Basins of attraction in strongly damped coupled mechanical oscillators: A global example

Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik und Physik

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 282-300

  Fiedler, Bernold ^a   Belhaq, Mohamed ^b   Houssni, Mohamed ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES AIN CHOCK   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Basins of attraction; Coupled oscillators; Gradient systems; Heteroclinic connections; Jacobi systems; Lattice dynamics; Zero number

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033240196     PISSN: 00442275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000330050151     Document Type: Article

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