The subharmonic Melnikov theory for damped and driven oscillators revisited

International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos in Applied Sciences and Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1915-1923

  Yamgoué, Serge Bruno ^a   Kofané, Timoléon Crépin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

Damped; Driven regime; Free oscillation; Periodically driven; Subharmonics

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); DAMPING; HAMILTONIANS; OSCILLATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

FREE OSCILLATIONS;

CHAOS THEORY;

EID: 0036696775     PISSN: 02181274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218127402005583     Document Type: Article

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