The system
The Burke & Shaw system has been derived by Bill Burke and Robert Shaw from the Lorenz equations [1] The set of ordinary differential equations is
where and are the parameters. This system is invariant under a rotation symmetry around the -axis. For , a chaotic attractor is obtained (Fig. 1).
This system is a companion to the Lorenz system, in the sense that it belongs to the same class of systems. The main departure between the Burke & Shaw system and the Lorenz system is not in their equations but in the way they are organized around the axis [2]. This attractor is characterized by a four branch template (Fig. 2) [3].
[1] R. Shaw, Strange attractor, chaotic behavior and information flow, Zeitschrift für Naturforsch A, 36, 80-112, 1981.
[2] C. Letellier, T. Tsankov, G. Byrne & R. Gilmore, Large-scale structural reorganization of strange attractors, Physical Review E, 72, 026212, 2005.
[3] C. Letellier, P. Dutertre, J. Reizner & G. Gouesbet, Evolution of multimodal map induced by an equivariant vector field, Journal of Physics A, 29, 5359-5373, 1996.