A novel chaotic attractor

Abstract In this letter, a novel chaotic attractor is reported. Some basic dynamical properties, such as Lyapunov exponents, fractal dimension, Poincare mapping, the continuous spectrum and chaotic behavior of this new transverse butterfly attractor are studied. Meanwhile, the forming mechanism of its compound structure obtained by merging together two simple attractors after performing one mirror operation has been investigated by detailed numerical as well as theoretical analysis. Furthermore, the complex chaotic dynamical behavior of the system has been also proofed by experimental simulation of a designed electronic oscillator based on EWB.