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Theory and Applications in Nonlinear Oscillators
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Theory and Applications in Nonlinear Oscillators

A special issue of Dynamics (ISSN 2673-8716).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 5859

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Jamal Odysseas Maaita

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1. School of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
2. Physics Department, International Hellenic University, Kavala 65404, Greece
Interests: oscillations; nonlinear dynamics; chaotic dynamics; mechanics; nonlinear electrical circuits
Dr. Christos Volos

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Laboratory of Nonlinear Systems, Circuits & Coplexity (LaNSCom), Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR-54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: electrical and electronics engineering; mathematical modeling; control theory; engineering, applied and computational mathematics; numerical analysis; mathematical analysis; numerical modeling; modeling and simulation; robotics
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Dear Colleagues,

Oscillations play an essential role in many physical systems and many applications. In recent years, many scientists have done a great deal of work studying oscillations and vibrations. In particular, non-linear oscillations present exciting characteristics that can describe complex phenomena or solve mechanical, electrical, and other problems. New scientific areas arise, such as non-linear targeted energy transfer or hidden oscillations.

This Special Issue aims to provide a space where scientists share their recent developments, discoveries, and progress, both in theory and applications, in the field of non-linear oscillators. The topics of the issue include non-linear oscillations, hidden attractors, energy transfer, bifurcation theory, mathematical modeling of non-linear oscillators, synchronization and chaos control, non-linear electronic circuits, mechanical applications in oscillations, and others.

Dr. Jamal Odysseas Maaita
Prof. Dr. Christos Volos
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • non-linear oscillations
  • chaos
  • dynamical systems
  • non-linear electronic circuits
  • hidden attractors
  • energy transfer
  • mathematical modeling
  • bifurcation theory
  • control
  • synchronization

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Dynamics Differences between Minimal Models of Second and First-Order Chemical Self-Replication
by Lauren A. Moseley and Enrique Peacock-López
Dynamics 2023, 3(3), 425-443; https://doi.org/10.3390/dynamics3030023 - 3 Aug 2023
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To further explore the origins of Life, we consider three self-replicating chemical models. In general, models of the origin of Life include molecular components that can self-replicate and achieve exponential growth. Therefore, chemical self-replication is an essential chemical property of any model. The [...] Read more.
To further explore the origins of Life, we consider three self-replicating chemical models. In general, models of the origin of Life include molecular components that can self-replicate and achieve exponential growth. Therefore, chemical self-replication is an essential chemical property of any model. The simplest self-replication mechanisms use the molecular product as a template for its synthesis. This mechanism is the so-called First-Order self-replication. Its regulatory limitations make it challenging to develop chemical networks, which are essential in the models of the origins of Life. In Second-Order self-replication, the molecular product forms a catalytic dimer capable of synthesis of the principal molecular product. In contrast with a simple template, the dimers show more flexibility in forming complex chemical networks since the chemical activity of the dimers can be activated or inhibited by the molecular components of the network. Here, we consider three minimal models: the First-Order Model (FOM), the Second-Order Model (SOM), and an Extended Second-Order Model (ESOM). We construct and analyze the mechanistic dimensionless ordinary differential equations (ODEs) associated with the models. The numerical integration of the set of ODEs gives us a visualization of these systems’ oscillatory behavior and compares their capacities for sustained autocatalytic behavior. The FOM model displays more complex oscillatory behavior than the ESOM model. Full article
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Chaotic van der Pol Oscillator Control Algorithm Comparison
by Lauren Ribordy and Timothy Sands
Dynamics 2023, 3(1), 202-213; https://doi.org/10.3390/dynamics3010012 - 19 Mar 2023
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The damped van der Pol oscillator is a chaotic non-linear system. Small perturbations in initial conditions may result in wildly different trajectories. Controlling, or forcing, the behavior of a van der Pol oscillator is difficult to achieve through traditional adaptive control methods. Connecting [...] Read more.
The damped van der Pol oscillator is a chaotic non-linear system. Small perturbations in initial conditions may result in wildly different trajectories. Controlling, or forcing, the behavior of a van der Pol oscillator is difficult to achieve through traditional adaptive control methods. Connecting two van der Pol oscillators together where the output of one oscillator, the driver, drives the behavior of its partner, the responder, is a proven technique for controlling the van der Pol oscillator. Deterministic artificial intelligence is a feedforward and feedback control method that leverages the known physics of the van der Pol system to learn optimal system parameters for the forcing function. We assessed the performance of deterministic artificial intelligence employing three different online parameter estimation algorithms. Our evaluation criteria include mean absolute error between the target trajectory and the response oscillator trajectory over time. Two algorithms performed better than the benchmark with necessary discussion of the conditions under which they perform best. Recursive least squares with exponential forgetting had the lowest mean absolute error overall, with a 2.46% reduction in error compared to the baseline, feedforward without deterministic artificial intelligence. While least mean squares with normalized gradient adaptation had worse initial error in the first 10% of the simulation, after that point it exhibited consistently lower error. Over the last 90% of the simulation, deterministic artificial intelligence with least mean squares with normalized gradient adaptation achieved a 48.7% reduction in mean absolute error compared to baseline. Full article
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