Cycling chaos: Its creation, persistence and loss of stability in a model of nonlinear magnetoconvection

DOI10.1016/S0167-2789(98)00174-2zbMATH Open0955.76035arXivchao-dyn/9708010OpenAlexW2085279688WikidataQ57943708 ScholiaQ57943708MaRDI QIDQ1808321FDOQ1808321

A. M. Rucklidge, Peter Ashwin

Publication date: 6 December 1999

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We examine a model system where attractors may consist of a heteroclinic cycle between chaotic sets; this `cycling chaos' manifests itself as trajectories that spend increasingly long periods lingering near chaotic invariant sets interspersed with short transitions between neighbourhoods of these sets. This behaviour can be robust (i.e., structurally stable) for systems with symmetries and provides robust examples of non-ergodic attractors in such systems; we examine bifurcations of this state. We discuss a scenario where an attracting cycling chaotic state is created at a blowout bifurcation of a chaotic attractor in an invariant subspace. This is a novel scenario for the blowout bifurcation and causes us to introduce the idea of set supercriticality to recognise such bifurcations. The robust cycling chaotic state can be followed to a point where it loses stability at a resonance bifurcation and creates a series of large period attractors. The model we consider is a 9th order truncated ODE model of three-dimensional incompressible convection in a plane layer of conducting fluid subjected to a vertical magnetic field and a vertical temperature gradient. Symmetries of the model lead to the existence of invariant subspaces for the dynamics; in particular there are invariant subspaces that correspond to regimes of two-dimensional flows. Stable two-dimensional chaotic flow can go unstable to three-dimensional flow via the cross-roll instability. We show how the bifurcations mentioned above can be located by examination of various transverse Liapunov exponents. We also consider a reduction of the ODE to a map and demonstrate that the same behaviour can be found in the corresponding map.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9708010

zbMATH Keywords

symmetryinvariant subspaceheteroclinic cyclechaotic attractorblowout bifurcationmagnetoconvectionresonance bifurcationtransverse Lyapunov exponentsattracting cycling chaotic statecross-roll instabilityninth-order truncated ordinary differential equation modelthree-dimensional incompressible convection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology (37N10) Symmetry analysis, Lie group and Lie algebra methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M60) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows (76E25) Convection in hydrodynamic stability (76E06)

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