Lighting Arnold flames: resonance in doubly forced periodic oscillators (Q4533442)

Here, doubly forced nonlinear planar oscillators are studied. Such oscillators typically have interesting bifurcation features within corresponding resonance regions-features called ``Arnold flames'' because of their flame-like appearence in the corresponding bifurcation diagrams. The paper is organized as follows: Section 2 includes a summary of relevant known results on singly forced oscillators, including the reduction to circle maps for small forcing amplitude, and ``Arnold flames'' created directly from circle maps. In section 3, a preliminary analysis of doubly forced oscillators is performed. A part of the explanation involves looking at ``resonance surfaces'' which have been extremely useful in an another paper in studying parameter plane resonance regions. In section 4, numerical results are presented which illuminate many of the ideas presented in the previous sections. Especially, the behaviour is studied at the zero forcing tips of resonance regions, and at the Hopf bifurcation curve where the resonance regions close. In section 5, the authors present results of numerical computations from a doubly forced oscillator of the form ``Brusselator''. In section 6, a brief analysis of both the small forcing amplitude ``lowes tips'' of the resonance regions and the ``upper tips'' of the resonance near the Hopf bifurcation curve is given.