Amplitude death by delay induced position coupling in a system of two coupled Van der Pol Oscillators

Abstract

We consider a system of two interacting identical Van der Pol Oscillators in a simple harmonic potential well. The position coupling term between the oscillators is such that there is a finite delay, i.e; each system takes a finite time to react to the other one. We investigate the amplitude death in the presence of such interaction and we find out the amplitude death regions in the corresponding parameter space.