A generalized iteration procedure for calculating approximations to periodic solutions of “truly nonlinear oscillators”

2005 ◽  
Vol 287 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 1045-1051 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald E. Mickens
1988 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 721-728 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gamal M. Mahmoud ◽  
Tassos Bountis

We consider a class of parametrically driven nonlinear oscillators: x¨ + k1x + k2f(x,x˙)P(Ωt) = 0, P(Ωt + 2π) = P(Ωt)(*) which can be used to describe, e.g., a pendulum with vibrating length, or the displacements of colliding particle beams in high energy accelerators. Here we study numerically and analytically the subharmonic periodic solutions of (*), with frequency 1/m ≅ √k1, m = 1, 2, 3,…. In the cases of f(x,x˙) = x3 and f(x,x˙) = x4, with P(Ωt) = cost, all of these so called synchronized periodic orbits are obtained numerically, by a new technique, which we refer to here as the indicatrix method. The theory of generalized averaging is then applied to derive highly accurate expressions for these orbits, valid to the second order in k2. Finally, these analytical results are used, together with the perturbation methods of multiple time scaling, to obtain second order expressions for regions of instability of synchronized periodic orbits in the k1, k2 plane, which agree very well with the results of numerical experiments.


2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vasile Marinca ◽  
Nicolae Herişanu

The Optimal Variational Method (OVM) is introduced and applied for calculating approximate periodic solutions of “truly nonlinear oscillators”. The main advantage of this procedure consists in that it provides a convenient way to control the convergence of approximate solutions in a very rigorous way and allows adjustment of convergence regions where necessary. This approach does not depend upon any small or large parameters. A very good agreement was found between approximate and numerical solution, which proves that OVM is very efficient and accurate.


2004 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. 3821-3846 ◽  
Author(s):  
GAMAL M. MAHMOUD ◽  
TASSOS BOUNTIS

Dynamical systems in the real domain are currently one of the most popular areas of scientific study. A wealth of new phenomena of bifurcations and chaos has been discovered concerning the dynamics of nonlinear systems in real phase space. There is, however, a wide variety of physical problems, which, from a mathematical point of view, can be more conveniently studied using complex variables. The main advantage of introducing complex variables is the reduction of phase space dimensions by a half. In this survey, we shall focus on such classes of autonomous, parametrically excited and modulated systems of complex nonlinear oscillators. We first describe appropriate perturbation approaches, which have been specially adapted to study periodic solutions, their stability and control. The stability analysis of these fundamental periodic solutions, though local by itself, can yield considerable information about more global properties of the dynamics, since it is in the vicinity of such solutions that the largest regions of regular or chaotic motion are observed, depending on whether the periodic solution is, respectively, stable or unstable. We then summarize some recent studies on fixed points, periodic solutions, strange attractors, chaotic behavior and the problem of chaos control in systems of complex oscillators. Some important applications in physics, mechanics and engineering are mentioned. The connection with a class of complex partial differential equations, which contains such famous examples, as the nonlinear Schrödinger and Ginzburg–Landau equations is also discussed. These complex equations play an important role in many branches of physics, e.g. fluids, superconductors, plasma physics, geophysical fluids, modulated optical waves and electromagnetic fields.


Two timescale harmonic balance is a semi-analytical/numerical method for deriving periodic solutions and their stability to a class of nonlinear autonomous and forced oscillator equations of the form ẍ + x = f(x,ẋ,λ) and ẍ + x = f(x,ẋ,λ,t) , where λ is a control parameter. The method incorporates salient features from both the method of harmonic balance and multiple scales, and yet does not require an explicit small parameter. Essentially periodic solutions are formally derived on the basis of a single assumption: ‘that an N harmonic, truncated, Fourier series and its first two derivatives can represent x(t) , ẋ(t) and ẍ(t) respectively’. By seeking x(t) as a series of superharmonics, subharmonics, and ultrasubharmonics it is found that the method works over a wide range of parameter space provided the above assumption holds which, in practice, imposes some ‘problem dependent’ restriction on the magnitude of the nonlinearities. Two timescales, associated with the amplitude and phase variations respectively, are introduced by means of an implicit parameter Є . These timescales permit the construction of a set of amplitude evolution equations together with a corresponding stability criterion. In Part I the method is formulated and applied to three autonomous equations, the van der Pol equation, the modified van der Pol equation, and the van der Pol equation with escape. In this case an expansion in superharmonics is sufficient to reveal Hopf, saddle node and homoclinic bifurcations which are compared with results obtained by numerical integration of the equations. In Part II the method is applied to forced nonlinear oscillators in which the solution for x(t) includes superharmonics, subharmonics, and ultrasubharmonics. The features of period doubling, symmetry breaking, phase locking and the Feigenbaum transition to chaos are examined.


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