The study of chaotic vibration for multidimensional PDEs due to nonlinear boundary conditions is challenging. In this paper, we mainly investigate the chaotic oscillation of a two-dimensional non-strictly hyperbolic equation due to an energy-injecting boundary condition and a distributed self-regulating boundary condition. By using the method of characteristics, we give a rigorous proof of the onset of the chaotic vibration phenomenon of the zD non-strictly hyperbolic equation. We have also found a regime of the parameters when the chaotic vibration phenomenon occurs. Numerical simulations are also provided.

The stability and possible chaotic vibrations of a fluid-conveying pipe with additional combined constraints are investigated. The pipe, restrained by motion constraints somewhere along the length of the pipe, is modeled by a beam clamped at the left end and supported by a special device (a rotational elastic constraint plus a Q-apparatus) at the right end. The motion constraints are modeled by both cubic and trilinear models. Based on the Differential Quadrature Method (DQM), the nonlinear dynamical equations of motion for the system are formulated, and then solved via a numerical iterative technique. Calculations of bifurcation diagrams, phase portraits, time responses and Poincare maps of the oscillations establish the existence of chaotic vibrations. The route to chaos is shown to be via period-doubling bifurcations. It is found that the effect of spring constant of the rotational elastic constraint on the dynamics is significant. Moreover, the critical fluid velocity at the Hopf bifurcation point for the cubic model is higher than that for the trilinear model.