Interesting bifurcations in walking droplet dynamics

Aminur Rahman, Denis Blackmore

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Abstract

We identify two types of (compound) dynamical bifurcations generated primarily by interactions of an invariant attracting submanifold with stable and unstable manifolds of hyperbolic fixed points. These bifurcation types - inspired by recent investigations of mathematical models for walking droplet (pilot-wave) phenomena - are introduced and illustrated. Some of the one-parameter bifurcation types are analyzed in detail and extended from the plane to higher-dimensional spaces. A few applications to walking droplet dynamics are analyzed.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number105348
JournalCommunications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation
Volume90
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2020

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Numerical Analysis
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Applied Mathematics

Keywords

  • Bifurcations
  • Chaotic strange attractors
  • Discrete dynamical systems
  • Dynamical crises
  • Homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits
  • Invariant sets
  • Pilot-wave models

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