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Bouali

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The Bouali business-cycle flow (first regime) — a feedback-augmented Van der Pol oscillator tracing a stretched-loop economic strange attractor.

continuous · ODE3 dimensionschaotic

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Definition

\[ \begin{aligned} \dot{x} &= - a x y + a x y_{0} - b z \\ \dot{y} &= g x^{2} y - g y \\ \dot{z} &= bb m x z - c z - 1.5 m x \end{aligned} \]

Parameters

Symbol Default Role
a 1 oscillator self-excitation
b -0.3 z→x feedback gain
bb 1 x·z cross-feedback
c 0.05 z linear decay
g 1 nonlinear damping
m 1 z-loop drive
y0 4 reference level of x

State variables: x, y, z

Properties

Lyapunov spectrum
TODO — lyapunov_spectrum failed: AttributeError
Kaplan–Yorke dimension
TODO — requires a numeric Lyapunov spectrum
Divergence ∇·f
$\nabla\!\cdot f = - a y + a y_{0} + bb m x - c + g x^{2} - g$
state-dependent
Equilibria
4 equilibria
0 stable · 4 unstable

Use it in TSDynamics

import tsdynamics as ts

system = ts.systems.Bouali()
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

Bouali (1999), Int. J. Bifurcation Chaos 9, 745-756
doi:10.1142/s0218127499000535

BibTeX
@misc{bouali,
  title = {Bouali system},
  note = {Bouali (1999), Int. J. Bifurcation Chaos 9, 745-756},
  doi = {10.1142/s0218127499000535}
}