Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Volume 3 (1999), Issue 1, Pages 9-13
doi:10.1155/S1026022699000023
Blowout bifurcation of chaotic saddles
Tomasz Kapitaniak
, Ying-Cheng Lai
and Celso Grebogi
lnstitute for Plasma Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Abstract
Chaotic saddles are nonattracting dynamical invariant sets that can lead to a variety of physical phenomena. We describe the blowout bifurcation of chaotic saddles located in the symmetric invariant manifold of coupled systems and discuss dynamical phenomena associated with this bifurcation.