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Limit cycles of a double pendulum subject to a follower force

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It is shown that there is a magnitude of the follower force at which two limit cycles, stable and unstable, are born in the phase space of a double simple pendulum

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Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 45, No. 6, pp. 113–124, June 2009.

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Lobas, L.G., Ichanskii, V.Y. Limit cycles of a double pendulum subject to a follower force. Int Appl Mech 45, 670–679 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10778-009-0210-y

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