Double Periodicity and Frequency-Locking in the Langford Equation.pdf

a r X i v : 0 7 0 7 .0 7 6 9 v 1 [ p h y s i c s .f l u - d y n ] 5 J u l 2 0 0 7 Double Periodicity and Frequency-Locking in the Langford Equation Short running title: Double Periodicity in the Langford Equation Makoto Umeki E-mail address: umeki@phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033 Abstract The bifurcation structure of the Langford equation is studied numerically in detail. Periodic, doubly-periodic, and chaotic solutions and the routes to chaos via coexistence of double periodicity and period-doubling bifurcations are found by the Poincare? plot of successive maxima of the first mode x1. Frequency-locked periodic solutions corresponding to the Farey sequence Fn are examined up to n = 14. Period-doubling bifurcations appears on some of the periodic solutions and the similarity of bifurcation structures between the sine-circle map and the Langford equation is shown. A method to construct the Poincare? section for triple periodicity is proposed. Keywords: bifurcation, chaos, double periodicity, Langford equation 2 1 Introduction A quasi-periodicity route to turbulence due to Ruelle and Takens [7] is that transition could occur via three successive Hopf bifurcations, leading from a fixed point to a limit cycle, then to a torus and finally to a 3-torus. On the other hand, double periodicity is considered to be well modeled by the one dimensional sine-circle map, which indicates that frequency-locking and periodic solutions appear as the nonlinear parameter increases. Therefore, it is a natural question what actually happens on attractors of a simple set of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) having double periodicity, like the Langford equation [4–6]. Similar numerical studies have been done for the five dimensional ODEs modeling magnetoconvection [1, 2] and the six dimensional ODEs of the Gledzer shell model of turbulence [8]. In the latter case the parameter to b