Separatrices and limit cycles of strongly nonlinear oscillators by the perturbation-incremental method

Nonlinear Dynamics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 213-233

  Xu, Z ^a   Chan, H S Y ^b   Chung, K W ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Global bifurcation; Homoclinic (heteroclinic) orbits; Limit cycles; Strongly nonlinear oscillators

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; ORBITS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; STABILITY;

NONLINEAR OSCILLATORS;

OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL);

EID: 0030285349     PISSN: 0924090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00120718     Document Type: Article

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