Title

Triple mode alignment in a canonical model of the blue-sky catastrophe

Authors

Authors

R. A. Van Gorder

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Nonlinear Dyn.

Keywords

Blue-sky catastrophe; Onset of chaos; Competitive modes; Volume; contraction; COMPETITIVE MODES; POPULATION DISAPPEARANCES; CHAOS SYNCHRONIZATION; ANTI-SYNCHRONIZATION; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; BIFURCATION; OSCILLATIONS; ATTRACTORS; LORENZ; Engineering, Mechanical; Mechanics

Abstract

The blue-sky catastrophe (BSC) is a homoclinic bifurcation of a saddle node periodic orbit of codimension one, which has been found to occur in a number of physically relevant dynamics systems. The onset and termination of the BSC in a chaotic system is shown to coincide with the occurrence of triple mode alignment in a canonical model undergoing the BSC when the model is recast as an oscillator system. Typically, such behavior is only seen in hyperchaotic systems of dimension greater than three. Hence, in the case of three dimensional chaotic systems, competitive modes may under some circumstances be used in the prediction of the blue-sky catastrophe. Limitations to this approach are also discussed.

Journal Title

Nonlinear Dynamics

Volume

73

Issue/Number

1-2

Publication Date

1-1-2013

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

397

Last Page

403

WOS Identifier

WOS:000320954900030

ISSN

0924-090X

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