I will discuss my recent work with Mikko Stenlund on periodic pulsatile
perturbations of flows that admit weakly stable hyperbolic limit cycles. We
study the time-T maps induced by the perturbed flows. We formulate
computable conditions that imply the existence of SRB measures with strong
stochastic properties for a set of values of T of positive Lebesgue
measure. This is an example of shear-induced chaos: the existence of shear
in the unperturbed flow can cause sustained, observable chaos to replace a
stable dynamical structure when the system is forced with a periodic
pulsatile drive.
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