Nonlinear Dynamical Systems in Engineering: Some Approximate Approaches

408 Pages·2011·3.88 MB·English

by  Vasile Marinca

Nonlinear Dynamical Systems in Engineering
.
Vasile Marinca (cid:129) Nicolae Herisanu
Nonlinear Dynamical
Systems in Engineering
Some Approximate Approaches
VasileMarinca NicolaeHerisanu
PolitehnicaUniversityofTimisoara PolitehnicaUniversityofTimisoara
DepartmentofMechanicsandVibrations DepartmentofMechanicsandVibrations
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300222Timisoara 300222Timisoara
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CenterforAdvancedandFundamental CenterforAdvancedandFundamental
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Preface
Thepractice ofsciencecouldbedescribedastheprocessofobservation followed
bytheconstructionofverbalormathematicalmodelstoexplaintheobservations,or
vice-versa. The use of the mathematical models implies that the observations are
quantitative, that they involve numbers used to specify the observations. The
successfulapplicationofanysciencedependsontheuseofanappropriatemixture
of principles, techniques and approaches. Sometimes principles are easily under-
stood,sometimessodifficultastobeopaque.Oftensomerejectiontakesrootinthe
drymathematicalforminwhichthesubjectispresented,unrelatedtoobservation,
quiteirrelevanttolife,andlackinganyformofinterest.Settingproblemsbasedona
wide variety of experience should engage interest, challenge and intelligence and
evenstimulatecuriosity.Thewealthofdetailofferedshouldnotlullthereaderinto
thinking that the material can be meaning by leafing through the book. As much
timeaspossibleitshouldbedevotedtogoingthroughthecalculationsandsolving
problems.
Analytical solutions to nonlinear differential equations or linear differential
equationswithvariablecoefficientsplayanimportantroleinthestudyofnonlinear
dynamical systems, but sometimes it is difficult to find these solutions, especially
for nonlinear problems with strong nonlinearity. In general, the known analytical
methodsarerestrictedtolimitedcasesdependingontheparameterswhichappear
in the governing equations and are valid only for nonlinear problems with weak
nonlinearity.
Dynamicalsystemsareavastsubject.Itisoftenfoundthatthegoinggetseasier
as one goes deeper, learning the mathematical connections tying together the
variousphenomena.Thematerialofthisbookcanbeincludedincoursescovering
thetheoryofnonlinearoscillations,thetheoryofelectricalmachines,classicaland
fluidmechanics,thermodynamicsorevenbiology.
Theprerequisitesforstudyingdynamicalsystemsusingthisbookareundergrad-
uate courses inlinear algebra, real and complexanalysis,calculus, dynamics,and
ordinary differential equations, classical physics of oscillations, knowledge of a
computer language would be essential. Also, it is assumed that the reader knows
basic notions about nonlinear systems of differential equations as well as the
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plottingofphaseportraits,analysisofnonlinearsystems,andgraphicalrepresenta-
tionoferrorsandsoon.
Thisbookisinformedbytheresearchinterestoftheauthors,whicharecurrently
nonlinear differential equations. Some references include recently published
research articles. Our work has very hands-on approaches and takes the reader
fromthebasicmethodsrightthroughtorecentlypublishedresearchmaterial.
Most of the material in every chapter is at postgraduate level and has been
influenced by the authors’ own research interest. These chapters are especially
usefulasreferencematerialforseniorundergraduateprojectwork.
The text is aimed to undergraduate students in accelerated programs, working
scientists in various branches of engineering, natural scientists or applied
mathematicians.
Thewholebookconsistsofconcreteexamplesfromvariousdomainsofnonlin-
eardynamicalsystems.Theauthorsbelievethattheproblemofmotionofdifferent
dynamical systems can be assimilated only by working with the differential
equations applied to concrete examples. Nearly all the sections of this book are
followedbycomparisonswithnumericalresultsorwithotherknownresultsinthe
literature.
The aim of this book is to present and extend different known methods in the
literature,especiallyLindstedt-Poincare´ method,themethodofharmonicbalance,
the method of Krylov-Bogolyubov and the method of multiple scales, to solve
differenttypesofstrongnonlinearities.Abetterknowledgeofthesemethodsleadto
abetterchoiceoftheso-called“basefunctions”whichareabsolutelynecessaryto
obtaintheauxiliaryfunctionspresentinthelastChapters,devotedtosomeoptimal
analytical approaches. These auxiliary functions are cornerstone of the optimal
methodsandalso,ensuretheconditionsofconvergenceofthesolutionsobtainedby
different approaches. Unlike all previous analytic approaches, these few optimal
methodsprovideuswithasimplewaytocontrolandadjusttheconvergenceregion
ofsolutionsofnonlineardynamicalsystems.Thesenewoptimalmethodsshowone
stepintheattempttodevelopanewnonlinearanalyticaltechniqueworkinginthe
absenceofsmallorlargeparameters.Actually,thecapitalstrengthofouroptimal
procedures is the fast convergence, since after only two or three iterations, or
sometimesafteronlyoneiteration,itconvergestotheexactsolution,whichproves
thattheseoptimalmethodsareveryefficientinpractice.
The text begins with some known procedures, presented in Chaps. 1–4: the
Lindstedt-Poincare´ method, the method of harmonic balance, the method of
Krylov-Bogolyubov and the method of multiple scales. All these techniques sup-
pose the presence of a small parameter into the governing nonlinear equations.
There are presented some alternatives and examples to each of these approaches,
suchastheuseofperturbationmethodforstrongparameter,therationalharmonic
balancemethod,acombinationofthemethodofKrylov-Bogolyubovanditeration
method.Thelastfourchapters,from5to8aredevotedtooptimalapproachessuch
as: the Optimal Homotopy Asymptotic Method, the Optimal Homotopy Perturba-
tionMethod,theOptimalVariationalIterationMethodandtheOptimalParametric
Iteration Method. The validity of the proposed procedures has been demonstrated
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onsomerepresentativeexamplesandverygoodagreementwasfoundbetweenthe
approximate analytic results and numerical simulations. The convergence of the
approximatesolutionsobtainedbyeachofthesenewmethodsisgreatlyinfluenced
bytheconvergence-controlconstantswhichareoptimallydetermined.
Theexamplespresentedinthisbookleadtotheconclusionthattheaccuracyof
theobtainedresultsisgrowingalongwithincreasingthenumberofconstantsinthe
auxiliary functions. These methods are very rapid and effective and show their
validity and potential for the solution of nonlinear problems arising in dynamical
systems.
Finally,ourmainaimistoinspirethereadertoappreciatethebeautyaswellas
the usefulness of the optimal analytical techniques in the study of nonlinear
dynamicalsystems.
Timis¸oara VasileMarinca
NicolaeHeris¸anu
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Contents
1 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2 PerturbationMethod:Lindstedt-Poincare´. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.1 TheOscillatorwithCubicElasticRestoringForce. . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.1.1 TheExactSolutionofDuffingEquation. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.1.2 UseofthePerturbationMethodforDuffingOscillator
withSmallParameter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2.1.3 UseofthePerturbationMethodforDuffingOscillators
withStrongParameter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3 TheMethodofHarmonicBalance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
3.1 FreeVibrationsofCantileverBeam. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
3.2 RationalHarmonicBalanceMethod. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
4 TheMethodofKrylovandBogolyubov. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
4.1 OscillatorwithLinearandCubicElasticRestoringForce
andWeakAsymmetricQuadraticDamping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
4.2 UseoftheMethodofKrylov-BogolyubovandIteration
MethodtoWeaklyNonlinearOscillators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
4.2.1 “Nonresonance”Case(o6¼pO). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
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4.2.2 “Resonance”Caseo(cid:2)pO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
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4.2.3 NumericalExamples. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
5 TheMethodofMultipleScales. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
5.1 DuffingOscillatorwithSofteningNonlinearity. . . . . . .. . . . . .. 89
5.2 AParametricSystemwithCubicNonlinearityCoupled
withaLanchesterDamper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
6 TheOptimalHomotopyAsymptoticMethod. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
6.1 BasicIdeaofOHAM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
6.2 DuffingOscillator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
6.2.1 NumericalExamples. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
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