Global transient dynamics of nonlinear parametrically excited systems

In this paper we examine the response of a typical nonlinear system that is subjected to parametric excitation. Particular attention is paid to how basins of attraction evolve such that the global transient stability of the system may be assessed. We show that at a forcing level that is considerably smaller than that at which the steady-state attractor loses its stability, there may exist a rapid erosion and stratification of the basin, signifying a global loss of engineering integrity of the system.We also show, for a system near its equilibrium state, that the boundaries in parameter space can become fractal. The significance of such an analysis is not only that it corresponds to a failure locus for a system subjected to a sudden pulse of excitation, but since the phase-space basin is often eroded throughout its central region, the determination of basin boundaries in control space can often reflect the characteristics of the phase-space basin structure, and hence on the macroscopic level they provide information regarding the global transient stability of the system.     

一种直流力矩电机系统的滞滑摩擦补偿方法

陀螺漂移测试转台直流力矩电机系统中存在的非线性滞滑摩擦，使转台在PID控制下存在滞滑极限环。为提高转台定位精度，应用具有滞滑(stick-slip)摩擦的直流力矩电机系统模型，推导了一种补偿方法，对含有滞滑摩擦的PID控制转台直流力矩电机伺服系统进行滞滑摩擦补偿。在采用PID控制的转台电机系统定位工作状态下，这种滞滑补偿方法可以减小滞滑极限环的幅值。仿真结果证明了该补偿方法的有效性。     

Random attractors

In this paper, we generalize the notion of an attractor for the stochastic dynamical system introduced in [7]. We prove that the stochastic attractor satisfies most of the properties satisfied by the usual attractor in the theory of deterministic dynamical systems. We also show that our results apply to the stochastic Navier-Stokes equation, the white noise-driven Burgers equation, and a nonlinear stochastic wave equation.     

Chaotic behavior in fractional-order memristor-based simplest chaotic circuit using fourth degree polynomial

In this paper, a memristor with a fourth degree polynomial memristance function is used in the simplest chaotic circuit which has only three circuit elements: a linear passive inductor, a linear passive capacitor, and a nonlinear active memristor. We use second order exponent internal state memristor function and fourth degree polynomial memristance function to increase complexity of the chaos. So, the system can generate double-scroll attractor and four-scroll attractor. Systematic studies of chaotic behavior in the integer-order and fractional-order systems are performed using phase portraits, bifurcation diagrams, Lyapunov exponents, and stability analysis. Simulation results show that both integer-order and fractional-order systems exhibit chaotic behavior over a range of control parameters.     

The route to chaos for the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation

We present the results of extensive numerical experiments of the spatially periodic initial value problem for the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation. Our concern is with the asymptotic nonlinear dynamics as the dissipation parameter decreases and spatio-temporal chaos sets in. To this end the initial condition is taken to be the same for all numerical experiments (a single sine wave is used) and the large time evolution of the system is followed numerically. Numerous computations were performed to establish the existence of windows, in parameter space, in which the solution has the following characteristics as the viscosity is decreased: a steady fully modal attractor to a steady bimodal attractor to another steady fully modal attractor to a steady trimodal attractor to a periodic (in time) attractor, to another steady fully modal attractor, to another time-periodic attractor, to a steady tetramodal attractor, to another time-periodic attractor having a full sequence of period-doublings (in the parameter space) to chaos. Numerous solutions are presented which provide conclusive evidence of the period-doubling cascades which precede chaos for this infinite-dimensional dynamical system. These results permit a computation of the lengths of subwindows which in turn provide an estimate for their successive ratios as the cascade develops. A calculation based on the numerical results is also presented to show that the period-doubling sequences found here for the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation, are in complete agreement with Feigenbaum's universal constant of 4.669201609.... Some preliminary work shows several other windows following the first chaotic one including periodic, chaotic, and a steady octamodal window; however, the windows shrink significantly in size to enable concrete quantitative conclusions to be made.This research was supported in part by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under NASA Contract No. NASI-18605 while the authors were in residence at the Institute of Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (ICASE), NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23665. Additional support for the second author was provided by ONR Grant N-00014-86-K-0691 while he was at UCLA.     

Analysis of the occurrence of stick-slip in AFM-based nano-pushing

The use of the Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) as a tool to manipulate matter at the nanoscale is promising. However, the complexity of the corresponding physics and mechanics makes such nanomanipulation difficult and not very accurate. In the present paper, we analyze the dynamics of AFM-based nano-pushing manipulation. Simulation results show that the choice of the manipulation speed and loading force highly affect the manipulation outcome. In addition, simulations predict the existence of several threshold manipulation speeds. These thresholds mark the transitions between no stick-slip motion and either unique or multiple coexisting stick-slip. The obtained results bear significant implications and help get more insight into AFM-based nano-pushing.     

A new criterion for occurrence of strick-slip motion in drive mechanism

This paper, using Karnopp's model of friction force and phase plane method, studies the stick-slip motion of the flexble drive mechanism. It is explained that a sudden drop of friction force is the essential source of stick-slip motion when the sliding is impending. A new criterion for occurrence of stick-slip motion is established. The stick-slip region and the stable region in a parameter plane are separated by a critical parameter curve. Moreover, for the stick-slip motion of the flexible drive mechanism without viscous damping, a parameter expression is obtained. The results may be used in design of the flexible drive mechanism.     

On Dimension and Metric Properties of Trajectory Attractors

We study metric properties of trajectory attractors for infinite-dimensional dissipative systems. Under natural conditions we show that in the appropriate topology the functional dimension of this attractor is not greater than 1 and the metric order is 0. We also prove that every finite (in time) “piece” of the trajectory attractor has finite fractal dimension. As examples we consider a reaction-diffusion system, the 2D Navier-Stokes equation and also 3D Navier-Stokes equation under an additional regularity assumption concerning the corresponding trajectory attractor which is valid in the case of thin domains 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 37C45; 37L30.     

Analytical investigation of stick-slip motions in coupled brake-driveline systems

In this paper, we investigate the brake creep-groan problem by formulating the issues in terms of two dynamic sub-systems that are coupled at the friction interface, and thus, experience stick-slip motions. Thorough examination of the nature of discontinuous solutions using numerical methods is a useful prelude to analytical studies. We examine such dynamics through parametric studies for magnitude and rate of brake release, where the vehicle is initially at rest and under low constant drive torque. Dependency on the initial conditions and solution flow before reaching the orbit will thus be illustrated. Four types of motions (one steady sliding and three stick-slip) are found based on extensive studies. Our formulation and analysis should lead to a better understanding of the brake groan phenomenon and systems coupled by interfacial friction.     

振动驱动移动机器人直线运动的滑移分岔

近年来,随着移动型机器人设计技术水平的不断提高,其运动形式日趋多样. 借助于仿生学的思想,模仿蚯蚓等动物的蠕动成为不少机器人设计者所追求的目标. 为了实现这一目标,学者们提出并研究了振动驱动系统. 本文研究了各向同性干摩擦下,单模块三相振动驱动系统的粘滑运动. 考虑到库伦干摩擦力的不连续性,振动驱动系统属于Filippov 系统. 基于此,运用Filippov 滑移分岔理论,分析了振动驱动系统不同的粘滑运动情况. 根据驱动参数的不同,系统运动的滑移区域被分成4 种基本情形. 对这些情形分类讨论,得到系统的6 种运动情况. 然后对这6 种运动情况进行归纳,最终得出系统一共存在4 种不同的粘滑运动,而且也解析地给出了发生这4 种粘滑运动的分岔条件. 分岔条件包含系统的3 个驱动参数,通过变化这些参数,得到了系统运动的分岔图. 借助分岔图,详细分析了随着驱动参数的变化,系统如何实现不同粘滑运动类型之间的切换,并从分岔角度给出了相应的物理解释. 最后,通过数值方法直接求解原运动方程,数值解法得到的4 种运动图像与理论分析一致,验证了系统运动分岔研究的正确性.      

Properties of the attractor of a scalar parabolic PDE

We consider a general scalar one-dimensional semilinear parabolic partial differential equation generating a semiflow with an attractor in an adequate state space. Generalizing known results, it is shown that this attractor is the graph of a function over a compact subset of a finite-dimensional subspace of the state space. In addition, we construct an example with a special interest for the geometric or bifurcation theory of this type of parabolic equations.     

Dissipation and Compact Attractors

We present an approach to the study of the qualitative theory of infinite dimensional dynamical systems. In finite dimensions, most of the success has been with the discussion of dynamics on sets which are invariant and compact. In the infinite dimensional case, the appropriate setting is to consider the dynamics on the maximal compact invariant set. In dissipative systems, this corresponds to the compact global attractor. Most of the time is devoted to necessary and sufficient conditons for the existence of the compact global attractor. Several important applications are given as well as important results on the qualitative properties of the flow on the attractor.     

The stick-slip problem for a round jet

Summary The stick-slip problem for a round jet studied in Part I gives a good approximation for the swell of a low speed jet when the surface tension is large but it fails when the surface tension is small. In this paper a new stick-slip problem (II) is defined and solved using matched eigenfunction expansions. The new problem reduces to that solved in Part I when the surface tension is large and gives good results in the case of zero and small surface tension.With 18 figures     

The structure of symmetric attractors

We consider discrete equivariant dynamical systems and obtain results about the structure of attractors for such systems. We show, for example, that the symmetry of an attractor cannot, in general, be an arbitrary subgroup of the group of symmetries. In addition, there are group-theoretic restrictions on the symmetry of connected components of a symmetric attractor. The symmetry of attractors has implications for a new type of pattern formation mechanism by which patterns appear in the time-average of a chaotic dynamical system.Our methods are topological in nature and exploit connectedness properties of the ambient space. In particular, we prove a general lemma about connected components of the complement of preimage sets and how they are permuted by the mapping.These methods do not themselves depend on equivariance. For example, we use them to prove that the presence of periodic points in the dynamics limits the number of connected components of an attractor, and, for one-dimensional mappings, to prove results on sensitive dependence and the density of periodic points.     

Analytical approximations for stick-slip vibration amplitudes

The classical “mass-on-moving-belt” model for describing friction-induced vibrations is considered, with a friction law describing friction forces that first decreases and then increases smoothly with relative interface speed. Approximate analytical expressions are derived for the conditions, the amplitudes, and the base frequencies of friction-induced stick-slip and pure-slip oscillations. For stick-slip oscillations, this is accomplished by using perturbation analysis for the finite time interval of the stick phase, which is linked to the subsequent slip phase through conditions of continuity and periodicity. The results are illustrated and tested by time-series, phase plots and amplitude response diagrams, which compare very favorably with results obtained by numerical simulation of the equation of motion, as long as the difference in static and kinetic friction is not too large.     

Spatial and Dynamical Chaos Generated by Reaction–Diffusion Systems in Unbounded Domains

We consider in this article a nonlinear reaction–diffusion system with a transport term (L,∇ _x )u, where L is a given vector field, in an unbounded domain Ω. We prove that, under natural assumptions, this system possesses a locally compact attractor in the corresponding phase space. Since the dimension of this attractor is usually infinite, we study its Kolmogorov’s ɛ-entropy and obtain upper and lower bounds of this entropy. Moreover, we give a more detailed study of the spatio-temporal chaos generated by the spatially homogeneous RDS in . In order to describe this chaos, we introduce an extended (n + 1)-parametrical semigroup, generated on the attractor by 1-parametrical temporal dynamics and by n-parametrical group of spatial shifts ( = spatial dynamics). We prove that this extended semigroup has finite topological entropy, in contrast to the case of purely temporal or purely spatial dynamics, where the topological entropy is infinite. We also modify the concept of topological entropy in such a way that the modified one is finite and strictly positive, in particular for purely temporal and for purely spatial dynamics on the attractor. In order to clarify the nature of the spatial and temporal chaos on the attractor, we use (following Zelik, 2003, Comm. Pure. Appl. Math. 56(5), 584–637) another model dynamical system, which is an adaptation of Bernoulli shifts to the case of infinite entropy and construct homeomorphic embeddings of it into the spatial and temporal dynamics on . As a corollary of the obtained embeddings, we finally prove that every finite dimensional dynamics can be realized (up to a homeomorphism) by restricting the temporal dynamics to the appropriate invariant subset of .     

Stochastic torsional stability of an oil drill-string

The aim of this paper is to investigate the influence of uncertainties on the torsional vibration of drill-strings, in order to find out which uncertainty affects most significantly the torsional stability. The unstable torsional behavior is commonly associated to polycrystalline diamond compact bits, and manifests itself in the form of stick-slip oscillations. The stick-slip is a severe type of self-excited vibration characterized by large fluctuations in the rotation of the bit. It not only increases the bit wear, but also can cause drill-string failures. The analysis were done using a mathematical model of the drill-string based on classical torsion theory discretized by means of the finite element method. The bit-rock torque was included in the model as a nonlinear boundary condition at the bottom end of the drill-string. The values of the model parameters are typical values of a real drilling situation, which are subject to a high degree of uncertainty, what justifies a stochastic analysis. We have built probability distributions for the uncertain parameters and used Monte Carlo method to obtain the stochastic stability maps.     

Plastic collapse in non-associated hardening materials with application to Cam-clay

This paper presents a variational formulation for the analysis of plastic collapse conditions for a class of hardening materials that accounts for some non-associated flow laws such as the modified Cam-clay model of soils. In this framework, classical statical and kinematical principles of limit analysis do not hold. The variational principle is formulated for the general class of materials whose flow equations are derived from a kind of generalized potentials named bipotentials by de Saxcé.The plastic collapse phenomenon for hardening materials is considered first and formulated as a system of equations. In particular, the case of the usual modified Cam-clay model is analyzed. The paper follows with the proposal of a minimization principle whose solution is then related to the solution of the plastic collapse problem. We demonstrate the use of this minimum principle in a simple example of triaxial compression of a modified Cam-clay material. Finally, we discuss the particular form of the proposed variational formulation for the case of associated plasticity.     

Finite-time Lyapunov dimension and hidden attractor of the Rabinovich system

The Rabinovich system, describing the process of interaction between waves in plasma, is considered. It is shown that the Rabinovich system can exhibit a hidden attractor in the case of multistability as well as a classical self-excited attractor. The hidden attractor in this system can be localized by analytical/numerical methods based on the continuation and perpetual points. The concept of finite-time Lyapunov dimension is developed for numerical study of the dimension of attractors. A conjecture on the Lyapunov dimension of self-excited attractors and the notion of exact Lyapunov dimension are discussed. A comparative survey on the computation of the finite-time Lyapunov exponents and dimension by different algorithms is presented. An adaptive algorithm for studying the dynamics of the finite-time Lyapunov dimension is suggested. Various estimates of the finite-time Lyapunov dimension for the hidden attractor and hidden transient chaotic set in the case of multistability are given.