Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions of Strongly Nonlinear Periodic Orbits of the Forced Pendulum

Nonlinear Dynamics

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 223-237

  Pilipchuk, V N ^a   Vakakis, A F ^b   Azeez, M A F ^b  

^a State Chem Technol Univ Ukraine   (Ukraine)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonlinear subharmonic orbits; Sensitive dependence on initial conditions

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

FORCED PENDULUM; NONLINEAR PERIODIC ORBITS;

PENDULUMS;

EID: 0032119680     PISSN: 0924090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008276310599     Document Type: Article

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