Alfvén boundary crisis
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2002
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Chian, A.
Borotto, F.
Rempel, E.
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International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos in Applied Sciences and Engineering, 2002; 12(7):1653-1658
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<jats:p>A new transition mechanism to Alfvén chaos via boundary crisis is reported. This crisis appears in a complex plasma region in the presence of a large number of coexisting attractors. We characterize an example of double boundary crises using the unstable periodic orbit determined from the numerical solution of the driven-dissipative derivative nonlinear Schrödinger equation, and demonstrate how the same unstable periodic orbit causes the appearance/disappearance of two chaotic attractors due to two successive homoclinic tangencies.</jats:p>