Properties of cross-well chaos in an impacting system

In this paper we present results on chaotic motions in a periodically forced impacting system which is analogous to the version of Duffing’s equation with negative linear stiffness. Our focus is on the prediction and manipulation of the cross-well chaos in this system. First, we develop a general method for determining parameter conditions under which homoclinic tangles exist, which is a necessary condition for cross-well chaos to occur. We then show how one may manipulate higher harmonics of the excitation in order to affect the range of excitation amplitudes over which fractal basin boundaries between the two potential wells exist. We also experimentally investigate the threshold for cross-well chaos and compare the results with the theoretical results. Second, we consider the rate at which the system crosses from one potential well to the other during a chaotic motion and relate this to the rate of phase space flux in a Poincare map defined in terms of impact parameters. Results from simulations and experiments are compared with a simple theory based on phase space transport ideas, and a predictive scheme for estimating the rate of crossings under different parameter conditions is presented. The main conclusions of the paper are the following: (1) higher harmonics can be used with some effectiveness to extend the region of deterministic basin boundaries (in terms of the amplitude of excitation) but their effect on steady-state chaos is unreliable; (2) the rate at which the system executes cross-well excursions is related in a direct manner to the rate of phase space flux of the system as measured by the area of a turnstile lobe in the Poincare map. These results indicate some of the ways in which the chaotic properties of this system, and possibly others such as Duffing’s equation, are influenced by various system and input parameters. The main tools of analysis are a special version of Melnikov’s method, adapted for this piecewise-linear system, and ideas of phase space transport.

Author(s):  
Chunqing Lu

The paper mathematically proves that a pendulum with oscillatory forcing makes chaotic motions for certain parameters. The method is more intuitive than using the Poincare’ map. It provides more information about when the chaos occurs.


2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. H. Shirazi ◽  
M. H. Ghaffari-saadat

Abstract The second order poincare’ map is described and used for investigation of the dynamical behavior of a gyrostat satellite. The normalized attitudinal equations of motion for a typical non-symmetric gyrostat satellite are considered. For different sets of initial conditions the equations simulated by Runge-Kutta method. The poincare’ section is used to dimension reduction of system phase space. By this map the dimension reduced from six to five. Using secondary map the dimension of phase space can be reduced to four and considering symmetry of phase space the final space has two dimensions that is presentable at the plane. Bifurcation in the attitudinal behavior can be demonstrated easily by the derived map.


1992 ◽  
Vol 02 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
YOHANNES KETEMA

This paper is concerned with analyzing Melnikov’s method in terms of the flow generated by a vector field in contrast to the approach based on the Poincare map and giving a physical interpretation of the method. It is shown that the direct implication of a transverse crossing between the stable and unstable manifolds to a saddle point of the Poincare map is the existence of two distinct preserved homoclinic orbits of the continuous time system. The stability of these orbits and their role in the phenomenon of sensitive dependence on initial conditions is discussed and a physical example is given.


2007 ◽  
Vol 17 (03) ◽  
pp. 837-850 ◽  
Author(s):  
SHIGEKI TSUJI ◽  
TETSUSHI UETA ◽  
HIROSHI KAWAKAMI

The Bonhöffer–van der Pol (BVP) oscillator is a simple circuit implementation describing neuronal dynamics. Lately the diffusive coupling structure of neurons attracts much attention since the existence of the gap-junctional coupling has been confirmed in the brain. Such coupling is easily realized by linear resistors for the circuit implementation, however, there are not enough investigations about diffusively coupled BVP oscillators, even a couple of BVP oscillators. We have considered several types of coupling structure between two BVP oscillators, and discussed their dynamical behavior in preceding works. In this paper, we treat a simple structure called current coupling and study their dynamical properties by the bifurcation theory. We investigate various bifurcation phenomena by computing some bifurcation diagrams in two cases, symmetrically and asymmetrically coupled systems. In symmetrically coupled systems, although all internal elements of two oscillators are the same, we obtain in-phase, anti-phase solution and some chaotic attractors. Moreover, we show that two quasi-periodic solutions disappear simultaneously by the homoclinic bifurcation on the Poincaré map, and that a large quasi-periodic solution is generated by the coalescence of these quasi-periodic solutions, but it disappears by the heteroclinic bifurcation on the Poincaré map. In the other case, we confirm the existence a conspicuous chaotic attractor in the laboratory experiments.


1980 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 645-651 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. A. Month ◽  
R. H. Rand

The stability of periodic motions (nonlinear normal modes) in a nonlinear two-degree-of-freedom Hamiltonian system is studied by deriving an approximation for the Poincare´ map via the Birkhoff-Gustavson canonical transofrmation. This method is presented as an alternative to the usual linearized stability analysis based on Floquet theory. An example is given for which the Floquet theory approach fails to predict stability but for which the Poincare´ map approach succeeds.


2018 ◽  
Vol 98 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shane D. Ross ◽  
Amir E. BozorgMagham ◽  
Shibabrat Naik ◽  
Lawrence N. Virgin

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 365-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qingkai Han ◽  
Xueyan Zhao ◽  
Xingxiu Li ◽  
Bangchun Wen

In this paper, we investigate the joint viscous friction effects on the motions of a two-bar linkage under controlling of OPCL. The dynamical model of the two-bar linkage with an OPCL controller is firstly set up with considering the two joints' viscous frictions. Thereafter, the motion bifurcations of the two-bar linkage along the values of joint viscous frictions are obtained using shooting method. Then, single-periodic, multiple-periodic, quasi-periodic and chaotic motions of link rotating angles are simulated with given different viscous friction values, and they are illustrated in time domain waveforms, phase space portraits, amplitude spectra and Poincare mapping graphs, respectively. Additionally, for the chaotic case, Lyapunov exponents and hypothesis possibilities of the two joint motions are also estimated.


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