Linearly Stable Subharmonic Orbits in Strongly Monotone Time-Periodic Dynamical Systems

1992 ◽  
Vol 115 (3) ◽  
pp. 691 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Takac



Author(s):  
Eric A. Butcher ◽  
S. C. Sinha

Abstract In this paper, some analysis techniques for general time-periodic nonlinear Hamiltonian dynamical systems have been presented. Unlike the traditional perturbation or averaging methods, these techniques are applicable to systems whose Hamiltonians contain ‘strong’ parametric excitation terms. First, the well-known Liapunov-Floquet (L-F) transformation is utilized to convert the time-periodic dynamical system to a form in which the linear pan is time invariant. At this stage two viable alternatives are suggested. In the first approach, the resulting dynamical system is transformed to a Hamiltonian normal form through an application of permutation matrices. It is demonstrated that this approach is simple and straightforward as opposed to the traditional methods where a complicated set of algebraic manipulations are required. Since these operations yield Hamiltonians whose quadratic parts are integrable and time-invariant, further analysis can be carried out by the application of action-angle coordinate transformation and Hamiltonian perturbation theory. In the second approach, the resulting quasilinear time-periodic system (with a time-invariant linear part) is directly analyzed via time-dependent normal form theory. In many instances, the system can be analyzed via time-independent normal form theory or by the method of averaging. Examples of a nonlinear Mathieu’s equation and coupled nonlinear Mathieu’s equations are included and some preliminary results are presented.



2010 ◽  
Vol 654 ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
STEPHEN WIGGINS

In the 1980s the incorporation of ideas from dynamical systems theory into theoretical fluid mechanics, reinforced by elegant experiments, fundamentally changed the way in which we view and analyse Lagrangian transport. The majority of work along these lines was restricted to two-dimensional flows and the generalization of the dynamical systems point of view to fully three-dimensional flows has seen less progress. This situation may now change with the work of Pouransari et al. (J. Fluid Mech., this issue, vol. 654, 2010, pp. 5–34) who study transport in a three-dimensional time-periodic flow and show that completely new types of dynamical systems structures and consequently, coherent structures, form a geometrical template governing transport.



1999 ◽  
Vol 09 (09) ◽  
pp. 1853-1858 ◽  
Author(s):  
KLAUDIUSZ WÓJCIK

We prove the existence of the chaotic behavior in dynamical systems generated by some class of time periodic nonautonomous equations on the plane. We use topological methods based on the Lefschetz Fixed Point Theorem and the Ważewski Retract Theorem.



Sadhana ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 411-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
S C Sinha


Author(s):  
Tamás Insperger ◽  
Gábor Stépán

Abstract An efficient numerical method is presented for the stability analysis of linear retarded dynamical systems. The method is based on a special kind of discretization technique with respect to the past effect only. The resulting approximate system is delayed and time-periodic in the same time, but still, it can be transformed analytically into a high dimensional linear discrete system. The method is especially efficient for time varying delayed systems, including the case when the time delay itself varies in time. The method is applied to determine the stability charts of the delayed Mathieu equation with damping.



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