On Nonlinear Differential Equations with Delayed Self-Feedback

Abstract eng:
This work concerns the dynamics of nonlinear systems that are subjected to delayed self-feedback. Perturbation methods applied to such systems give rise to slow flows which characteristically contain delayed variables. We consider two approaches to analyzing Hopf bifurcations in such slow flows. In one approach, which we refer to as approach I, we follow many researchers in replacing the delayed variables in the slow flow with non-delayed variables, thereby reducing the differential-delay equation (DDE) slow flow to an ordinary differential equation (ODE). In a second approach, which we refer to as approach II, we keep the delayed variables in the slow flow. By comparing these two approaches we are able to assess the accuracy of making the simplifying assumption which replaces the DDE slow flow by an ODE.

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