Coexistence of multiple attractors and crisis route to chaos in a novel memristive diode bidge-based Jerk circuit

In the present paper, a new memristor based oscillator is obtained from the autonomous Jerk circuit [Kengne et al., Nonlinear Dynamics (2016) 83: 751̶765] by substituting the nonlinear element of the original circuit with a first order memristive diode bridge. The model is described by a continuous time four-dimensional autonomous system with smooth nonlinearities. Various nonlinear analysis tools such as phase portraits, time series, bifurcation diagrams, Poincaré section and the spectrum of Lyapunov exponents are exploited to characterize different scenarios to chaos in the novel circuit. It is found that the system experiences period doubling and crisis routes to chaos. One of the major results of this work is the finding of a window in the parameters’ space in which the circuit develops hysteretic behaviors characterized by the coexistence of four different (periodic and chaotic) attractors for the same values of the system parameters. Basins of attractions of various coexisting attractors are plotted showing complex basin boundaries. As far as the authors’ knowledge goes, the novel memristive jerk circuit represents one of the simplest electrical circuits (no analog multiplier chip is involved) capable of four disconnected coexisting attractors reported to date. Both PSpice simulations of the nonlinear dynamics of the oscillator and laboratory experimental measurements are carried out to validate the theoretical analysis.     

A route to chaos in a conservative system of three interacting Langmuir waves

This paper presents the results of numerical calculations of a route to chaos in a conservative Hamiltonian system of three Langmuir waves interacting with each other through three-wave couplings. The route is investigated by studying time series, power spectra, phase space portraits and Lyapnov exponents of wave variables for several combinations of wave vectors. The results show that the system follows a route which is very similar to the Ruelle–Takens–Newhouse scenario observed in dissipative systems, and widths and shifts of peaks in power spectra appeared due to the three moderate strength wave interactions. The breaks of tori in the system are also numerically investigated by studying the dependency of Maximum Lyapnov exponents for wave-variables on a parameter which represents the nonlinearity of the system.     

一类Chemostat捕食模型正周期解的存在性

讨论了一类Chemostat捕食模型在一定条件下正周期解的存在性问题.运用周期抛物型算子理论、Schauder估计和分歧理论得到了该模型正周期解存在的充分必要条件.     

Multiple attractors and business fluctuations in a nonlinear macro-model with equity rationing

A stylized model of business fluctuations is developed, where investment and debt accumulation are responsible for the endogenous dynamics of income. Despite the simplicity of the model, the resulting nonlinear, two-dimensional discrete-time dynamical system displays a wide range of possible dynamic outcomes. If a key parameter, representing the propensity to invest, shifts exogenously from low to high values, a transition across qualitatively different long-run scenarios is observed, associated to different levels of economic activity. Moreover, coexistence of attractors and path-dependence characterize the dynamics for an intermediate range of such a parameter. The impact of exogenous disturbances on such situations results in aperiodic time series subject to unpredictable booms and slumps.     

Bifurcations and chaos in a generic management model

This paper illustrates how period-doubling bifurcations and chaotic behaviour can be internally generated in a typical management system.A company is assumed to allocate resources to its production and marketing departments in accordance with shifts in inventory and/or backlog. When order backlogs are small, additional resources are provided to the marketing department in order to recruit new customers. At the same time, resoures are removed from the production line to prevent a build-up of excessive inventories. In the face of large order backlogs, on the other hand, the company redirects resources from sales to production. Delays in adjusting production and sales create the potential for oscillatory behaviour. If reallocation of resources is strong enough, this behaviour is destabilized, and the system starts to perform self-sustained oscillations.To complete the model, we have included a feedback which represents customer's reaction to varying delivery delays. As the loss of customers in response to high delivery delays is increased, the simple limit cycle oscillation becomes unstable, and through a cascade of period-doubling bifurcations the systems develops into a chaotic state. A relatively detailed analysis of this bifurcation sequence is presented. A Poincaré section and return map are constructed for the chaotic case, and the largest Lyapunov exponent is evaluated. Finally, a parameter plane analysis of the transition to chaos is presented.     

Bifurcation behaviours in a delayed three-species food-chain model with Holling type-II functional response

This article is concerned with the local stability of a positive equilibrium and the Hopf bifurcation of a delayed three-species food-chain system with the Holling type-II functional response. Some new sufficient conditions ensuring the local stability of a positive equilibrium and the existence of Hopf bifurcation for the system are established. Some explicit formulae are derived to determine the direction of bifurcations and the stability of bifurcating periodic solutions using the normal form theory and the centre manifold theory. Numerical simulations for justifying the theoretical analysis are also provided. Finally, biological explanations and main conclusions are included.     

Passage to diffusion chaos in a model of an ecological system

We carry out analytical and numerical analysis of a model of an ecological system described by a system of nonlinear partial differential equations of reaction-diffusion type. We find conditions for the bifurcation of periodic spatially homogeneous and inhomogeneous solutions from the thermodynamic branch of the system. We show that the passage to diffusion chaos in the model occurs, in complete agreement with the universal Feigenbaum-Sharkovskii-Magnitskii bifurcation theory, via a subharmonic cascade of bifurcations of stable limit cycles.     

Period-three route to chaos induced by a cyclic-fold bifurcation in passive dynamic walking of a compass-gait biped robot

This paper presents a study of the passive dynamic walking of a compass-gait biped robot as it goes down an inclined plane. This biped robot is a two-degrees-of-freedom mechanical system modeled by an impulsive hybrid nonlinear dynamics with unilateral constraints. It is well-known to possess periodic as well as chaotic gaits and to possess only one stable gait for a given set of parameters. The main contribution of this paper is the finding of a window in the parameters space of the compass-gait model where there is multistability. Using constraints of a grazing bifurcation on the basis of a shooting method and the Davidchack–Lai scheme, we show that, depending on initial conditions, new passive walking patterns can be observed besides those already known. Through bifurcation diagrams and Floquet multipliers, we show that a pair of stable and unstable period-three gait patterns is generated through a cyclic-fold bifurcation. We show also that the stable period-three orbit generates a route to chaos.     

Asymptotic transversal stability for synchronized attractors in a metapopulation model

In this paper, we analyze the synchronization phenomenon for a discrete metapopulation model of multiple species with nonstationary and nonlinear coupling. The model is quite general, but we explore some particular situations of biological interest. In these cases, we obtain sufficient conditions for the transversal asymptotic stability of synchronized attractors. Some numerical results illustrate the theory. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd     

Chaos control and chaos synchronization for multi-scroll chaotic attractors generated using hyperbolic functions

In this paper, we design a series of chaotic systems that can generate one-directional, two-directional and three-directional multi-scroll chaotic attractors. Then, based upon the properties of these chaotic systems, we construct appropriate Lyapunov functions and design simple linear feedback controls to globally exponentially stabilize and synchronize these chaotic systems. Numerical simulation results are also presented to show the applicability of the proposed control laws.     

Memory,market stability and attractors coexistence in a nonlinear cobweb model

We investigate the dynamics of a cobweb type model with nonlinear demand and supply curves in which producers make forecasts on future prices with a backward looking expectation formation mechanism: the expected price for the next period is obtained by a weighted average of the prices observed in the last two periods. The study herewith presents aims at confirming the existence of a locally stabilising effect due to the presence of memory, but an increase of memory in price expectations can be globally qualitatively destabilising, in the sense that it leads to coexistence of different attractors with their respective basins of attraction.     

Nonadiabatic couplings and chaos in a dynamical potential well model

The mechanism of nonadiabatic couplings between quantum states of a potential well model with finite heights and a dynamical width coordinate is investigated in detail. The system is described in a mixed quantum-classical approach in which the oscillations of the classical width coordinate induce transitions between the quantum states of a particle trapped inside the well. The dynamics of the system is considered in detail for transitions between two quantum states and resulting coupled Bloch-oscillator equations. Poincaré sections showing a mixed phase space with chaotic and regular behaviour are found by a numerical investigation. In particular, chaos results for high energies of the well width oscillations when the mixing between the adiabatic reference states is strong. The inclusion of relaxation is considered and shown that in this case the regimes of chaotic and regular dynamics are not separated as in the relaxation free case. In particular, for some initial conditions chaos can become a transient phenomena placed in a time window between regular oscillations of the system.     

Multiple equilibrium points in global attractors for some p-Laplacian equations

In this paper, we continue to study the properties of the global attractor for some p-Laplacian equations with a Lyapunov function F in a Banach space when the origin is no longer a local minimum point but a saddle point of F. By using the abstract result established in our previous work, we prove the existence of multiple equilibrium points in the global attractor for some p-Laplacian equations under some suitable assumptions in the case that the origin is an unstable equilibrium point.     

Transient chaos and crisis phenomena in butterfly valves driven by solenoid actuators

Chilled water systems used in the industry and on board ships are critical for safe and reliable operation. It is hence important to understand the fundamental physics of these systems. This paper focuses in particular on a critical part of the automation system, namely, actuators and valves that are used in so-called “smart valve” systems. The system is strongly nonlinear, and necessitates a nonlinear dynamic analysis to be able to predict all critical phenomena that affect effective operation and efficient design. The derived mathematical model includes electromagnetics, fluid mechanics, and mechanical dynamics. Nondimensionalization has been carried out in order to reduce the large number of parameters to a few critical independent sets to help carry out a broad parametric analysis. The system stability analysis is then carried out with the aid of the tools from nonlinear dynamic analysis. This reveals that the system is unstable in a certain region of the parameter space. The system is also shown to exhibit crisis and transient chaotic responses; this is characterized using Lyapunov exponents and power spectra. Knowledge and avoidance of these dangerous regimes is necessary for successful and safe operation.     

Limit cycles in a food-chain with inhibition responses

In this paper, by constructing a Lyapunov function, we show the global asymptotical stability of a three-dimensional food-chain model with inhibition response. We then using a corollary to center manifold theorem to show that the system undergoes a 3-D Hopf bifurcation, and obtain the existence of limit cycles for the three-dimensional model. The methods used here can be extended to many other 3-D differential systems.     

Melnikov analysis of chaos in a general epidemiological model

The purpose of this paper is to study a SIR model of epidemic dynamics with a periodically modulated nonlinear incidence rate. We must go, for the first time, through a series of coordinate transformations to bring the equations into amenable to Melnikov analysis. This analysis establishes mathematically the existence of chaotic motion of the models by Melnikov's method. The numerical simulations are made for the conclusions in this paper.     

Stochastic sensitivity of attractors for a piecewise smooth neuron model

ABSTRACT

We consider a one-dimensional model of neural activity, given by a piecewise smooth discontinuous map. Fold bifurcations as well as border collision bifurcations are described in detail. Using the method of stochastic sensitivity functions, noise-induced phenomena, such as transitions within attractor and between attractors, and spike generation, are described. Statistical characteristics of interspike intervals depending on noise intensity are studied.