Control of Bistability in a Delayed Duffing Oscillator

Abstract EN

The effect of a high-frequency excitation on nontrivial solutions and bistability in a delayed Duffing oscillator with a delayed displacement feedback is investigated in this paper.

We use the technique of direct partition of motion and the multiple scales method to obtain the slow dynamic of the system and its slow flow.

The analysis of the slow flow provides approximations of the Hopf and secondary Hopf bifurcation curves.

As a result, this study shows that increasing the delay gain, the system undergoes a secondary Hopf bifurcation.

Further, it is indicated that as the frequency of the excitation is increased, the Hopf and secondary Hopf bifurcation curves overlap giving birth in the parameter space to small regions of bistability where a stable trivial steady state and a stable limit cycle coexist.

Numerical simulations are carried out to validate the analytical finding.