Bursting Dynamics in the General Hybrid Rayleigh-van der Pol-Duffing Oscillator with Two External Periodic Excitations

PurposeThe present paper investigates the bursting dynamics and its mechanism of the general hybrid Rayleigh-van der Pol-Duffing oscillator with two external periodic excitations. The study aims to avoid or reasonably utilize the vibrations induced by self-excited system in engineering.MethodsThis paper mainly uses the fast-slow analysis method. First, we analyze the stability and bifurcation structure of the equilibrium point of the system with a single external excitation. Through the bifurcation set, we discover that the system has fold bifurcation and Hopf bifurcation. The direction of the Hopf bifurcation is obtained by calculating the first Lyapunov coefficient. When two external excitations exist, by employing de Moivre's equation, the original system transforms into a new form with a single slow variable. The classical machinery of fast subsystem analysis is used to investigate the bursting oscillations. Besides, the transformed phase diagrams are used to reveal the bifurcation mechanism.ResultsTwo bursting oscillations, namely symmetric fold/supHopf bursting and symmetric fold/fold bursting, are observed in the system with one periodic excitation. With two external excitations, the "turnover-of-fold-hystersis-induced" bursting, "symmetric periodic 2-fold" bursting, "symmetric periodic 6-fold" bursting, "symmetric periodic 10-fold" bursting and "symmetric periodic 14-fold" bursting are found and analyzed in detail. At the same time, the results show that with the increase of amplitudes of the external excitations, qualitative changes occur.ConclusionsWith the addition of the second periodic excitation, the original bursting patterns induced by a single periodic excitation change completely. The phenomena will impact the vibration in the actual engineering.