The dynamic model of a vibroimpact system subjected to harmonic excitation with symmetric elastic constraints is investigated analytical and numerical methods. codimension-one bifurcation diagrams respect frequency the are obtained by means continuation technique, different types bifurcations detected, such as grazing bifurcation, saddle-node period-doubling which predicts complexity considered...

A predator-prey system with nonmonotonic functional response is considered. Global qualitative and bifurcation analyses are combined to determine the global dynamics of the model. The bifurcation analysis of the model depending on all parameters indicates that it exhibits numerous kinds of bifurcation phenomena, including the saddle-node bifurcation, the supercritical and subcritical Hopf bifur...

A codimension-three bifurcation, characterized by a pair of purely imaginary eigenvalues and a nonsemisimple double zero eigenvalue, arises in the study of a pair of weakly coupled nonlinear oscillators with Z2 Z2 symmetry. The methodology is based on Arnold's ideas of versal deformations of matrices for the linear analysis, and Poincar e normal forms for the nonlinear analysis of the system. B...

We consider a system of ODEs which describes the transmission dynamics of childhood diseases. A center manifold reduction at a bifurcation point has the normal form x$= y, y$=axy+bxy+O(4), indicating a bifurcation of codimension greater than two. A three-parameter unfolding of the normal form is studied to capture possible complex dynamics of the original system which is subjected to certain co...

We present a three-dimensional model of the bifurcation set that describes the known properties of the system in a condensed way, and, under certain assumptions for which there is strong numerical evidence, is topologically correct and complete. In this model, the bifurcation set consists of surfaces of codimension-one bifurcations that divide (b; '; )-space into fifteen regions of generic phas...

Two dynamical models that have been proposed for determining aspects of confined plasma behavior around L–H transitions are analysed using singular-ity theory and stability theory. The recognition problem for the unperturbed bifurcation sets is solved by applying singularity theory methods to determine the normal form and codimension of the singular points. We find that in both cases the unpert...

We find and characterize an excitability regime mediated by localized structures in a dissipative nonlinear optical cavity. The scenario is that stable localized structures exhibit a Hopf bifurcation to self-pulsating behavior, that is followed by the destruction of the oscillation in a saddle-loop bifurcation. Beyond this point there is a regime of excitable localized structures under the appl...

Robust heteroclinic cycles between equilibria lose stability either through local bifurcations of their equilibria or through global bifurcations. This paper considers a global loss of stability termed a ‘resonant’ bifurcation. This bifurcation is usually associated with the birth or death of a nearby periodic orbit, and generically occurs in either a supercritical or subcritical manner. For a ...

Resonance tongues are mode-locking regions of parameter space in which stable periodic solutions occur; they commonly occur, for example, near Neimark-Sacker bifurcations. For piecewise-smooth, continuous maps these tongues typically have a distinctive lens-chain (or sausage) shape in two-parameter bifurcation diagrams. We give a symbolic description of a class of “rotational” periodic solution...