Inverted bifurcation

It is often important to predict and understand the flame extinction phenomenon in stagnation or opposed flows. As discussed briefly in Sect. 17.5 and illustrated in Fig. 17.11, the extinction point represents a bifurcation where the steady-state solutions are singular. Thus direct solution of the discrete steady problem by Newton s method necessarily cannot work because the Jacobian is singular and cannot be inverted or factored into its LU products. Moreover, in some neighborhood around the singular point, the numerical problem becomes sufficiently ill-conditioned as to make it singular for practical purposes. 

As mentioned above, the Kc bifurcation curves have an inverted letter-5 shape. We refer to the conclusions of Section 3.2, and to Chapter 7 for an analysis of the physical meaning of the differing shapes of the Kc and a parameter bifurcation curves when applied to industrial processes and reactors. 

In our CSTR example the constants Kc and a have opposite physical effects. If a increases, the flow rate q decreases and thus the rate of reaction increases, as does the heat of reaction. On the other hand, if Kc increases, then the heat removal by heat transfer to the cooling jacket increases, reducing the rate of reaction and the production of heat. Note that the search directions in our respective lowhighkc and lowhighal sub-programs point in opposite directions for the 5-shaped a bifurcation curves and for the inverted 5-shaped Kc bifurcation curves. 

The auxiliary function pelletrunfwd.m is used in pelletetacurve.m to evaluate r/ repeatedly for an interval of

bifurcation curve of rj with respect to

bifurcation curve for / = 1 and 7 = 10. This curve is plotted for 0.01 < < 3 in about 72 seconds on a 2002 vintage SunBlade 100 by solving 104 BVPs by calling pelletetacurve (. 01,3,1,10,1,1) . 

Our discussion of (3.43) follows the global and rather complete existence, multiplicity, and bifurcation analysis in [15, 16]. This analysis assumes U k) 7 0 and invertibility of the relation U = U(k) between normal... 

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Then, as in the previous case, the sign of the coefficient of A l determines the nature of the bifurcation, direct or inverted (also called soft or hard, respectively). For instance if g = 0 (i o = 0 and buoyancy is set to zero) then Eq. (136) reduces to... 

The scenario is inverted with respect to that of the supercritical bifurcation of Sect. 7.4.1, see the right column of Fig. 7.4. 

A siirple modification of this experimental system leads to a ramber of other interesting results [6]. Light transmitted by the sarple of sulphur coripounds can be detected and amplified, and the signal can be delayed prior to transmission to a modulator lich controls the light input into the system. By appropriate choice of the degree of anplification and the extent of delay it is possible to stabilize with the external feedback loop the unstable stationary state of the system without external feedback. The location in phase space of the stable and unstable states of the system without feedback are not altered by tlie external feedback. Furthermore the system d.th external feedback shows limit-cycle oscillations and inverted Hopf bifurcations, and is predicted to have chaos,... 

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