COMPLEX DYNAMICS IN PENDULUM EQUATION WITH PARAMETRIC AND EXTERNAL EXCITATIONS II

Abstract

This paper (II) is a continuation of "Complex dynamics in pendulum equation with parametric and external excitations (I)." By applying second-order averaging method and Melnikov's method, we obtain the criterion of existence of chaos in an averaged system under quasi-periodic perturbation for Ω = nω + ∊ν, n = 1, 2, 4 and cannot prove the criterion of existence of chaos in averaged system under quasi-periodic perturbation for Ω = nω + ∊ν, n = 3, 5–15 by Melnikov's method, where ν is not rational to ω. However, we show the occurrence of chaos in the averaged and original systems under quasi-periodic perturbation for Ω = nω + ∊ν, n = 3, 5 by numerical simulation. The numerical simulations, include the bifurcation diagram of fixed points, bifurcation diagrams in three- and two-dimensional spaces, homoclinic bifurcation surface, maximum Lyapunov exponent, phase portraits, Poincaré map, are plotted to illustrate theoretical analysis, and to expose the complex dynamical behaviors, including period-3 orbits in different chaotic regions, interleaving occurrence of chaotic behaviors and quasi-periodic behaviors, a different kind of interior crisis, jumping behavior of quasi-periodic sets, different nice quasi-periodic attractors, nonchaotic attractors and chaotic attractors, coexistence of three quasi-periodic sets, onset of chaos which occurs more than once for a given external frequency or amplitudes, and quasi-periodic route to chaos. We do not find the period-doubling cascade. The dynamical behaviors under quasi-periodic perturbation are different from that of periodic perturbation.