AlfvÉn Boundary Crisis

نویسندگان

  • A. C.-L. Chian
  • F. A. Borotto
  • E. L. Rempel
چکیده

A new transition mechanism to Alfvén chaos via boundary crisis is reported. This crisis appears in a complex plasma region in the presence of a large number of coexisting attractors. We characterize an example of double boundary crises using the unstable periodic orbit determined from the numerical solution of the driven-dissipative derivative nonlinear Schrödinger equation, and demonstrate how the same unstable periodic orbit causes the appearance/disappearance of two chaotic attractors due to two successive homoclinic tangencies.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • I. J. Bifurcation and Chaos

دوره 12  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2002