Noise-induced chaos and basin erosion in softening Duffing oscillator (Q2484887)

The noise-induced chaotic responses and the effect of the Gaussian white or the bounded noise on the erosion of safe basins are discussed in some detail in the softening Duffing oscillator. Noise-induced chaotic responses are simulated and testified by employing the algorithm for the largest Lyapunov exponent, where the parameter values are chosen according to the given Melnikov condition. Moreover, the author presents the variations of safe basins numerically when one changes the amplitude of the harmonic excitation in the deterministic case, or the form or the strength of the random excitation in the stochastic case of the system, where one can see that fractal boundaries appear even the Duffing oscillator is excited only by the random excitation.