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Cross-well chaos and escape phenomena in driven oscillators

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The paper is devoted to the study of common features in regular and strange behavior of the three classic dissipative softening type driven oscillators: (a) twin-well potential system, (b) single-well potential unsymmetric system and (c) single-well potential symmetric system.

Computer simulations are followed by analytical approximations. It is shown that the mathematical techniques and physical concepts related to the theory of nonlinear oscillations are very useful in predicting bifurcations from regular, periodic responses to cross-well chaotic motions or to escape phenomena. The approximate analysis of periodic, resonant solutions and of period doubling or symmetry breaking instabilities in the Hill's type variational equation provides us with closed-form algebraic simple formulae; that is, the relationship between critical system parameter values, for which strange phenomena can be expected.

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Szemplińska-Stupnicka, W. Cross-well chaos and escape phenomena in driven oscillators. Nonlinear Dyn 3, 225–243 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00122303

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