A three-dimensional bio-reactor model of exploitative competition of two predator organisms with inhibition responses for the same renewable organism with reproductive properties is considered. By using a Lyapunov function and the center manifold theorem the global stability, the existence of Hopf bifurcation and limit cycles are proved. This result is useful in understanding the nonlinear osci...

In this paper, we propose a novel strategy for the synthesis and the classification of nonsmooth limit cycles and its bifurcations (named Non-Standard Bifurcations or Discontinuity Induced Bifurcations or DIBs) in n-dimensional piecewise-smooth dynamical systems, particularly Continuous PWS and Discontinuous PWS (or Filippov-type PWS) systems. The proposed qualitative approach explicitly includ...

It was shown in [Li & Xiao, 2007] that in a predator–prey model of Leslie type with simplified Holling type IV functional response some complex bifurcations can occur simultaneously for some values of parameters, such as codimension 1 subcritical Hopf bifurcation and codimension 2 Bogdanov–Takens bifurcation. In this paper, we show that for the same model there exists a unique degenerate positi...

This work deals with limit cycles of real planar analytic vector fields. It is well known that given any limit cycle Γ of an analytic vector field it always exists a real analytic function f0(x, y), defined in a neighbourhood of Γ, and such that Γ is contained in its zero level set. In this work we introduce the notion of f0(x, y) being an m-solution, which is a merely analytic concept. Our mai...

In this paper, we study the bifurcation of limit cycles in Liénard systems of the form dx dt = y − F (x) , dy dt = −x , where F (x) is an odd polynomial that contains, in general, several free parameters. By using a method introduced in a previous paper, we obtain a sequence of algebraic approximations to the bifurcation sets, in the parameter space. Each algebraic approximation represents an e...

We consider the macroscopic, second order model of Kerner–Konhäuser for traffic flow given by a system of PDE. Assuming conservation of cars, traveling waves solution of the PDE are reduced to a dynamical system in the plane. We prove that under generic conditions on the so called fundamental diagram, the surface of critical points has a fold or cusp catastrophe and each fold point gives rise t...

Complex dynamics of the most frequently used tritrophic food chain model are investigated in this paper. First it is shown that the model admits a sequence of pairs of Belyakov bifurcations (codimension-two homoclinic orbits to a critical node). Then fold and period-doubling cycle bifurcation curves associated to each pair of Belyakov points are computed and analyzed. The overall bifurcation sc...