New approach to study the van der Pol equation for large damping
We present a new approach to establish the existence of a unique limit cycle for the van der Pol equation in case of large damping. It is connected with the bifurcation of a stable hyperbolic limit cycle from a closed curve composed of two heteroclinic orbits and of two segments of a straight line...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Szeged
2018-02-01
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| Series: | Electronic Journal of Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations |
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| Online Access: | http://www.math.u-szeged.hu/ejqtde/periodica.html?periodica=1¶mtipus_ertek=publication¶m_ertek=6286 |
| Summary: | We present a new approach to establish the existence of a unique limit cycle for the van der Pol equation in case of large damping. It is connected with the bifurcation of a stable hyperbolic limit cycle from a closed curve composed of two heteroclinic orbits and of two segments of a straight line forming continua of equilibria. The proof is based on a linear time scaling (instead of the nonlinear Liénard transformation in previous approaches), on a Dulac–Cherkas function and on the property of rotating vector fields. |
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| ISSN: | 1417-3875 1417-3875 |