Hopf Bifurcation Analysis and Existence of Heteroclinic Orbit and Homoclinic Orbit in an Extended Lorenz System

In this paper, we have considered a Lorenz-like model with slight changes in the nonlinear terms. Here we have studied the system dynamics for different range of values of parameters $$\sigma , r$$ . The Hopf bifurcation analysis of the system has been done using center manifold theorem for $$\sigma = -1, r > 1$$ . Phase portraits of solutions of the system are plotted for various system parameters to substantiate the change in dynamics. The bifurcation diagram and the Lyapunov exponent evaluation plots also help to explain the behaviour of the system. Using Fishing principle, we have shown the existence of homoclinic orbit and consequently, observed the existence of homoclinic as well as heteroclinic orbits in the numerical simulation for $$\sigma> 0, r > 1$$ .