Termination homoclinical

Fig. 8.6. Typical arrangement of local stabilities and development of unstable limit cycle, from a subcritical Hopf bifurcation, appropriate to cubic autocatalysis with decay and no autocatalyst inflow and with 9/256 < k2 < 1/16. The unstable limit cycle grows as t, decreases below t m, and terminates by means of the formation of a homoclinic orbit at rf . Stable stationary states, including the zero conversion branch 1 — a, = 0, are indicated by solid curves, unstable states and limit cycles by broken curves.

FIGURE 2 The birth and growth of limit cycle oscillations in the I - a, jS, Tr space for a system with non-zero e and k displaying a mushroom stationary-state pattern. Oscillatory behaviour originates from a supercritical Hopf bifurcation along the upper branch and terminates via homoclinic orbit formation. 

FIGURE I Steady-state bifurcation diagrams for variations in the reactant partial pressures, (a) Partial two-parameter bifurcation diagram representing the projection of turning points, Hopf bifurcation points, and apparent triple points. (b)-(Q One parameter sections of the steady-state ffe surface. The vertical axes are the steady-state (k and range from 0 to I. The horizontal axes correspond to the appropriate axis of the two parameter diagram (a). Steady-states are stable or unstable for solid or dashed curves respectively and periodic branches are denoted by pairs of chained curves which represent the minimum and maximum values of ffe on the limit cycle. The periodic branches all terminate in Hopf bifurcations or, when a saddle is present, homoclinic (infinite period) bifurcations. (b)-(e) a, = 0.017, 0.019, 0.021, 0.025 (f)-(i) oti = 0.031, 0.028, 0.024, 0.022. 

Figure 7.28 shows the period of oscillations as the periodic branch approaches the homoclinical bifurcation point the period tends to infinity indicating homoclinical termination of the periodic attractor at Dht = 0.0035 hr 1. 

Figure 12 (A-2) shows one Hopf bifurcation point, one periodic limit point and the stable limit cycle terminates at a homoclinical orbit (infinite period bifurcation).

Limit cycles (periodic solutions) emerging from the Hopf bifurcation point and terminating at another Hopf bifurcation point or at a homoclinical orbit (infinite period bifurcation point) represent the highest degree of complexity in almost all two- dimensional autonomous systems. 

The case of Figure 7.9C has one Hopf bifurcation point and one periodic limit point, and the stable Kmit cycle terminates at a homoclinical orbit (infinite period bifurcation). For /x = /X3, we get a case of an unstable steady state surrounded by a stable limit cycle similar to the case in Figure 7.10. However, in this case, as fj. decreases below /X3, the limit cycle grows until we reach a limit cycle that passes through the static saddle point, as... 

Fig. 13.7.20. The bifurcation diagram for the case where both equilibrium states of the heteroclinic cycle are saddles (see Fig. 13.7.12) provided Ai,2 > 0, i/i > 1, 1/2 < 1 and U1U2 > 1- The system has one limit cycle in regions 1-3, two limit cycles in region 4, none in regions 5-7. A pair of limit cycles are born from a saddle-node on the curve SN the unstable one becomes a homoclinic loop on the curve L2, whereas the stable limit cycle terminates on Li.

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