Dynamical analysis of a compound oscillator with initial phase difference

The influence of initial phase difference as well as the amplitude of parametric excitation on the dynamics of a compound oscillator has been investigated in this paper. Based on the multiple time scale method, bifurcation sets of the averaged equations have been derived to divide the parameter space into regions associated with two types of phase trajectories. Imperfect cascading of period-doubling bifurcations have been observed, which may lead to different chaotic attractors. It is presented that, the three frequencies evolved in the vector field, though in resonance, may cause modulated effect on the structures of chaotic attractors.