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In this Ph.D. thesis, we study regular and embedded solitons and generalized and degenerate Hopf bifurcations. These two areas of work are seperate and independent from each other. First, variational methods are employed to generate families of both regular and embedded solitary wave solutions for a generalized Pochhammer PDE and a generalized microstructure PDE that are currently of great interest. The technique for obtaining the embedded solitons incorporates several recent generalizations of the usual variational technique and is thus topical in itself. One unusual feature of the solitary waves derived here is that we are able to obtain them in analytical form (within the family of the trial functions). Thus, the residual is calculated, showing the accuracy of the resulting solitary waves. Given the importance of solitary wave solutions in wave dynamics and information propagation in nonlinear PDEs, as well as the fact that only the parameter regimes for the existence of solitary waves had previously been analyzed for the microstructure PDE considered here, the results obtained here are both new and timely.

A bifurcation analysis is used to investigate the complex dynamics of two heavily loaded single-machine-infinite-busbar power systems modeling the characteristics of the BOARDMAN generator with respect to the rest of the North-Western American Power System and the CHOLLA# generator with respect to the SOWARO station. In the BOARDMAN system, we show that there are three Hopf bifurcations at practical compensation values, while in the CHOLLA#4 system, we show that there is only one Hopf bifurcation. The results show that as the compensation level increases, the operating condition loses stability with a complex conjugate pair of eigenvalues of the Jacobian matrix crossing transversely from the left- to the right-half of the complex plane, signifying a Hopf bifurcation. As a result, the power system oscillates subsynchronously with a small limit-cycle attractor. As the compensation level increases, the limit cycle grows and then loses stability via a secondary Hopf bifurcation, resulting in the creation of a two-period quasiperiodic subsynchronous oscillation, a two-torus attractor. On further increases of the compensation level, the quasiperiodic attractor collides with its basin boundary, resulting in the destruction of the attractor and its basin boundary in a bluesky catastrophe. Consequently, there are no bounded motions. When a damper winding is placed either along the q-axis, or d-axis, or both axes of the BOARDMAN system and the machine saturation is considered in the CHOLLA#4 system, the study shows that, there is only one Hopf bifurcation and it occurs at a much lower level of compensation, indicating that the damper windings and the machine saturation destabilize the system by inducing subsynchronous resonance. Finally, we investigate the effect of linear and nonlinear controllers on mitigating subsynchronous resonance in the CHOLLA#4 system . The study shows that the linear controller increases the compensation level at which subsynchronous resonance occurs and the nonlinear controller does not affect the location and type of the Hopf bifurcation, but it reduces the amplitude of the limit cycle born as a result of the Hopf bifurcation. / Ph. D.

Apresentaremos alguns resultados de rigidez e de bifurcação para soluções do problema de Yamabe em variedades produto com bordo. / We will discuss some rigidity and bifurcation results for solutions of the Yamabe problem in product manifolds with boundary.

Complex nonlinear and chaotic responses have been recently observed in various compliant ocean systems. These systems are characterized by a nonlinear mooring restoring force and a coupled fluid-structure interaction exciting force. A general class of ocean mooring system models is formulated by incorporating a variable mooring configuration and the exact form of the hydrodynamic excitation. The multi-degree of freedom system, subjected to combined parametric and external excitation, is shown to be complex, coupled and strongly nonlinear. Stability analysis by a Liapunov function approach reveals global system attraction which ensures that solutions remain bounded for small excitation. Construction of the system's Poincare map and stability analysis of the map's fixed points correspond to system stability of near resonance periodic orbits. Investigation of nonresonant solutions is done by a local variational approach. Tangent and period doubling bifurcations are identified by both local stability analysis techniques and are further investigated to reveal global bifurcations. Application of Melnikov's method to the perturbed averaged system provides an approximate criterion for the existence of transverse homoclinic orbits resulting in chaotic system dynamics. Further stability analysis of the subharmonic and ultraharmonic solutions reveals a cascade of period doubling which is shown to evolve to a strange attractor. Investigation of the bifurcation criteria obtained reveals a steady state superstructure in the bifurcation set. This superstructure identifies a similar bifurcation pattern of coexisting solutions in the sub, ultra and ultrasubharmonic domains. Within this structure strange attractors appear when a period doubling sequence is infinite and when abrupt changes in the size of an attractor occur near tangent bifurcations. Parametric analysis of system instabilities reveals the influence of the convective inertial force which can not be neglected for large response and the bias induced by the quadratic viscous drag is found to be a controlling mechanism even for moderate sea states. Thus, stability analyses of a nonlinear ocean mooring system by semi-analytical methods reveal the existence of bifurcations identifying complex periodic and aperiodic nonlinear phenomena. The results obtained apply to a variety of nonlinear ocean mooring and towing system configurations. Extensions and applications of this research are discussed. / Graduation date: 1992

Orientador: Laurence Duarte Colvara / Banca: Carlos Roberto Minussi / Banca: Wagner Peron Ferreira / Resumo: Este trabalho apresenta um estudo sobre a relação entre os principais tipos de bifurcações que ocorrem em sistemas elétricos de potência e em quais ocasiões elas podem ocorrer em máquinas síncronas com ou sem RAT (Regulador Automático de Tensão). Para explorar tais fenômenos, primeiramente o sistema é modelado, sendo utilizado para o caso MBI (Máquina - Barramento In nito) o modelo um eixo e, então, a matriz de estado é calculada para a análise dos autovalores. Para os sistemas multimáquinas estudados, são incluídos dois enrolamentos amortecedores nos eixos d ¡ q. São então apresentados os métodos de análise de estabilidade transitória convencionais, amplamente utilizados, conhecidos como método Tradicional e Método Direto. As condições para a ocorrência de bifurcações são analisadas utilizando os coe - cientes linearizados do modelo de He ron-Phillips para o caso MBI, onde é mostrado que se espera perder a estabilidade para o sistema com regulador automático de tensão através de uma bifurcação de Hopf e para o caso sem RAT através de uma bifurcação Sela-Nó. Por m, é analisado o ciclo-limite para o caso de uma máquina - barramento in nito e para sistemas multimáquinas através do modelo não-linear. A região de estabilidade é analisada no plano de fase, sendo mostrada a necessidade de incluir a variação de uxo no enrolamento de campo para uma análise correta da estabilidade. É também mostrado que este ciclo-limite pode reduzir a fronteira de estabilidade calculada pelo método convencional. / Abstract: The aim of this study is the relation among main types of bifurcations that occur in electrical power systems and the circumstances they can happen with the synchronous machines considered with or without AVR (Automatic Voltage Regulator). To explore such phenomena, the system is rst modeled with the synchronous machines described by the one axis model for the MIB (Machine - In nite Bus) case , and so the state matrix is computed for the analysis of its eigenvalues. For multimachine systems case two windings dampers are included in d-q axes. The conditions for the occurrence of bifurcations are analyzed using the coe cients of the He ron-Phillips model for MIB case, where it is shown that one expects the system with automatic voltage regulator lose synchronism through a Hopf bifurcation and for the case without RAT through a Saddle- Node Bifurcation. Finally, the nonlinear model is accounted for in order to consider the limit-cycle for the case of one machine - in nite bus case as well as for multimachine system. Since internal voltage a ects the boundary of the stability region it must be considered. Then the phase portrait does not su ce and the trajectories must to be observed in a sub space de ned with the internal voltage. It is also shown that this limit-cycle can reduce the boundary of stability calculated by means of the direct method. / Mestre

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Orientador: Claudio Aguinaldo Buzzi / Banca: João Carlos da Rocha Medrado / Banca: Luciana de Fátima Martins / Resumo: Nesse trabalho são apresentados alguns resultados importantes sobre bifurcações de codimensão dois de campos de vetores. O resultado principal dessa dissertação e o teorema que d a o diagrama de bifurcação e os retratos de fase da Bifurcação de Bogdanov-Takens. Para a demonstracão são usadas algumas técnicas basicas de Sistemas Dinâmicos e Teoria das Singularidades, tais como Integrais Abelianas, desdobramentos de Sistemas Hamiltonianos, desdobramentos versais, Teorema de Preparação de Malgrange, entre outros. Outra importante bifurcação clássica apresentada e a Bifurca cão do tipo Hopf-Zero, quando a matriz Jacobiana possui um autovalor simples nulo e um par de autovalores imagin arios puros. Foram usadas algumas hipóteses que garantem propriedades de simetria do sistema, dentre elas, assumiuse que o sistema era revers vel. Assim como na Bifurcação de Bogdanov-Takens, foram apresentados o diagrama de bifurcao e os retratos de fase da Bifurcação Hopf-zero bifurcação reversível. As técnicas usadas para esse estudo foram a forma normal de Belitskii e o método do Blow-up polar. / Abstract: In this work is presented some important results about codimension two bifurcations of vector elds. The main result of this work is the theorem that gives the local bifurcation diagram and the phase portraits of the Bogdanov-Takens bifurcation. In order to give the proof, some classic tools in Dynamical System and Singularities Theory are used, such as Abelian Integral, versal deformation, Hamiltonian Systems, Malgrange Preparation Theorem, etc. Another classic bifurcation phenomena, known as the Hopf-Zero bifurcation, when the Jacobian matrix has a simple zero and a pair of purely imaginary eigenvalues, is presented. In here, is added the hypothesis that the system is reversible, which gives some symmetry in the problem. Like in Bogdanov-Takens bifurcation, the bifurcation diagram and the local phase portraits of the reversible Hopf-zero bifurcation were presented. The main techniques used are the Belitskii theory to nd a normal forms and the polar Blow-up method. / Mestre

Apresentaremos alguns resultados de rigidez e de bifurcação para soluções do problema de Yamabe em variedades produto com bordo. / We will discuss some rigidity and bifurcation results for solutions of the Yamabe problem in product manifolds with boundary.