AER 613 - NONLINEAR OSCILLATIONS

College of Engineering

Credits: 3

Many physical systems exhibit some nonlinear behavior. This course presents some methods of analyzing discrete, nonlinear, dynamical systems and applies the methods to typical mechanical systems. Various kinds of nonlinear behavior, including resonance phenomena such as harmonics, parametric excitation, and discontinuous jumps in amplitude are considered. Lyapunov stability criteria and Floquet and Routhian procedures for performing stability analyses of systems are introduced, and their physical interpretations for various systems are studied.

Prerequisite(s):
Prereq: EM/ME 513.
Crosslisted with: ME 613