf bifurcation is analyzed using the master equation approach. A Taylor expansion of the logarithm of the stationary probability, known as the stochastic potential, is calculated. This procedure displays marked analogies with the theory of normal forms. The critical potential, reduced to its local expansion around an arbitrary point of the limit cycle, brings out the essential role played by the phase of the oscillating variables. A comparison with the Langevin analysis of Walgraefet al. [J. Chem. Phys. 78(6):3043 (1983)] is performed.     

Parametric resonance and Hopf bifurcation analysis for a MEMS resonator

We study the response of a MEMS resonator, driven in an in-plane length-extensional mode of excitation. It is observed that the amplitude of the resulting vibration has an upper bound, i.e., the response shows saturation. We present a model for this phenomenon, incorporating interaction with a bending mode. We show that this model accurately describes the observed phenomena. The in-plane (“trivial”) mode is shown to be stable up to a critical value of the amplitude of the excitation. At this value, a new “bending” branch of solutions bifurcates. For appropriate values of the parameters, a subsequent Hopf bifurcation causes a beating phenomenon, in accordance with experimental observations.     

Coherence resonance near a Hopf bifurcation

We report on the observation of coherence resonance for a semiconductor laser with short optical feedback close to Hopf bifurcations. Noise-induced self-pulsations are documented by distinct Lorentzian-like features in the power spectrum. The character of coherence is critically related to the type of the bifurcation. In the supercritical case, spectral width and height of the peak are monotonic functions of the noise level. In contrast, for the subcritical bifurcation, the width exhibits a minimum, translating into resonance behavior of the correlation time in the pulsation transients. A theoretical analysis based on the generic model of a self-sustained oscillator demonstrates that these observations are of general nature and are related to the fact that the damping depends qualitatively different on the noise intensity for the subcritical and supercritical case.     

Hopf bifurcation analysis of a new modified hyperchaotic Lü system

The Hopf bifurcation of a new modified hyperchaotic Lü system with only one equilibrium is investigated in this paper. A detailed set of conditions are derived, which guarantee the existence of the Hopf bifurcation. Furthermore, by applying the normal form theory, the direction and type of the Hopf bifurcation, and the approximate expressions of bifurcating periodic solutions and their periods are determined. In addition, numerical simulation results supporting the theoretical analysis are given.     

Global Hopf bifurcation analysis on a BAM neural network with delays

A delayed differential equation that models a bidirectional associative memory (BAM) neural network with four neurons is considered. By using a global Hopf bifurcation theorem for FDE and a Bendixon's criterion for high-dimensional ODE, a group of sufficient conditions for the system to have multiple periodic solutions are obtained when the sum of delays is sufficiently large.     

Hopf bifurcation analysis and circuit implementation for a novelfour-wing hyper-chaotic system

In the paper, a novel four-wing hyper-chaotic system is proposed and analyzed. A rare dynamic phenomenon is found that this new system with one equilibrium generates a four-wing-hyper-chaotic attractor as parameter varies. The system has rich and complex dynamical behaviors, and it is investigated in terms of Lyapunov exponents, bifurcation diagrams, Poincare′ maps, frequency spectrum, and numerical simulations. In addition, the theoretical analysis shows that the system undergoes a Hopf bifurcation as one parameter varies, which is illustrated by the numerical simulation. Finally, an analog circuit is designed to implement this hyper-chaotic system.     

Hopf bifurcation control of a Pan-like chaotic system

This paper is concerned with the Hopf bifurcation control of a modified Pan-like chaotic system. Based on the Routh-Hurwtiz theory and high-dimensional Hopf bifurcation theory, the existence and stability of the Hopf bifurcation depending on selected values of the system parameters are studied. The region of the stability for the Hopf bifurcation is investigated.By the hybrid control method, a nonlinear controller is designed for changing the Hopf bifurcation point and expanding the range of the stability. Discussions show that with the change of parameters of the controller, the Hopf bifurcation emerges at an expected location with predicted properties and the range of the Hopf bifurcation stability is expanded. Finally,numerical simulation is provided to confirm the analytic results.     

Controlled Hopf bifurcation of a storage-ring free-electron laser

Local bifurcation control is a topic of fundamental importance in the field of nonlinear dynamical systems. We discuss an original example within the context of storage-ring free-electron laser physics by presenting a new model that enables analytical insight into the system dynamics. The transition between the stable and the unstable regimes, depending on the temporal overlapping between the light stored in the optical cavity and the electrons circulating into the ring, is found to be a Hopf bifurcation. A feedback procedure is implemented and shown to provide an effective stabilization of the unstable steady state.     

Hopf bifurcation control via a dynamic state-feedback control

To relocate two Hopf bifurcation points, simultaneously, to any desired locations in n-dimensional nonlinear systems, a novel dynamic state-feedback control law is proposed. Analytical schemes to determine the control gains according to the conditions for the emergence of Hopf bifurcation are derived. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed control law, numerical examples are provided.     

Hopf bifurcation analysis of an aeroelastic model using stochastic normal form

We investigate the effects of parameter uncertainties on the dynamical response of an aeroelastic model representing an oscillating airfoil in pitch and plunge with linear aerodynamics and cubic structural nonlinearities. An approach based on the stochastic normal form is proposed to determine the effects due to the variations in the flow speed and the structural stiffness terms on the stability of the aeroelastic system near the Hopf bifurcation point. This approach allows us to study analytically the bifurcation scenario and to predict the amplitude and frequency of the limit cycle oscillation (LCO). The results show that the amplitude of LCO corresponding to the supercritical Hopf bifurcation increases with the intensity of the noise perturbing the pitch and plunge cubic terms, but there is almost no effect on the LCO frequency. Uncertainties in the flow speed produce a shift in the bifurcation point, and unstable subcritical behavior may occur for values of parameters for which the corresponding deterministic model is stable. The stochastic normal form confirms and extends previously known numerical results regarding the effect of parameter variations, and offers an effective way to perform sensitivity analysis of the system's response.     

Interaction of a Hopf bifurcation and a symmetry-breaking bifurcation: Stochastic potential and spatial correlations

The multivariate master equation for a general reaction-diffusion system is solved perturbatively in the stationary state, in a range of parameters in which a symmetry-breaking bifurcation and a Hopf bifurcation occur simultaneously. Thestochastic potential U is, in general, not analytic. However, in the vicinity of the bifurcation point and under precise conditions on the kinetic constants, it is possible to define a fourth-order expansion ofU around the bifurcating fixed point. Under these conditions, the domains of existence of different attractors, including spatiotemporal structures as well as the spatial correlations of the fluctuations around these attractors, are determined analytically. The role of fluctuations in the existence and stability of the various patterns is pointed out.     

Dynamical Hopf bifurcation in piezoelectric semiconductor resonators

Time-dependent Hopf bifurcations in the current-voltage characteristics of piezoelectric semiconductor resonators were investigated experimentally. The switching transition between acoustic bistable states was observed under a quasi-static variation of applied voltage. The peculiar pulse responses of the resonant currents were observed when the rise-time of the pulses exceeded the eigen-period of the system. The existence of a metastable state in the dynamical Hopf bifurcation are discussed.     

Effects of non-Gaussian noise near supercritical Hopf bifurcation

We have studied the effects of non-Gaussian colored noise in a chemical oscillation system, the well-known Brusselator model, in the parameter region close to the supercritical Hopf bifurcation. With the variation of the parameter q, which quantifies the deviation from Gaussian character, the signal-to-noise ratio of noise induced oscillation exhibits a bell-shaped change, indicating the presence of resonant activity. The cooperative effects of q and the correlation time τ on the performance of noise induced oscillation are also investigated. Interestingly, resonance-like behavior can be induced by either q or τ when the other parameter is properly fixed. Stochastic normal form theory is used to analyze these nontrivial effects and the simulation results are well reproduced. This work provides us comprehensive understanding of how non-Gaussian noise influences the dynamics in chemical oscillation systems.     

Stability and Neimark-Sacker bifurcation analysis of a food-limited population model with a time delay

In this paper,a kind of discrete delay food-limited model obtained by the Euler method is investigated,where the discrete delay τ is regarded as a parameter.By analyzing the associated characteristic equation,the linear stability of this model is studied.It is shown that Neimark-Sacker bifurcation occurs when τ crosses certain critical values.The explicit formulae which determine the stability,direction,and other properties of bifurcating periodic solution are derived by means of the theory of center manifold and normal form.Finally,numerical simulations are performed to verify the analytical results.     

The second Hopf bifurcation in lid-driven square cavity

To date, there are very few studies on the second Hopf bifurcation in a driven square cavity, although there are intensive investigations focused on the first Hopf bifurcation in literature, due to the difficulties of theoretical analyses and numerical simulations. In this paper, we study the characteristics of the second Hopf bifurcation in a driven square cavity by applying a consistent fourth-order compact finite difference scheme recently developed by us. We numerically identify the critical Reynolds number of the second Hopf bifurcation located in the interval of(11093.75, 11094.3604) by bisection. In addition, we find that there are two dominant frequencies in its spectral diagram when the flow is in the status of the second Hopf bifurcation, while only one dominant frequency is identified if the flow is in the first Hopf bifurcation via the Fourier analysis. More interestingly, the flow phase portrait of velocity components is found to make transition from a regular elliptical closed form for the first Hopf bifurcation to a non-elliptical closed form with self-intersection for the second Hopf bifurcation. Such characteristics disclose flow in a quasi-periodic state when the second Hopf bifurcation occurs.     

Dynamical properties of chemical systems near Hopf bifurcation points

In this paper, we numerically investigate local properties of dynamical systems close to a Hopf bifurcation instability. We focus on chemical systems and present an approach based on the theory of normal forms for determining numerical estimates of the limit cycle that branches off at the Hopf bifurcation point. For several numerically ill-conditioned examples taken from chemical kinetics, we compare our results with those obtained by using traditional approaches where an approximation of the limit cycle is restricted to the center subspace spanned by critical eigenvectors, and show that inclusion of higher-order terms in the normal form expansion of the limit cycle provides a significant improvement of the limit cycle estimates. This result also provides an accurate initial estimate for subsequent numerical continuation of the limit cycle. (c) 2000 American Institute of Physics.     

Effect of phase fluctuation on Hopf bifurcation in a ladder type atomic system

Hopf bifurcation inducing lasing without inversion has been analyzed by taking into account the effect of phase fluctuation in the driving field based on a closed three level ladder-type atomic model. It is shown that due to the phase fluctuation of the driving field, the necessary threshold increases significantly. Furthermore the area domain to get lasing without inversion decreases as the driving field's linewidth increases.