• DocumentCode
    1442571
  • Title

    Formation of a fractal basin boundary in a forced oscillator

  • Author

    Dobson, Ian

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electr. Eng., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA
  • Volume
    36
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    1989
  • fDate
    6/1/1989 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    866
  • Lastpage
    872
  • Abstract
    The question of how a fractal basin boundary arises in the sinusoidally forced Duffing´s equation is considered. The author describes how the backwards system flow deforms a local stable manifold into the fractal boundary. Parts of the boundary are labeled in a way related to their time of formation. The truncated fractal boundary produced by a burst of sinusoidal forcing is briefly considered. The approach supplements the insights provided by the usual Poincare map techniques
  • Keywords
    fractals; nonlinear network analysis; oscillators; stability; backwards system flow; forced oscillator; fractal basin boundary; local stable manifold; sinusoidally forced Duffing´s equation; Circuits and systems; Equations; Footwear; Fractals; H infinity control; Orbits; Oscillators; Systems engineering and theory;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Circuits and Systems, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0098-4094
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/31.90406
  • Filename
    90406