Chaos of a parametrically excited undamped pendulum

Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 45-57

  Lu, Chunqing ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaos; Excited pendulum

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; OSCILLATIONS;

CHAOTIC MOTIONS; EXCITED PENDULUM; OSCILLATORY FORCING; SHOOTING METHOD;

PENDULUMS;

CHAOS THEORY; OSCILLATIONS; PENDULUMS;

EID: 33745248429     PISSN: 10075704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2006.01.004     Document Type: Article

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