The Nonlinearly Damped Oscillator
Juan Luis Vázquez (2010)
ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations
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We study the large-time behaviour of the nonlinear oscillator where and is a monotone real function representing nonlinear friction. We are interested in understanding the long-time effect of a nonlinear damping term, with special attention to the model case with real, . We characterize the existence and behaviour of fast orbits, , orbits that stop in finite time.