The standard harmonic balance method consists in expanding the displacement of an oscillator as a Fourier cosine series in time. A key modification is proposed here, in which the conservative force is additionally expanded as a Fourier sine series in space. As a result, the steady-state oscillation frequency can be expressed in terms of a Bessel series, and the sums of many such series are know...

We present a novel application of the successive linearisation method to the classical Van der Pol and Duffing oscillator equations. By recasting the governing equations as nonlinear eigenvalue problems we obtain accurate values of the frequency and amplitude. We demonstrate that the proposed method can be used to obtain the limit cycle and bifurcation diagrams of the governing equations. Compa...

Information signal embedded in a chaotic transmitter can be recovered by a receiver if it is a replica of the transmitter. In this paper, a new aspect of chaotic communication is introduced. A sliding-mode observer replaces the conventional chaotic system at the receiver side, which does not need information from the transmitter. So the uncertainties in the transmitter and the transmission line...

We report quantitative measurements of the nonlinear response of a radio frequency mechanical resonator with a very high quality factor. We measure the noise-free transitions between the two basins of attraction that appear in the nonlinear regime, and find good agreement with theory. We measure the transition rate response to controlled levels of white noise, and extract the basin activation e...

A stochastic Duffing-type oscillator model, i.e noise-driven motion with inertia in a potential landscape, is considered for glacial millennial-scale climate transitions. The potential and noise parameters are estimated from a Greenland ice-core record using a nonlinear Kalman filter. For the period from 60 to 20 ky before present, a bistable potential with a deep well corresponding to a cold s...

In this study, both the ansatz and averaging methods are carried out for analyzing complex Duffing oscillators including undamped/conserved oscillator (CDO) damped/unconserved CDO to obtain some approximate analytical solutions. To analyze conserved CDO, it is reduced two decoupled oscillators. After that, exact solution of employed derive an approximation in terms Jacobi elliptic function. dam...

The bifurcation structure of a constraint Duffing van der Pol oscillator with a diode is analyzed and an objective bifurcation diagram is illustrated in detail in this work. An idealized case, where the diode is assumed to operate as a switch, is considered.In this case, the Poincaré map is constructed as a one dimensional map: a circle map. The parameter boundary between a torusgenerating regi...

0960-0779/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd doi:10.1016/j.chaos.2011.08.002 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +55 (11) 3091 6842 6706. E-mail address: [email protected] (E.S. Medeiros). In the bi-dimensional parameter space of driven oscillators, shrimp-shaped periodic windows are immersed in chaotic regions. For two of these oscillators, namely, Duffing and Josephson junction, we show that a weak h...