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MooreSpiegel

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A thermo-mechanical oscillator from stellar convection — aperiodic pulsation.

continuous · ODE3 dimensionschaotic

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Definition

\[ \begin{aligned} \dot{y_{0}} &= y_{1} \\ \dot{y_{1}} &= a y_{2} \\ \dot{y_{2}} &= - b y_{0} + eps y_{1} - y_{0}^{2} y_{1} - y_{2} \end{aligned} \]

Parameters

Symbol Default Role
a 10 coupling / stiffness parameter
b 4 linear restoring parameter
eps 9 tension / heat-transfer parameter

Properties

Lyapunov spectrum
$+0.111,\; -0.004601,\; -1.106$
computed at build
Kaplan–Yorke dimension
$D_{KY} = 2.096$
Divergence ∇·f
$\nabla\!\cdot f = -1$
constant
Equilibria
1 equilibria
0 stable · 1 unstable

Define it in TSDynamics

import tsdynamics as ts

sys = ts.systems.MooreSpiegel()
traj = sys.integrate(final_time=100.0, dt=0.01)

exps = sys.lyapunov_spectrum()
ts.kaplan_yorke_dimension(exps)

Reference

Moore & Spiegel (1966), Astrophys. J. 143, 871-887

BibTeX
@misc{moorespiegel,
  title = {MooreSpiegel system},
  note = {Moore & Spiegel (1966), Astrophys. J. 143, 871-887}
}