Approximate methods for calculating the period of oscillations for the generalized Lienard's differential equation
The present paper does not introduce a new approximation but it modifies a certain known method. This method for obtaining a periodic approximation of a periodic solution of a linear nonhomogeneous differential equation with periodic coefficients and periodic right-hand side is used in technical practice. However, the conditions ensuring the existence of a periodic solution may be violated and therefore the purpose of this paper is to modify the method in order that these conditions remain valid....
In this work we will consider a class of second order perturbed Hamiltonian systems of the form , where t ∈ ℝ, q ∈ ℝⁿ, with a superquadratic growth condition on a time periodic potential V: ℝ × ℝⁿ → ℝ and a small aperiodic forcing term f: ℝ → ℝⁿ. To get an almost homoclinic solution we approximate the original system by time periodic ones with larger and larger time periods. These approximative systems admit periodic solutions, and an almost homoclinic solution for the original system is obtained...