DRY TURBULENCE AND PERIOD-ADDING PHENOMENA FROM A 1-D MAP WITH TIME DELAY

Abstract

In this tutorial paper, we consider an infinite-dimensional extension of Chua's circuit, as shown in Fig. 1, where the transmission line is lossless. As we shall see, if the capacitance C1 is set to zero, the dynamics of this so-called time-delayed Chua's circuit can be reduced, without any approximation, to that of a continuous scalar nonlinear difference equation. This type of equation can lead to space-time chaos which, due to the absence of viscosity in our system, will be termed "dry turbulence". Another interesting property of this system occurs under certain conditions, when the corresponding 1-D map has two segments and is piecewise-linear. The extreme simplicity of this map will allow us to derive, without any approximation, the exact analytical solution of the stability boundaries of stable cycles of every period n. Since the stability region is non-empty for each n, this proves rigorously that the time-delayed Chua's circuit exhibits the "period-adding" phenomenon where every two consecutive cycles are separated by a chaotic region.