Period-doubling bifurcation in an extended van der Pol system with bounded random parameter

Abstract

An extended van der Pol system with bounded random parameter subjected to harmonic excitation is investigated by Chebyshev polynomial approximation. Firstly the stochastic extended van der Pol system is reduced into its equivalent deterministic one, solvable by suitable numerical methods. Then we explored nonlinear dynamical behavior about period-doubling bifurcation in stochastic system. Numerical simulations show that similar to the conventional period-doubling phenomenon in deterministic extended van der Pol system, stochastic period-doubling bifurcation may also occur in the stochastic extended van der Pol system. Besides, different from the deterministic case, in addition to the conventional bifurcation parameters, i.e. the amplitude and frequency of harmonic excitation, in the stochastic case the intensity of random parameter should also be taken as a new bifurcation parameter.