Dynamic bifurcations in non-stationary systems: transitions with an unpredictable outcome

In nonlinear non-stationary systems, dynamic bifurcations result in a transition to a qualitatively new state. In this paper we examine how the dynamics of transition of such systems may be assessed using the concept of transient basins of attraction. We delineate the phenomenon of indeterminate dynamic bifurcations, where it is shown that the response, after the system passes through critical parameter values, may be extremely sensitive to the choice of initial conditions or parameter states. This new form of unpredictability in systems whose parameters vary with time, is clearly an important concept to be assimilated in the theory of non-stationary dynamics.

2002 ◽  
Vol 12 (06) ◽  
pp. 1333-1356 ◽  
Author(s):  
YOSHISUKE UEDA ◽  
HIROYUKI AMANO ◽  
RALPH H. ABRAHAM ◽  
H. BRUCE STEWART

As part of an ongoing project on the stability of massively complex electrical power systems, we discuss the global geometric structure of contacts among the basins of attraction of a six-dimensional dynamical system. This system represents a simple model of an electrical power system involving three machines and an infinite bus. Apart from the possible occurrence of attractors representing pathological states, the contacts between the basins have a practical importance, from the point of view of the operation of a real electrical power system. With the aid of a global map of basins, one could hope to design an intervention strategy to boot the power system back into its normal state. Our method involves taking two-dimensional sections of the six-dimensional state space, and then determining the basins directly by numerical simulation from a dense grid of initial conditions. The relations among all the basins are given for a specific numerical example, that is, choosing particular values for the parameters in our model.


2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (08) ◽  
pp. 1750128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anda Xiong ◽  
Julien C. Sprott ◽  
Jingxuan Lyu ◽  
Xilu Wang

The famous Lorenz system is studied and analyzed for a particular set of parameters originally proposed by Lorenz. With those parameters, the system has a single globally attracting strange attractor, meaning that almost all initial conditions in its 3D state space approach the attractor as time advances. However, with a slight change in one of the parameters, the chaotic attractor coexists with a symmetric pair of stable equilibrium points, and the resulting tri-stable system has three intertwined basins of attraction. The advent of 3D printers now makes it possible to visualize the topology of such basins of attraction as the results presented here illustrate.


Author(s):  
Benjamin A. M. Owens ◽  
Brian P. Mann

This paper explores a two degree-of-freedom nonlinearly coupled system with two distinct potential wells. The system consists of a pair of linear mass-spring-dampers with a non-linear, mechanical coupling between them. This nonlinearity creates fractal boundaries for basins of attraction and forced well-escape response. The inherent uncertainty of these fractal boundaries is quantified for errors in the initial conditions and parameter space. This uncertainty relationship provides a measure of the final state and transient sensitivity of the system.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jared Barber ◽  
Amy Carpenter ◽  
Allison Torsey ◽  
Tyler Borgard ◽  
Rami A. Namas ◽  
...  

Sepsis is characterized by an overactive, dysregulated inflammatory response that drives organ dysfunction and often results in death. Mathematical modeling has emerged as an essential tool for understanding the underlying complex biological processes. A system of four ordinary differential equations (ODEs) was developed to simulate the dynamics of bacteria, the pro- and anti-inflammatory responses, and tissue damage (whose molecular correlate is damage-associated molecular pattern [DAMP] molecules and which integrates inputs from the other variables, feeds back to drive further inflammation, and serves as a proxy for whole-organism health status). The ODE model was calibrated to experimental data from E. coli infection in genetically identical rats and was validated with mortality data for these animals. The model demonstrated recovery, aseptic death, or septic death outcomes for a simulated infection while varying the initial inoculum, pathogen growth rate, strength of the local immune response, and activation of the pro-inflammatory response in the system. In general, more septic outcomes were encountered when the initial inoculum of bacteria was increased, the pathogen growth rate was increased, or the host immune response was decreased. The model demonstrated that small changes in parameter values, such as those governing the pathogen or the immune response, could explain the experimentally observed variability in mortality rates among septic rats. A local sensitivity analysis was conducted to understand the magnitude of such parameter effects on system dynamics. Despite successful predictions of mortality, simulated trajectories of bacteria, inflammatory responses, and damage were closely clustered during the initial stages of infection, suggesting that uncertainty in initial conditions could lead to difficulty in predicting outcomes of sepsis by using inflammation biomarker levels.


2004 ◽  
Vol 11 (5/6) ◽  
pp. 589-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Manzoni ◽  
A. Porporato ◽  
P. D'Odorico ◽  
F. Laio ◽  
I. Rodriguez-Iturbe

Abstract. An analytical model for the soil carbon and nitrogen cycles is studied from the dynamical system point of view. Its main nonlinearities and feedbacks are analyzed by considering the steady state solution under deterministic hydro-climatic conditions. It is shown that, changing hydro-climatic conditions, the system undergoes dynamical bifurcations, shifting from a stable focus to a stable node and back to a stable focus when going from dry, to well-watered, and then to saturated conditions, respectively. An alternative degenerate solution is also found in cases when the system can not sustain decomposition under steady external conditions. Different basins of attraction for "normal" and "degenerate" solutions are investigated as a function of the system initial conditions. Although preliminary and limited to the specific form of the model, the present analysis points out the importance of nonlinear dynamics in the soil nutrient cycles and their possible complex response to hydro-climatic forcing.


2007 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Molter ◽  
Utku Salihoglu ◽  
Hugues Bersini

This letter aims at studying the impact of iterative Hebbian learning algorithms on the recurrent neural network's underlying dynamics. First, an iterative supervised learning algorithm is discussed. An essential improvement of this algorithm consists of indexing the attractor information items by means of external stimuli rather than by using only initial conditions, as Hopfield originally proposed. Modifying the stimuli mainly results in a change of the entire internal dynamics, leading to an enlargement of the set of attractors and potential memory bags. The impact of the learning on the network's dynamics is the following: the more information to be stored as limit cycle attractors of the neural network, the more chaos prevails as the background dynamical regime of the network. In fact, the background chaos spreads widely and adopts a very unstructured shape similar to white noise. Next, we introduce a new form of supervised learning that is more plausible from a biological point of view: the network has to learn to react to an external stimulus by cycling through a sequence that is no longer specified a priori. Based on its spontaneous dynamics, the network decides “on its own” the dynamical patterns to be associated with the stimuli. Compared with classical supervised learning, huge enhancements in storing capacity and computational cost have been observed. Moreover, this new form of supervised learning, by being more “respectful” of the network intrinsic dynamics, maintains much more structure in the obtained chaos. It is still possible to observe the traces of the learned attractors in the chaotic regime. This complex but still very informative regime is referred to as “frustrated chaos.”


2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Qiao ◽  
Wei Xu ◽  
Hongxia Zhang ◽  
Qin Guo ◽  
Eihab Abdel-Rahman

Abstract Noise-induced motions are a significant source of uncertainty in the response of micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS). This is particularly the case for electrostatic MEMS where electrical and mechanical sources contribute to noise and can result in sudden and drastic loss of stability. This paper investigates the effects of noise processes on the stability of electrostatic MEMS via a lumped-mass model that accounts for uncertainty in mass, mechanical restoring force, bias voltage, and AC voltage amplitude. We evaluated the stationary probability density function (PDF) of the resonator response and its basins of attraction in the presence noise and compared them to that those obtained under deterministic excitations only. We found that the presence of noise was most significant in the vicinity of resonance. Even low noise intensity levels caused stochastic jumps between co-existing orbits away from bifurcation points. Moderate noise intensity levels were found to destroy the basins of attraction of the larger orbits. Higher noise intensity levels were found to destroy the basins of attraction of smaller orbits, dominate the dynamic response, and occasionally lead to pull-in. The probabilities of pull-in of the resonator under different noise intensity level are calculated, which are sensitive to the initial conditions.


Complexity ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Zhou ◽  
Na Zhao ◽  
Tong Chu ◽  
Ying-Xiang Chang

In this paper, a mixed duopoly dynamic model with bounded rationality is built, where a public-private joint venture and a private enterprise produce homogeneous products and compete in the same market. The purpose of this research is to study the stability and the multistability of the established model. The local stability of all the equilibrium points is discussed by using Jury condition, and the stability region of the Nash equilibrium point has been given. A special fractal structure called “hub of periodicity” has been found in the two-parameter space by numerical simulation. In addition, the phenomena of multistability (also called coexistence of multiple attractors) are also studied using basins of attraction and 1-D bifurcation diagrams with adiabatic initial conditions. We find that there are two different coexistences of multiple attractors. And, the fractal structure of the attracting basin is also analyzed, and the formation mechanisms of “holes” and “contact” bifurcation have been revealed. At last, the long-term profits of the enterprises are studied. We find that some enterprises can even make more profits under a chaotic circumstance.


2000 ◽  
Vol 10 (06) ◽  
pp. 1497-1508 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. BELHAQ ◽  
M. HOUSSNI ◽  
E. FREIRE ◽  
A. J. RODRÍGUEZ-LUIS

Analytical study of the two first period-doubling bifurcations in a three-dimensional system is reported. The multiple scales method is first applied to construct a higher-order approximation of the periodic orbit following Hopf bifurcation. The stability analysis of this periodic orbit is then performed in terms of Floquet theory to derive the critical parameter values corresponding to the first and second period-doubling bifurcations. By introducing suitable subharmonic components in the first order of the multiple scale analysis the two critical parameter values are obtained simultaneously solving analytically the resulting system of two algebraic equations. Comparisons of analytic predictions to numerical simulations are also provided.


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