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Title: Resolving Clusters in Chaotic Ensembles of Globally Coupled Identical Oscillators

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters

Clustering in ensembles of globally coupled identical chaotic oscillators is reconsidered using a twofold approach. Stability of clusters towards ''emanation'' of the elements is described with the evaporation Lyapunov exponents. It appears that direct numerical simulations of ensembles often lead to spurious clusters that have positive evaporation exponents, due to a numerical trap. We propose a numerical method that surmounts the spurious clustering. We also demonstrate that clustering can be very sensitive to the number of elements in the ensemble.

Sponsoring Organization:
(US)
OSTI ID:
40277177
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 87, Issue 4; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.044102; Othernumber: PRLTAO000087000004044102000001; 045130PRL; PBD: 23 Jul 2001; ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
The American Physical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English