Dynamical response and vibrational resonance of a tri-stable energy harvester interfaced with a standard rectifier circuit.

This paper investigates the dynamical response and vibrational resonance (VR) of a piecewise electromechanically coupled tri-stable energy harvester (TEH), which is driven by dual-frequency harmonic excitations. To achieve a stable DC output, the TEH is interfaced with a standard rectifier circuit. Using the harmonic balance method combined with the separation of fast and slow variables, a steady-state response together with the analytical expressions of displacement and harvested power is derived.

Global analysis of stochastic bifurcation in shape memory alloy supporter with the extended composite cell coordinate system method.

As an intelligent material, a shape memory alloy has many unique mechanical properties, such as shape memory effect and pseudoelasticity, which have been used in many fields. In this paper, the stochastic bifurcation of the shape memory alloy supporter system subject to harmonic and bounded noise excitations is studied in detail by an extended composite cell coordinate system method. By analyzing the influence of the bounded noise amplitude on stochastic bifurcation, it can be found that there exist three kinds of bifurcation phenomena, including stochastic merging crisis, stochastic boundary crisis, and stochastic interior crisis, which are caused by the collision between an attractor and a saddle within the basin of attraction or the basin boundary.

The response analysis of fractional-order stochastic system via generalized cell mapping method.

This paper is concerned with the response of a fractional-order stochastic system. The short memory principle is introduced to ensure that the response of the system is a Markov process. The generalized cell mapping method is applied to display the global dynamics of the noise-free system, such as attractors, basins of attraction, basin boundary, saddle, and invariant manifolds.

Transports in a rough ratchet induced by Lévy noises.

We study the transport of a particle subjected to a Lévy noise in a rough ratchet potential which is constructed by superimposing a fast oscillating trigonometric function on a common ratchet background. Due to the superposition of roughness, the transport process exhibits significantly different properties under the excitation of Lévy noises compared to smooth cases. The influence of the roughness on the directional motion is explored by calculating the mean velocities with respect to the Lévy stable index α and the spatial asymmetry parameter q of the ratchet.

Lévy-noise-induced transport in a rough triple-well potential.

Rough energy landscape and noisy environment are two common features in many subjects, such as protein folding. Due to the wide findings of bursting or spiking phenomenon in biology science, small diffusions mixing large jumps are adopted to model the noisy environment that can be properly described by Lévy noise. We combine the Lévy noise with the rough energy landscape, modeled by a potential function superimposed by a fast oscillating function, and study the transport of a particle in a rough triple-well potential excited by Lévy noise, rather than only small perturbations.