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- From: khamer@sumax.seattleu.edu (Little Kenny Hamer)
- Newsgroups: sci.fractals
- Subject: Re: chaotic modelling
- Date: 24 Jan 1993 22:11:17 -0800
- Organization: Seattle University
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- From article <93024.164511WAJ@psuvm.psu.edu>, by WAJ@psuvm.psu.edu:
- > I have recently begun experimenting with modelling of chaotic systems in
- > C++. The only system I have had success with is the Lorenz water wheel
- > (as found in James Gleick's Chaos). Does anybody know of any other fairly
- > simple physical systems which exhibit chaotic behavior?
- > (btw, if anybody wants to see the wheel, i could send it)
- > thanks
- >
- > Bill Jester
-
- Indeed! Try a duffing oscillator ( a nonlinear spring - mass system)
-
- Here it is in coupled first order form (I assume you are using some
- numerical ODE integrator such as a Runge-Kutta algorithm)
-
- dx(1)/dt = x(2)
-
- dx(2)/dt = -k*x(2) -a*x(1) -b*[x(1)]^3 + F*cos(w*t)
-
- k is the damping parameter, F is the forcing amplitude, w is the forcing
- frequency, a and b are the spring parameters
-
- A period-doubling sequence may ba observed with the parameters:
-
- a=0
- b=1
- k=0.1
- w=1
- with initial conditions x(1) = 1, x(2) = 1
- let F range from 9.8 to 10
-
- These parameters were studied by Ueda
-
- Phase plots are interesting for the period doubling sequence, but
- a first return map is far more useful for the complex regions.
-
- Have Fun,
-
- -Ken Hamer
-