On the effect of nonsmooth Coulomb friction on Hopf bifurcations in a 1-DoF oscillator with self-excitation due to negative damping

This article deals with the question, to what extent damping due to nonsmooth Coulomb friction may affect the stability and bifurcation behavior of vibrational systems with self-excitation due to negative effective damping which??for the smooth case??is related to a Hopf bifurcation of the steady state. Without damping due to Coulomb friction, the stability of the trivial solution is controlled by the effective viscous damping of the system: as the damping becomes negative, the steady state loses stability at a Hopf point. Adding Coulomb friction changes the trivial solution into a set of equilibria, which??for oscillatory systems??is asymptotically stable for all values of effective viscous damping. The Hopf point vanishes and an unstable limit cycle appears which borders the basin of attraction of the equilibrium set. Moreover, the influence of nonlinear damping terms is discussed. The effect of Coulomb frictional damping may be seen as adding an imperfection to the classical smooth Hopf scenario: as the imperfection vanishes, the behavior of the smooth problem is recovered.     

Parametric Resonance of Hopf Bifurcation

We investigate the dynamics of a system consisting of a simple harmonic oscillator with small nonlinearity, small damping and small parametric forcing in the neighborhood of 2:1 resonance. We assume that the unforced system exhibits the birth of a stable limit cycle as the damping changes sign from positive to negative (a supercritical Hopf bifurcation). Using perturbation methods and numerical integration, we investigate the changes which occur in long-time behavior as the damping parameter is varied. We show that for large positive damping, the origin is stable, whereas for large negative damping a quasi-periodic behavior occurs. These two steady states are connected by a complicated series of bifurcations which occur as the damping is varied.     

抛物线壁内细杆的摩擦平衡分析

细杆在抛物线壁内支承,平衡特性与杆长、倾角和摩擦因子相关.细杆在自身重力作用下可发生焦点下方的顺时针运动,焦点上方的逆时针运动以及两端同时下滑.基于端部支撑力达到摩擦锥边界的条件,可确定细杆状态为不平衡、稳定或不稳定的平衡和摩擦平衡.平衡集为具有宽度的叉式分岔.     

Experimental investigation of a buckled beam under high-frequency excitation

In this paper, we investigate theoretically and experimentally dynamics of a buckled beam under high-frequency excitation. It is theoretically predicted from linear analysis that the high-frequency excitation shifts the pitchfork bifurcation point and increases the buckling force. The shifting amount increases as the excitation amplitude or frequency increases. Namely, under the compressive force exceeding the buckling one, high-frequency excitation can stabilize the beam to the straight position. Some experiments are performed to investigate effects of the high-frequency excitation on the buckled beam. The dependency of the buckling force on the amounts of excitation amplitude and frequency is compared with theoretical results. The transient state is observed in which the beam is recovered from the buckled position to the straight position due to the excitation. Furthermore, the bifurcation diagrams are measured in the cases with and without high-frequency excitation. It is experimentally clarified that the high-frequency excitation changes the nonlinear property of the bifurcation from supercritical pitchfork bifurcation to subcritical pitchfork bifurcation and then the stable steady state of the beam exhibits hysteresis as the compressive force is reversed. This work was partially supported by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, under Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research 16560377.     

一类非线性系统在随机激励下的分叉

本文研究一类阻尼为线性，弹性恢复力为非线性的振动系统在随机外部激励作用下的随机分叉。文中采用广义稳态势和方法，求解系统响应的稳态联合概率密度函数。在此基础上根据由不变测度定义的随机分叉，讨论了具有权式分叉的确定性非线性系统在随机扰动下分叉行为。     

Bifurcation of limit cycles in fluid film bearings

Rotors supported by journal bearings may become unstable due to self-excited vibrations when a critical rotor speed is exceeded. Linearised analysis is usually used to determine the stability boundaries. Non-linear bifurcation theory or numerical integration is required to predict stable or unstable periodic oscillations close to the critical speed. In this paper, a dynamic model of a short journal bearing is used to analyse the bifurcation of the steady state equilibrium point of the journal centre. Numerical continuation is applied to determine stable or unstable limit cycles bifurcating from the equilibrium point at the critical speed. Under certain working conditions, limit cycles themselves are shown to disappear beyond a certain rotor speed and to exhibit a fold bifurcation giving birth to unstable limit cycles surrounding the stable supercritical limit cycles. Numerical integration of the system of equations is used to support the results obtained by numerical continuation. Numerical simulation permitted a partial validation of the analytical investigation.     

COMPLICATED BURSTING BEHAVIORS AS WELL AS THE MECHANISM OF A THREE DIMENSIONAL NONLINEAR SYSTEM 1)

由多时间尺度耦合效应引起的簇发振荡行为是非线性动力学研究的重要课题之一.本文针对一类参数激励下的三维非线性电机系统(该系统可以描述两种自激同极发电机系统的动力学行为,两种系统在数学上等效),研究了当参数激励频率远小于系统自然频率时的各种复杂簇发振荡行为及其产生机理.通过快慢分析方法, 将参数激励作为慢变参数,得到了非自治系统对应的广义自治系统及快子系统和慢变量,并给出了快子系统的稳定性和分岔条件以及系统关于典型参数的单参数分岔图.借助转换相图与分岔图的叠加, 分析了对称式delayed subHopf/fold cycle簇发振荡的产生机理及其动力学转迁, 即delayed subHopf/fold cycle簇发振荡、焦点/焦点型对称式叉形分岔滞后簇发振荡和焦点/焦点型叉形分岔滞后簇发振荡.研究结果表明, 系统会出现两种不同的分岔滞后形式, 一种是亚临界Hopf分岔滞后,另一种是叉形分岔滞后,而且控制参数显著影响平衡点的稳定性和分岔滞后区间的宽度.同时初始点的选取则会影响系统动力学行为的对称性.本文的研究进一步加深了对由分岔滞后引起的簇发振荡的认识和理解.     

Flow Bifurcations in a Thin Gap Between Two Rotating Spheres

This paper presents the use of a parameter continuation method and a test function to solve the steady, axisymmetric incompressible Navier–Stokes equations for spherical Couette flow in a thin gap between two concentric, differentially rotating spheres. The study focuses principally on the prediction of multiple steady flow patterns and the construction of bifurcation diagrams. Linear stability analysis is conducted to determine whether or not the computed steady flow solutions are stable. In the case of a rotating inner sphere and a stationary outer sphere, a new unstable solution branch with two asymmetric vortex pairs is identified near the point of a symmetry-breaking pitchfork bifurcation which occurs at a Reynolds number equal to 789. This solution transforms smoothly into an unstable asymmetric 1-vortex solution as the Reynolds number increases. Another new pair of unstable 2-vortex flow modes whose solution branches are unconnected to previously known branches is calculated by the present two-parameter continuation method. In the case of two rotating spheres, the range of existence in the (Re ₁ , Re ₂ ) plane of the one and two vortex states, the vortex sizes as a function of both Reynolds numbers are identified. Bifurcation theory is used to discuss the origin of the calculated flow modes. Parameter continuation indicates that the stable states are accompanied by certain unstable states. Received 26 November 2001 and accepted 10 May 2002 Published online 30 October 2002 Communicated by M.Y. Hussaini     

离心场中纵向悬臂梁的大范围分岔分析

采用打靶法研究了离心场中纵向悬臂梁的大范围失稳与分岔问题。分析结果证实：随着参数a（离心臂长与梁长之比）的变化,梁平衡解可能发生三种分岔现象。文中给出了平衡解的分岔形态,并发现了梁分岔解的单向跳跃现象,即突变现象。     

INSTABILITY AND CHAOS IN A PIPE CONVEYING FLUID WITH ADDED MASS AT FREE END

This paper shows the mechanism of instability and chaos in a cantilevered pipe conveying steady fluid. The pipe under consideration has added mass or a nozzle at the free end. The Galerkin method is used to transform the original system into a set of ordinary differential equations and the standard methods of analysis of the discrete system are introduced to deal with the instability. With either the nozzle parameter or the flow velocity increasing, a route to chaos can be observed very clearly: the pipe undergoing buckling (pitchfork bifurcation), flutter (Hopf bifurcation), doubling periodic motion (pitchfork bifurcation) and chaotic motion occurring finally. The project supported by the National Key Projects of China under grant No. PD9521907 and Science Foundation of Tongji University under grant No. 1300104010.     

Bifurcation analysis of a diffusive ratio-dependent predator–prey model

In this paper, a ratio-dependent predator–prey model with diffusion is considered. The stability of the positive constant equilibrium, Turing instability, and the existence of Hopf and steady state bifurcations are studied. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the stability of the positive constant equilibrium are explicitly obtained. Spatially heterogeneous steady states with different spatial patterns are determined. By calculating the normal form on the center manifold, the formulas determining the direction and the stability of Hopf bifurcations are explicitly derived. For the steady state bifurcation, the normal form shows the possibility of pitchfork bifurcation and can be used to determine the stability of spatially inhomogeneous steady states. Some numerical simulations are carried out to illustrate and expand our theoretical results, in which, both spatially homogeneous and heterogeneous periodic solutions are observed. The numerical simulations also show the coexistence of two spatially inhomogeneous steady states, confirming the theoretical prediction.     

跳跃振子平衡及其分岔的能量分析

用能量方法研究了跳跃振子的平衡与分岔.用势能驻值条件确定了平衡位置所满足的方程,通过势能极值判断平衡的稳定性.在不同的弹簧构型下,数值计算了平衡随系统弹性刚度和质量比变化的分岔图.结果表明,弹性刚度和质量比较小时,系统只有一个稳定平衡点和一个不稳定平衡点;刚度和质量比充分大时,系统分岔出一个新的稳定平衡点和一个新的不稳定平衡点.     

Double Hopf Bifurcations and Chaos of a Nonlinear Vibration System

A double pendulum system is studied for analyzing the dynamic behaviour near a critical point characterized by nonsemisimple 1:1 resonance. Based on normal form theory, it is shown that two phase-locked periodic solutions may bifurcate from an initial equilibrium, one of them is unstable and the other may be stable for certain values of parameters. A secondary bifurcation from the stable periodic solution yields a family of quasi-periodic solutions lying on a two-dimensional torus. Further cascading bifurcations from the quasi-periodic motions lead to two chaoses via a period-doubling route. It is shown that all the solutions and chaotic motions are obtained under positive damping.     

Dynamics of the general Lorenz family

The present work is devoted to investigating the dynamical entities of the general Lorenz family, which contains four independent parameters. The classical Lorenz system, the Chen system, and the Lü system are all contained by the system considered in this paper as special cases. First, the properties of the equilibria, in particular, the stability of the non-hyperbolic equilibrium obtained by using the center manifold theorem and the technique of the polar transformation, the pitchfork bifurcation and the degenerate pitchfork bifurcation, Hopf bifurcations, and the local stable and unstable manifold character, are all analyzed when the parameters are varied in the space of parameters. Based on the theoretic analysis and numerical simulations, the dynamics of the system are discussed subtly under all kind of the critical state. Second, the properties of the existence of homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits for the system are rigorously studied. Finally, the existence of singularly degenerate heteroclinic cycles for a suitable choice of the parameters is investigated.     

Pseudo-nonlinear dynamic analysis of buckled pipes

In this study, the post-divergence behavior of fluid-conveying pipes supported at both ends is investigated using the nonlinear equations of motion. The governing equation exhibits a cubic nonlinearity arising from mid-plane stretching. Exact solutions for post-buckling configurations of pipes with fixed–fixed, fixed–hinged, and hinged–hinged boundary conditions are investigated. The pipe is stable at its original static equilibrium position until the flow velocity becomes high enough to cause a supercritical pitchfork bifurcation, and the pipe loses stability by static divergence. In the supercritical fluid velocity regime, the equilibrium configuration becomes unstable and bifurcates into multiple equilibrium positions. To investigate the vibrations that occur in the vicinity of a buckled equilibrium position, the pseudo-nonlinear vibration problem around the first buckled configuration is solved precisely using a new solution procedure. By solving the resulting eigenvalue problem, the natural frequencies and the associated mode shapes of the pipe are calculated. The dynamic stability of the post-buckling configurations obtained in this manner is investigated. The first buckled shape is a stable equilibrium position for all boundary conditions. The buckled configurations beyond the first buckling mode are unstable equilibrium positions. The natural frequencies of the lowest vibration modes around each of the first two buckled configurations are presented. Effects of the system parameters on pipe behavior as well as the possibility of a subcritical pitchfork bifurcation are also investigated. The results show that many internal resonances might be activated among the vibration modes around the same or different buckled configurations.     

串联式叉型滞后簇发振荡及其动力学机制

簇发振荡是自然界和科学技术中广泛存在的快慢动力学现象,其具有与通常的振荡显著不同的特性.根据不同的动力学机制可将其分为多种模式,例如,点-点型簇发振荡和点-环型簇发振荡等.叉型滞后簇发振荡是由延迟叉型分岔诱发的一类具有简单动力学特性的点-点型簇发振荡.研究以多频参数激励Duffing系统为例,旨在揭示一类与延迟叉型分岔相关的具有复杂动力学特性的簇发振荡,即串联式叉型滞后簇发振荡.考虑了一个参激频率是另一个的整倍数情形,利用频率转换快慢分析法得到了多频参数激励Duffing系统的快子系统和慢变量,分析了快子系统的分岔行为.研究结果表明,快子系统可以产生两个甚至多个叉型分岔点;当慢变量穿越这些叉型分岔点时,形成了两个或多个叉型滞后簇发振荡;这些簇发振荡首尾相接,最终构成了所谓的串联式叉型滞后簇发振荡.此外,分析了参数对串联式叉型滞后簇发振荡的影响.      

BIFURCATIONS OF AIRFOIL IN INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW

Bifurcations of an airfoil with nonlinear pitching stiffness in incompressible flow are investigated. The pitching spring is regarded as a spring with cubic stiffness. The motion equations of the airfoil are written as the four dimensional one order differential equations. Taking air speed and the linear part of pitching stiffness as the parameters, the analytic solutions of the critical boundaries of pitchfork bifurcations and Hopf bifurcations are obtained in 2 dimensional parameter plane. The stabilities of the equilibrium points and the limit cycles in different regions of 2 dimensional parameter plane are analyzed. By means of harmonic balance method, the approximate critical boundaries of 2-multiple semi-stable limit cycle bifurcations are obtained, and the bifurcation points of supercritical or subcritical Hopf bifurcation are found. Some numerical simulation results are given.     

On the flow of a viscous fluid driven along a channel by suction at porous walls

This paper is a theoretical treatment of the flow of a viscous incompressible fluid driven along a channel by steady uniform suction through porous parallel rigid walls. Many authors have found such flows when they are symmetric, steady and two-dimensional, by assuming a similarity form of solution due to Berman in order to reduce the Navier-Stokes equations to a nonlinear ordinary differential equation. We generalise their work by considering asymmetric flows, unsteady flows and three-dimensional perturbations. By use of numerical calculations, matched asymptotic expansions for large values of the Reynolds number, and the theory of dynamical systems, we find many more exact solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations, examine their stability, and interpret them. In particular, we show that most previously found steady solutions are unstable to antisymmetric two-dimensional disturbances. This leads to a pitchfork bifurcation, stable asymmetric steady solutions, a Hopf bifurcation, stable time-periodic solutions, stable quasi-periodic solutions, phase locking and chaos in succession as the Reynolds number increases.     

Bifurcation Control of Parametrically Excited Duffing System by a Combined Linear-Plus-Nonlinear Feedback Control

For a parametrically excited Duffing system we propose a bifurcation control method in order to stabilize the trivial steady state in the frequency response and in order to eliminate jump in the force response, by employing a combined linear-plus-nonlinear feedback control. Because the bifurcation of the system is characterized by its modulation equations, we first determine the order of the feedback gain so that the feedback modifies the modulation equations. By theoretically analyzing the modified modulation equations, we show that the unstable region of the trivial steady state can be shifted and the nonlinear character can be changed, by means of the bifurcation control with the above feedback. The shift of the unstable region permits the stabilization of the trivial steady state in the frequency response, and the suppression of the discontinuous bifurcation due to the change of the nonlinear character allows the elimination of the jump in the quasistationary force response. Furthermore, by performing numerical simulations, and by comparing the responses of the uncontrolled system and the controlled one, we clarify that the proposed bifurcation control is available for the stabilization of the trivial steady state in the frequency response and for the reduction of the jump in the nonstationary force response.     

Bifurcation analysis of the motion of an asymmetric double pendulum subjected to a follower force: Codimension three problem

Local and global bifurcations in the motion of a double pendulum subjected to a follower force have been studied when the follower force and the springs at the joints have structural asymmetries. The bifurcations of the system are examined in the neighborhood of double zero eigenvalues. Applying the center manifold and the normal form theorem to a four-dimensional governing equation, we finally obtain a two-dimensional equation with three unfolding parameters. The local bifurcation boundaries can be obtained for the criteria for the pitchfork and the Hopf bifurcation. The Melnikov theorem is used to find the global bifurcation boundaries for appearance of a homoclinic orbit and coalescence of two limit cycles. Numerical simulation was performed using the original four-dimensional equation to confirm the analytical prediction.