Singular limit analysis of a model for earthquake faulting

DOI10.1088/1361-6544/AA712EzbMATH Open1381.34067arXiv1603.02448OpenAlexW3101645996MaRDI QIDQ4978486FDOQ4978486

Authors: Elena Bossolini, M. Brøns, K. Uldall Kristiansen 

Publication date: 11 August 2017

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we consider the one dimensional spring-block model describing earthquake faulting. By using geometric singular perturbation theory and the blow-up method we provide a detailed description of the periodicity of the earthquake episodes. In particular, the limit cycles arise from a degenerate Hopf bifurcation whose degeneracy is due to an underlying Hamiltonian structure that leads to large amplitude oscillations. We use a Poincar'e compactification to study the system near infinity. At infinity the critical manifold loses hyperbolicity with an exponential rate. We use an adaptation of the blow-up method to recover the hyperbolicity. This enables the identification of a new attracting manifold that organises the dynamics at infinity. This in turn leads to the formulation of a conjecture on the behaviour of the limit cycles as the time-scale separation increases. We illustrate our findings with numerics and suggest an outline of the proof of this conjecture.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.02448

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zbMATH Keywords

blow-upHamiltonian systemsingular perturbationrelaxation oscillationearthquake dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Qualitative investigation and simulation of ordinary differential equation models (34C60) Bifurcation theory for ordinary differential equations (34C23) Singular perturbations for ordinary differential equations (34E15) Relaxation oscillations for ordinary differential equations (34C26)

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