A shooting approach to layers and chaos in a forced duffing equation

Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 389-436

  Ai, Shangbing ^a   Hastings, Stuart P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaos; Duffing equation; Layer solutions; Shooting methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036854658     PISSN: 00220396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jdeq.2002.4166     Document Type: Article

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