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Bifurcation, amplitude death and oscillation patterns in a system of three coupled van der Pol oscillators with
Yongli Song1, Jian Xu, Tonghua Zhang
1Department of Mathematics, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China. 05143@tongji.edu.cn
Abstract:
In this paper, we study a system of three coupled van der Pol oscillators that are coupled through the damping terms. Hopf bifurcations and amplitude death induced by the coupling time delay are first investigated by analyzing the related characteristic equation. Then the oscillation patterns of these bifurcating periodic oscillations are determined and we find that there are two kinds of critical values of the coupling time delay: one is related to the synchronous periodic oscillations, the other is related to eight branches of asynchronous periodic solutions bifurcating simultaneously from the zero solution. The stability of these bifurcating periodic solutions are also explicitly determined by calculating the normal forms on center manifolds, and the stable synchronous and stable phase-locked periodic solutions are found. Finally, some numerical simulations are employed to illustrate and extend our obtained theoretical results and numerical studies also describe the switches of stable synchronous and phase-locked periodic oscillations.
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