Analysis of a bacteria-immunity model with delay quorum sensing

A bacteria-immunity model with bacterial quorum sensing is formulated, which describes the competition between bacteria and immune cells. A distributed delay is introduced to characterize the time in which bacteria receive signal molecules and then combat with immune cells. In this paper, we focus on a subsystem of the bacteria-immunity model, analyze the stability of the equilibrium points, discuss the existence and stability of periodic solutions bifurcated from the positive equilibrium point, and finally investigate the stability of the nonhyperbolic equilibrium point by the center manifold theorem.     

Hopf bifurcation direction of a delayed bacteria-immunity system with quorum sensing mechanism

Considering the mechanism of quorum sensing, we formulate a bacteria-immunity model to describe the competition between bacteria and immune cells on the basis of Zhang’s model (see [9] for more details). A time delay is introduced to characterize the time in which bacteria receive signal molecules and then combat with immune cells. In the sequel, the length of delay which preserves the stability of the positive equilibrium is estimated, and the existence of Hopf bifurcation when the delay crosses through a critical value is investigated. Further, by using the normal form theory and center manifold theory, the explicit formulae are calculated which determine the stability, the direction and the period of bifurcating periodical solutions. Finally, numerical simulations are employed to verify the mathematical conclusions.     

Stability and Hopf bifurcation in a delayed competition system

In this paper, Hopf bifurcation for two-species Lotka–Volterra competition systems with delay dependence is investigated. By choosing the delay as a bifurcation parameter, we prove that the system is stable over a range of the delay and beyond that it is unstable in the limit cycle form, i.e., there are periodic solutions bifurcating out from the positive equilibrium. Our results show that a stable competition system can be destabilized by the introduction of a maturation delay parameter. Further, an explicit algorithm for determining the direction of the Hopf bifurcation and the stability of the bifurcating periodic solutions is derived by using the theory of normal forms and center manifolds, and numerical simulations supporting the theoretical analysis are also given.     

Hopf bifurcation of a nonlinear delayed system of machine tool vibration via pseudo-oscillator analysis

On the basis of the newly developed pseudo-oscillator analysis, the local dynamics near a Hopf bifurcation of a nonlinear delayed system of machine tool vibration is investigated in this paper. Starting from a pseudo-oscillator that is slightly perturbed from an undamped oscillator, the pseudo-oscillator analysis shows that near the Hopf bifurcation, the local dynamics can be justified simply by the properties of the averaged pseudo-power function. Unlike the widely used approaches such as the center manifold reduction, the pseudo-oscillator analysis involves very easy computation and gives prediction of the local dynamics with high accuracy.     

Hopf bifurcation and stability for a differential-algebraic biological economic system

In this paper, we analyze the stability and Hopf bifurcation of the biological economic system based on the new normal form and the Hopf bifurcation theorem. The basic model we consider is owed to a ratio-dependent predator-prey system with harvesting, compared with other researches on dynamics of predator-prey population, this system is described by differential-algebraic equations due to economic factor. Here μ as bifurcation parameter, it is found that periodic solutions arise from stable stationary states when the parameter μ increases close to a certain limit. Finally, numerical simulations illustrate the effectiveness of our results.     

A bacteria-immunity system with delayed quorum sensing

Considering the mechanism of quorum sensing, we formulate a bacteria-immunity model to describe the competition between bacteria and immune cells on the basis of Zhang’s model (see Zhang et al. 2008, to appear, for more details). A distributed delay is introduced to characterize the time in which bacteria receive signal molecules and then combat with immune cells. We analyze the stability of the equilibrium points and discuss the existence of Hopf bifurcation near the positive equilibrium point. Finally, numerical simulation is carried out to illustrate our qualitative results.     

Double Hopf bifurcation and chaos in Liu system with delayed feedback

In this paper, we consider the stability of equilibria, Hopf and double Hopf bifurcation in Liu system with delay feedback. Firstly, we identify the critical values for stability switches and Hopf bifurcationusing the method of bifurcation analysis. When we choose appropriate feedback strength and delay, two symmetrical nontrivial equilibria of Liusystem can be controlled to be stable at the same time, and the stable bifurcating periodic solutions occur in the neighborhood of the two equilibria at the same time. Secondly, by applying the normal form method and center manifold theory,the normal form near the double Hopf bifurcation, as well as classifications of local dynamics are analyzed. Furthermore, we give the bifurcation diagram to illustrate numerically that a family of stable periodic solutions bifurcated from Hopf bifurcation occur in a large region of delay and the Liu system with delay can appear the phenomenon of ``chaos switchover''.     

Hopf bifurcation and stability for a neural network model with mixed delays

A generalized model of the two-neuron network with mixed delays is studied. The main purpose of this paper is to explore the linear stability of the trivial solution and Hopf bifurcation of a two-neuron network with continuous and discrete delays. The general formula of the direction, the estimation formula of period and stability of bifurcated periodic solutions are also studied. Finally, the numerical simulations are given to illustrate the theoretical analysis.     

Local Hopf bifurcation and global periodic solutions in a delayed predator-prey system

We consider a delayed predator-prey system. We first consider the existence of local Hopf bifurcations, and then derive explicit formulas which enable us to determine the stability and the direction of periodic solutions bifurcating from Hopf bifurcations, using the normal form theory and center manifold argument. Special attention is paid to the global existence of periodic solutions bifurcating from Hopf bifurcations. By using a global Hopf bifurcation result due to Wu [Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 350 (1998) 4799], we show that the local Hopf bifurcation implies the global Hopf bifurcation after the second critical value of delay. Finally, several numerical simulations supporting the theoretical analysis are also given.     

Local Hopf bifurcation and global existence of periodic solutions in a kind of physiological system

The dynamics of a physiological control systems described by a first-order nonlinear delay differential equations are investigated. we proved that a sequence of Hopf bifurcations occur at the positive equilibrium as the delay increases. Explicit algorithm for determining the direction of the Hopf bifurcations and the stability of the bifurcating periodic solutions are derived, using the theory of normal form and center manifold. Global existence of periodic solutions are established using a global Hopf bifurcation result due to Wu [Symmetric functional differential equations and neural networks with memory, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 350 (1998) 4799–4838].     

Stability and Hopf bifurcations in a delayed Leslie-Gower predator-prey system

In this paper, we consider the following delayed Leslie-Gower predator-prey system

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一类非线性系统的周期扰动Hopf分支

研究了小周期扰动对一类存在Hopf分支的非线性系统的影响.特别是应用平均法讨论了扰动频率与Hopf分支固有频率在共振及二阶次调和共振的情形周期解分支的存在性.表明了在某些参数区域内,系统存在调和解分支和次调和解分支,并进一步讨论了二阶次调和分支周期解的稳定性.     

Hopf bifurcation in a two-competitor, one-prey system with time delay

In this paper, we consider a delayed two-competitor/one-prey system in which both two competitors exhibit Holling II functional response. By choosing the time delay as a bifurcation parameter, it is found that the Hopf bifurcation occurs when the delay passes through a certain critical value. Numerical simulations are performed to illustrate the analytical results.     

Hopf bifurcation analysis of a reaction-diffusion Sel'kov system

A reaction-diffusion system known as the Sel'kov model subject to the homogeneous Neumann boundary condition is investigated, where detailed Hopf bifurcation analysis is performed. We not only show the existence of the spatially homogeneous/non-homogeneous periodic solutions of the system, but also derive conditions for determining the bifurcation direction and the stability of the bifurcating periodic solution.     

Hopf bifurcation analysis for a model of genetic regulatory system with delay

This paper deals with a mathematical model that describe a genetic regulatory system. The model has a delay which affects the dynamics of the system. We investigate the stability switches when the delay varies, and show that Hopf bifurcations may occur within certain range of the model parameters. By combining the normal form method with the center manifold theorem, we are able to determine the direction of the bifurcation and the stability of the bifurcated periodic solutions. Finally, some numerical simulations are carried out to support the analytic results.     

Stability switch and Hopf bifurcation for a diffusive prey-predator system with delay

The increasing time delay usually destabilizes any dynamical system. In this paper we give an example that in some special cases the opposite effect can be experienced if the time delay is sufficiently great. We investigate the effect of both the parameter in the time delay kernel and diffusion coefficient on the stability of the positive steady state for a diffusive prey-predator system with delay. We obtain the condition of the occurrence of the stability switches of the positive steady state.     

Stability and Hopf bifurcation of a delayed predator-prey system with nonlocal competition and herd behaviour

In this paper, we investigate the stability and Hopf bifurcation of a diffusive predator-prey system with herd behaviour. The model is described by introducing both time delay and nonlocal prey intraspecific competition. Compared to the model without time delay, or without nonlocal competition, thanks to the together action of time delay and nonlocal competition, we prove that the first critical value of Hopf bifurcation may be homogenous or non-homogeneous. We also show that a double-Hopf bifurcation occurs at the intersection point of the homogenous and non-homogeneous Hopf bifurcation curves. Furthermore, by the computation of normal forms for the system near equilibria, we investigate the stability and direction of Hopf bifurcation. Numerical simulations also show that the spatially homogeneous and non-homogeneous periodic patters.     

Stability and bifurcation in a delayed predator-prey system with Beddington-DeAngelis functional response

We consider a delayed predator-prey system with Beddington-DeAngelis functional response. The stability of the interior equilibrium will be studied by analyzing the associated characteristic transcendental equation. By choosing the delay τ as a bifurcation parameter, we show that Hopf bifurcation can occur as the delay τ crosses some critical values. The direction and stability of the Hopf bifurcation are investigated by following the procedure of deriving normal form given by Faria and Magalhães. An example is given and numerical simulations are performed to illustrate the obtained results.     

Analysis of the Hopf bifurcation for the family of angiogenesis models

In this paper we study a family of models with delays describing the process of angiogenesis, that is a physiological process involving the growth of new blood vessels from pre-existing ones. This family includes the well-known models of tumour angiogenesis proposed by Hahnfeldt et al. and d?Onofrio-Gandolfi and is based on the Gompertz type of the tumour growth. As a consequence we start our analysis from the influence of delay onto the Gompertz model dynamics. The family of models considered in this paper depends on two time delays and a parameter α∈[0,1] which reflects how strongly the vessels dynamics depends on the ratio between tumour and vessels volume. We focus on the analysis of the model in three cases: one of the delays is equal to 0 or both delays are equal, depending on the parameter α. We study the stability switches, the Hopf bifurcation and the stability of arising periodic orbits for different α∈[0,1], especially for α=1 and α=0 which reflects the Hahnfeldt et al. and the d?Onofrio-Gandolfi models. For comparison we use also the value α=1/2.