Nonlinear delayed forcing drives a non-delayed Duffing oscillator

Abstract

We study two coupled systems, one playing the role of the driver system and the other one of the driven system. The driver system is a time-delayed oscillator, and the driven or response system has a negligible delay. Since the driver system plays the role of the only external forcing of the driven system, we investigate its influence on the response system amplitude, frequency and the conditions for which it triggers a resonance in the response system output. It results that in some ranges of the coupling value, the stronger the value does not mean the stronger the synchronization, due to the arise of a resonance. Moreover, coupling means an interchange of information between the driver and the driven system. Thus, a built-in delay should be taken into account. Therefore, we study whether a delayed-nonlinear oscillator can pass along its delay to the entire coupled system and, as a consequence, to model the lag in the interchange of information between the two coupled systems.