Competitive modes as reliable predictors of chaos versus hyperchaos and as geometric mappings accurately delimiting attractors

We consider real quadratic dynamics in the context of competitive modes, which allows us to view chaotic systems as ensembles of competing nonlinear oscillators. We find that the standard competitive mode conditions may in fact be interpreted and employed slightly more generally than has usually been done in recent investigations, with negative values of the squared mode frequencies in fact being admissible in chaotic regimes, provided that the competition among them persists. This is somewhat reminiscent of, but of course not directly correlated to, ??stretching (along unstable manifolds) and folding (due to local volume dissipation)?? on chaotic attractors. This new feature allows for the system variables to grow exponentially during time intervals when mode frequencies are imaginary and comparable, while oscillating at instants when the frequencies are real and locked in or entrained. In addition to an application of the method to chaotic attractors, we consider systems exhibiting hyperchaos and conclude that the latter exhibit three competitive modes rather than two for the former. Finally, in a novel twist, we reinterpret the components of the Competitive Modes analysis as simple geometric criteria to map out the spatial location and extent, as well as the rough general shape, of the system attractor for any parameter sets corresponding to chaos. The accuracy of this mapping adds further evidence to the growing body of recent work on the correctness and usefulness of competitive modes. In fact, it may be considered a strong ??a posteriori?? validation of the Competitive Modes conjectures and analysis.     

Multistability induced by two symmetric stable node-foci in modified canonical Chua’s circuit

This paper proposes a modified canonical Chua’s circuit using an one-stage op-amp-based negative impedance converter and an anti-parallel diode pair. Unlike the conventional Chua’s circuit, this modified canonical Chua’s circuit has one unstable zero node-focus and two stable nonzero node-foci, but complex dynamical behaviors including period, chaos, stable point, and coexisting bifurcation modes are numerically revealed and experimentally verified. Up to six kinds of coexisting multiple attractors, i.e., left-right limit cycles, left-right chaotic spiral attractors and left-right point attractors, are numerically depicted and physically captured. Furthermore, with dimensionless Chua’s equations, dynamical properties of the Chua’s system are investigated, and two symmetric stable nonzero node-foci are validated to exist in the selected parameter regions thus resulting in the emergence of multistability. Specially, multistability with six different steady states is revealed in a narrow parameter range. Within this parameter region, three bifurcation routes are displayed under different initial conditions, and three sets of topologically different and disconnected attractors are observed.     

Forward and Pullback Dynamics of Nonautonomous Integrodifference Equations: Basic Constructions

In theoretical ecology, models describing the spatial dispersal and the temporal evolution of species having non-overlapping generations are often based on integrodifference equations. For various such applications the environment has an aperiodic influence on the models leading to nonautonomous integrodifference equations. In order to capture their long-term behaviour comprehensively, both pullback and forward attractors, as well as forward limit sets are constructed for general infinite-dimensional nonautonomous dynamical systems in discrete time. While the theory of pullback attractors, but not their application to integrodifference equations, is meanwhile well-established, the present novel approach is needed in order to understand their future behaviour.

     

Pullback attractor of 2D nonautonomous g-Navier-Stokes equations with linear dampness

The pullback attractors for the 2D nonautonomous g-Navier-Stokes equations with linear dampness are investigated on some unbounded domains. The existence of the pullback attractors is proved by verifying the existence of pullback D-absorbing sets with cocycle and obtaining the pullback D-asymptotic compactness. Furthermore, the estimation of the fractal dimensions for the 2D g-Navier-Stokes equations is given. Key words pullback attractor, g-Navier-Stokes equation, pullback asymptotic compactness, fractal dimension, linear dampness     

Pullback attractor of 2D nonautonomous <Emphasis Type="Italic">g</Emphasis>-Navier-Stokes equations with linear dampness

The pullback attractors for the 2D nonautonomous g-Navier-Stokes equations with linear dampness are investigated on some unbounded domains. The existence of the pullback attractors is proved by verifying the existence of pullback D-absorbing sets with cocycle and obtaining the pullback D-asymptotic compactness. Furthermore, the estimation of the fractal dimensions for the 2D g-Navier-Stokes equations is given.     

An example of PDE with two attractors

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Global attractor of 2D autonomous g-Navier-Stokes equations

In this paper, the existence of global attractors for the 2D autonomous g-Navier-Stokes equations on multi-connected bounded domains is investigated under the general assumptions of boundaries. The estimation of the Hausdorff dimensions for global attractors is given.     

Nonlinear Dynamics of a Cantilever Beam Carrying an Attached Mass with 1:3:9 Internal Resonances

In this paper the nonlinear response of a base-excited slender beam carrying an attached mass is investigated with 1:3:9 internal resonances for principal and combinationparametric resonances. Here the method of normal forms is used to reduce the second order nonlinear temporal differential equation of motion of the system to a set offirst order nonlinear differential equations which are used to find the fixed-point, periodic, quasi-periodic and chaotic responses of the system.Stability and bifurcation analysis of the responses are carried out and bifurcation sets are plotted. Many chaotic phenomena are reported in this paper.     

Detecting unstable periodic orbits and unstable quasiperiodic orbits in vibro-impact systems

In this paper, unstable dynamics is considered for the models of vibro-impact systems with linear differential equations coupled to an impact map. To provide a skeleton for the organization of chaotic attractors, we propose a method for detecting unstable periodic orbits embedded in chaotic attractors through a combination of unconstrained optimization technique and Poincaré map. Three numerical examples from different vibro-impact models demonstrate that the strategy can efficiently detect unstable periodic orbits in chaotic attractors. In order to explore the mechanism responsible for the creation of multi-dimensional tori attractors, we also present another method to detect unstable quasiperiodic orbits embedded multi-dimensional tori attractors by examining a specially transient time series. The upper bound and lower bound of the transient time series (in the Poincaré map) can be obtained by analyzing transient Lyapunov exponent and transient Lyapunov dimension. Some examples verify the effectiveness of the numerical algorithm.     

Unfolding a Bykov Attractor: From an Attracting Torus to Strange Attractors

In this paper we present a comprehensive mechanism for the emergence of strange attractors in a two-parametric family of differential equations acting on a three-dimensional sphere. When both parameters are zero, its flow exhibits an attracting heteroclinic network (Bykov network) made by two 1-dimensional connections and one 2-dimensional separatrix between two hyperbolic saddles-foci with different Morse indices. After slightly increasing both parameters, while keeping the one-dimensional connections unaltered, we focus our attention in the case where the two-dimensional invariant manifolds of the equilibria do not intersect. Under some conditions on the parameters and on the eigenvalues of the linearisation of the vector field at the saddle-foci, we prove the existence of many complicated dynamical objects, ranging from an attracting quasi-periodic torus to Hénon-like strange attractors, as a consequence of the Torus-Breakdown Theory. The mechanism for the creation of horseshoes and strange attractors is also discussed. Theoretical results are applied to show the occurrence of strange attractors in some analytic unfoldings of a Hopf-zero singularity.

     

范式理论与平均法的等价性分析

分析了范式理论与平均法的等价性。得到的结论是：对含有一对纯虚根的二维非线性系统，使用两种方法得到的结果是等价的，并提供了两个算例来证实其结论的正确性。虽然分析是针对一类二维非线性系统，但其结论同样适合于高维非线性系统。     

Attractors of Parabolic Equations Without Uniqueness

In this paper we study the existence of global compact attractors for nonlinear parabolic equations of the reaction-diffusion type and variational inequalities. The studied equations are generated by a difference of subdifferential maps and are not assumed to have a unique solution for each initial state. Applications are given to inclusions modeling combustion in porous media and processes of transmission of electrical impulses in nerve axons.     

Dimensions of attractors for discretizations for Navier-Stokes equations

In this paper, we discretize the 2-D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with the periodic boundary condition by the finite difference method. We prove that with a shift for discretization, the global solutions exist. After proving some discrete Sobolev inequalities in the sense of finite differences, we prove the existence of the global attractors of the discretized system, and we estimate the upper bounds for the Hausdorff and the fractal dimensions of the attractors. These bounds are indepent of the mesh sizes and are considerably close to those of the continuous version.     

Chemically Reacting Fluid Flows: Strong Solutions and Global Attractors

In this paper we consider the existence and properties of strong solutions for a model of incompressible chemically reacting flows where reactants enter the domain, react, and then leave the domain. We show results which exactly parallel those of the Navier–Stokes equations, i.e., in two dimensions strong solutions exist for all time, and in three dimensions we show existence only for small times. In two dimensions, we also show the existence of global attractors which are compact in L ². Rather than considering a specific set of boundary conditions, we instead state our results based on a series of assumptions, which would be proved using the boundary conditions. This allows our results to be applied directly to the two sets of boundary conditions which appear in the literature.     

Reducible Volterra and Levin–Nohel Retarded Equations with Infinite Delay

We consider two cases of reducible Volterra and Levin–Nohel retarded equations with infinite delay. In these cases reducibility arises from the use of a special type of memory functions with an exponential behavior. We address global questions like the existence of Liapunov functions and, consequently, of attractors for the nonlinear systems generated by these equations as well as the attractors for the reduced systems. For the reducible Volterra equations we exhibit cases of nontrivial Hamiltonian behaviour and for the reducible Levin–Nohel equation we identify Hopf and saddle connection bifurcations.     

Attractors for Second-Order Evolution Equations with a Nonlinear Damping

We study long-time dynamics of abstract nonlinear second-order evolution equations with a nonlinear damping. Under suitable hypotheses we prove existence of a compact global attractor and finiteness of its fractal dimension. We also show that any solution is stabilized to an equilibrium and estimate the rate of the convergence which, in turn, depends on the behaviour at the origin of the function describing the dissipation. If the damping is bounded below by a linear function, this rate is exponential. Our approach is based on far reaching generalizations of the Ceron–Lopes theorem on asymptotic compactness and Ladyzhenskayas theorem on the dimension of invariant sets. An application of our results to nonlinear damped wave and plate equations allow us to obtain new results pertaining to structure and properties of global attractors for nonlinear waves and plates.     

A Semilinear Reaction–Diffusion System of Equations and Large Diffusion

The long time dynamics for a semilinear system of reaction and diffusion equations with nonlinear boundary conditions in which large diffusion is assumed on all parts of the domain is studied. We show in both local and global dynamics of the system that flows on attractors are essentially close to the ones of a finite dimensional system of equations, which turn out to be the natural limit of the process for large diffusivity.     

Global Attractors of Evolutionary Systems

An abstract framework for studying the asymptotic behavior of a dissipative evolutionary system with respect to weak and strong topologies was introduced in Cheskidov and Foias (J Differ Equ 231:714–754, 2006) primarily to study the long-time behavior of the 3D Navier-Stokes equations (NSE) for which the existence of a semigroup of solution operators is not known. Each evolutionary system possesses a global attractor in the weak topology, but does not necessarily in the strong topology. In this paper we study the structure of a global attractor for an abstract evolutionary system, focusing on omega-limits and attracting, invariant, and quasi-invariant sets. We obtain weak and strong uniform tracking properties of omega-limits and global attractors. In addition, we discuss a trajectory attractor for an evolutionary system and derive a condition under which the convergence to the trajectory attractor is strong.     

Partially unstable attractors in networks of forced integrate-and-fire oscillators

The asymptotic attractors of a nonlinear dynamical system play a key role in the long-term physically observable behaviors of the system. The study of attractors and the search for distinct types of attractor have been a central task in nonlinear dynamics. In smooth dynamical systems, an attractor is often enclosed completely in its basin of attraction with a finite distance from the basin boundary. Recent works have uncovered that, in neuronal networks, unstable attractors with a remote basin can arise, where almost every point on the attractor is locally transversely repelling. Herewith we report our discovery of a class of attractors: partially unstable attractors, in pulse-coupled integrate-and-fire networks subject to a periodic forcing. The defining feature of such an attractor is that it can simultaneously possess locally stable and unstable sets, both of positive measure. Exploiting the structure of the key dynamical events in the network, we develop a symbolic analysis that can fully explain the emergence of the partially unstable attractors. To our knowledge, such exotic attractors have not been reported previously, and we expect them to arise commonly in biological networks whose dynamics are governed by pulse (or spike) generation.     

The solution of rectangular plates with large deflection by spline functions

In this paper, Von Karman ’s set of nonlinear equations for rectangular plates with large deflection is divided into several sets of linear equations by perturbation method, the dimensionless center deflection being taken as a perturbation parameter. These sets of linear equations are solved by the spline finite-point (SFP) method and by the spline finite element (SFE) method. The solutions for rectangular plates having any length-to-width ratios under a uniformly distributed load and with various boundary conditions are presented, and the analytical formulas for displacements and deflections are given in the paper. The computer programs are worked out by ourselves. Comparison of the results with those in other papers indicates that the results of this paper are satisfactorily better.