On the lack of analytic solutions of the Van der Pol oscillator

ZAMM Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik

Volumn 83, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 611-615

  Panayotounakos, D E ^a   Panayotounakou, N D ^a   Vakakis, A F ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

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

Author keywords

Asymptotic solutions; Van der Pol oscillator

Indexed keywords

EID: 1142307390     PISSN: 00442267     EISSN: 15214001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/zamm.200310040     Document Type: Article

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