Global topological properties of the Hopf bifurcation

We study the homotopical and homological properties of the attractors evolving from a generalized Hopf bifurcation. We consider the Lorenz equations for parameter values near the Hopf bifurcation and study a natural Morse decomposition of the global attractor, calculating the Čech homotopy type of the Lorenz attractor, the shape indexes of the Morse sets and the Morse equation of the decomposition.     

Global attractor for thermoelasticity in shape memory alloys without viscosity

We consider a nonlinear system of thermoelasticity in shape memory alloys without viscosity. The existence and uniqueness of strong and weak solutions and the existence of a compact global attractor in an appropriate space are proved. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Bounds for a new chaotic system and its application in chaos synchronization

This paper has investigated the localization problem of compact invariant sets of a new chaotic system with the help of the iteration theorem and the first order extremum theorem. If there are more iterations, then the estimation for the bound of the system will be more accurate, because the shape of the chaotic attractor is irregular. We establish that all compact invariant sets of this system are located in the intersection of a ball with two frusta and we also compute its parameters. It is a great advantage that we can attain a smaller bound of the chaotic attractor compared with the classical method. One numerical example illustrating a localization of a chaotic attractor is presented as well.     

Convergence of Exponential Attractors for a Finite Element Approximation of the Allen–Cahn Equation

Abstract

We consider a space semidiscretization of the Allen–Cahn equation by continuous piecewise linear finite elements. For every mesh parameter h, we build an exponential attractor of the dynamical system associated with the approximate equations. We prove that, as h tends to 0, this attractor converges for the symmetric Hausdorff distance to an exponential attractor of the dynamical system associated with the Allen–Cahn equation. We also prove that the fractal dimension of the exponential attractor and of the global attractor is bounded by a constant independent of h. Our proof is adapted from the result of Efendiev, Miranville and Zelik concerning the continuity of exponential attractors under perturbation of the underlying semigroup. Here, the perturbation is a space discretization. The case of a time semidiscretization has been analyzed in a previous paper.     

Comparison of various concepts of a random attractor:¶ A case study

Several non-equivalent definitions of an attractor of a random dynamical system have been proposed in the literature. We consider a rather simple special case: random dynamical systems with state space [0, ￥) [0, \infty) which fix 0. We examine conditions under which the set {0} is an attractor for three different notions of an attractor. It turns out that even in this simple case the various concepts are quite different. The purpose of this note is to highlight these differences and thus provide a basis for discussion about the "correct" concept of a random attractor.     

Pointed shape and global attractors for metrizable spaces

In this paper we consider two notions of attractors for semidynamical systems defined in metric spaces. We show that Borsuk's weak and strong shape theories are a convenient framework to study the global properties which the attractor inherits from the phase space.Moreover we obtain pointed equivalences (even in the absence of equilibria) which allow to consider also pointed invariants, like shape groups.     

Thick attractors of step skew products

A diffeomorphism is said to have a thick attractor provided that its Milnor attractor has positive but not full Lebesgue measure. We prove that there exists an open set in the space of boundary preserving step skew products with a fiber [0,1], such that any map in this set has a thick attractor.     

Dynamical bifurcation of the damped Kuramoto–Sivashinsky equation

In this paper, we study the primary instability of the damped Kuramoto–Sivashinsky equation under a periodic boundary condition. We prove that it bifurcates from the trivial solution to an attractor which determines the long time dynamics of the system. Using the attractor bifurcation theorem and the center manifold theory, we describe the bifurcated attractor in detail.     

Kolmogorov ε-entropy of attractor for a non-autonomous strongly damped wave equation

In this paper, we study the long-time behavior of solutions for a non-autonomous strongly damped wave equation. We first prove the existence of a uniform attractor for the equation with a translation compact driving force and then obtain an upper estimate for the Kolmogorov ε-entropy of the uniform attractor. Finally we obtain an upper bound of the fractal dimension of the uniform attractor with quasiperiodic force.     

Attractors for a Three-Dimensional Thermo-Mechanical Model of Shape Memory Alloys

Abstract In this note, we consider a Frémond model of shape memory alloys. Let us imagine a piece of a shape memory alloy which is fixed on one part of its boundary, and assume that forcing terms, e.g., heat sources and external stress on the remaining part of its boundary, converge to some time-independent functions, in appropriate senses, as time goes to infinity. Under the above assumption, we shall discuss the asymptotic stability for the dynamical system from the viewpoint of the global attractor. More precisely, we generalize the paper [12] dealing with the one-dimensional case. First, we show the existence of the global attractor for the limiting autonomous dynamical system; then we characterize the asymptotic stability for the non-autonomous case by the limiting global attractor. * Project supported by the MIUR-COFIN 2004 research program on “Mathematical Modelling and Analysis of Free Boundary Problems”.     

粉末注射成形动力方程的混沌特征分析及研究

粉末注射成形（PIM）充模过程具有混沌的特征．本文利用软件ANSYS对PIM充模过程的动力学方程数值求解。通过吸引子形态描述法分析对比两种不同注射速度下的动态吸引子图,计算混沌吸引子形态特征量,定量的表述混沌吸引子变化规律．研究表明粉末注射成形充模过程中存在混沌现象．     

Exponential attractor and its fractal dimension for a second order lattice dynamical system

We construct an exponential attractor for a second order lattice dynamical system with nonlinear damping arising from spatial discretization of wave equations in Rk. And we obtain fractal dimension of the exponential attractor and its finite-dimensional approximation.     

Weak solutions and attractors for motion equations for an objective model of viscoelastic medium

We study the boundary value problem for the equations of motion of incompressible viscoelastic medium with an objective constitutive law of Jeffreys kind. We show existence of global weak solutions for any initial data and construct their minimal uniform trajectory attractor and uniform global attractor. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Ends of iterated function systems

Guided by classical concepts, we define the notion of ends of an iterated function system and prove that the number of ends is an upper bound for the number of nondegenerate components of its attractor. The remaining isolated points are then linked to idempotent maps. A commutative diagram illustrates the natural relationships between the infinite walks in a semigroup and components of an attractor in more detail. We show in particular that, if an iterated function system is one-ended, the associated attractor is connected, and ask whether every connected attractor (fractal) conversely admits a one-ended system.     

Estimates on the dimension of an exponential attractor for a delay differential equation

We study the long time behavior of delay differential equation, considered in a bounded domain in ? ^d . Using the short trajectory method to prove the existence of the exponential attractor. Also we have estimates on the fractal dimension of an exponential attractor.     

On the relation between two different concepts of pullback attractors for non-autonomous dynamical systems

For an abstract dynamical system, we establish, under minimal assumptions, the existence of D-attractor, i.e. a pullback attractor for a given class D of families of time varying subsets of the phase space. We relate this concept with the usual attractor of fixed bounded sets, pointing out its usefulness in order to ensure the existence of this last attractor in particular situations. Moreover, we prove that under a simple assumption these two notions of attractors generate, in fact, the same object. This is then applied to a Navier-Stokes model, improving some previous results on attractor theory.     

巴拿赫空间中半群指数吸引子的存在性

We construct an exponential attractor for semigroup in Banach space by using ω-limit compactness method and provide a new method to prove the existence of an exponential attractor in uniformly convex Banach space. As a simple application, we prove the existence of an exponential attractor for reaction diffusion equations.     

Attractors of generalized IFSs that are not attractors of IFSs

Mihail and Miculescu introduced the notion of a generalized iterated function system (GIFS in short), and proved that every GIFS generates an attractor. (In our previous paper we gave this notion a more general setting.) In this paper we show that for any m≥2$m\ge 2$, there exists a Cantor subset of the plane which is an attractor of some GIFS of order m  , but is not an attractor of a GIFS of order m−1$m-1$. In particular, this result shows that there is a subset of the plane which is an attractor of some GIFS, but is not an attractor of an IFS. We also give an example of a Cantor set which is not an attractor of a GIFS.     

Attractors for General Operators

In this article we introduce the notion of a minimal attractor for families of operators that do not necessarily form semigroups. We then obtain some results on the existence of the minimal attractor. We also consider the nonautonomous case. As an application, we obtain the existence of the minimal attractor for models of Cahn-Hilliard equations in deformable elastic continua.