Hidden attractors in fundamental problems and engineering models

Recently a concept of self-excited and hidden attractors was suggested: an attractor is called a self-excited attractor if its basin of attraction overlaps with neighborhood of an equilibrium, otherwise it is called a hidden attractor. For example, hidden attractors are attractors in systems with no equilibria or with only one stable equilibrium (a special case of multistability and coexistence of attractors). While coexisting self-excited attractors can be found using the standard computational procedure, there is no standard way of predicting the existence or coexistence of hidden attractors in a system. In this plenary survey lecture the concept of self-excited and hidden attractors is discussed, and various corresponding examples of self-excited and hidden attractors are considered

Homoclinic orbits, and self-excited and hidden attractors in a Lorenz-like system describing convective fluid motion

In this tutorial, we discuss self-excited and hidden attractors for systems of differential equations. We considered the example of a Lorenz-like system derived from the well-known Glukhovsky--Dolghansky and Rabinovich systems, to demonstrate the analysis of self-excited and hidden attractors and their characteristics. We applied the fishing principle to demonstrate the existence of a homoclinic orbit, proved the dissipativity and completeness of the system, and found absorbing and positively invariant sets. We have shown that this system has a self-excited attractor and a hidden attractor for certain parameters. The upper estimates of the Lyapunov dimension of self-excited and hidden attractors were obtained analytically.Comment: submitted to EP

A New Class of Two-dimensional Chaotic Maps with Closed Curve Fixed Points

This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from World Scientific Publishing via the DOI in this recordThis paper constructs a new class of two-dimensional maps with closed curve fixed points. Firstly, the mathematical model of these maps is formulated by introducing a nonlinear function. Different types of fixed points which form a closed curve are shown by choosing proper parameters of the nonlinear function. The stabilities of these fixed points are studied to show that these fixed points are all non-hyperbolic. Then a computer search program is employed to explore the chaotic attractors in these maps, and several simple maps whose fixed points form different shapes of closed curves are presented. Complex dynamical behaviours of these maps are investigated by using the phase-basin portrait, Lyapunov exponents, and bifurcation diagrams.National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaNatural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province of China5th 333 High-level Personnel Training Project of Jiangsu Province of ChinaExcellent Scientific and Technological Innovation Team of Jiangsu UniversityJiangsu Key Laboratory for Big Data of Psychology and Cognitive Scienc

Theory of differential inclusions and its application in mechanics

The following chapter deals with systems of differential equations with discontinuous right-hand sides. The key question is how to define the solutions of such systems. The most adequate approach is to treat discontinuous systems as systems with multivalued right-hand sides (differential inclusions). In this work three well-known definitions of solution of discontinuous system are considered. We will demonstrate the difference between these definitions and their application to different mechanical problems. Mathematical models of drilling systems with discontinuous friction torque characteristics are considered. Here, opposite to classical Coulomb symmetric friction law, the friction torque characteristic is asymmetrical. Problem of sudden load change is studied. Analytical methods of investigation of systems with such asymmetrical friction based on the use of Lyapunov functions are demonstrated. The Watt governor and Chua system are considered to show different aspects of computer modeling of discontinuous systems