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Bubbling transition

Journal Article · · Physical Review. E, Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics
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  1. Department of Physics and Institute for Plasma Research, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 (United States)

Recently, physically important examples of dynamical systems that have a chaotic attractor embedded in an invariant submanifold have been pointed out, and the unusual dynamical consequences of this situation have been studied. As a parameter {epsilon} of the system is increased, a periodic orbit embedded in the attractor on the invariant manifold can become unstable for perturbations transverse to the invariant manifold. This bifurcation is called the {ital bubbling} {ital transition}, and it can lead to the occurrence of a recently discovered, new kind of basin of attraction, called a {ital riddled} {ital basin}. In this paper we study the effects of noise and asymmetry on the bubbling transition. We find that, in the presence of noise or asymmetry, the attractor is replaced either by a chaotic transient or an intermittently bursting time evolution, and we derive scaling relations, valid near the bubbling transition, for the characteristic time (i.e., the average chaotic transient lifetime or the average interburst time interval) as a function of the strength of the asymmetry and the variance of the additive noise. We also present numerical evidence for the predicted scalings. {copyright} {ital 1996 The American Physical Society.}

OSTI ID:
286590
Journal Information:
Physical Review. E, Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics, Journal Name: Physical Review. E, Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 54; ISSN 1063-651X; ISSN PLEEE8
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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