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SprottS

Systems / ODEs / Chaotic attractors

Case S of Sprott's 1994 search for minimal chaotic flows — six terms with a single quadratic nonlinearity.

continuous · ODE3 dimensionschaotic

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Definition

\[ \begin{aligned} \dot{x} &= - x - 4 y \\ \dot{y} &= x + z^{2} \\ \dot{z} &= x + 1 \end{aligned} \]

Properties

Lyapunov spectrum
TODO — lyapunov_spectrum failed: AttributeError
Kaplan–Yorke dimension
TODO — requires a numeric Lyapunov spectrum
Divergence ∇·f
$\nabla\!\cdot f = -1$
constant
Equilibria
2 equilibria
0 stable · 2 unstable

Use it in TSDynamics

import tsdynamics as ts

system = ts.systems.SprottS()
traj = system.run(final_time=100.0, dt=0.01)
ts.plot(traj)

spectrum = ts.analysis.lyapunov_spectrum(system)
ts.analysis.kaplan_yorke_dimension(spectrum)

Reference

Sprott (1994), Phys. Rev. E 50, R647-R650
doi:10.1103/physreve.50.r647

BibTeX
@misc{sprotts,
  title = {SprottS system},
  note = {Sprott (1994), Phys. Rev. E 50, R647-R650},
  doi = {10.1103/physreve.50.r647}
}