Phys. Rev. E 70, 036201 (2004) [10 pages]

Two-dimensional map for impact oscillator with drift

Abstract
No Citing Articles
Download: PDF (391 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) Export: BibTeX or EndNote (RIS)

Ekaterina Pavlovskaia * and Marian Wiercigroch
Centre for Applied Dynamics Research, Department of Engineering, King’s College, Aberdeen University, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, United Kingdom

Celso Grebogi
Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 66318, 05315-970 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Received 2 April 2004; published 8 September 2004

An impact oscillator with drift is considered. The model accounts for viscoelastic impacts and is capable of mimicking the dynamics of progressive motion, which is important in many applications. To simplify the analysis of this system, a transformation decoupling the original coordinates is introduced. As a result, the bounded oscillations are separated from the drift motion. To study the bounded dynamics, a two-dimensional analytical map is developed and analyzed. In general, the dynamic state of the system is fully described by four variables: time τ , relative displacement p and velocity y of the mass, and relative displacement q of the slider top. However, this number can be reduced to two if the beginning of the progression phase is being monitored. The lower and upper bounds of the map domain are approximated. A graphical method of iteration of the two-dimensional map, similar to the cobweb method used in the one-dimensional case, is proposed. The results of numerical iterations of this two-dimensional map are presented, and a comparison is given between bifurcation diagrams calculated for this map and for the original system of differential equations.


©2004 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.70.036201
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.036201
PACS: 05.45.−a

* Electronic address: E.Pavlovskaia@eng.abdn.ac.uk
Electronic address: M.Wiercigroch@eng.abdn.ac.uk
Electronic address: grebogi@if.usp.br

[ Abstract  |  Previous article  |  Next article  |  Issue 3 ]