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Phase plane diagram for the unforced van der Pol equation exhibiting a clear limit cycle. 

Phase plane diagram for the unforced van der Pol equation exhibiting a clear limit cycle. 

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This paper deals with limit cycles in one degree of freedom systems. The van der Pol equation is an example of an equation describing systems with clear limit cycles in the phase space (displacement-velocity 2 dimensional plane). In this paper, it is shown that a system with nonlinear loading, representing the drag load acting on structures in an o...

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... the van der Pol Equation, the damping term will, for some time, work as negative damping, and pumping energy into the system. The phase plane diagram for the van der Pol equation with μ=1 is shown in Figure 1. The starting point, decided by the initial conditions (ICs) of each trajectory is marked by a square on the figure, with an arrow indicating the direction of the trajectories. ...
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... order to achieve this, the values of a and b in Equation (6) are set to 1,0 and 0,002 respectively. Figure 10 shows the phase plane diagram for four different trajectories, which all spiral towards a limit cycle. ...
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... different trajectories are shown, all spiralling towards the limit cycle. Figure 11: Position vs time plot for the system at resonance subjected to loading from Equation (6). Note that all the trajectories overlap at approximately t = 50 s. ...
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... that all the trajectories overlap at approximately t = 50 s. Figure 11 shows the position vs time plot for the system at resonance with forcing term from Equation (6). The trajectories overlap after approximately 50s, reaching the limit cycle. ...
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... trajectories overlap after approximately 50s, reaching the limit cycle. Figure 12 shows the limit cycles for different values of b. As b increases, the velocity and position amplitudes of the limit cycle increases, as the structure becomes less stiff, resulting in more structural movements. ...
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... results in larger amplitude limit cycles. Figure 13 shows the limit cycles for the system subjected to Equation (6) at resonance (red), at second order resonance (blue), at third order resonance (magenta) and out of resonance (black). Figure 14 shows the position vs time plot for the same trajectories. ...
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... 13 shows the limit cycles for the system subjected to Equation (6) at resonance (red), at second order resonance (blue), at third order resonance (magenta) and out of resonance (black). Figure 14 shows the position vs time plot for the same trajectories. Position vs time plot for systems with different degrees of resonance, subjected to loading from Equation (6). Figure 15 shows the phase plane diagram for systems at varying degrees of resonance, with F0 adjusted to a realistic value of the nonlinear forcing. ...
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... vs time plot for systems with different degrees of resonance, subjected to loading from Equation (6). Figure 15 shows the phase plane diagram for systems at varying degrees of resonance, with F0 adjusted to a realistic value of the nonlinear forcing. The position vs time plot for the same systems are shown in Figure 16. ...
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... vs time plot for systems with different degrees of resonance, subjected to loading from Equation (6). Figure 15 shows the phase plane diagram for systems at varying degrees of resonance, with F0 adjusted to a realistic value of the nonlinear forcing. The position vs time plot for the same systems are shown in Figure 16. It should be noted that the adjustment of F0 reflects the estimation of the relative loading from waves with the associated periods (at resonance the wave period is 2π and at second order resonance the wave period is 6π). ...

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