In this paper we investigate the global dynamics of Rayleigh-Duffing oscillators with global parameters, including equilibria at both finity and infinity, existences and coexistence of limit cycles and homoclinic loops. In fact, this oscillator will occur Hopf bifurcations, homoclinic bifurcations and double limit cycle bifurcations. Moreover, we find that the homoclinic bifurcation of this oscillator is special which is a gluing bifurcation. The global bifurcation diagram and all phase portrait are given, and numerical simulations are shown to verify our analysis finally.

In this paper we investigate the dynamical behaviour of a cubic Liénard system with global parameters. After analysing the qualitative properties of all the equilibria and judging the existences of limit cycles and homoclinic loops for the whole parameter plane, we give the bifurcation diagram and phase portraits. Phase portraits are global if there exist limit cycles and local otherwise. We prove that parameters lie in a connected region, not just on a curve, usually in the parameter plane when the system has one homoclinic loop. Moreover, for global parameters we give a positive answer to conjecture 3.2 of (1998 Nonlinearity 11 in the case of exactly two equilibria about the existence of some function whose graph is exactly the surface of double limit cycles.

The degenerate Bogdanov-Takens systemẋ = y−(a 1 x+a 2 x 3),ẏ = a 3 x + a 4 x 3 has two normal forms, one of which is investigated in [Disc. Cont. Dyn. Syst. B (22)2017, 1273-1293] and global behavior is analyzed for general parameters. To continue this work, in this paper we study the other normal form and perform all global phase portraits on the Poincaré disc. Since the parameters are not restricted to be sufficiently small, some classic bifurcation methods for small parameters, such as the Melnikov method, are no longer valid. We find necessary and sufficient conditions for existences of limit cycles and homoclinic loops respectively by constructing a distance function among orbits on the vertical isocline curve and further give the number of limit cycles for parameters in different regions. Finally we not only give the global bifurcation diagram, where global existences and monotonicities of the homoclinic bifurcation curve and the double limit cycle bifurcation curve are proved, but also classify all global phase portraits.

In this paper, we continue to study the global dynamics of a cubic Liénard system for global parameters in the case of three equilibria to follow (2015 Nonlinearity 28 3535-62), which deals with the case of two equilibria. We first analyse qualitative properties of all equilibria and judge the existences of limit cycles and homoclinic loops and their numbers. Then we obtain the bifurcation diagram and all phase portraits as our main results. Based on these results, in the case of three equilibria a positive answer to conjecture 3.2 of (1998 Nonlinearity 11 , which is about the existence of some function whose graph is exactly the surface of double limit cycles, is obtained. Moreover, a parameter region for the nonexistence of figure-eight loops is given theoretically to compensate for previous numerical results and is illustrated numerically.

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