Global bifurcations of a periodically forced nonlinear oscillator

J Math Biol. 1984;21(2):175-90. doi: 10.1007/BF00277669.

Abstract

The effects of periodic pulsatile stimulation on a simple mathematical model of biological oscillations, called the radial isochron clock (RIC), are investigated as a function of stimulus frequency and amplitude. This system can be reduced to a two parameter, one-dimensional circle map. Numerical and topological methods are used to give a very detailed picture of the observed bifurcations over the complete range of parameters. The bifurcations are generic for a class of models which generalize the RIC.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Biological Clocks*
  • Mathematics
  • Models, Biological