Chaos caused by fatigue crack growth

The nonlinear dynamic responses including chaotic oscillations caused by a fatigue crack growth are presented. Fatigue tests have been conducted on a novel fatigue-testing rig, where the loading is generated from inertial forces. The nonlinearity is in the form of discontinuous stiffness caused by the opening and closing of a growing crack. Nonlinear dynamic tools such as Poincaré maps and bifurcation diagrams are used to unveil the global dynamics of the system. The results obtained indicate that fatigue crack growth strongly influences the dynamic response of the system leading to chaos.     

Chaos induced by regular snap-back repellers

This paper is concerned with chaos induced by regular snap-back repellers. One new criterion of chaos induced by strictly coupled-expanding maps in compact sets of metric spaces is established. By employing this criterion, the nondegenerateness assumption in the Marotto theorem established in 1978 is weakened. In addition, it is proved that a regular snap-back repeller and a regular homoclinic orbit to a regular expanding fixed point in finite-dimensional spaces imply chaos in the sense of Li-Yorke. An illustrative example is provided with computer simulations.     

Chaos caused by a strong-mixing measure-preserving transformation

The chaos caused by a strong-mixing preserving transformation is discussed and it is shown that for a topological spaceX satisfying the second axiom of countability and for an outer measurem onX satisfying the conditions: (i) every non-empty open set ofX ism-measurable with positivem-measure; (ii) the restriction ofm on Borel σ-algebra ℬ(X) ofX is a probability measure, and (iii) for everyY⊂X there exists a Borel setB⊂ℬ(X) such thatB⊃Y andm(B) =m(Y), iff:X→X is a strong-mixing measure-preserving transformation of the probability space (X, ℬ(X),m), and if {m}, is a strictly increasing sequence of positive integers, then there exists a subsetC⊂X withm (C) = 1, finitely chaotic with respect to the sequence {m _i}, i.e. for any finite subsetA ofC and for any mapF:A→X there is a subsequencer _i such that lim_i→∞ f ^r i(a) =F(a) for anya ∈A. There are some applications to maps of one dimension. the National Natural Science Foundation of China.     

Entrainment of frequency in evolution equations

The existence of periodic solutions near resonance is discussed using elementary methods for the evolution equation ·u = Au + ?f(t, u) when the linear problem is totally degenerate (e^2πA = I) and the period of f is entrained with ? (T = 2π(1 + ?μ)). The approach is to solve the periodicity equation u(T,p,?) = p for an element p(?) in D, the domain of A, as a perturbation from an approximate solution p₀. p₀ is a solution of the nonlinear boundary value problem 2πμAp + ∝₀^2πe^?Asf(s, e^Asp) ds = 0 obtained from the periodicity equation by dividing by ?, applying the entrainment assumption, and letting ? → 0. Once p₀ is known, the conventional inverse function theorem is applied in a slightly unconventional manner. Two particular cases where results are obtained are u_t = u_x + ?{g(u) ? h(t, x)} with g strongly monotone and

$\text{d}\text{dt}\text{v}\text{w}\text{=}\text{0}\text{d}\text{dx}\text{d}\text{dx}\text{0}\text{v}\text{w}\text{+ ?}\text{v}{}^3\text{h(t,x)}$

, where in both cases D is a certain class of 2π-periodic functions of x.     

混沌与SS混沌不等价

构造了是混沌但不是SS混沌的极小子转移,从而证明对于限制在测度中心上的紧系统而言,混沌一般地不等价于SS混沌.     

Chaotic Chaos

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Turbulent Entrainment in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer

Turbulent entrainment – the process by which turbulence inside of the atmospheric boundary layer entrains air from the free troposphere above it – has been investigated using direct numerical simulations in two configurations, one without a cloud and one with a cloud. With the first configuration, we have learned that the entrainment zone in a convective boundary layer growing into a linearly stratified troposphere is better described in terms of a two-layer structure, with different characteristic scales associated with each of the two sub-layers. With the second configuration, we have explained how wind shear across the entrainment zone capping a stratocumulus cloud can render evaporative cooling as important as radiative cooling in driving convective motions. (© 2014 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

用精确线性化控制Lorenz混沌

本文采用状态空间精确线性化方法研究Ｒａｙｌｅｉｇｈ数可控的Ｌｏｒｅｎｚ系统中混沌的控制问题·在证明系统可以精确线性化的基础上，借助非线性反馈构造出变换关系使原系统转化为线性可控系统而实现控制，并给出了控制算例     

Chaos control by harmonic excitation with proper random phase

Chaos control may have a dual function: to suppress chaos or to generate it. We are interested in a kind of chaos control by exerting a weak harmonic excitation with random phase. The dual function of chaos control in a nonlinear dynamic system, whether a suppressing one or a generating one, can be realized by properly adjusting the level of random phase and determined by the sign of the top Lyapunov exponent of the system response. Two illustrative examples, a Duffing oscillator subject to a harmonic parametric control and a driven Murali-Lakshmanan-Chua (MLC) circuit imposed with a weak harmonic control, are presented here to show that the random phase plays a decisive role for control function. The method for computing the top Lyapunov exponent is based on Khasminskii's formulation for linearized systems. Then, the obtained results are further verified by the Poincare map analysis on dynamical behavior of the system, such as stability, bifurcation and chaos. Both two methods lead to fully consistent results.     

不含混沌真子系统的Li-Yorke混沌

研究了一类Li-Yorke混沌系统,该系统没有真子系统是Li-Yorke混沌的,我们称之为混沌极小系统.本文证明混沌极小系统是拓扑传递的,而且该系统每个非空开集都包含一个不可数混乱集.混沌极小系统不一定是极小的,本文构造了一个这样的反例.特别地,我们考察了线段连续自映射,指出该类系统都不是混沌极小的,线段上混沌极小子系统的存在性和该系统有正熵是等价的.     

Transitivity and Chaos

Several different definitions of transitivity and their relationship are carefullydiscussed for general spaces, and it is proved that a continuous map on a metric space ischaotic in the sense of Devaney if and only if it is periodic orbit transitive or periodic orbitstrongly transitive.     

伪轨跟踪与混沌

本文对具有无限个点的紧致度量空间上的连续满射，研究了伪轨跟踪性质与Ｒｕｅｌｌｅ－Ｔａｋｅｎｓ意义下的混沌、拓扑混合及具有性质Ｐ的关系．     

Chaos Control by Nonfeedback Methods in the Presence of Noise

Nonfeedback methods of chaos control are suited for practical applications because of their speed, flexibility, no online monitoring and processing requirements. For applications where none, no real-time, or only highly restricted measurements of the system are available, or where the system behavior is to be altered more drastically, these schemes are quite useful. These methods convert the chaotic motion to any arbitrary fixed point or periodic orbit or quasiperiodic orbit. These attributes make them promising for controlling chaotic circuits, fast electro-optical systems, systems in which no parameter is accessible for control, and so on. For possible practical applications of the control methods, the robustness of the methods in the presence of noise is of special interest. The noise can be in the form of external disturbances to the system or in the form of uncertainties due to inexact modelling of the system. In this paper, we make an analysis of the control performance of various nonfeedback methods in controlling the chaotic behavior in the presence of noise in the chaotic system. The various nonfeedback methods considered for the analysis are: addition of (i) constant force, (ii) weak periodic force, (iii) periodic delta-pulses, (iv) rectangular-pulses. The examples considered for this study are the Murali–Lakshmanan–Chua Circuit, and Duffing–Ueda oscillator.     

Chaos induced by snap-back repellers in non-autonomous discrete dynamical systems

This paper focuses on chaos induced by snap-back repellers in non-autonomous discrete systems. A new concept of snap-back repeller for non-autonomous discrete systems is introduced and several new criteria of chaos induced by snap-back repellers in non-autonomous discrete systems are established. In addition, it is proved that a regular and nondegenerate snap-back repeller in non-autonomous discrete systems implies chaos in the (strong) sense of Li–Yorke. Two illustrative examples are proved.     

Chaos induced by weak A-coupled-expansion of non-autonomous discrete dynamical systems

This paper focuses on chaos induced by weak A-coupled-expansion of non-autonomous discrete systems in compact subsets of metric spaces and in bounded and closed subsets of complete metric spaces, separately. A new concept of weak A-coupled-expansion for non-autonomous discrete systems, whose condition is weaker than that of A-coupled-expansion, is introduced, and several new criteria of chaos induced by weak A-coupled-expansion of non-autonomous discrete systems are established. By applying some close relationships between chaotic dynamical behaviours of the original system and its induced systems, two criteria of chaos are established. One example is provided for illustration.