Phase Portrait of Van der pol Oscillator with pgfplots
The Van der Pol Oscillator can be represented as:
$$ \dot{x}=y, \dot{y}=\mu (1-x^2)y-x $$
Simulating this system in Matlab, from different initial conditions and $\mu=0.8$, we will get trajectories that converge to a stable limit cycle.
To draw this in LaTeX, we can use Pgfplots package. We distinguish two parts:
- Trajectories and the limit cycle: We can export data from matlab and plot it using
\addplot[options] file{filename.txt} - Vector field: based on the system dynamics, we can draw the phase portrait using
quiverwith\addplot3
Here is the corresponding code:
\documentclass[border=0.2cm]{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat = newest}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[
xmin = -4, xmax = 4,
ymin = -4, ymax = 4,
width = \textwidth,
height = 0.7\textwidth,
xlabel = {$x$},
ylabel = {$y$},
view = {0}{90},
colormap/viridis,
]
\addplot3[
point meta = {sqrt(x^2+y^2)},
quiver = {
u = {y/sqrt(y^2+(0.8*(1-x^2)*y-x)^2)},
v = {(0.8*(1-x^2)*y-x)/sqrt(y^2+(0.8*(1-x^2)*y-x)^2)},
scale arrows = 0.25,
},
quiver/colored = {mapped color},
-stealth,
domain = -4:4,
domain y = -4:4,
] {0};
\addplot[very thick, red] file {data.txt};
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
data.txt contains your data obtained from Matlatb (x and y trajectories). In this case, it corresponds to the limit cycle (steady state trajectory). After simulation, you can extract steady state data to get only the limit cycle part and not the transient.
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Not sure if you need to add the region inside the limit cycle. However, you can easily add an ellipse as follows:
\draw[fill=yellow,rotate around={25:(axis cs:0,0)}] (axis cs:0,0) ellipse (1.6 and 1.4);
Based on your data (+ added column headers), here is what comes using a pgfplots quiverplot
\documentclass[tikz]{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.17}
\usepackage{pgfplotstable}
\pgfplotstableread{
x y u v
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\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}
\addplot[-stealth,red,quiver={u=\thisrow{u},v=\thisrow{v}}] table {\loadedtable};
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
And here is another solution without column headers based on the column index, using an external file as the data source
\documentclass[tikz]{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.17}
\begin{filecontents*}{mydata.tsv}
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\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}
\addplot[-stealth,red,quiver={u=\thisrowno{2},v=\thisrowno{3}}] table[x expr=\thisrowno{0},y expr=\thisrowno{1}] {mydata.tsv};
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
EDIT Here is a last proposal based on decorations as noted by @Schrödinger's cat.
\documentclass[tikz]{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.17}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.markings,arrows.meta}
\tikzset{arrow decoration/.style={
postaction={
decorate,
decoration={
markings,
mark=between positions 4.5mm and 1 step 5mm with {\arrow[]{stealth};}
}
},
red,
dash pattern=on 4mm off 1mm on 4mm off 1mm
}}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}
\addplot[red,arrow decoration,smooth] table[x expr=\thisrowno{0},y expr=\thisrowno{1}] {mydata.tsv};
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
